The Sundering

10 best books like The Sundering (Walter Jon Williams): Empire of Silence, Thin Air, The Cruel Stars, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, Edges, Shadow Captain, Ancestral Night, The Labyrinth Index, Howling Dark, A Forest of Stars

Empire of Silence
AuthorChristopher Ruocchio
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war.

On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe...
Thin Air
AuthorRichard K. Morgan
ISBN0575075147
Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.An ex-corporate...
The Cruel Stars
AuthorJohn Birmingham
ISBN0399593314
Five intrepid heroes must unite to save civilization after a long-dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow in this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica.

"Frenetic action viewed in a black fun-house mirror."--Kirkus Reviews

The galaxy...
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
AuthorK.J. Parker
ISBN0316270792
This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.

A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons,...
Edges
AuthorLinda Nagata
From the Edge of Apocalypse:

Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away,...
Shadow Captain
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575090634
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
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN1473208742
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...
The Labyrinth Index
AuthorCharles Stross
The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the...
Howling Dark
AuthorChristopher Ruocchio
The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.

Hadrian Marlowe is lost.

For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos,...
AuthorKevin J. Anderson
ISBN0446528714
Five years have passed since humans set fire to the gas-giant planets, unwittingly committing genocide of the Hydrogues--an infinitely powerful species of aliens--and igniting a war of epic proportions. Meanwhile, as humans struggle to fight against increasing hostilities from the Hydrogues,...
AuthorMichael Cobley
ISBN1841496324

And he awoke to the steel pains of his aged, wounded body, lying on a cold seabed on an alien world in an alien universe.

There is a clear divide here, as far as the reviews are concerned. Some people really enjoyed this novel, while others, well, really didn’t. I’d read some of the reviews...
Salvation
AuthorPeter F. Hamilton
ISBN0399178848
Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of...
Through Fiery Trials
AuthorDavid Weber
ISBN0765325594
With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin--the cybernetic avatar of Earth's last survivor and immortal beacon to humanity--and the colonies of Safehold and have many adventures ahead in Through Fiery Trials, the continuation of David Weber's New York Times bestselling military...
Aftershocks
AuthorMarko Kloos
A solar system fights to survive and reform in the wake of war, but the real battle is about to begin.

Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia System, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources,...
The Gordian Protocol
AuthorDavid Weber
NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES, DAVID WEBER

A Man of Two Worlds  

Doctor Benjamin Schröder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher — Chairman of the Castle Rock University history department...
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