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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMarune: Alastor 933
Jack Vance · 183 pages
> From his fabulous palace on Numenes, the Connatic ruled the sprawling Alastor Clustor... and kept track of the doings of each of his trillion or more subjects. But there was one man he knew nothing about - for the past life of the wanderer called Pardero was a complete mystery. >Pardero set himself two goals. To find out who he was... and to find his enemy, the person who had stolen his memory
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Lois McMaster Bujold · 352 pages
"Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission, into a mystery he never anticipated
Fledgling
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller · 375 pages
Having lived on a world that hosts one of the galaxy's premier educational institutions, Theo Waitley finds her life disrupted by her professor mother's decision to relocate her to faculty housing, where she is embroiled in school politics.
The Stars Are Legion
Kameron Hurley · 400 pages
"Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds--and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will
This Shattered World
Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner · 397 pages
Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.
The World Before
Karen Traviss · 400 pages
Three strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej.Now one of the sentient species has been exterminated -- and two others are poised on the brink of war.The fragile bezeri are no more, due to the ignorant, desperate actions of human interlopers. The powerful wess'har protectors have failed in their sworn obligation to the dest
Acorna's People
Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough · 384 pages
Filled with adventure and wonder, Acorna's Peoplecontinues the enthralling saga of Acorna, the beautiful, brave, and kindhearted creature known as the Unicorn Girl."Welcome Home, Linyaari Child!"With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy
Provenance
Ann Leckie · 464 pages
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people: she must free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir · 480 pages
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole ci
The Summer Queen
Joan D. Vinge · 949 pages
From back cover of Warner Books paperback December 1992: MOON DAWNTREADER is Lady of Tiamat, pledged to forever end offworld exploitation and save the mers, whose blood gives immortality. But hostile Summer tribes and treacherous Winters plot to subvert... THE SUMMER QUEEN INSPECTOR BZ GUNDHALINU, driven mad by his love for Moon, finds the ancient science of true starflight; but brings blo
Crystal Rain
Tobias S. Buckell · 351 pages
Twenty-seven years after washing up on the shores with no memory of his past, John deBrun discovers that he retains an understanding about a mythical artifact and becomes Nanagada's only chance for survival against the fearsome Azteca.
Omega Games
S.L. Viehl · 372 pages
Dr. Cherijo Torin faces a different kind of epidemic - a mysterious black crystal spreading like cancer throughout the galaxy. The hunt for information leads Cherijo to the planet Trellus, whose inhabitants exhibit excessive paranoia and anger, taking out their frustrations in the Omega Dome in simulated combat against battle drones. But someone is killing victims outside the arena, and Cherijo be
Embassytown
China Mieville · 359 pages
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, Humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can spea
The Engines of God
Jack McDevitt · 419 pages
Enjoyable space opera, with a mystery- why did advanced civilizations on several planets suffer catastrophes that plunged them into chaos, death and sometimes rebirth as a primitive civilization, and why is there a huge stone fake city (Oz) on a nearby planet- what was its purpose? A team of scientists and archeologists tries to finish their work as the terraforming deadline looms on a planet cho
Lord Valentine's Castle
Robert Silverberg · 456 pages
On the planet of Majipoor, Valentine struggles to reclaim his birthright when he realizes that he is the true Coronal, Lord Valentine, who has been drugged, physically altered, and replaced on the throne.
Reap the Wild Wind
Julie E. Czerneda · 459 pages
In the first book of the Stratification series, set in an earlier time in Czerneda's Trade Pact Universe, the Clan has not yet learned how to manipulate the M'hir to travel between worlds. Instead, they are a people divided into small tribes, scattered over a fraction of their world, and prevented from advancing by two other powerful races who control both technology and terrain.