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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Plutonium Blonde
John Zakour, Lawrence Ganem · 342 pages
The Private Eye
Brian K. Vaughan
Digital web comic compiled. "A detective story set in 2076, when everyone in the United States has a secret identity."--Publisher's website. Contains 10 issues plus a "Making of" special.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams · 304 pages
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost—Horror—Detective—Whodunit— Time—Travel—Romantic—Musical— Comedy Epic. Dirk Gently himself is a detective — well, a sort of detective.. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever
Archangel Protocol
Lyda Morehouse · 342 pages
Heavy Liquid
Paul Pope
In the late 21st century, "S," a former narcotics agent turned private investigator and petty criminal, is addicted to heavy liquid, a hallucinatory drug that is being pursued for its various other properties by an unscrupulous art collector, a gang of ruthless gunmen, and the government.
Pulp
Charles Bukowski · 192 pages
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on M
Visions in Death
J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts · 384 pages
22# Eve Dallas Investigation In Death 'The summer had been long hot and bloody. Fall, with its cooler temperatures was coming. Maybe people wouldn't be as inclined to kill each other. But she doubted it.' In 2059 New York City, technology and humanity collide, Detective Eve Dallas searches the darkest corners of Manhattan for an elusive killer with a passion for collecting souls... On one
Mindstar Rising
Peter F. Hamilton · 438 pages
WISE UP, ITS THE 21ST CENTURY AND GLOBAL WARMING IS HERE TO STAY. Forget the way your country used to look. Get used to the free market, the companies have all the best hardware - they're calling the shots now . . . LIVE WITH THE HEAT. In a world like this a man open to any offers can make out just fine. Greg Mandel: Psi Boosted, wired into the latest sensory equipment, carrying state of
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith · 341 pages
tark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw. Then there’s Red – get off at Fuck Station Zero if you want to see a tac
Queen of Angels
Greg Bear · 426 pages
In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder. Why? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind -- the nightmare soul -- of the psychopath himself.
Promises in Death
J.D. Robb · 400 pages
A Eve Dallas Investigation In Death Every cop gets angry when a police officer is killed. And Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no exception. Detective Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with he
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Michael Crichton · 434 pages
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's poss
The Night Sessions
Ken MacLeod · 362 pages
A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it's a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It's been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history ...After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels - after Armageddon and the Flood - came the Great Rejection. The first
Gun, With Occasional Music
Jonathan Lethem · 266 pages
Distraction
Bruce Sterling · 467 pages
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washington has become a circus and no one knows that better than Oscar Valparaiso. A political spin doctor, Oscar has always made things look good. Now he wants to make a difference. But Oscar has a skelet
Red Planet Blues
Robert J. Sawyer · 356 pages
"Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such "revelatory and thought-provoking"* novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella "Identity Theft" and his Aurora Award-winning short story "Biding Time," and set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper ... Alex Lomax is the one and only privat
A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World
Rachel Cantor · 249 pages
In the not-too-distant future, the world is ruled not by governments but by fast-food delivery companies. Only one disgruntled employee stands between them and the end of civilization-- and a woman who's a librarian--and an anarchist book group--and a little kid who can travel through time--and maybe one or two other people.
Quarantine
Greg Egan · 256 pages
In 2034, the stars went out. An unknown agency surrounded the solar system with an impenetrable barrier, concealing the universe from humanity’s gaze. In 2067, Nick Stavrianos is hired to investigate the disappearance of a mentally disabled woman, Laura Andrews, from the institution where she was being cared for. Aided by a skull full of neural modifications, he follows her trail to the Republi
The Rapture of the Nerds
Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross · 349 pages
A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart · 334 pages
A dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years, and of the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. "In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of a Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of 'printed, bound media artifacts' (aka boo