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Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie · 2013
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
- Betrayal
A soldier who was once a starship's artificial intelligence wakes in a single human body. Cut off from her many selves, she crosses a collapsing empire to find the officer who destroyed everything she was, and to settle a debt of revenge.
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A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge · 1992
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
- Forbidden Knowledge
In a galaxy where thought and technology work differently at its edges, a human expedition releases an ancient menace from a lost archive. Two children stranded on a medieval world and a crew racing to stop the Blight are drawn into the same crisis.
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The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi · 2017
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
The Interdependency is bound together by the Flow, a network of routes that made the empire rich. When a scientist proves the Flow is shifting, an heir to the throne must hold together feuding houses before trade and power collapse.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · 2014
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
A young woman joins the crew of a tunnelling ship that builds wormholes between distant worlds. The long haul to a new client planet is told through its mismatched crew, a pilot, a doctor, an engineer and an AI, all looking for somewhere to belong.
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The Quantum Thief
Hannu Rajaniemi · 2010
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
Jean le Flambeur is a thief imprisoned in a city where residents trade their memories and time. He is offered his freedom if he can pull off one more impossible heist, with a warrior from a distant society watching his every move.
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Schismatrix
Bruce Sterling · 1985
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
Abelard Lindsay is a trained diplomat moving between two posthuman factions, the Shapers and the Mechanists, as humanity spreads across space. His long career of alliances and betrayals carries him across a changing solar system.
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Hyperion
Dan Simmons · 1989
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
On the eve of war, seven pilgrims travel to the planet Hyperion to seek the Shrike, a deadly creature of legend. Each tells the story of what brought them there, and their tales circle the fate that awaits them at the Time Tombs.
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The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- Betrayal
In 1947, pregnant and unmarried Charlie follows a lead about her missing cousin to a ruined woman in London. Their search draws on the story of Eve, a spy who ran a network in occupied France during the First World War, and the betrayals that broke it.
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Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
As the Galactic Empire begins to decay, mathematician Hari Seldon foresees thirty thousand years of chaos. To shorten the coming dark age he gathers scholars on the remote world Terminus, where the Foundation must survive plots, warlords and its own predictions.
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Old Man's War
John Scalzi · 2005
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
At seventy-five, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, leaving Earth for a new body and a war among the stars. What begins as a chance at a second life becomes a fight to understand the colonies, the enemy and what he is fighting for.
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Gateway
Frederik Pohl · 1977
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
Prospectors ride alien ships left behind at Gateway, gambling their lives on unknown destinations in search of fortune. A miner haunted by his past signs on for one more trip, and the station's robot therapist records the fears he cannot voice.
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Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews · 2013
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
Dominika Egorova, a Russian intelligence officer trained to seduce targets, is ordered to work against a CIA agent, Nathaniel Nash. As their operations and their feelings become entangled, both sides begin to suspect that someone is betraying the other.