Up Jim River
10 best books like Up Jim River (Michael Flynn): Prospero in Hell, Pirate Sun, Bitter Angels, Mind Over Ship, Coyote Horizon, Gardens of the Sun, Prisoner of Conscience, We the Underpeople, The Wolf Age, The Last Page
| Author | L. Jagi Lamplighter |
| ISBN | 0765319306 |
The exciting, suspenseful story of Miranda’s search for Prospero, the fabled sorcerer of
The Tempest
The search of a daughter for her father is but the beginning
of this robust fantasy adventure. For five hundred years since the events of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda...
| Author | Karl Schroeder |
| ISBN | 0765315459 |
Return to Virga, a bubble universe artificially separated from our own future universe, and the setting of Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce.
Chaison Fanning, the admiral of a fleet of warships, has been captured and imprisoned by his enemies, but is suddenly rescued and set free. He flees...
| Author | C.L. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0553592173 |
An Imploding Star System.
A Murdered Galactic Spy.
A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable…
The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling Four Families...
| Author | David Marusek |
| ISBN | 0765317494 |
The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke’s head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles...
| Author | Allen M. Steele |
| ISBN | 0441016820 |
"The master of science-fiction intrigue" (Washington Post) returns to the Coyote universe.
The planet of Coyote has become the last, best hope of humankind, but it has also become the principal point of contact with the hjadd, the alien race encountered by a European starship many years earlier....
| Author | Paul McAuley |
| ISBN | 0575079371 |
The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth’s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational...
| Author | Susan R. Matthews |
| ISBN | 0380789140 |
Andrei Koscuisko is an Inquisitor for the Bench federation of worlds. It is his duty to root out -- quickly, efficiently, quietly -- anyone who would threaten the ruling order.Andrei has been posted to the penal facility at Port Rudistal. Here hundreds of prisoners -- traitors who dared dream of freedom...
| Author | Cordwainer Smith |
| ISBN | 1416520953 |
Novel and short stories:
1 Norstrilia [Novel]
2 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
3 Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
4 The Ballad of Lost C'Mell
5 The Dead Lady of Clown Town
6 Under Old Earth
Humans are kept stagnantly happy by the 'Instrumentality' totalitarian government. Underpeople...
Wuruyaaria: city of werewolves, whose raiders range over the dying northlands, capturing human beings for slaves or meat. Wuruyaaria: where a lone immortal maker wages a secret war against the Strange Gods of the Coranians. Wuruyaaria: a democracy where some are more equal than others, and a faction...
| Author | Anthony Huso |
| ISBN | 0765325160 |
The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing compared to what’s living in the city’s sewers.
Twenty-three-year-old Caliph Howl is Stonehold’s reluctant High King. Thrust onto the throne,...
| Author | S.L. Farrell |
| ISBN | 0756405971 |
The last chapter in the epic "richly imagined world (New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin)" of The Nessantico Cycle
Kraljica Allesandra sits on the Sun Throne of a much-diminished Holdings empire, while her son Jan rules the rival Coalition of Firenzcia. The schism between...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553591096 |
Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grail brings Elizabeth Bear’s brilliant space opera to a triumphant conclusion.
At last the generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has arrived at its destination: the planet they have come to call Grail. But this habitable jewel just...
| Author | Ryk E. Spoor |
| ISBN | 1439133557 |
It was supposed to be a simple test flight, one that pilot Ariane Austin was on only as a last-ditch backup; intelligent, superhumanly fast automation would handle the test activation and flight of humanity's first faster-than-light vessel. But when the Sandrisson Drive activated, every automated...
The Last Crusaders: The Hundred-Year Battle for the Center of the World
| Author | Barnaby Rogerson |
| ISBN | 1590202864 |
The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for thy made the crisis truly global. The Last Crusaders is about the period's last great conflict between East...
| Author | Matthew Hughes |
| ISBN | 1927880009 |
When professional duelist Conn Labro escapes indentured servitude as the star player of Horder's Emporium, he abandons the gaming world of Thrais and sets out on an interstellar journey filled with murder, deceit, and self-discovery. His only friend on Thrais, discovered dead and tortured, left...
The Battle of the Hammer Worlds
| Author | Graham Sharp Paul |
| ISBN | 0345495721 |
He thought Hell was the worst they could throw at him.
He was wrong.
Back from tangling with the Hammer of Kraa, the most brutal, trigger-happy tyrants in humanspace, Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort is assigned to the Federated Worlds heavy cruiser Ishaq, which is struggling to rise...
| Author | Ian McDonald |
| ISBN | 1616146788 |
Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price. His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All World, and Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild, random...
| Author | Tony Gonzales |
| ISBN | 0765326191 |
“There will be neither compassion nor mercy;
Nor peace, nor solace
For those who bear witness to these Signs
And still do not believe."
Book of Reclaiming 25:10
New Eden: the celestial battleground of a catastrophic war that has claimed countless lives.
The...
| Author | Julie E. Czerneda |
| ISBN | 0756404568 |
From Publishers Weekly----- In this tantalizing prequel to Czerneda's Trade Pact Universe trilogy (A Thousand Words for Stranger, etc.), the roots of the Clan refugees are revealed. On the planet Cersi, the seven Om'ray clans coexist with the technologically superior Tikitik and Oud, who maintain...
Venice: part two of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.
A young Englishman, Tom Swan, travels to Italy in the bodyguard of a Cardinal. He finds it a different world. Food is delicious, women are beautiful, men are quick to make friends and quick...
| Author | Mark Charan Newton |
| ISBN | 0330461672 |
In the frozen north of a far-flung world lies Villiren, a city plagued by violent gangs and monstrous human/animal hybrids, stalked by a serial killer, and targeted by an otherworldly army. Brynd Lathraea has brought his elite Night Guard to help Villiren build a fighting force against the invaders....
| Author | Matthew Sturges |
| ISBN | 1616142022 |
Midwinter has gone, but that cold season has been replaced by a cold war in the world of Faerie, and this new kind of war requires a new kind of warrior.
Seelie forces drove back Empress Mab at the Battle of Sylvan, but hostilities could resume at any moment. Mab has developed a devastating new weapon...
Marla Mason has been a mercenary, chief sorcerer and protector of an entire city, and an occult detective, and now she's a goddess of Death... but only part-time. She gets to spend six months a year living as a mortal woman on Earth, and she's decided to devote those months to hunting monsters for fun and...
