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Readers who enjoyed A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume 5 by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Echo and Ember by A.J. Scudiere
6 ratingsFBI agents Donovan and Eleri left their last case with a sense of unease.Unable to close the investigation, they’ve been thrown into their next assignment far too fast. A string of strange arson-based murders are just part of the trouble. Not only is former agent Wade de Gottardi on their team for this one, so are two other NightShade agents: Dana Brantley and Christina Pines... -
Salvage by A.J. Scudiere
6 ratingsWhen Agent Derek Westerfield first offered her a chance to be an agent with NightShade, Walter Reed didn’t really understand what that meant. She went to Quantico, trained, and even got her first case, before she realized why NightShade was off the books. Her only ally—and her new partner—is GJ Janson, the know it all who wound up hand-cuffed in a hotel room for stealing from the FBI...Categorized as:
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The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
24 ratingsFor outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats... -
Unrequited Death by Tamara Rose Blodgett
8 ratingsThe Graysheets remain ominously quiet during the teen's senior year.When tragedy strikes Tiff, her confidence shatters into a million pieces and the group doesn't know how to pick up the scattered mess of her emotional health... -
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Exile's Gate by C.J. Cherryh
15 ratingsMorgaine must meet her greatest challenge—Gault, who is both human and alien, and also seeks control of the world and its Gate. She will meet the true Gatemaster—a mysterious lord with power as great, or greater, than her own...Categorized as:
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The Twice-Dead Boy by Laer Carroll
6 ratingsRoan Kinnison had lived more than two centuries before he was buried in a California hillside and died for the second time. Freed by a freak of nature after a century he is in modern-day Santa Monica and must navigate it--as an apparent 17-year old boy... -
Gestation by John Gold
10 ratingsTo face Death itself, to hide from deadly guards, to conduct dark rituals and to use forbidden death magic? Being sent to Hell is definitely not what 12-year-old Anji would have ever expected from a government orphanage program. Chrysalis — the project of the century. It is a hyper-realistic fantasy RPG game, set in the Middle Ages...Categorized as:
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The Enlightened by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
14 ratingsFrom a USA Today bestselling author comes the exciting continuation of the Mind Dimensions series Kidnapped. Consciousness expanded. And that was just the start of my day. I always thought I was a nice enough guy. The kind who’d never want to commit murder. Turns out I simply lacked incentive. Some crimes can never be forgiven... -
The Thought Pushers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
14 ratingsWhat am I?Who killed my family?Why?I need to get some answers before the Russian mob succeeds in killing me.That is, if my own friends don’t kill me first... -
The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
12 ratingsThing is a young girl who hides beneath a mask. Her companions include a crow, a toad, a goldfish, and a kitten, each in some way handicapped. Never has there been a more unlikely band of unheroic heroes. Yet each needs the other to discover what they all seek -- the Dragon of the Black Mountain, who can restore them to health and happiness... -
Preserving Hope by Alex Albrinck
12 ratingsIt was his mission to save her life.But first, he'd need to convince her that hers was a life worth saving.Will Stark has been sent on a mission to save the life of a young woman named Elizabeth. He does not know who is threatening her, or why. He only knows that failure is not an option, for it will mean three of the most important people in his life will cease to exist... -
Death Speaks by Tamara Rose Blodgett
10 ratingsCaleb's in high school now and thinks the chaos of last year is behind him. Unfortunately, a serial killer is on the loose and children are his victims. Caleb agrees to help the police apprehend the murderer...until the killer takes notice of Caleb and his paranormal friends.Carson and Brett remain the bullies they always were and their posse continues to grow... -
Writers of the Future, Vol 34 by L. Ron Hubbard, Brandon Sanderson
6 ratings24 Award-Winning Authors and IllustratorsAccompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David FarlandYour search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.Presenting this year’s collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters... -
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 by David Farland, Anne McCaffrey
6 ratingsYou are about to meet: YOUR NEXT FAVORITE AUTHOR. The 33rd edition of Writers of the Future may be the best new book yet! Brand-new adventure through space, time and possibility. Along the way new authors will introduce you to fascinating characters... -
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Writers of the Future Volume 31 by L. Ron Hubbard, Kevin A. Anderson
6 ratingsThe future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field... -
Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff
14 ratingsDemocracy is crumbling in the Interstellar Dominion Electorates and if Dar and Samantha can't get their message to Terra in time, a coup is inevitable. What's more, every police ship in space has just been alerted that Dar and Samantha are dangerous telepaths to be shot on sight... -
