The Third Claw of God
10 best books like The Third Claw of God (Adam-Troy Castro): Charmed Life, Thin Air, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Amnesty, The Word for World is Forest, Cousin Kate, Ancestral Night, Memory, The King's Name, The Necessary Beggar
I've just finished reading this to my daughter Celyn (11, too disabled to read for herself).
It's a fun story of Cat and his witchy sister Gwendolin living in a world that's almost ours but where witches and wizards exist and are well-known.
Like an enormous wedge of literature it's...
| Author | Richard K. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0575075147 |
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 Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0375423729 |
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The...
| Author | Lara Elena Donnelly |
| ISBN | 1250173620 |
The revolution has come and gone, with Amberlough City striving to rebuild itself from the ashes. The Ospies have been ousted, and the very face of the nation has been changed in the process.
Now, a rising politician is determined to bring Amberlough’s traitors to justice.
Including...
The Word for World is Forest
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099490951 |
When young and beautiful governess Kate Malvern finds herself unemployed in Regency England, is surprised to receive an invitation to live with a distant aunt, Minerva Broome, who she has never met. Rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, hardly knows what to expect at majestic country home of Staplewood,...
| 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...
| Author | Linda Nagata |
| ISBN | 1937197123 |
A quest, a puzzle, and multiple lives: On an artificial world with a forgotten past, floods of "silver" rise in the night like fog, rewriting the landscape and consuming those caught in its cold mists. Seventeen-year-old Jubilee knows that no one ever returns from the silver--but then a forbidding...
The warrior Sulien ap Gwien and her lord King Urdo have finally united the land of Tir Tanagiri into a kingdom ruled by justice under a single code of law. But where many see a hopeful future for the land, others believe they sense the seeds of a new tyranny. Soon Tir Tanagiri faces the blight of civil war,...
Lémabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty. But it is also a land of swift and severe justice. Young Darroti has been accused of the murder of a highborn woman who had chosen the life of a Mendicant, a holy beggar whose blessing brings forgiveness. Now his entire family must share his...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0553563416 |
I found this to be SF written very light. There's nothing that really stood out for me as either good or bad. For the amount of time it spends on character and plot set up, for all its emphasis on cutting edge biology and space travel, for the amount of talk dedicated to politics...none of all that--characters,...
