Books like Salt
Loved Salt by Adam Roberts? Here are 7 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Salt →7 books
- 1The Forever War
The Forever War
Joe HaldemanA soldier's long campaign in space, told through the gap between battles and the years that pass at home.
- 2Old Man’s War
Old Man’s War
John ScalziA science fiction story of recruitment and combat in colonial space wars, told with a wry tone.
- 3Consider Phlebas
Consider Phlebas
Iain BanksA space opera in which a mercenary-style protagonist is drawn into a large interstellar war.
- 4Hyperion
Hyperion
Dan SimmonsA far-future science fiction novel built around several characters' stories, with war and conflict in the background.
- 5Star Fraction
Star Fraction
Ken MacLeodA political science fiction novel set in a future Scotland, where armed struggle and ideology drive the plot.
- 6Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon
Richard K. MorganA hard-boiled science fiction novel with violence, ex-soldier protagonists and a future shaped by conflict.
- 7Hominids
Hominids
Robert J. SawyerA science fiction novel that uses an alternate world setting to examine how humans think about conflict and difference.
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