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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod · 307 pages
"It's after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq War. After 7/7. After the Iran War. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. It's the day when the world changes all the way down to its fundamental assumptions." "In a world just down the road from our own, online bloggers vie with old-line political operatives and new-style police to determine just where reality lies. An
The Drafter
Kim Harrison · 422 pages
"New suspense trilogy, featuring a brilliant special task agent at the top of her field and set in a futuristic Detroit"--Goodreads.com.
Bitter Seeds
Ian Tregillis · 392 pages
It is world war two, the British are using demons and the Germans are using soldiers with super powers. It is warlocks versus super humans in this story.
Once Dead
Richard Phillips · 425 pages
Jack Gregory, the CIA's top assassin, went rogue after a mission gone wrong. When a confrontation leaves him bleeding out on death's doorstep, he is faced with an offer from a dark figure named Anchanchu. If Jack is willing to act as a human host for Anchanchu, the entity will revive him and give him another shot at life. Jack takes the deal ... but he must now face the consequences of having the
United States of Japan
Peter Tieryas · 448 pages
Camera Obscura
Lavie Tidhar · 412 pages
Lady De Winter is one of the Quiet Council's most valuable agents. A murder inside a locked and bolted room starts Milady on her adventure to the highest and lowest parts of Paris and beyond.
A Better World
Marcus Sakey · 381 pages
"The brilliants changed everything. Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us. Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities.
Sahara
Clive Cussler · 572 pages
1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from en
The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh
Greg Cox · 408 pages
Global Frequency, Vol. 2: Detonation Radio
Warren Ellis · 144 pages
After America
John Birmingham · 465 pages
Traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas.
Drakon
S.M. Stirling · 407 pages
Shocked by the bloody rampage of a killer responsible for the Warehouse Massacre, Detective Lieutenant Henry Carmaggio teams up with Gwendolyn Ingofsson, who has been accidently transported from a high-tech parallel Earth.
The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde · 374 pages
The Eyre Affair Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton
Mirrored Heavens
David J. Williams · 432 pages
In the 22nd century, Earth enjoys a tentative peace thanks to a treaty between the United States and the Eurasian Coalition. The hallmark of this new world is the Phoenix Space Elevator, enabling quicker transport from Earth to near-Earth orbit. When saboteurs destroy the Elevator, the authorities activate their top counterintelligence agents, Claire Haskell and Jason Marlowe, to unravel the myste
Firestarter
Stephen King · 428 pages
From the Flap: "Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge. The hair on his arms suddenly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange. It's coming, he thought helplessly. It's coming, oh my God, it really is." In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in
Patient Zero
Jonathan Maberry · 421 pages
"When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills ... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems t
Spook Country
William Gibson · 384 pages
Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate
Zero Sum Game
S.L. Huang · 352 pages
Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she's the only person around with a superpower...until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into pe