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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Saga of the Renunciates
Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1,116 pages
We Who Are About To...
Joanna Russ · 157 pages
"A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto a barren, uncharted planet. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible."--Jacket.
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 278 pages
At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow "space brat" Solly,
The Clockwork Rocket: Orthogonal Book One
Greg Egan · 362 pages
A series of strange meteors enters a planetary system, and a world is in danger. Can space travellers from this world, travel in time and space, and return in time with the technology needed to avert the disaster? This is the first book of the Orthogonal trilogy, following the travellers on their mission.
Ammonite
Nicola Griffith · 397 pages
Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep—and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the comp
Remnant Population
Elizabeth Moon · 339 pages
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days--until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company
A Wrinkle in Time
James Sie, Madeleine L'Engle
Fantasy. Megs og Charles' far, som er videnskabsmand, bliver holdt i fangenskab på en fremmed planet. Hjulpet af tre mystiske damer og vennen Calvin, tager børnene af sted for at redde ham
Carnival
Elizabeth Bear · 392 pages
In Old Earth's clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition--one that is about to reunite them.The pair are dispatched to New Amazonia as diplomatic agents Allegedly, they are to return priceless art. Co
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Saga, Vol. 1
Brian K. Vaughan · 160 pages
From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA) and critically acclaimed artist FIONA STAPLES (MYSTERY SOCIETY, NORTH 40), SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous o
Mother of Eden
Chris Beckett · 468 pages
"Civilization has come to the alien, sunless planet its inhabitants call Eden. Just a generation ago, the planet's five hundred inhabitants huddled together in the light and warmth of the forest's lanterntrees, afraid to venture out into the cold darkness around them. Now, humanity has spread across Eden and two kingdoms have emerged. Both are sustained by violence and dominated by men- and both c
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 211 pages
A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It also
The Splinter in the Sky
Kemi Ashing-Giwa · 384 pages
Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch
Kelly Sue DeConnick · 146 pages
A few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords results in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. But what happened on Earth that this new world order came to pass in the first place? Return to the grim corridors of Auxiliary Compliance Outpost #2, to uncover the first clues to the history of the world as we know it... and me
Uncharted Territory
Connie Willis · 162 pages
Famous explorers Findriddy and Carson are sent to Boohte to survey a previously unexplored sector of the planet.
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · 287 pages
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduou
Enchantress from the Stars
Sylvia Engdahl · 275 pages
When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system. First published in 1970 and winner of a Newbery Honor the following year. At once a tale of fantasy as well as science fiction, it
The Carpet Makers
Andreas Eschbach · 304 pages
Since the time of prehistory, carpet makers have tied intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. But, one day, the empire of the God Emperor vanish, and strangers begin to arrive from the stars in search of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief, more than anything they could have ever imagined.