Books like A Talent For War
30 science fiction books to read after A Talent For War, by Mcdevitt, Jack, the closest match first.
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Alex Benedict book 2
1. Polaris
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same series
- Same author
Polaris is a Jack McDevitt novel about the antiques dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot Chase Kolpath, who investigate the disappearance of the crew of a ship sixty years earlier.
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Alex Benedict book 4
2. The Devil's Eye
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same series
- Same author
Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King).Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from...
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Alex Benedict book 5
3. Echo
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same series
- Same author
After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
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Alex Benedict book 6
4. Firebird
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same series
- Same author
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the...
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Alex Benedict book 7
5. Coming Home
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same series
- Same author
An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
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6. Moonfall
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
One of the things we see time and again on this list is that the Moon is very often presented as a threat, whether it's the threat of invasion in...
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7. King David's Spaceship
by Jerry Pournelle
- On the same lists
Jerry Pournelle was one of the best-known writers of Military Science Fiction of the 1970s. His stories, both solo and with co-authors like Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, almost all...
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8. Texas-israeli War: 1999
by Howard Waldrop
- On the same lists
This title alone should draw you in, doesn’t it? Especially if you remember that this was a novel written in the 1970s, Jake Saunders and Howard Waldrop’s story of an...
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9. Forever Peace (1999)
by Haldeman, Joe
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In 2048, soldiers fight a war through remote-controlled robot bodies, and Julian Class, a physicist and a mechanic, operates one through a link wired into his skull. When his platoon...
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Destroyermen book 1 Start here
10. Into The Storm
by Taylor Anderson
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Two World War I destroyers are still in use during World War II, and being chased by the Japanese warship Amagi. This is bad news, made worse by the squall...
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Oxford Time Travel book 2
11. To Say Nothing Of The Dog
by Willis, Connie
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This is the first of Willisâ time traveling historians. Ned Henry is looking for something called the bishopâs bird stump in the 1940s, despite the fact that he lives in...
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Robot book 1 Start here
12. The Caves Of Steel
by Asimov, Isaac
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Earth is overpopulated a thousand years from now. Planets outside of our solar system have been colonized and development of robots through the âpositronic brain.â In this new society, only...
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Honor Harrington book 1 Start here
13. On Basilisk Station
by David Weber
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Commander Honor Harrington. It’s one of the most significant names in the history of military science fiction. Harrington’s first appearance in the series featuring more than a dozen novels is...
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Vorkosigan Saga book 5
14. The Mountains Of Mourning
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- On the same lists
Miles Vorkosigan, the scion of the clan, is sent to a society that puts a price on physical perfection. A baby in the society has been murdered, one with physical...
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Retrieval Artist book 1 Start here
15. The Disappeared: A Retrieval Artist Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Rusch writes about a new world, set in the future, where the humans and alien races try to coexist in a new society. Thereâs a certain level of tolerance being...
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16. Gun, With Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem
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A wry and satiric look at the near-future where animals are a part of society, life is monitored with karma cards, and mind-numbing drugs are widely used. The protagonist is a typical noir investigator with a self-deprecating sense of humour and knack for satire.
Set in the future, the humans of the world interact with animals who have developed the ability to speak and interact in society. Inevitably some of them have become bad...
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17. A Philosophical Investigation: A Novel
by Philip Kerr
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What happens when neurologists can test for sociopath tendencies? A list of names and a new serial killer.
Set in the “near future,” scientists have discovered the genetic disposition that makes men more likely to exhibit violent behavior. The breakthrough is in response to an outbreak of serial...
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Jay Omega book 1 Start here
18. Bimbos Of The Death Sun
by Sharyn Mccrumb
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When a scholar, Dr. James Owen Mega, has his book accepted for publication, he never realizes that his academic tome is about to become a best-seller through the unfortunate name...
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Dirk Gently book 1 Start here
19. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
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A convoluted and twisted book involving murdering ghosts, time travel, and interconnectedness.
Dirk Gently, who was a minor character in one of Adamsâ other works, becomes a private eye in this novel. The character is not the type who checks DNA and...
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20. When Gravity Fails
by George Alec Effinger
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Also a Cyberpunk novel, this one takes place in 22nd century North Africa, where a down-and-out detective must undergo a sophisticated surgery to catch a killer who has been modified with the personality and abilities of every known psychopath.
Marîd Audran is something of a lone wolf in this futuristic book. The current superpowers have foundered and the Middle East is now prospering. The story is set in this...
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Zachary Nixon Johnson book 1 Start here
21. The Plutonium Blonde
by John Zakour
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This novel is set in 2057, though it easily could have been set 100 years before. Itâs a fairly classic private eye novel with science fiction and humor galore. Zachary...
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22. The Elysium Commission
by Modesitt, L. E.
- On the same lists
As this galaxy becomes more crowded, scientists begin to look for other ways to allow population to continue to grow. They create a universe next to our own; however, in...
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Blue Ant book 1 Start here
23. Pattern Recognition
by Gibson, William
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One of the few books on this list that is set in the current day, Cayce Pollard reacts to logos and corporate advertising in an allergic fashion. So itâs no...
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24. Red Planet Blues
by Sawyer, Robert J.
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Set on Mars, the book tells of a futuristic society set in New Klondike, a domed city on the Red Planet. Just like its namesake, the town was built to...
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25. Doorways In The Sand
by Zelazny, Roger
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The book reads more like a science fiction caper, where art is stolen and must be retrieved. In this case alien civilizations have swapped their star-stone for some of the...
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Greg Mandel book 1 Start here
26. The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder
by Hamilton, Peter F.
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Greg Mandel is an ex-Army officer in Britain. He was part of an experimental group that provided members with intuition and psychic powers. Now out of the Army, Great makes...
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27. Hal Clement's Needle
by Hal Clement
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The Hunter is a small gel-type creature that lives inside of its host. Two such creatures have crashed their ship on Earth. They escaped separately and now the Hunter, who...
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28. Hard-boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World: A Novel
by Murakami, Haruki
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Clearly influenced by hard-boiled detective fiction and cyberpunk fiction this novel does not quite fit into the hard-boiled schematic, but it is a detective story combined with science fiction that descends into an underworld to find a man's mind.
This book, originally published in Japanese, tells two distinct narratives. The science fiction narrative is told by a human with data processing capabilities. This merger of man and machine is...
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29. Hammer’s Slammers
by Drake, David
- On the same lists
OK, maybe it’s not fair to put a collection of short stories on this list, but it’s a single idea collection, and it’s also one of the most incredible you’ll...
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Heritage book 1 Start here
30. Semper Mars
by Ian Douglas
- On the same lists
You step into Semper Mars, the first book in the Heritage Trilogy, and are pulled deeper and deeper with every page. Earth is mired in a struggle between the US...
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