There Is No Darkness
10 best books like There Is No Darkness (Joe Haldeman): The Chronoliths, Stardoc, The Wrong Stars, Jitterbug Perfume, The Horror in the Museum, Orphanage, Coyote Rising, Involution Ocean, Marius' Mules XII: Sands of Egypt, Genesis
Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
ISBN | 0812545249 |
Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future.
In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior....
Author | S.L. Viehl |
ISBN | 0451457730 |
Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth and accepts a position as a physician at Kevarzanga-2's FreeClinic. Her surgical skills are desperately needed on a hostile frontier world with over 200 sentient species--and her understanding of alien physiology is nothing short of miraculous. But the truth behind...
Author | Tim Pratt |
ISBN | 0857667092 |
A ragtag crew of humans and posthumans discover alien technology that could change the fate of humanity... or awaken an ancient evil and destroy all life in the galaxy.
The shady crew of the White Raven run freight and salvage at the fringes of our solar system. They discover the wreck of a centuries-old...
Author | Tom Robbins |
ISBN | 1842430351 |
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed...
Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
ISBN | 0345485726 |
Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-authored – but all bear the mark of the master of primordial terror.
The Horror in the Museum –Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the real thing.
The...
Author | Robert Buettner |
ISBN | 0446614297 |
Military Science Fiction for the Rest of Us
Brief Synopsis:
The story starts with Jason Wander, a somewhat misguided youth with two options: join the military or go to jail. Enter the devastation caused by the alien race later termed as "the slugs." The story follows Wander and his exploits...
Author | Allen M. Steele |
ISBN | 0441012515 |
I'd like to love Coyote Rising more; Allen Steele has created a very original tale of interstellar colonization. Unfortunately, I found the plot and the characters lacking the substance required to truly distinguish a novel, no matter how original its premise.
The first book in the series,...
Author | Bruce Sterling |
ISBN | 0441372066 |
A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boards a whaling vessel to hunt the drug he craves.
The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the...
Marius' Mules XII: Sands of Egypt
Winter, 48 BC. Caesar and his small force are trapped in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Caught up in the dynastic struggles of the House of Ptolemy, the consul has sided with the clever and ruthless Queen Cleopatra. Her brother and fellow monarch Ptolemy XIII languishes in the palace, a hostage of Caesar’s,...
Fleet Admiral Jeremy Strong is determined to preserve the planet Gaia as the new home of the lost fleets. Unfortunately, a new and frightening danger from the destroyed Dyson Sphere threatens to undo everything he has fought for.
Kazak, the AI on the Originator ship has his own agenda. The Humans...