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Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1494 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 338,580 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1007 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,707,734 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 960 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,370 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 900 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 193,723 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 877 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,337 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 754 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 163,403 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 743 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 234,063 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 725 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 318,556 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 685 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.84 — 104,086 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 657 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 135,223 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 643 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,298 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 603 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 121,813 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 597 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 63,993 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 579 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 196,438 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 567 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 55,101 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 562 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 41,428 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 547 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 61,674 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 540 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 615,401 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 529 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,773 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 505 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,583 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 490 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,499 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 466 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 92,600 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 448 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,416 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 420 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,503,558 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 412 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 87,220 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 400 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 444,128 ratings — published 1969
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 397 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,118 ratings — published 1986
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 377 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 84,024 ratings — published 1988
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 376 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 977,891 ratings — published 2014
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 373 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 409,349 ratings — published 2017
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 369 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,659 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 100,581 ratings — published 2006
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 157,272 ratings — published 1990
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 362 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 93,601 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 145,040 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.93 — 67,066 ratings — published 2018
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,777 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 345 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,022 ratings — published 2016
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 343 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 607,483 ratings — published 2015
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 342 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,913 ratings — published 2021
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 332 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 493,463 ratings — published 2016
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 324 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,388 ratings — published 2005
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 185,293 ratings — published 1974
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,434 ratings — published 2008
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.54 — 75,888 ratings — published 2021
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 233,806 ratings — published 1952
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,860 ratings — published 2021
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,443 ratings — published 2013
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,414 ratings — published 1990
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 304 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,797 ratings — published 1990
“Evil occurs because we are insufficient to challenge it. Too weak to stop it at the gates, too blind to see it bubbling within. Were we all angels in our virtue and heroes in our capacity, we might hold all chaos at bay, might stop even the unkindling of the stars. Yet we are but men.”
― Ashes of Man
― Ashes of Man
“Ancient Chinese saying: All things are difficult before they are easy. We are here to face obstacles and to conquer them! Conquer them, Yangtze Yan. Conquer them. ¬–from: THE MARS DEBACLE”
― The Mars Debacle
― The Mars Debacle
