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10 best books like The Walrus And The Warwolf (Hugh Cook): How Long 'til Black Future Month?, The Mind Parasites, Interference, A Fire Upon the Deep, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Antipope, The Orphans of Raspay, A Deepness in the Sky, Hexarchate Stories

How Long 'til Black Future Month?
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
ISBN0316491349
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...
The Mind Parasites
AuthorColin Wilson
ISBN0974935999
Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft’s dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years,...
Interference
AuthorSue Burke
ISBN1250317843
The sequel to Sue Burke's sweeping SF epic debut, Semiosis, continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence.

Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they...
A Fire Upon the Deep
AuthorVernor Vinge
ISBN0812515285
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
AuthorBecky Chambers
ISBN0062936018
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
AuthorRandall Munroe
ISBN1473680336
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
The Antipope
AuthorRobert Rankin
'Outside the sun shines. Buses rumble towards Ealing Broadway and I'm expected to do battle with the powers of darkness. It all seems a little unfair...'

You could say it all started with the red-eyed tramp with the slimy fingers who put the wind up Neville, the part-time barman, something rotten....
The Orphans of Raspay
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...
A Deepness in the Sky
AuthorVernor Vinge
ISBN0812536355
Alternative Cover Edition can be found here.

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.

The...
Hexarchate Stories
AuthorYoon Ha Lee
ISBN1781085641
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.

An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon...

A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent...

A renegade returns from seclusion to bury...
Deathstalker
AuthorSimon R. Green
ISBN0575601604
The Iron Bitch-- her Imperial Majesty Lionstone XIV-- ruled the human Empire with fear. From peasants to masters of the galaxy's most powerful families, all were subject to the queen's unpredictable decrees of "outlawing" and death.

Owen Deathstalker, unwilling head of his clan, sought...
Dangerous Visions
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0743452615
The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl, Roger...
Dark Forge
AuthorMiles Cameron
I loved Dark Forge.
It opened with a bang, a nail-biting battle scene full of Miles Cameron's trademark detailed authenticity that throws you straight back into the story and never lets up.
I love how Cameron takes fantasy tropes and makes them feel real. Aranthur's journey from novice student...
Slambash Wangs of a Compo Gormer
AuthorRobert Leeson
To his schoolmates, Arnold Radleight is Wally of the Year. But in his dreams it's very different: he is Replic Dornal of Klaptonia, prince and heroic victor of countless mortal combats.
What Arnold doesn't know is that Klaptonia really exists. So does Replic Dornal, and he's in trouble. Somehow...
The Philosopher's Stone
AuthorColin Wilson
ISBN0446330302
Wilson probably has earned a reputation more as a scholar & biographer than as a novelist; but this novel, originally published in 1969, proves that he possesses significant skills in the area of fiction as well. He weaves a great deal of speculation into the meaning of existence & the future...
Deathstalker Rebellion
AuthorSimon R. Green
ISBN0451455525
This second instalment of the Deathstalker series was similar in quality to the first. No one is ever going to claim this is thought provoking sci-fi but it is a ton of fun to read. It is an action packed space opera that feels a bit like a cross between Star Wars and Game of Thrones.

This was a book...
Deathstalker War
AuthorSimon R. Green
ISBN0451456084
The Deathstalker series is a fast paced fun space opera in the Star Wars mould. It is not thought provoking sci-fi by any means but Simon R Green has an engaging writing style and despite using every sci-fi cliché in the book his story is still enjoyable and the characters even have a little depth to them!

This...
Rika Redeemed
AuthorM.D. Cooper
Rika is a Marauder.

After years of drifting aimlessly after the war with the Nietzscheans, she has finally found a home with the Marauders—a mercenary outfit comprised of Genevian veterans.

Back in the war, Rika hated her government, but always fought for the woman next to her....
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