Ink by Hal Duncan
10 ratingsIt's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . . -
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley by Marion Zimmer Bradley
6 ratingsNote: Published in slightly different form in 1993, under the title Jamie and Other Stories: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley. That version contains a new introduction by Bradley and one additional story...Categorized as:
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Other Worlds Than These by John Joseph Adams, Stephen Baxter
10 ratingsWhat if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S... -
The Time Stopper by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
10 ratingsFrom a USA Today bestselling author comes a novelette in the Mind Dimensions series. This short story does not require you to have read the other books in the series. I can stop time, but I can’t change anything. I can access memories, but not far enough. My name is Mira, and my life is about finding the Russian mobster who killed my family...Categorized as:
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Digital Knight by Ryk E. Spoor
10 ratingsJason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence... -
Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy
18 ratingsTo master five greats arts of magic and win a queen was not enough for Alodar the apprentice. He must do what no man dared! Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five great arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired siege of her frontier castle. But aspire he did... -
WebMage by Kelly McCullough
17 ratingsRavirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates—literally—he’s a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that twenty-first-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn—who’s just trying to pass his college midterms... -
The Thought Readers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
16 ratingsA new series about mind readers from USA Today bestselling author... Everyone thinks I’m a genius. Everyone is wrong. Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that’s not because I’m unusually smart or hard-working. It’s because I cheat. You see, I have a unique ability... -
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Secret of the Sixth Magic by Lyndon Hardy
14 ratingsThe laws of the five magics were being set aside. If the world was to be saved it was up to Jason the scribe. But what was he to do? He had writer's block and suffered from agoraphobia. He was not a hero for the sagas.Edited to change the characteristics of the protagonist. Contains glossary and author's afterward... -
Annie's Day by Andy Weir
14 ratingsI didn't want to wake up at 6am, especially on a Saturday. But the man I was cuddled up to was... a morning person... -
Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card
24 ratingsAlvin Miller, a gifted seventh son of a seventh son, utilizes his skills as a Maker to help create a brighter future for America, but his task is further challenged by his ancient enemy, the Unmaker, who plots to end Alvin's life...Categorized as:
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Riddle of the Seven Realms by Lyndon Hardy
10 ratingsThe worst of the mess they were in, Kestrel knew, was that it was all his own fault. It all began when he had tried to cheat the lady wizard Phoebe with a load of worthless wood. When she insisted on testing his sample, the demon Astron had burst through the flame.Explanation of the realms of order and chaos revised. Contains glossary and author's afterward... -
Fast Ships, Black Sails by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer
8 ratingsDo you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer,...Categorized as:
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The Annihilation of Foreverland by Tony Bertauski
14 ratingsWhen kids awake on an island, they’re told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal their minds.Reed dreams of a girl that tells him to resist Foreverland. He doesn’t remember her name, but knows he once loved her. He’ll have to endure great suffering and trust his dream. And trust he’s not insane... -
Rasputin's Bastards by David Nickle
6 ratingsThey were the beautiful dreamers.From a hidden city deep in the Ural mountains, they walked the world as the coldest of Cold Warriors, under the command of the Kremlin and under the power of their own expansive minds.They slipped into the minds of Russia's enemies with diabolical ease, and drove their human puppets to murder, and worse.They moved as Gods... -
The Furies by Mark Alpert
8 ratingsFor centuries, the Furies have lived among us. Long ago they were called witches and massacred by the thousands. But they're human just like us, except for a rare genetic mutation that they've hidden from the rest of the world for hundreds of years.Now, a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Ariel has led John Rogers into the middle of a secret war among the Furies...Categorized as:
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Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
24 ratingsThe Mister B. of the title is Jakabob Botch, a demon whose ghastly past could make even the most merciless sociopath whimper in sympathy. Born in the deepest regions of hell, the spawn of an abusive drunkard and his whorish wife, Jakabob escapes to the world above after suffering fiendish torture...
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