The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories
10 best books like The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories (Poul Anderson): Bill, The Galactic Hero, Phule's Company, Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event, Armor, Orphanage, Tangents, The Parafaith War, The Last Defender of Camelot, Redliners, Nälkävuosi
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0743487079 |
It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honor-he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria...
WIllard Phule is the heir to a super-rich munitions company, and also an officer in the Legion. Unfortunately he gets a little too gung-ho during a peace treaty, and catches the ire of his higher-ups. They can't court-martial him, so instead they try to get him to quit by shipping him off to a remote swamp...
Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1506701981 |
4.25ish stars.
Maybe my favorite on-going title. Great character work and a solid, clever plot that deftly balances Golden Age superheroes with New Age struggles. It makes the '90s flashbacks feel like the '40s but it works. This is a big improvement over the first volume; now that the character...
| Author | John Steakley |
| ISBN | 0886773687 |
Alternate cover edition can be found here.
The military sci-fi classic in a striking new package
Felix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth's most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with...
| Author | Robert Buettner |
| ISBN | 0446614297 |
Military Science Fiction for the Rest of Us
Brief Synopsis:
The story starts with Jason Wander, a somewhat misguided youth with two options: join the military or go to jail. Enter the devastation caused by the alien race later termed as "the slugs." The story follows Wander and his exploits...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 1857989791 |
Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious & imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon & Eternity. Tangents is his 1st collection of short stories & includes two tales that won both Hugo &...
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0812538943 |
Some bad ideas go back a long way and this one goes all the way back to the original home planet: Someone's god told them they had a right to more territory--so they figure they can take what they want by divine right. In the far future among the colonized worlds of the galaxy there's a war going on between the...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0671417738 |
This paperback original is a new collection of short stories by Roger Zelazny (1937-1995), a science fiction writer every young reader should know. Even old fans will find surprises in this collection. For instance, how many devotees have read Passion Play, Zelazny s first published work, and how...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0671877895 |
”Redliners is possibly the best thing I’ve written. It’s certainly the most important thing, both to me personally and to the audience I particularly care about: the veterans, the people who’ve been there, wherever ‘there’ happened to be.
Having said that, Redliners isn’t a book...
| Author | Aki Ollikainen |
| ISBN | 9522340898 |
Notoriously taciturn, the Finnish. As if we each had a quota of words, along with instructions to be parsimonious with them so as not to exhaust the supply. A friend's son is spending a year in Helsinki as an Erasmus student: I'm told that a (satirical!) brochure giving somewhat spurious tips to foreigners...
| Author | Jack McDevitt |
| ISBN | 1481497979 |
After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact—which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series.
After...
