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Space Opera Books
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 911 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 � 169,614 ratings � published 2014
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 835 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 � 170,523 ratings � published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 823 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 � 113,632 ratings � published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 698 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 � 144,097 ratings � published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 695 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 � 211,913 ratings � published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 665 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 � 278,689 ratings � published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 637 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.85 � 96,476 ratings � published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 609 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 � 118,736 ratings � published 2014
Revelation Space (Revelation Space #1)
by (shelved 567 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 � 59,166 ratings � published 2000
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 552 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.44 � 106,624 ratings � published 2015
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 549 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.11 � 65,822 ratings � published 2019
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 528 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.07 � 38,981 ratings � published 1986
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga #1)
by (shelved 513 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 � 52,159 ratings � published 2004
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 497 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 � 151,924 ratings � published 2015
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 488 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 � 572,457 ratings � published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 484 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 � 91,195 ratings � published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 473 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 � 64,506 ratings � published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 473 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 � 48,119 ratings � published 1993
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 470 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 � 57,178 ratings � published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
by (shelved 422 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.08 � 58,036 ratings � published 2014
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 414 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 � 80,019 ratings � published 2017
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 401 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 � 1,434,449 ratings � published 1985
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 378 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 � 29,565 ratings � published 1986
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 358 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.89 � 365,544 ratings � published 1969
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 352 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 � 74,525 ratings � published 2019
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 351 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 � 77,033 ratings � published 1988
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 350 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 � 81,804 ratings � published 2016
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 � 37,414 ratings � published 1996
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 340 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.80 � 20,861 ratings � published 2016
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 329 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 � 301,803 ratings � published 2017
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 329 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 � 47,841 ratings � published 2015
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 327 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 � 138,421 ratings � published 1990
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 312 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 � 39,295 ratings � published 2005
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 309 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 � 109,408 ratings � published 2016
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 306 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 � 174,797 ratings � published 1974
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 � 30,519 ratings � published 2008
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 299 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 � 15,914 ratings � published 2013
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 295 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 � 595,590 ratings � published 2014
The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
by (shelved 293 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 � 26,480 ratings � published 1990
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 290 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 � 29,358 ratings � published 2021
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 285 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 � 217,088 ratings � published 1952
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 285 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 � 50,632 ratings � published 1990
Trading in Danger (Vatta's War, #1)
by (shelved 282 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.00 � 15,928 ratings � published 2003
Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)
by (shelved 281 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.97 � 33,077 ratings � published 2006
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 280 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 � 98,208 ratings � published 1991
The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)
by (shelved 273 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 � 35,181 ratings � published 2018
Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)
by (shelved 272 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 � 30,241 ratings � published 1991
Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
by (shelved 270 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 � 54,832 ratings � published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 269 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 � 175,156 ratings � published 2018
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 269 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.48 � 362,052 ratings � published 2015
“A curse upon you and myself!" - Indrajeet”
― Agni: Rise of Asura: (Book 1 in the Agni Series)
― Agni: Rise of Asura: (Book 1 in the Agni Series)
“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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