Books like 'Mineral'
Readers who enjoyed Mineral by Dănuţ Ungureanu & Marian Truță also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Vanguard by Apollos Thorne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter surviving the trials of Freedom, Lucius enters the next stage of the military's super soldier creation scheme. Medieval weaponry and gritty fantasy combat are a thing of the past. He must bring what he's learned to the modern battlefield.Fighting futuristic tech isn't his only challenge...Categorized as:
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Pacchi Festival by Nikita Thorn
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe wait is over! Welcome to the Pacchi Festival!As Shinshioka launches into the much-awaited week-long event, Seiki and his friends race to solve the mystery of the recent treasures from the Shussebora Cave... -
The Wraith: Danger Close by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI may be super, but I'm no hero. I have one rule: If you're evil, you die. No trial, no judge, no mercy. Madisun Dumas, aka The Wraith, is close to achieving her goals. She faked her own incarceration, now the government will leave her alone. She wiped out ISO-1 in South America and added their top man to her kill list... Then she found out who was really in charge...An honest-to-God Alien... -
Opening Moves by Cosimo Yap
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization... -
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Odyssey by Tony Corden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAtherleah Carroll grew up in a negative-tax family in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more and with the help of her local gang-leader, she learned the skills to escape the relentless pressure to accept a life of mediocrity... -
Degrees of Separation by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife. Luck. Love. Lowport. Life, so the wags tell us, is what happens while we're making other plans. Luck. . .or, as some have it, chance. . .Luck is what makes Life interesting; introducing spicy bits of chaos – good, bad, and neutral. Without Luck, there is no savor – no adventure – in Life. Love. Ah, Love... -
Kernel by Alex Kozlowski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEarly one morning, the world ended. The devastating Alpha Event rewrote the very laws of reality itself, transforming peaceful cities and communities into sprawling hellscapes filled with flesh-eating zombies - and worse!For Daniel, a Zombie Apocalypse couldn’t have happened at a worse time. If he’d been back at the farm, he might have stood a better chance than most... -
Frontier Resistance by Leonie Rogers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe much awaited sequel to Frontier Incursion.The Garsal have landed, the world has changed, and Shanna has gifts that might save everyone. With her starcats by her side and her friends around her, she must try to master her gifts and seek out the alien invaders before they enslave her world... -
Zenith by Jenetta Penner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gripping conclusion of the Starfire Wars... -
Renegade by Alex Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaiden Moore is on the run.A fugitive both in real life and the game world of Nova Online, his only hope is to follow the trail of virtual breadcrumbs left behind by Bernstein, the man whose murder Kaiden was framed and jailed for. The data Bernstein gathered may be the only way to expose the corruption of the Party and finally clear his name... -
The John Varley Reader by John Varley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade, and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction... -
Devourer (Reality Benders Book #8): LitRPG Series by Michael Atamanov
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe aggressive invaders from another galaxy cannot be stopped. The Composite keeps capturing system after system wiping out everything in its path, and there is no sign of a force capable of standing up to it.In the search for allies, Gnat embarks on a long journey aimed at uniting the various branches of the human race... -
Król Bólu by Jacek Dukaj
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKról Bólu i inne powieściPiętnaście lat twórczości Jacka Dukaja w ośmiu utworach przekraczających granice wyobraźni i człowieczeństwa.Wszyscy przecież czujemy koniec czasów człowieka. Czujemy, że usuwa się nam ziemia spod nóg; na czymś stać trzeba, więc budujemy rusztowania; ale im my wyżej, tym one chybotliwsze; im my potężniejsi, tym one wątlejsze. Wszystko się wali... -
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture... -
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Hell Follows by Andrew Vaillencourt
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsDockside is burning, and it’s up to everybody’s least favorite Army-surplus cyborg to fix it.It starts when somebody takes a hit out on The Chairman, and quickly spirals into a mystery that takes Roland and his hyper-kinetic partner Lucia far from New Boston and into the depths of unregulated star systems... -
Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA marvelous medley of Tiptree's best - YOUR HAPLOID HEART - When Ian Suitlov and Pax Patton landed on Esthaa to check for humans, the job wasn't as easy as it appeared. Though the natives seemed human enough, only cross breeding would be conclusive proof... -
