Books like Lucifer's Hammer
12 books with a reading profile close to Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven. Outward-looking, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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Micro
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · thriller, entertainment
In this technothriller, seven graduate students travel to Hawaii for jobs at Vin Drake’s cutting-edge biotech firm, Nanigen.
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The Day of the Jackal
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Set in 1963, the plot follows a secret French paramilitary group, the OAS, as they hire a professional British assassin known only by the codename Jackal.
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Rising Sun
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
During a gala opening for the Nakamoto Corporation’s new Los Angeles headquarters, a beautiful woman is found dead on a boardroom table.
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Reamde
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Richard Forthrast, an entrepreneur and former draft dodger, builds a fortune through a massive multiplayer online role-playing game called T’Rain.
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Gray Mountain
by John Grisham
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Following the 2008 financial collapse, Samantha Kofer loses her high-stakes career at a major Manhattan law firm.
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House of M
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, narrative
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, suffers a psychological breakdown that threatens the fabric of reality.
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Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event (Comic)
by Mark Millar
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · thriller, entertainment
Following a catastrophic explosion in Stamford caused by a battle between the New Warriors and Nitro, the United States government passes the Superhuman Registration Act.
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Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
by Frank Miller
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · thriller, entertainment
Marv is a massive, scarred brawler who wakes up in a cheap hotel to find Goldie, the beautiful woman he just spent the night with, murdered beside him.
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Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted
by Joss Whedon
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
Cyclops and Emma Frost lead a reformed team consisting of Wolverine, Beast, and Kitty Pryde to re-establish the X-Men as a public force for good.
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The Last Juror
by John Grisham
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
In 1970, twenty-three-year-old college dropout Willie Traynor purchases a bankrupt weekly newspaper in Ford County, Mississippi.
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Sunrise on the Reaping
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Set twenty-four years before Katniss Everdeen’s story, this prequel centers on the Second Quarter Quell, the fiftieth anniversary of the Hunger Games.
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Batman, Volume 2: The City of Owls
by Scott Snyder
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
In the second volume of Scott Snyder’s Batman run, Bruce Wayne faces the Court of Owls, a secret cabal that has manipulated Gotham City's infrastructure and politics from the shadows for centuries.
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