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Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1487 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 336,785 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1001 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,699,153 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 961 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,255 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 897 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 192,705 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 875 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,847 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 751 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 162,576 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 737 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 233,198 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 724 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 316,337 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 681 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.84 — 103,720 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 656 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 134,511 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 638 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,750 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 601 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 121,162 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 590 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 63,793 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 575 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 194,290 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 562 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 54,989 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 560 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 41,313 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 546 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 61,496 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 535 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 613,294 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 529 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,157 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 503 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,399 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 491 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,444 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 464 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 92,054 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 448 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,232 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 420 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,500,729 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 410 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 86,647 ratings — published 2019
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 398 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,037 ratings — published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 395 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 439,657 ratings — published 1969
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 376 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,650 ratings — published 1988
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 370 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 — 405,533 ratings — published 2017
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 367 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,621 ratings — published 1996
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 367 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 956,545 ratings — published 2014
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 365 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 100,216 ratings — published 2006
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 363 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 93,118 ratings — published 2016
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 360 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 156,234 ratings — published 1990
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 354 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,036 ratings — published 2016
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 353 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,582 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,962 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 343 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,471 ratings — published 2018
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 337 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 593,289 ratings — published 2015
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 336 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,573 ratings — published 2021
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 327 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 481,988 ratings — published 2016
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 323 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,302 ratings — published 2005
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,236 ratings — published 2008
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 321 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 184,808 ratings — published 1974
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 311 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 233,022 ratings — published 1952
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
by (shelved 310 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.54 — 75,298 ratings — published 2021
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,648 ratings — published 2021
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 307 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,425 ratings — published 2013
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,736 ratings — published 1990
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,238 ratings — published 1990
“Briefness is the glow of meaning, and the drive to purpose.”
― The Operator
― The Operator
“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
