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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Liberation
Ian Tregillis · 436 pages
I am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim. But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening. Our time has come. A new age is dawning. Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams, this is the third and final novel in a stunning series of revolution by Ian Tregillis.
East of West, Vol. 5: All These Secrets
Jonathan Hickman · 152 pages
It's the fifth volume of the Eisner-nominated, best-selling East Of West. All These Secrets is the twisting road of lies that will lead to Armageddon.
Hunger Games 5-Book Box Set (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Sunrise on the Reaping)
Suzanne Collins · 1,748 pages
Get Suzanne Collins's full Hunger Games series with this complete five-book set including The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Sunrise on the Reaping. "Whereas Katniss kills with finesse, Collins writes with raw power." -- Time Magazine In the nation of Panem lies a shining Capitol, surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the distr
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi · 365 pages
What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse – The Complete Epic, Book 3
Scott Lobdell, Warren Ellis, Jeph Loeb, John Francis Moore · 360 pages
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 536 pages
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope. A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; an ambitious jo
Underground Airlines
Ben H. Winters · 336 pages
"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young Black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states calle
Lion's Blood
Steven Barnes · 461 pages
In a work of alternate history in which the peoples of Africa colonize the Americas, the fates of two families--one Islamic African aristocrats, the other Druidic Irish slaves--collide as two young men, one of each dynasty, confront their world and each other.
Seed to Harvest
Octavia E. Butler · 784 pages
The Patternist series, originally published from 1977-1984, details a secret history continuing into from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague. A profile of Butler in Black Women in America notes that the themes of the series include "racial and gender-based animosity, the ethical implications of biological engineering,
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey · 702 pages
The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafi
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith · 336 pages
Indiana , 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness.""My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When
Light Bringer
Pierce Brown · 823 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastati
The United States of Atlantis
Harry Turtledove · 468 pages
England has driven the French from Atlantis, giving King George leave to tighten his control over the colonies. The Redcoats have seized the continent's eastern coastal towns, depriving the Atlanteans of the markets where they sell their goods as part of a strategy to bend the colonists to their will.Instead, England's tactics have only strengthened the Atlanteans' resolve to be free. As leader of
Romanitas
Sophia McDougall · 504 pages
Nadat de keizer en keizerin van het in 2003 nog steeds bestaande Romeinse Rijk zijn vermoord en hun 16-jarige zoon ten onrechte van moord is beschuldigd, vlucht deze naar Spanje.
Mistborn Trilogy
Brandon Sanderson · 1,414 pages
This discounted ebundle includes: Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn trilogy is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand year
Rising Tides
Taylor Anderson · 433 pages
Reddy and Jenks are united in their desire to hunt down the traitor who abducted two women both men would die to protect-- but first they have a new battle to win. They must navigate a tempest of politics, deception and betrayal when it becomes obvious that the ruthless Company is attempting to overthrow the Imperial Throne.
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer · 380 pages
The story takes place in the country of Opium, a strip of land between Mexico (now called Aztlán), and the United States. Opium, which is essentially an opium-producing estate, is ruled by Matteo Alacrán, also known as El Patrón. El Patrón's work-force consists of illegal immigrants whom the Farm Patrol (ex-criminals who are tempted with the offer of protection from the police) enslave when they c
Designated Targets
John Birmingham · 448 pages
It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass de
Winter
Rod Rees · 530 pages
The Demi-Monde is a high realism computer simulation, designed to train the military for operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan without the risk of real life death. The simulation is peppered with computer recreated psychopaths Aleister Crowley, the pitiless Inquisitor General Torquemada, Robespierre, and Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust, providing a powder keg mix of racial,
Everfair
Nisi Shawl · 383 pages
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness · 518 pages
Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town?