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9 best books like The Wild Shore (Kim Stanley Robinson): Fall, or Dodge in Hell, Eternity Road, Infinite Detail, Blind Lake, Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Making the Corps, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0062458736 |
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.
In his youth, Richard “Dodge”...
| Author | Jack McDevitt |
| ISBN | 0061054275 |
The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization...
| Author | Tim Maughan |
| ISBN | 0374175411 |
A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.
BEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
| ISBN | 0765341603 |
At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch everyday life in a city of lobster like aliens upon a distant planet. They can't contact the aliens in any way or understand their language. All they can do is...
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
| Author | Anthony Swofford |
| ISBN | 0743287215 |
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his...
| Author | Thomas E. Ricks |
| ISBN | 0684848171 |
The bestselling, compelling insider’s account of the Marine Corps from the lives of the men of Platoon 3086—their training at Parris Island, their fierce camaraderie, and the unique code of honor that defines them.
The United States Marine Corps, with its proud tradition of excellence...
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0375501568 |
Pagels, a writer and thinker on religion and history, winner of the National Book Award for The Gnostic Gospels, reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the 21st century. This book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the Gospel...
| Author | David Neiwert |
| ISBN | 1786634236 |
The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States
Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious...
A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution
| Author | Marianne Williamson |
| ISBN | 0062874098 |
In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic Return to Love confronts the cancerous politics of fear and divisiveness threatening the United States today, urging all spiritually aware Americans to return to—and act out of—our...
