Books like 'PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 006'
Readers who enjoyed PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 006 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki, Osamu Tezuka, Makoto Tezuka & James Gaubatz also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post
43 ratingsThis is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future... -
Starfish by Peter Watts
18 ratingsA huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness... -
V. by Thomas Pynchon
26 ratingsThe wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and "V.," the unknown woman of the title... -
The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
6 ratingsThe night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective... -
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Johnny by D.J. Molles
8 ratingsAubrey St. James is in trouble. She's locked in a cell at a government black site. She doesn't know where that site is or how the hell she got there. But she knows that it has something to do with the stranger she rescued from the river. Someone - or something - called Johnny... -
The Body Snatchers (Stephen King Horror Library) by Jack Finney, Stephen King
27 ratingsThis edition of Finney's horror classic contains an introduction by Stephen King as well as a modernized text... -
BZRK by Michael Grant
22 ratingsCharles and Benjamin Armstrong, conjoined twins and owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, have a goal: to turn the world into their vision of utopia. No wars, no conflict, no hunger. And no free will. Opposing them is a guerrilla group of teens, code name BZRK, who are fighting to protect the right to be messed up, to be human.This is no ordinary war, though... -
Sphere by Michael Crichton
41 ratingsA group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old... -
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
16 ratingsA new vision based on Astroboy - "The greatest robot on earth". Final Volume!Contains Chapters 56 to 65... -
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
16 ratingsA powerful, destructive force in the form of a tornado is killing the great robots of the world one by one. Who or what could be behind this whirlwind? Be it man or robot, it now has its sights set on Atom, the most advanced robot ever created--and Atom is ready to dive right into the eye of the storm.Contains Chapters 24 to 31... -
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 007 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
14 ratingsWho Killed Astro Boy? No Robots; Human vs. humanoid!Pluto has destroyed six out of the seven great robots of the world, and the pacifist robot Epsilon is the only one that remains... -
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 002 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
16 ratingsIn a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol’s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders—the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets... -
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 005 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
16 ratingsA robot may not harm or kill a human being. Article 13 of the Robot Laws.Adolph, a member of a robot hate group, is being used as a pawn and hunted down by the members of his own brotherhood. He must now turn to his worst enemy for protection--Gesicht, the robot who he believes killed his own brother... -
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
34 ratingsKoushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of 42 junior high school students are taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided with weapons and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing... -
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Volume 2 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
16 ratingsNeon Genesis Evangelion is the most controversial -- and some say the best -- anime of the decade. Set in the year 2015 when humanity faces a terrifying last judgment from mysterious giant "Angels, " the series has been acclaimed for its original story line, direct psychological content, and self-referential examination of the genre... -
All You Need is Kill, Vol. 2 by Ryōsuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata
14 ratingsWhen the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch... -
All You Need Is Kill by Ryōsuke Takeuchi, Yoshitoshi Abe
16 ratingsWhen the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his fifth iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally—the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch... -
All You Need is Kill, Vol. 1 by Ryōsuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata
16 ratingsWhen the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch... -
MIND MGMT, Volume One: The Manager by Matt Kindt, Damon Lindelof
16 ratingsMatt Kindt, the most original voice in genre comics, outdoes himself in this bold new espionage series!Reporting on a commercial flight where everyone aboard lost their memories, a young journalist stumbles onto a much bigger story - the top-secret Mind Management program... -
Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 2 by Mohiro Kitoh
6 ratingsSaving the world is no child’s play in this dark and chilling mecha manga series.One summer, fifteen kids innocently wander into a nearby seaside cave. There they meet a strange man who invites them to play an exciting new video game. This game, he explains, pits one lone giant robot against a horde of alien invaders. To play the game, all they have to do is sign a simple contract... -
Gantz/1 by Hiroya Oku
18 ratingsHow long will you stay in the game?The last thing Kei and Masaru remember was being struck dead by a subway train while saving the life of a drunken bum. What a waste! And yet somehow they're still . . . alive? Or semi-alive? Maybe it's reanimated . . . by some kind of alien orb with a nasty message . . . "Your lives are over...
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