Books like 'The World Turned Upside Down'
Readers who enjoyed The World Turned Upside Down by David Drake, Poul Anderson, Christopher Anvil, Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, L. Sprague de Camp, John W. Campbell Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, Gordon R. Dickson, Chester S. Geier, Robert Ernest Gilbert, Tom Godwin, Lee Gregor, Wyman Guin, Robert A. Heinlein, C.M. Kornbluth, Fritz Leiber, Keith Laumer, Murray Leinster, P. Schuyler Miller, C.L. Moore, H. Beam Piper, Rick Raphael, Ross Rocklynne, James H. Schmitz, Robert Sheckley, Michael Sharra, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Vance & A.E. van Vogt also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Wolf 359 by Gabriel Urbina, Zach Valenti
6 ratingsLife's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth...Categorized as:
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Mount Fitz Roy by Scott Sigler
8 ratingsMOUNT FITZ ROY is the long-awaited sequel to the Audible & Amazon bestseller EARTHCORE. The cataclysm in Utah's Wah Wah mountain range left the skies thick with ash, and the surface littered with corpses. The survivors of Earthcore's ill-fated platinum mining expedition move forward, looking to the Andes for the next find — a trillion dollar motherlode that will make them rich ... or dead... -
![The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak]()
The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak
16 ratingsFirst-class entertainment (The Sunday Times) from a classic SF author. En route to an interplanetary research mission, a scientist is abducted by a strange, shadowy race of aliens and taken to a previously uncharted planet, a storehouse of information that would be invaluable--even to an Earth so advanced that time travel allows goblins, dinosaurs, even Shakespeare to coexist...Categorized as:
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![The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch]()
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.. -
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![The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
18 ratingsLee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate... -
![Tale of the Thunderbolt by E.E. Knight]()
Tale of the Thunderbolt by E.E. Knight
16 ratingsAs the Resistance attempts to overthrow their vampiric alien masters, elite Cat force member David Valentine embarks on a terrifying journey in search of a long-lost weapon that will guarantee their victory-and the end of the Kurian Order's domination of Earth...Categorized as:
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![Transition by Iain M. Banks]()
Transition by Iain M. Banks
20 ratingsThere is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light...Categorized as:
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![The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez]()
The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez
10 ratingsMars is supposed to be dead.…Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason...Categorized as:
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Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
16 ratingsIn 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history...Categorized as:
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![Ghosts of War by George Mann]()
Ghosts of War by George Mann
8 ratingsGhosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors – strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night...Categorized as:
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![Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis]()
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
26 ratingsTruth is a human right.It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father...Categorized as:
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Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
18 ratingsRadiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making...Categorized as:
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![Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler]()
Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler
8 ratingsCarter Sloan is a trained assassin—the best there is, pulled out of cryogenic sleep whenever an assignment demands his skills. So when he’s kept in the deep freeze for 258 years, he’s seriously pissed off.Yet his government needs him, to hunt down the enemy known as the Daughter of the Brass Dragon... -
![Planetary, Volume 3: Leaving the 20th Century by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Planetary, Volume 3: Leaving the 20th Century by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
20 ratingsA softcover edition of the popular hardcover collects Ellis and Cassaday's breathtaking Planetary! In this volume, Elijah takes a look at his past, making startling revelations and recounting his participation in the first moon shot..Categorized as:
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![One Small Step by Brian K. Vaughan]()
One Small Step by Brian K. Vaughan
28 ratingsThe adventures of Yorick Brown continue in Y: THE LAST MAN: ONE SMALL STEP, collecting issues #11-17. A Russian Soyuz capsule is coming down from the International Space Station carrying three passengers: one woman and two men... -
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Doctor Who: Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories by Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott
14 ratingsThe Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Anthology is the perfect collection of adventures for Doctor Who fans.This print edition is the culmination of a year-long series of ebooks to celebrate fifty years of Doctor Who. Eleven Doctors, eleven stories, eleven unique interpretations of the Doctor, his terrifying alien enemies and his time-travelling adventures...Categorized as:
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![Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez]()
Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez
19 ratingsEmperor Mollusk.Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth.Not bad for a guy without a spine.But what's a villain to do after he's done . . . everything...Categorized as:
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