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Space Opera Books
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1462 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 328,753 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 976 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,666,081 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 945 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,070 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 881 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 188,183 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 866 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,975 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 740 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 158,838 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 729 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 229,363 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 706 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 308,010 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 676 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,308 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 647 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 131,415 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 612 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 74,416 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 590 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 118,414 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 587 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,696 ratings — published 2000
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 560 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 40,898 ratings — published 1986
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 557 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,485 ratings — published 2004
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 553 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 185,049 ratings — published 2015
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 537 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,732 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 528 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 605,648 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 514 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,711 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 492 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,641 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 488 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,259 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 453 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 89,722 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 437 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,406 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 416 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,488,430 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 399 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 84,376 ratings — published 2019
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 396 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 30,734 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 387 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 422,545 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 368 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,280 ratings — published 1988
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 364 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,407 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 360 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 98,709 ratings — published 2006
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 388,731 ratings — published 2017
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 355 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 91,048 ratings — published 2016
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 152,379 ratings — published 1990
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 347 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,826 ratings — published 2015
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 347 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 870,951 ratings — published 2014
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 343 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,776 ratings — published 2016
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 341 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 134,591 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 332 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,412 ratings — published 2021
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,951 ratings — published 2005
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.50 — 538,077 ratings — published 2015
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,225 ratings — published 2018
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 318 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 182,754 ratings — published 1974
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 437,707 ratings — published 2016
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,460 ratings — published 2008
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 308 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 230,109 ratings — published 1952
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,343 ratings — published 2013
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,502 ratings — published 1990
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,619 ratings — published 2021
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 302 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,496 ratings — published 1990
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 298 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 104,868 ratings — published 1991
“Death, it turned out, had a sense of irony.”
― Children of Titan
― Children of Titan
“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!”
―
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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