What are the top book recommendations for 'technological tour de force'?
We found 28 book recommendations
What do readers say about Seveneves?
technological tour de force epic science fiction entertaining, but seriously flawed near-future, hard science fictionFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic-a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
What would happen if the world ... More details on Seveneves
An amateur astronomer in Utah was the first person on Earth to realize that something unusual was happening. Moments earlier, he had noticed a blur flourishing in the vicinity of the Reiner Gamma form...
See 1748 Book Recommendations like Seveneves
What do readers say about To Kill a Mockingbird?
fluid and prose beautiful crisp, wry, and spot-on vivid and beautiful an amazing novelAs seen through the eyes of his children, this is the legendary, wrenching story of lawyer Atticus Finch, who takes on a case that cuts deeply into the heart of racism in the 1930s Deep South. Mature content*
* Title may contain language or content c... More details on To Kill a Mockingbird
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious abou...
See 2811 Book Recommendations like To Kill a Mockingbird
What do readers say about A Game of Thrones?
fast moving story dark and depressing tightly crafted prose honor, duty and loveWinter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. There his family dwells in pea... More details on A Game of Thrones
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excite...
See 5565 Book Recommendations like A Game of Thrones
What do readers say about Cloud Atlas?
fantastic and novel predictable and lame with a master's hand pitch-perfect in every styleBy the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks
Now a major motion picture
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell... More details on Cloud Atlas
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. Through rotting kelp, sea cocoa-nuts & bamboo, the tracks led me to their maker, a White man, his trowzers ...
See 1887 Book Recommendations like Cloud Atlas
What do readers say about The Road?
propulsive and never meanders sparse and stark bleak and grim plain and poeticNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. I... More details on The Road
When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone be...
See 3231 Book Recommendations like The Road
What do readers say about All Systems Red?
pacy and punchy fast paced and short simple, light scifi light and easy fareA murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been wel...
See 3936 Book Recommendations like All Systems Red
What do readers say about Hyperion?
a ensemble act science fiction space opera epic science fiction complex space operaA stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.... More details on Hyperion
The Consul awoke with the peculiar headache, dry throat, and sense of having forgotten a thousand dreams which only periods in cryogenic fugue could bring. He blinked, sat upright on a low couch, and ...
See 2070 Book Recommendations like Hyperion
What do readers say about Gravity's Rainbow?
clever and witty surreal science fiction excessive and exhausting meandering oblique styleDiscover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic.
'The greatest, wildest author of his generation' Guardian
We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a prob... More details on Gravity's Rainbow
It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it's all theatre. There are no lights inside the cars. No light anywhere. Above him lift girders old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above ...
See 1203 Book Recommendations like Gravity's Rainbow
What do readers say about The Shadow of the Wind?
interesting and entertaining modern gothic mystery plain and simple very strong throughout"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show."-The New York Times Book Review
"One gorgeous read." -Stephen King
A New York Times Bestseller
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the ... More details on The Shadow of the Wind
THERE ARE NO SECOND CHANCES IN LIFE, EXCEPT TO FEEL remorse. Julián Carax and I met in the autumn of 1933. At that time I was working for the publisher Toni Cabestany, who had discovered him in 1927 i...
See 2384 Book Recommendations like The Shadow of the Wind
What do readers say about Blindsight?
interesting and thought-provoking a tour de force a book of absolute brilliance compelling space operaHugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight
Two months since the stars fell...
Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.
Now some half-derelict space probe,... More details on Blindsight
IT DIDN'T START out here. Not with the scramblers or Rorschach, not with Big Ben or Theseus or the vampires. Most people would say it started with the Fireflies, but they'd be wrong. It ended with all...
See 848 Book Recommendations like Blindsight
Please Help Us Improve