Expelled by Ell Leigh Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJayne Austin wasn’t always the galaxy’s number one spy. She was expelled from spy school for uncovering a double-agent because apparently, that’s what happens to spies that accomplish great things.Given a choice between going back to her planet or selling her one-way ticket for starting capital she thought long and hard about her choices. All of fifteen seconds. Then, she created ‘the Plan... -
Dawn of the Singularity (The Singularity Saga #1) by David Simpson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Singularity. The point in human history when we begin to enhance our own intelligence with the intelligent technology we're creating. As humanity merges with its machines, will we forget what it means to be human? Meet Haalee, the artificial intelligence charged with taking humanity on the road to the singularity... -
Junkers Season Two (Junkers #2) by Benjamin Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was supposed to be the happiest place on the whole wide planet. It was supposed to be a place where every child’s favorite characters came to life. And, it was, until those characters went nuts and started killing everyone. Then it wasn’t so happy... -
Into Twilight by P.R. Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDouble-crossed and abandoned behind enemy lines. It’s an agent’s worst nightmare.In the 22nd Century, Stefan Mendoza is a loyal operator for the Agency, an organization that does the United States’ dirty work. Extraction, systems hacking, assassination—allies and enemies, he never questions the mission. And then the day comes when he’s considered expendable... -
True Names... and Other Dangers by Vernor Vinge
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsContents:Bookworm, Run! (1966)True Names (1981)The Peddler's Apprentice (1975) with Joan D... -
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois, William Gibson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection... -
Omnia Online by Christopher Booth
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor hundreds of years Sol has been under careful observation, and protected required by the rules of the Imperial Cultural Protection Act. The people of Earth being to primitive to to be useful members of the Imperium. Now a new member of the Department of Cultural Development has a new idea to bring the people of Earth into the Imperium.. -
True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnce in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, first published in 1981, is such a work... -
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Czarne oceany by Jacek Dukaj
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDukaj od nowa skonfigurował klasyczną twardą fantastykę naukową.Mroczna, sugestywna, boleśnie realistyczna wizja społeczeństwa posthumanistycznego.Czarne oceany – przerażająca otchłań myśli ludzkiej.Nicolas Hunt kieruje tajnym projektem rządowym, badającym komercyjne zastosowania telepatii. Rezultaty tych badań zmienią nieodwracalnie nie tylko jego życie, ale także losy całego świata... -
Sacrifice by K.A. Riley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaptured by the group of rogue Emergents known as “Hypnagogics,” Kress and her Conspiracy search desperately for a way out of their confinement in a stadium-sized prison-lab called the Mill. There, they find themselves subjected to a bombardment of psychological manipulations, physical challenges, and cruel techno-genetic experiments... -
Synthesis by K.A. Riley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEncouraged by happy reunions, shocked by terrifying discoveries, and with the lives of millions and the fate of the nation hanging in the balance, Kress and her Conspiracy—along with their new legions of allies, the Survivalists and the Unkindness—prepare for their final, all-or-nothing war against Krug and the assembled might of his Patriot Army... -
Ra by qntm, Sam Hughes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMagic is real.Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's magic in heavy industry and magic in your home. It's what's next after electricity.Student mage Laura Ferno has designs on the future: her mother died trying to reach space using magic, and Laura wants to succeed where she failed. But first, she has to work out what went wrong... -
City on Fire by Walter Jon Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a mind-bending odyssey through a world rife with tyranny, a rebel group schemes to harness a radical new energy source--plasm... -
Le Code Enigma by Neal Stephenson, Jean Bonnefoy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, mathematical genius and captain in the U.S. Navy, is assigned to Detachment 2702, whose mission is to keep Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code... -
36 by Nieves Delgado
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEl nacimiento de una nueva Inteligencia Artificial en el CIDIA siempre es motivo de alegría. En el caso de la que ocupará el cuerpo número 36, la felicidad es doble, puesto que, nada más nacer, ha sorprendido a todos los técnicos con un insólito «Buenos días». 36 no es una IA como las demás, se hace preguntas y quiere respuestas... -
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Daniel Abraham • Eleanor Arnason • Pauolo Bacigalupi • Kage Baker • Stephen Baxter • Terry Bisson • James L... -
The A.I. Chronicles (The Future Chronicles by Samuel Peralta
