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Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1505 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 342,145 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1017 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,724,491 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 970 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 199,853 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (Paperback)
by (shelved 905 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 195,770 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 886 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,217 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 757 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 165,067 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 750 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 235,958 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 737 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 322,566 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 686 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.84 — 104,774 ratings — published 1987
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 680 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,618 ratings — published 2019
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 659 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 136,671 ratings — published 2014
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 615 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 200,777 ratings — published 2015
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 605 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 123,132 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 601 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,438 ratings — published 2000
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 567 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 55,351 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 565 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 41,734 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 548 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 62,028 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 547 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 619,046 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 535 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 105,964 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 511 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,963 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 491 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,627 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 470 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 93,750 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 452 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,852 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 422 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,509,071 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 416 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 88,301 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
by (shelved 406 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 452,709 ratings — published 1969
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 398 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,278 ratings — published 1986
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 397 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.92 — 70,557 ratings — published 2018
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 392 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,019,047 ratings — published 2014
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 382 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 84,759 ratings — published 1988
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 377 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 416,670 ratings — published 2017
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 370 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,769 ratings — published 1996
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 368 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 159,298 ratings — published 1990
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 367 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 101,348 ratings — published 2006
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 366 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 149,159 ratings — published 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 94,570 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 363 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,607 ratings — published 2021
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 356 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,171 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 353 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 634,978 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,140 ratings — published 2016
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 516,122 ratings — published 2016
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,883 ratings — published 2008
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,574 ratings — published 2005
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 186,174 ratings — published 1974
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
by (shelved 315 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.54 — 77,001 ratings — published 2021
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 313 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 235,297 ratings — published 1952
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 311 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 39,382 ratings — published 2021
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 310 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,512 ratings — published 2013
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 306 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,794 ratings — published 1990
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 304 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,927 ratings — published 1990
“Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving great acclaim, and each and every one of them can be expected to write at least one article stating flatly that the day of space opera is over and done, thank goodness, and that henceforth these crude tales of interplanetary nonsense will be replaced by whatever type of story that writer happens to favor — closet dramas, psychological dramas, sex dramas, etc., but by God important dramas, containing nothing but Big Thinks. Ten years late, the writer in question may or may not still be around, but the space opera can be found right where it always was, sturdily driving its dark trade in heroes.”
― The Best of Planet Stories 1
― The Best of Planet Stories 1
“They had learned, in the deep places, that the light was worth waiting for.”
― MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES
― MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES
