18 books like Great sky river

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The Turing option Harry Harrison · 1992 · ★ 3.7 · 409p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Classic SF Harry Harrison enthralls with the discovery, loss and re-discovery of AI. Quaint but fairly accurate predictions of modern computing power. 24 style presentation. Shares: Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction

Not Till We Are Lost Dennis E. Taylor · 2024 · ★ 4.2 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center… Shares: Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction

Surface Detail Iain Banks · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Moderate It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes,… Shares: Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction

Slant Greg Bear · 1997 · ★ 3.5 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Greg Bear is the acclaimed winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He has written many books and short stories that have been praised by readers and critics alike. Earth, in the sixth decade of the twenty-first century, is a planet transformed by rapid technological advances. Nanotechnology has been refined and perfected, allowing people the ability to transform their bodies and… Shares: Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction

Armageddon 2419 AD Philip Francis Nowlan · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate In Armageddon - 2419 A.D., Buck, a victim of accidental suspended animation, awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han, ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of America's new warrior-women, Wilma Deering, Rogers soon become a central figure in using newly-developed scientific weapons -… Shares: Science Fiction

Star Hunter Andre Norton · 1961 · ★ 3.9 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Moderate On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala, former pilot turned safari guide Ras Hume schemes to collect the reward for finding a missing heir to a fortune. A busboy from local dive bar is brainwashed into believing he is the missing heir, but he soon begins to doubt his own memories. This standalone story was originally published in 1961 as part of a double title paperback by Ace Books along with… Shares: Science Fiction

Columbus of Space Garrett Putman Serviss · 1911 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The year was 1909 and Garrett Putnam Serviss was already a respected science writer for the Hearst newspaper group. Serviss’ reputation was such that his articles appeared in almost every major American magazine. Beginning in January of that year Frank Munsey’s All-Story magazine began the serialization of Serviss’ epic science fiction adventure A Columbus of Space. Just three months earlier the… Shares: Science Fiction

Black Canaan Robert E. Howard · 1978 · ★ 3.6 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Black Canaan by Robert E. Howard is a carefully prepared Good Old Pages Publishing digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful… Shares: Science Fiction

The People of the Crater Andre Norton · 2009 · ★ 3.2 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness." These were the tasks Garin must perform to fulfill the prophecy of the Ancient Ones . . . and establish his own destiny in this hidden land!Andre Norton's first work, originally published in 1947 under the pseudonym "Andrew North." Shares: Science Fiction

The moon metal Garrett Putman Serviss · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A novel by Serviss dealing with a fictional monetary crisis due to discoveries of overwhelming deposits of all the world's precious metals. Shares: Science Fiction

Tarnsman of Gor John Norman · 1966 · ★ 3.5 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The first novel in the long-running sword-and-planet series set on a Counter-Earth, where warriors rise above the chaos of bondage and brutality. Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life. One frosty winter night in the New England woods, he… Shares: Science Fiction

The Silo Series Collection Hugh Howey · 1929p · ≈ 64h · Challenging For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short fiction, Sil0 Stories. The remnants of humanity live underground in a vast silo. In this subterranean world, rules matter.… Shares: Science Fiction

The Pharaoh’s Secret Clive Cussler & Graham Brown A Kurt Austin NUMA files adventure, The Pharaoh's Secret is a gripping, action-packed and suspense-filled tale that delves into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt and is set in and beside the sparkling Mediterranean Sea.A deadly poisonOn the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa a mysterious ship runs aground, explodes and releases a poisonous black mist. As the island's inhabitants fall where they… Shares: Science Fiction

W. E. B. Griffin Direct Action Jack Stewart · 433p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When the original Presidential Agent is gunned down during a mass shooting, Pick McCoy swears a brutal revenge in this revival of W. E. B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling series.Charley Castillo, the original Presidential Agent is in Virginia Beach to visit his son when two gunmen appear. Charley is able to thwart a deadly mass shooting, but he is hit and badly injured. Meanwhile Pick… Shares: Science Fiction

Shadow Strike Brad Taylor New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor is back with a dynamic political thriller featuring Pike Logan as he goes head-to-head with an old enemy—and renowned assassin.After its proxies are devastated and its offensive capability pummeled in the latest war in the middle east, a rogue group of Iranian regime officials create a brazen plot… Shares: Science Fiction

Atlas File CB Samet · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate She's a pawn in someone's deadly game of international economic manipulation and global domination. He's the CIA agent who will risk everything to uncover the truth.Isabel Jones, an esteemed ice skating coach, is riding high as her protege is poised to win the next Olympic competition. But her world is upended when she's targeted for termination at the same time the CIA accuses her of being an… Shares: Science Fiction

Stuart Woods' Deep Water Brett Battles In the latest action-packed adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Stone Barrington must avenge attacks on two of his dear friends.When Stone Barrington meets one of his clients, Trenton Sidney, for a sunset drink on Trenton’s new yacht, the last thing he expects is to be a victim of a shipwreck. As one of the four survivors of the incident but with little memory of the sinking,… Shares: Science Fiction

Ravaged Lands J. R. Tomlin · 2020 Sieges, betrayals, and a vow to Robert the Bruce. A knight becomes Scotland's blade.January 1308. Under a sky of iron and snow, Thomas Randolph rides into English-held Aberdeen with a single promise burned into his bones: prove his loyalty to Robert the Bruce or die trying. A clandestine council in the shadow of an enemy fortress. A midnight ladder over an icy moat. Chains screaming as a… Shares: Science Fiction

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