Thunderer

10 best books like Thunderer (Felix Gilman): Perdido Street Station, Once a Runner, Again to Carthage, Racing the Rain, Gods and Generals, Boneshaker, The Scar, City of Saints and Madmen, Throne of the Crescent Moon, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Perdido Street Station
AuthorChina Miéville
ISBN0345459407
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one--not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known...
Once a Runner
AuthorJohn L. Parker Jr.
ISBN0915297019
Once a Runner captures the essence of what it means to be a competitive runner; to devote your entire existence to a single-minded pursuit of excellence. It has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever written. Originally self-published in 1978 and sold at road races out of the trunk of the author’s...
AuthorJohn L. Parker Jr.
ISBN1891369776
John L. Parker, Jr.’s first novel, Once a Runner, is the cult novel for runners. Self-published in the late 1970s, and for years sold out of the trunk of the author’s car at running events, it went on to sell over 100,000 copies and achieve legendary status among runners.

It perfectly captured...
Racing the Rain
AuthorJohn L. Parker Jr.
ISBN1476769869
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner—“The best novel ever written about running” (Runner’s World)—comes that novel’s prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida’s Gold Coast.

Quenton Cassidy’s first...
Gods and Generals
AuthorJeff Shaara
ISBN1841580651
In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara explores the lives of Generals Lee, Hancock, Jackson and Chamberlain as the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg approaches.

Shaara captures the disillusionment of both Lee and Hancock early in their...
Boneshaker
AuthorCherie Priest
ISBN0765318415
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible...
The Scar
AuthorChina Miéville
ISBN0345460014
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city....
City of Saints and Madmen
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
ISBN0553383574
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited–an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.

City of elegance and squalor....
Throne of the Crescent Moon
AuthorSaladin Ahmed
ISBN0756407117
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes...
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
AuthorSeth Dickinson
ISBN0765380722
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home and see red sails on the horizon.

The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. They'll conquer Baru’s island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose...
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
AuthorAnna Merlan
ISBN1250159059
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.

American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump,...
Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus
AuthorJohn Eldredge
ISBN0892960884
Reading the Gospels without knowing the personality of Jesus is like watching television with the sound turned off. The result is a dry, two dimensional person doing strange, undecipherable things.

In BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW, John Eldredge removes the religious varnish to help readers discover...
Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering
AuthorDavid Gregory
ISBN1578569052
You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of Nazareth: The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can’t pass up the opportunity...
The Warlord's Son
AuthorDan Fesperman
In a riveting tale of intrigue and betrayal, a journalist and his aide infiltrate Afghanistan on the eve of the American invasion.  Skelly, a jaded war correspondent, is looking for one last scoop.  Najeeb, his translator and guide, is an educated young man from the Pakistani-Afghani border with...
Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0020197802
By law, one cannot copyright a title. If someone were stupid enough to do it, novels could be written and published with such titles as " Moby Dick," " Alice in Wonderland" or "Gone With the Wind." But also, by law, ownership of a title can be guaranteed if it can be proved that the original author has established...
The Outdoorsman's Son
AuthorDaniel Elijah Sanderfer
The new boy in town,
meets the hottest boy around.
A gay coming of age story,
of young love and determination.

Derrick is used to small-town Midwestern life. At Seventeen, he's learned to adjust to about anything. But when his parents decide to move to the small town of Dale, Indiana;...
A Summer of Guiltless Sex
AuthorDan Skinner
Two very different men, from two walks of life find common ground for an exciting and unique adventure. It'd not been a great beginning of the summer season for either Bill, a young bridal store clerk, or Ted, a college student working as a lifeguard at the apartment complex’s pool. They'd both been...
The Bourne Enigma
AuthorEric Van Lustbader
ISBN1455597945
On the eve of Russian General Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can decipher Karpov's cryptogram. He discovers that Karpov was...
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