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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1469 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 330,416 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 978 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,672,645 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 947 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,088 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 885 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 189,108 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 867 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,342 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 742 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 159,561 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 732 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 230,141 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 709 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 309,678 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 675 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,611 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 649 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 132,012 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 614 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 74,881 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 593 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 118,936 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 588 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 63,076 ratings — published 2000
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 560 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 40,996 ratings — published 1986
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 556 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,588 ratings — published 2004
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 553 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 186,807 ratings — published 2015
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 539 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,878 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 528 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 607,147 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 518 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,181 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 492 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,781 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 488 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,295 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 455 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 90,201 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 440 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,559 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 417 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,490,913 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 401 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 84,834 ratings — published 2019
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 396 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 30,800 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 387 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 425,840 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 370 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,532 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,444 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 362 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 98,993 ratings — published 2006
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 359 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 91,444 ratings — published 2016
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 357 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 392,121 ratings — published 2017
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 355 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 153,122 ratings — published 1990
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 352 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 886,500 ratings — published 2014
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 349 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,996 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,824 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 136,350 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 329 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,634 ratings — published 2021
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 326 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 548,267 ratings — published 2015
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,028 ratings — published 2005
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 59,631 ratings — published 2018
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 183,122 ratings — published 1974
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 317 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 446,041 ratings — published 2016
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,607 ratings — published 2008
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 308 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 230,667 ratings — published 1952
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 306 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,359 ratings — published 2013
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,551 ratings — published 1990
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,848 ratings — published 2021
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,648 ratings — published 1990
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 299 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 105,257 ratings — published 1991
“Brother Cavil:
In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ...
I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. ...
I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!”
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In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ...
I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. ...
I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!”
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“When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village?”
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
