Books like Shadow Puppets
12 books with a reading profile close to Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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Ender's Shadow -- Battle School
by Mike Carey
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Based on the original novel by Orson Scott Card, this graphic novel adaptation follows Bean, a genetically engineered child who survives the starvation-ridden streets of Rotterdam before being recruited into the Interna…
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Enders Shadow Ultimate Collection
by Mike Carey
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
This collection adapts Orson Scott Card’s novel into a visual narrative centered on Bean, a genetically engineered orphan surviving the streets of Rotterdam before his recruitment into Battle School.
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Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set within the Second Foundation Trilogy, this novel follows Hari Seldon as he defends his theories of psychohistory during a formal trial on the capital world of Trantor.
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Friday
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Friday follows the life of Friday Jones, an "artificial person" engineered with enhanced speed, intelligence, and physical durability.
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All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In 2016, Tom Barren lives in a techno-utopian version of Earth powered by an infinite energy engine created in 1965.
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The Door into Summer
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Dan Davis is a talented engineer and inventor in 1970 who loses everything when his business partner and his fiancée betray him.
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All-Star Superman, Vol. 1
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The story begins when Superman rescues a scientific crew from a solar mission gone wrong, only to discover that the massive infusion of yellow sun radiation has triggered a fatal cellular breakdown in his body.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In 2002, a simultaneous global catastrophe kills every living mammal with a Y chromosome, except for an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his pet capuchin monkey, Ampersand.
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Paper Girls, Volume 1
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
On the morning after Halloween in 1988, four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls—Erin, Mac, Tiffany, and KJ—encounter a group of hooded teenagers speaking an unrecognizable language and wielding advanced technology.
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Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted
by Joss Whedon
Also clear-cut and escapist · 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 Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Coming Home
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Peter Parker transitions into a new chapter of adulthood by returning to his former high school as a science teacher.
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The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
by Gerard Way
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The story follows the fractured Hargreeves siblings as they navigate the aftermath of the apocalypse they narrowly avoided.
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