Books like The duke of uranium by John Barnes

Red Mars chronicles the early days of humanity’s colonization and political upheaval on Mars, blending environmental engineering, terraforming and nation‑building in a hard‑science vision.

In a future where corporations weaponize genetic engineering, Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* explores the ethical and societal consequences of bioterrorism and gene hacking.

Two beer‑drinking friends in an unnamed Midwestern town confront a bizarre drug called soy sauce and other‑worldly invaders, all narrated with a tone of non‑chalant disbelief.

Detective Sue Smith investigates a high-stakes bank robbery in Edinburgh, as the city's tech startups are the target of cybercriminals.

A gripping thriller in which a vanished fisherman, strange marine organisms, and unsettling changes along the coast of British Columbia converge to warn of a looming oceanic catastrophe.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s debut novel in the "Forty Signs of Rain" trilogy follows Senate staffer Charlie Quibler and his wife Anna as they confront a deep‑summer heat wave in Washington, D.C., while racing to secure a revolutionary climate‑change technology amid political brinkmanship.

A story of power, science, and suspense in a Colorado mansion.

In a futuristic solar‑system society, The Quantum Thief follows a cunning thief amid advanced encryption, shared‑memory communication, and a civilization born from a virtual gaming guild.

In a distant galaxy, duels fought with sword and song shape the world of Nou Occitan. Father of countless cultures, Giraut Leones becomes an unlikely ambassador to an alien society when the first "springer"—instant interstellar travel—arrives.

In the icy wilderness of northern Sweden, a brutal murder on a frozen lake sets off a chilling investigation that exposes the dark underbelly of a global mining empire.

In midsummer Sweden, a murder of a female priest sends a small community into turmoil. Attorney Rebecka Martinsson returns to Kiruna and, alongside a determined policewoman, must unravel a sinister pattern that may claim another victim.

The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yieldUranium is a common element in the earth’s crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order—whoever could master uranium could master the world.Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built around mine shafts and America would knowingly send more than six hundred uranium miners to their graves in the name of national security.Fortunes have been made from this yellow dirt; massive energy grids have been run from it. Fear of it panicked the American people into supporting a questionable war with Iraq and its specter threatens to create another conflict in Iran. Now, some are hoping it can help avoid a global warming catastrophe.In Uranium, Tom Zoellner takes readers around the globe in this intriguing look at the mineral that can sustain life or destroy it.

In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake. A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of an emerging global consciousness. Vast in scope, yet intimate in personal detail, Mother of Storms is a visionary fusion of cutting-edge cyberspace fiction and heart-stopping storytelling in the grand tradition, filled with passion, tragedy, and the triumph of the human spirit.

In a near‑future Britain, photographer Tibor Tarent returns from Anatolia after his aid‑worker wife is killed by a devastating weapon, while a century earlier stage magician Tommy Trent is embroiled in a World War I covert mission to cloak aircraft. A physicist’s new matter‑diverting technology adds a temporal twist to the story.

A mysterious figure leads a desperate resistance against alien invaders in space warfare science fiction thriller with banned Commonwealth technology.

A tense interplanetary expedition turns into a race against a cunning killer as scientists hunt an alien species, but the murderer could be a hostile alien—or a colleague.

A marine biologist discovers a Great White Shark that's pregnant, unaware of the terrifying monster lurking just below the surface.