18 books like Blood of Empire

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Wrath of Empire Brian McClellan · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 680p · ≈ 22h · Moderate As war rages, both sides are in a race to find the one thing that could turn the tides to their favor--a stone with the power to turn humans into gods--in the second book of Brian McClellan's epic fantasy tale of magic and gunpowder. The country is in turmoil. With the capital city occupied, half a million refugees are on the march, looking for safety on the frontier, accompanied by Lady Flint's… Shares: Military, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson · 2010 · ★ 4.6 · 1204p · ≈ 40h · Moderate Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches,… Shares: Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, American literature, Magic

Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson · 2012 · ★ 4.8 · 1088p · ≈ 36h · Moderate The eagerly awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Way of Kings. Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi, assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the Vengeance Pact among the highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi. Now the Assassin is… Shares: Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic

The Dead Isle Sam Starbuck · 2009 The year is 1880, and Jack Baker is a student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" rather than machines, and engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even his Creationist friend Clare thinks Jack's genius is going to waste. There is one man who knows how to put Jack to use, however: novelist and spy Ellis Graveworthy, who wants Jack… Shares: Steampunk, Magic, Fantasy

The Iron Thorn (The Iron Codex #1) Caitlin Kittredge · 2011 · ★ 3.5 In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn. Shares: Steampunk, Magic, Fantasy

The Dragons of Dorcastle Jack Campbell · 2015 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Dematr is a world ruled by the diametrically opposed Mage and Mechanic Guilds. For centuries, the two Great Guilds have been bitter rivals. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind to stop the Storm. Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, just out of the Guild Halls, where she has… Shares: Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy

The Hidden Masters of Marandur Jack Campbell · 2015 Someone wants to kill Mari, a young steam mechanic in the guild that controls all technology. She has learned that her world of Dematr is headed for a catastrophe that will destroy civilization and that mages really can alter reality for short periods. Someone also wants to kill Alain, a young mage who has learned that mechanics are not frauds, as his guild teaches, and that mechanic Mari is the… Shares: Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy

The Assassins of Altis Jack Campbell · 2015 Trapped within the dead city of Marandur, Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain must escape both merciless barbarians and the pitiless Imperial Legion. Beyond those dangers lie the mightiest and most unforgiving powers in the world of Dematr: the Great Guilds that rule the world with iron fists. Mari's Mechanics Guild and Alain's Mage Guild have always been enemies, but they are united in wanting… Shares: Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Morning Star H. Rider Haggard · 1910 · ★ 4.3 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Morning Star is a historical novel with fantasy elements by H. Rider Haggard, set in Ancient Egypt. Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy

Slave to Six Worlds Olivia M. Ravensworth · 2012 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Released at the end of 2012 by Pink Flamingo Publications http://www.pinkflamingo.com/brands/Olivia-Ravensworth.html , Slave to Six Worlds is a tale of the future as imagined from the Golden Age of science fiction of the 1930s—a colorful, bawdy, brawling time of atomic-powered rocketships, supremely intellectual but lustful Martians, and seductive green-skinned Venusian lesbians—in which buxom… Shares: Steampunk, Science Fiction

The Machine - Le Temps des Promesses · 2025 · ★ 5.0 Shares: Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy

The Emperor’s Edge C j cherryh · 2010 · ★ 5.0 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An enforcer wanted dead for crimes she didn’t commit... An assassin wanted dead for crimes he did commit… Normally, they would be enemies, but they both seek the same thing: exoneration. Unfortunately, a nefarious underground organization is attempting to kill the one man who could grant it to them, the emperor. If they want to win their freedom, they’ll have to battle powerful wizards,… Shares: Steampunk, Fantasy

Immortal IV Valjeanne Jeffers · 2012 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Rules were broken. Now the price must be paid. “The New World awoke to a roaring wind, light blazed from the mirror—swallowing the planet—a churning, savage vortex. Tundra's inhabitants cried out, as their flesh bled from their bones like wet clay. The world shuddered. And was still.” The Immortals broke the rules. As punishment, Karla and Joseph are transported to a steam powered realm. Tehotep… Shares: Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Wings in the Night Robert E. Howard · 2005 · 38p · ≈ 1h · Moderate This latest volume in the planned ten-volume set of The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard collects Robert E. Howard's fiction and prose published in Weird Tales from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howard's infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all--Conan the Cimmerian--and ably demonstrate that each of Howard's stories improved… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy

Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Richard Cypher's father was brutally murdered a month ago, in his home with his guts ripped out of his stomach. While coping with this sudden loss, Richard saves Kahlan Amnell from four mercenaries, and with the help of Richard's friend Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander the three flee to the midlands to stop Darken Rahl's ever expanding empire. Secrets will be revealed, many will perish, and the legends… Shares: Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Fantasy

Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings · 1982 · ★ 4.2 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The first book of the Belgariad.A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLong ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that… Shares: High Fantasy, Magic

The Cobra War Trilogy Timothy Zahn · 2016 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Moderate Shares: Military, Science Fiction Shares: Military, Science Fiction

A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin · 1996 · ★ 4.5 · 824p · ≈ 27h · Moderate A Game of Thrones is the inaugural novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic series of fantasy novels crafted by the American author George R. R. Martin. Published on August 1, 1996, this novel introduces readers to the richly detailed world of Westeros and Essos, where political intrigue, power struggles, and magical elements intertwine. The story unfolds through multiple perspectives, each… Shares: Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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