Books like 'Superman: Earth One, Volume 1'
Readers who enjoyed Superman: Earth One, Volume 1 by J. Michael Straczynski & Shane Davis also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
19 ratingsIntroducing The Time Police, the brand-new series by international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor - an irresistible spinoff from the much-loved Chronicles of St Mary's series. Perfect reading for fans of Doctor Who, Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde. 'The best way to describe this book: lots of fun' British Fantasy Society'Inventive and entertaining..Categorized as:
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![Goliath by Scott Westerfeld]()
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
29 ratingsAlek and Deryn are abroad the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant/maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath that can end the war. But whose side is he really on?While on their top-secret mission, Alek finally discovers Deryn's deeply kept secret. Two, actually. Not only is Deryn a girl disguised as a guy...she has feelings for Alek... -
![The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi]()
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
18 ratingsThe Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization...Categorized as:
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![Written in Fire by Marcus Sakey]()
Written in Fire by Marcus Sakey
24 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the bestselling Brilliance TrilogyFor thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war.We failed.The White House is a smoking ruin. Madison Square Garden is an internment camp...Categorized as:
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![A Better World by Marcus Sakey]()
A Better World by Marcus Sakey
24 ratingsThe brilliants changed everything.Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities...Categorized as:
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![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 Rebirths of Tao by Wesley Chu]()
The Rebirths of Tao by Wesley Chu
14 ratingsThe Tao trilogy is over but the story continues with The Rise of Io in 2016! Many years have passed since the events in The Deaths of Tao. The world is split into pro-Prophus and pro-Genjix factions, and is poised on the edge of a devastating new World War. A Genjix scientist who defects to the other side holds the key to preventing bloodshed on an almost unimaginable scale...Categorized as:
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![Brilliance by Marcus Sakey]()
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
28 ratingsIn Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called "brilliants," and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way... -
![The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu, Mikael Naramore]()
The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu, Mikael Naramore
16 ratingsBooklist Starred Review Shelf Awareness Starred ReviewThe sequel to The Lives of Tao.The Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible...Categorized as:
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Tabitha by Andrew Hall
8 ratingsNothing could prepare Tabitha Jones for the dead infested world she woke up to. Robbed of her loved ones and altered by the venom of an alien species, she's forced to leave her old life behind and survive the ruins of Earth...Categorized as:
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![Alien Secrets (Solar Warden #1) by Ian Douglas]()
Alien Secrets (Solar Warden #1) by Ian Douglas
6 ratingsIn the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas’ Solar Warden series, government conspiracy theories, UFO history, and thrilling space combat come together in an unforgettable interstellar military science fiction adventure. THE TRUTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE In the final days of World War II, the Allies ransacked Berlin...Categorized as:
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![The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez]()
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
20 ratingsEven in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s hard for a robot to make his way. It’s even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack’s not interested in world domination... -
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Valentine's Exile by E.E. Knight
14 ratingsDavid Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. When a former Quisling traitor is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. With the help of old friends and new allies, Valentine traces her to a mysterious, heavily guarded compound in Ohio...Categorized as:
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![Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson]()
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson
44 ratingsPrince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered...Categorized as:
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![The Fold by Peter Clines]()
The Fold by Peter Clines
26 ratingsSTEP INTO THE FOLD. IT’S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence...Categorized as:
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![City of Savages by Lee Kelly]()
City of Savages by Lee Kelly
14 ratingsIt has been nearly two decades since the breakout of the Third World War, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp ruled by island native Rolladin, who controls the city’s survivors with an iron fist. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city’s borders. But for Sky’s younger sister, Phee, the Central Park POW camp is the only home she’d ever want...Categorized as:
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![The Great Game by Lavie Tidhar]()
The Great Game by Lavie Tidhar
6 ratingsThe Lizardine Empire is under threat. When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer, and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life... -
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Homefront: The Voice of Freedom by John Milius, Raymond Benson
6 ratingsHOME IS WHERE THE WAR IS America may be reeling from endless recessions and crippling oil wars, but hack reporter Ben Walker never expected to see his homeland invaded and occupied by a reunified Korea—now a formidable world power under Kim Jong-il’s dictator son... -
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Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
20 ratingsA stunning, new novel by master storyteller Philip Reeve. Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and place where women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only female to serve in the order. Soon though, she must say goodbye to Dr...Categorized as:
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![Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter]()
Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter
18 ratingsFrom the author of the best-selling Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series comes a tough new heroine who is far more than she seems.After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human...Categorized as:
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![The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]()
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
33 ratingsNORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE.The Silence was very faint here. Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world. Did people in this polished building understand how noisy it was? The roar of air conditioners and computer fans, the susurration of many voices heard but not decipherable...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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![The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu]()
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
20 ratingsWhen out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it. He wasn’t. He now has a passenger in his brain – an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans...Categorized as:
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![Blades of Winter by G.T. Almasi]()
Blades of Winter by G.T. Almasi
10 ratingsIn one of the most exciting debuts in years, G. T. Almasi has fused the intricate cat-and-mouse games of a John le Carré novel with the brash style of comic book superheroes to create a kick-ass alternate history that reimagines the Cold War as a clash of spies with biological, chemical, and technological enhancements...Categorized as:
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![Cormorant Run by Lilith Saintcrow]()
Cormorant Run by Lilith Saintcrow
6 ratingsAliens meets Under the Dome in this new post-apocalyptic novel from New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow.It could have been aliens, it could have been a trans-dimensional rift, nobody knows for sure. What's known is that there was an Event, the Rifts opened up, and everyone caught inside died.Since the Event certain people have gone into the drift.. -
![The Long War by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]()
The Long War by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
26 ratingsA generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind..Categorized as:
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![Out of the Dark by David Weber]()
Out of the Dark by David Weber
18 ratingsThe Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb... -
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Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
18 ratingsWhen streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has recently been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was the real target of the attack...Categorized as:
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![Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines]()
Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
18 ratingsIt’s a fight to the death—on live TV—when a gladiator’s daughter steps into the arenaLyn is a neo-gladiator’s daughter, through and through. Her mother has made a career out of marrying into the high-profile world of televised blood sport, and the rules of the Gladiator Sports Association are second nature to their family. Always lend ineffable confidence to the gladiator...Categorized as:
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![Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins]()
Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins
50 ratingsThis Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin...Categorized as:
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