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Even today, machines that mimic human thinking surround us... -
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery, Rob Hardin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form... -
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The Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJalian, a silver-eyed huntress from 700 years in the future, travels back to the 20th century in an attempt to save her world from the ravages of nuclear destruction. A stunning tour-de-force of love and adventure sweeping along a timeline of infinitely possible worlds... -
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, James Patrick Kelly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnnually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading round out this volume, rendering it the one book for every reader... -
SybirPunk vol.1 by Michał Gołkowski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrzyszłość - sterylnie czyste miasta, uporządkowane społeczeństwa i służąca ludzkości zaawansowana technologia...... No nie, sorry, ale nie.Przyszłość to NeoSybirsk: rozpadająca się, sklecona na sznurek i szmatę cywilizacja pokryta węglowym pyłem. Cuchnące zaułki, w których można stracić życie za butelkę wody... -
Deep Core by F.X. Holden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAJ is a maintenance tech at Sol Vista care facility. He likes the quiet life. Visiting with his ma. A burger at Fatty's. Surfing the Shifting Sea. Staying in flow... -
Мова by Віктар Марціновіч
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings«Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар... -
11,4 sueños luz by Nicholas Avedon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEn el París del siglo XXIII donde todo está en venta, las emociones puras son de gran valor para aquellos que no pueden vivirlas. Ariel de Santos es un creador de sueños vívidos, uno de los pocos artistas capaces de modelar las emociones para seducir e inspirar a un mundo que se ha olvidado de soñar... -
Closed Hearts by Susan Kaye Quinn
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen you control minds, only your heart can be used against you. Eight months ago, Kira Moore revealed to the mindreading world that mindjackers like herself were hidden in their midst. Now she wonders if telling the truth was the right choice. As wild rumors spread, a powerful anti-jacker politician capitalizes on mindreaders’ fears and strips jackers of their rights... -
Cyberpunk City Book One: The Machine Killer by D.L. Young
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of Altered Carbon, Neuromancer, and Snow Crash.Former data thief Maddox thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong.Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space... -
Starblood: A Sci Fi Progression Adventure Series by Roman Prokofiev
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe next books of the series!Starblood (Book #2): Starblood (Book #3): Starblood (Book #4): Starblood (Book #5): When the ark began emergency jettisoning the colonists, I got unlucky three times.The first occurred when the runic defenses of the Kel shot down my capsule above a forbidden Circle.The second was when it crashed next to the White Devil's tomb... -
Mindkiller by Spider Robinson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWireheads, addicted to an electric current fed into the pleasure centers of the brain, are the new junkies... -
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A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this sequel to Signal to Noise, a handful of humans who survived the annihilation of humankind on Earth is hiding on the Moon. Among them is Jack Potter, a rogue cryptographer whose business dealings with an alien named Wheeler started the entire destruction. Now, Wheeler is out to finish what he started... -
Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShort stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people... -
Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeven years after the founding of the New Republic, Princess Leia Organa Solo is Minister of State and has borne three Jedi children -- the twins, Jacen and Jaina, and baby Anakin. Han Solo is an official envoy for the new government, traveling the galaxy on diplomatic missions... -
The Stone Within by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dying old man's dreams warn the Seven T'Ang that a fierce storm is approaching...so dark, so deadly it can destroy a world. Not even the T'ang, rulers of the magnificent mile-high city-kingdoms of the planet, can predict from where the danger will come. As assassins spread outward to a fortified palace in space, treachery moves inway into men's and women's heart to bring down a dynasy.. -
Galactic Energies by Luca Rossi
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe artificial intelligences of DataCom are trying to save the planet… by exterminating the human race. Aurelia finds her perfect man: a robot. The space explorer Captain Arcot sacrifices his life for an impossible conquest, the heart of Vril the vampire queen. A shape-shifting mutant ignites the erotic desires of the galactic police officer who's been tracking her down... -
Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan. But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance...
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