Books like “Hyperion”

What to read after “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge · 1992
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
- Quest
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.
2
Schismatrix
Bruce Sterling · 1985
Similar atmosphere: “Philosophical”
- Space Opera
- Philosophical
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.
3
The Quantum Thief
Hannu Rajaniemi · 2010
Similar atmosphere: “Philosophical”
- Space Opera
- Philosophical
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.
4
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.
5
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
Similar atmosphere: “Philosophical”
- Space Opera
- Philosophical
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.
6
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie · 2013
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
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.
7
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
On the desert planet Arrakis, young Paul Atreides survives the destruction of his family and is taken in by the Fremen. As he learns their ways and the spice trade that powers an empire, he becomes the centre of a prophecy, a rebellion and a war for control of the known universe.
8
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.
9
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.
10
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · 2014
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
- Quest
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.
11
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey · 2011
From the same world: “Space Opera”
- Space Opera
A detective on Ceres and an ice-hauler's executive officer are thrown together when a missing woman and a derelict ship point to something buried on an asteroid. Their search uncovers a conspiracy that could ignite war between Earth, Mars and the Belt.
12
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card · 1986
Similar atmosphere: “Philosophical”
- Philosophical
Years after the war against the Formics, Andrew Wiggin travels as a Speaker for the Dead, revealing the truth of the departed. On the colony world Lusitania he is drawn into the fate of a human family and the alien Pequeninos, whose customs hide a terrible secret.