Twisted Metal
10 best books like Twisted Metal (Tony Ballantyne): The Dying Earth, Bill, The Galactic Hero, Embassytown, The Prestige, The Complete Lyonesse, Bowl of Heaven, Inversions, Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe, Big Planet, Zenith: Phase Two
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0671831526 |
I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more.
This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0743487079 |
It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honor-he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345524497 |
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0312858868 |
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.
Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences....
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0575090243 |
The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become embroiled...
| Author | Gregory Benford |
| ISBN | 0765328410 |
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space:...
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to...
| Author | J.E. Mooney |
| ISBN | 0765334585 |
Perhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe. His prose has been called subtle and brilliant, inspiring not just lovers of fantasy and science fiction, but readers of every stripe, transcending genre and defying...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0575071176 |
The objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet...and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and the survivors face an epic 40,000-mile trek across...
I realize that I just wrote a review in which I kind of slammed Grant Morrison (see my review for “Final Crisis”), but the truth is, I still kind of like him, especially his non-DC stuff. In particular, I have grown fond of a little series he wrote in the late-80s for the British comic book 2000 A.D. (known...
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1781083800 |
Continuing the award-nominated SF anthology series from multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.
The world we are living in is changing every day. We surf future shock every morning when we get out of bed. And with every passing day we are increasingly asked: how do we have to change...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0575073489 |
This is classic Vance: a carefully thought-out world, a stratified society, and a man in conflict with its rules. During the space of twelve generations, the descendents of a crash on a water-covered planet have managed to adapt to the marine culture. But they are always at the mercy of the kragen, giant,...
