The Ware Tetralogy

10 best books like The Ware Tetralogy (Rudy Rucker): Wayward, Vol. 1: String Theory, Exit Strategy, Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities, Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon, City of Golden Shadow, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise, A Face Like Glass, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Virtual Light, Xeelee

Wayward, Vol. 1: String Theory

Author	Jim Zub
ISBN	1632151731

Rori Lane is trying to start a new life when she reunites with her mother in Japan, but ancient creatures lurking in the shadows of Tokyo sense something hidden deep within her, threatening everything she holds dear.

Can Rori unlock the secrets of her power before it's too late?

Jim...

Exit Strategy

Author

Martha Wells

The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red.Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous...

Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities

Author	Jeff Lemire
ISBN	1632158787

Volume 3: 5 issues, each devoted to the backstories of principal characters dating back to ten years up to the present action, to help us better understand what is going. Which is a lot. Tim 22, Telsa, Effie (and Andy), Bandit the Robot dog, Driller (the Killer). This is not Vaughn’s Saga with clever...

Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon

Author	Jeff Lemire
ISBN	1632156768

I was so happy to pick this up in my local comic shop and I knew I would love it as I did with the first one. This one I felt was even better with not only artwork that's stunning but also a beautifully developing story line which is really starting to make a bit more sense now. I love the emotional connection we...

City of Golden Shadow

Author	Tad Williams
ISBN	0886777631

Let me just start by saying this: the first time I finished this series, I immediately went back and started reading it again. I can't think of any other series that I've done that with.

This is one of Tad Williams' "economy-sized manuscripts," similar to his fantasy classic Memory, Sorrow and...

East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

Author	Jonathan Hickman
ISBN	1607067706

3.5 stars

I'm kinda intrigued.
And I don't know what this has to do with anything, but every time the pasty dude got all angry and stabby, I kept hearing Kurt Russell in my head.



Only not. Because the pasty guy is Death...of the Four Horsemen variety.
He'd broken off...

A Face Like Glass

Author	Frances Hardinge
ISBN	0230763502

In Caverna, lies are an art — and everyone's an artist...

In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare. They create wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince...

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Author	Ken Liu
ISBN	1250297664

Broken Stars, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-- is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Following Invisible Planets,...

Virtual Light

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0140157727

William Gibson begins his Bridge trilogy with this 1993 publication that was nominated for both the Hugo and the Locus awards.

In the air of great protagonist names won hands down by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 cyberpunkapalooza Snow Crash with Hiro Protagonist, Gibson introduces us to Chevette...

Xeelee

Author	Stephen Baxter
ISBN	0575090405

Xeelee is an omnibus book containing:

Raft
Timelike Infinity
Flux
Ring

The above four titles are linked to my review of each individual volume. The titles are ordered in the book by publication dates but I find that reading the books in this order did not work for me as Timelike...

Salvation

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0399178848

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...