The Smoke Ring

10 best books like The Smoke Ring (Larry Niven): The Expert System's Brother, Razor's Edge, Shadow Captain, Ancestral Night, Permafrost, The Edge of Worlds, Highborn, The World at the End of Time, Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below, Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud

The Expert System's Brother

Author	Adrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN	1250197562

I love this author! He has such a brilliant imagination.

In The Expert System's Brother we visit a planet centuries after its settlement by humans who had discovered it was virtually uninhabitable. As a result they made a number of serious changes to their descendants to make them able to survive...

Razor's Edge

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	0345545249

Times are desperate for the Rebel Alliance. Harassment by the Empire and a shortage of vital supplies are hindering completion of a new secret base on the ice planet Hoth. So when Mid Rim merchants offer much-needed materials for sale, Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo lead an Alliance delegation to...

Shadow Captain

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	0575090634

The gripping sequel to the Locus award winning science fiction adventure, Revenger, tells a story of obsession and betrayal as two sisters hunt for the greatest treasure in the universe.

Adrana and Fura Ness have finally been reunited, but both have changed beyond recognition. Once desperate...

Ancestral Night

Author	Elizabeth Bear
ISBN	1473208742

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants.

She thinks she knows who she is.

She is wrong.

A routine salvage mission uncovers evidence of a terrible crime and relics of powerful ancient technology. Haimey and her small crew run afoul of pirates at the outer limits of the Milky...

Permafrost

Author

Alastair Reynolds

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.

2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch...

The Edge of Worlds

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	1597808431

An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near the deeps of...

Highborn

Author	Yvonne Navarro
ISBN	1439191735

EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE. BRYNNA MALAK MIGHT BE THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.

Brynna is a fallen angel trying to earn redemption. She’s escaped from Hell in search of a new life on Earth, but Lucifer’s deadliest hunters are hot on her trail. Police Detective Eran Redmond is after her...

The World at the End of Time

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0586212752

Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice.The colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To's...

Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	1597805378

Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells.

Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements...

Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	1597805351

In The Falling World, Jade, ruler of the Indigo Cloud Court, has travelled with Chime and Balm to another Raksuran court. When she fails to return, her consort Moon, along with Stone and a party of warriors and hunters, must track them down. Finding them turns out to be the easy part; freeing them from an...

Emilie and the Hollow World

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	1908844493

While running away from home for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie’s plans to stow away on the steamship Merry Bell and reach her cousin in the big city go awry, landing her on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adventure.

Taken under the protection of Lady Marlende,...

Reliquary

Author	Martha Wells
ISBN	0954734378

While exploring the unused sections of the Ancient city of Atlantis, Major John Sheppard and Dr Rodney McKay stumble on a recording device that reveals a mysterious new Stargate address. Believing that the address may lead them to a vast repository of Ancient knowledge, the team embarks on a mission...