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10 best books like The Universe Against Her (James H. Schmitz): The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, Trader to the Stars, Strange Evil, Tarzan at the Earth's Core, The Werewolf Principle, Hush, Salvation, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0340837942
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer...
The Queen of Attolia
AuthorMegan Whalen Turner
ISBN0060841826
Revenge
When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes's Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eugenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept...
The King of Attolia
AuthorMegan Whalen Turner
By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, not the crown, but he finds himself trapped in a web of his own making.

Then he drags a naive young guard into the center of the political maelstrom. Poor Costis knows he is the victim of the king's caprice,...
Trader to the Stars
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0425612848
Humankind has explored the galaxy: Nicholas van Rijn had bought it. A starwide empire was difficult to run, but the old man was wily and the resources of the Solar Spice & Liquors Company were vast. But sometimes even a conquered world can get just a little out of hand.

In his Magnificent Future...
Strange Evil
AuthorJane Gaskell
ISBN0671821644
This is a strange and imaginative book about an Earth woman from London who is sort-of abducted by cousins from another world. She is taken to a fairyland full of satyrs and giants and faerie-like humans, and finds herself caught in the middle of a war between those who live inside the magical mountain...
Tarzan at the Earth's Core
AuthorEdgar Rice Burroughs
ISBN0803262566
This was a book I loved when I was fifteen. It involves Tarzan joining an expedition to the hollow world at the Earth’s core, the dinosaur haunted setting of Burroughs Pellucidar novels, to rescue David Innes from the clutches of the Korsars. It’s an odd book which features a lot of running around,...
The Werewolf Principle
AuthorClifford D. Simak
ISBN0786701005
Andrew Blake is found in a space capsule on a distant planet and is brought back to an unfamiliar Earth, where antigravity devices have replaced the wheel, and houses talk and even fly!
Yet nothing is as strange as Blake's own feelings. Tormented by eerie sensations and loss of memory, he doesn't...
Hush
AuthorJames Maxey
ISBN1781080178
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE DRAGON APOCALYPSE

The invulnerable, super-strong warrior Infidel has a secret: she’s lost her magical powers right at the moment when she needs them most. To keep a promise to a fallen friend, she must journey to the frozen wastelands of the north.

Her quest...
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...
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
AuthorNathaniel Philbrick
ISBN0525426787
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
 
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure...
The Mother
AuthorPearl S. Buck
The Mother, Pearl S. Buck
The Mother is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1934. Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with...
Boundless
AuthorR.A. Salvatore
ISBN0062688650
This second book in New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore’s all-new trilogy—full of swordplay, danger, and imaginative thrills—features one of fantasy’s most beloved and enduring characters, Drizzt Do’Urden.

Split between time and two worlds, Zaknafein had always...
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