18 books like Scythe

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The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969 · ★ 4.4 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate [Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how… Shares: Science Fiction

Bad Blood Levine, Richard M. · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Details the shocking murders--in Terra Linda, California--of Jim and Naomi Olive by their sixteen-year-old daughter, Marlene, and her nineteen-year-old boyfriend, small-time drug dealer Chuck Riley Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Deadly Wedding Kate Parker · 2016 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate New Cover. Corrections to Americanisms. Same great story. It's a challenge finding a killer when everyone in the family wanted the old man dead.Spring, 1938. Olivia Denis is ridiculed by her aristocratic, wealthy cousins. A weekend spent in their ancient mansion for an extravagant wedding feels like torture.On the morning of the wedding, the bride's grandfather is found brutally murdered. Then… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Murder in America Stephen T. Holmes · 1994 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "A major revision of the best-selling Murder in America, this Second Edition examines both common and unusual acts of homicide in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. The authors, Ronald and Stephen Holmes, have worked with numerous police departments on more than 300 murder and rape cases. They have authored a variety of books and written many articles addressing… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Post-mortem Jon Wells · 2009 · ★ 3.3 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A jogger is running near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario when he stumbles across a near- mummified skeleton in a field. The skeletal remains are studied at the Hamilton morgue by a forensic pathologist, a forensic anthropologist, and a forensic entomologist (known as "the bug lady". The victim is female, non-Caucasian. But who is she? Enter Hamilton… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Stand by for Mars! Carey Rockwell · 1952 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Moderate STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets. When their tactical training cruise crash lands on Mars, their desperate adventures on the planet of burning deserts and endless canals will make them seasoned veteran spacemen -- if they live long enough for rescue!STAND BY FOR MARS is the first in the Tom Corbet, Space… Shares: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Up the Line Robert Silverberg · 1969 · ★ 3.7 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly… Shares: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Saturn Ben Bova · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Overview: Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the… Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

The January Dancer Michael Flynn · 2008 A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people… Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

The January Dancer Michael Flynn · 2008 "An epic tale. . . . evokes old-school space opera . . . but cutting-edge extrapolation breathes vivid life into this universe of scoundrels, heroes and romantics." —Publishers Weekly, starred review Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning sci-fi writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of… Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

Champion of Mars Guy Haley · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Moderate After Dr. Holland and his team discover an artifact deep in the caverns of Mars, profound consequences ripple throughout time, affecting Holland's present, the distant days of disgraced champion Yoechakanon Val Mora and the eras that bridge the eons between. Shares: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

The Sittaford Mystery Agatha Christie · 1931 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn't it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn't it? If they're… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Space Opera Catherynne M. Valente · 2018 · ★ 3.4 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's… Shares: Competition, Science Fiction

Fatta Eld Suzanne Collins · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate En cynisk teve-värld där deltagarna tävlar med livet som insats. Detta kan vara verklighetens underhållning i framtiden...Katniss trodde att en vinst i Hungerspelen var lika med framgång, lycka och berömmelse, men istället skulle det bara leda till fruktan och att hon blev ökänd. Huvudstaden är inte nöjd med henne. Hennes prestationer på arenan har gjutit mod i rebellstyrkorna – och i takt med… Shares: Competition, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Bareback Kit Whitfield · 2006 · ★ 3.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "For those born feet-first, life is normal. Civil rights are enshrined in law, the world is a comfortable place, and every full moon night, you lock yourself in a secure room to fur up in peace. But for those born head-first, the damage done is more than just physical. For a non, locked in his or her human skin, is first and foremost a conscript, drafted at eighteen into DORLA, the Department for… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Death by his grace Kwei Quartey · 2017 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Katherine Yeboah's marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye is all the talk of Accra high society. But when it becomes apparent that Katherine is infertile, Solomon's extended family accuses her of being a witch, hounding her until the relationship is so soured Solomon feels compelled to order Katherine out of the house they shared. Alone on her last night there, Katherine is brutally murdered by an… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Written in Bone Simon Beckett · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Written in Bone is a novel written by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2007. It is the second novel to feature Dr. David Hunter. Set in the Outer Hebrides, this crime novel features forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter. In this volume, he is called in to examine a badly burned body found in a deserted house on a small island while contending with both… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Half Bad Sally Green · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Now a major new Netflix series entitled The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself. In a world divided between good and evil, what happens when you're both? Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the world's most dangerous witch. Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan must find a way to unlock his full… Shares: Social issues, Young Adult

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