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Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1499 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 340,106 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1010 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,714,680 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 960 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,320 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 903 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 194,619 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 884 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,729 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 756 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 164,118 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 747 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 234,899 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 733 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 320,313 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 686 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.84 — 104,347 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 659 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 135,843 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 646 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,804 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 605 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 122,354 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 598 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,171 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 581 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 198,308 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 568 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 55,205 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 564 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 41,563 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 547 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 61,838 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 541 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 617,015 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 534 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 105,316 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 509 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,733 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 490 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,549 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 468 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 93,102 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 451 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,588 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 420 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,505,900 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 414 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 87,679 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 401 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 447,696 ratings — published 1969
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 398 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,183 ratings — published 1986
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 383 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 995,020 ratings — published 2014
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 380 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 84,325 ratings — published 1988
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 374 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 412,646 ratings — published 2017
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 372 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,702 ratings — published 1996
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 368 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 158,080 ratings — published 1990
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 365 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 100,905 ratings — published 2006
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 362 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 93,995 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 361 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 146,799 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 360 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.92 — 68,409 ratings — published 2018
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,306 ratings — published 2021
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 356 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,937 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 349 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 619,065 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,062 ratings — published 2016
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 336 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 503,023 ratings — published 2016
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 324 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,455 ratings — published 2005
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,614 ratings — published 2008
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 185,647 ratings — published 1974
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
by (shelved 316 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.54 — 76,355 ratings — published 2021
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 313 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 234,445 ratings — published 1952
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 311 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,078 ratings — published 2021
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 308 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,468 ratings — published 2013
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 306 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,539 ratings — published 1990
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 107,330 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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“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES
― MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES
