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221 past books matching Space Opera
Ideal for readers looking for classic science fiction built around dragons, planetary danger, and an expansive long-running world.
The Dragonriders of Pern Collection
Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
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A New York Times bestseller, The Dragonriders of Pern brings together Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon, the first three novels in Anne McCaffrey’s science fiction series about Pern, its dragonriders, and their defense against the deadly Thread, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 4,000 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for classic science fiction built around dragons, planetary danger, and an expansive long-running world.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Together in one volume—the first three books in the world’s most beloved science-fiction series!
DRAGONFLIGHT
On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack. Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat reemerges, Lessa will rise—upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Together, dragon and rider will fly, and Pern will be changed forever.
DRAGONQUEST
Since Lessa and Ramoth, her golden queen dragon, traveled into the past to bring forward a small army of dragons and riders to save their world from deadly alien spores, fear and desperation have spread across the land. But while the dragonriders struggle with threats both human and otherworldly, a young rider named F’nor and his brown dragon, Canth, hatch a bold plan to destroy the alien scourge at its source—the baleful Red Star that fills the heavens and promises doom to all.
THE WHITE DRAGON
Never in the history of Pern has there been a dragon like Ruth. Mocked by other dragons for his small size and pure white color, Ruth is smart, brave, and loyal—qualities that he shares with his rider, the young Lord Jaxom. Unfortunately, Jaxom is also looked down upon by his fellow lords, and by other riders as well. His dreams of joining the dragonriders in defending Pern are dismissed. What else can Jaxom and Ruth do but strike out on their own, pursuing in secret all they are denied? But in doing so, the two friends will find themselves facing a desperate choice—one that will push their bond to the breaking point . . . and threaten the future of Pern itself.
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Perfect for fans of Zahn and Haldeman.
Prophet
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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With 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Prophet by five-time Hugo Award winner Mike Resnick is a sharp, character-driven space opera. A galaxy fears Penelope Bailey, a psychic fugitive turned prophet. But when the assassin known as the Iceman gets caught in the crossfire, the battle for control turns personal, and deadly. Perfect for fans of Zahn and Haldeman.
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Penelope Bailey has been called many things—psychic, fugitive, weapon. Now she’s the Prophet, no longer hiding from the galaxy’s power players who’ve spent decades trying to kill or control her.
The Iceman, an assassin turned bar owner, has survived crossing her path twice. That makes him a rare man, and a marked one. With enemies closing in, he teams up with the lethal Gravedancer to untangle a conspiracy that stretches from back-alley deals to interstellar politics.
On a distant planet, Penelope waits. She knows what’s coming. She’s seen it.
In this fast-paced classic of space opera, five-time Hugo Award winner Mike Resnick weaves assassins, psychics, and political intrigue into a final showdown where survival isn’t a question of skill, but destiny.
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Joshua Dalzelle’s Boneshaker rockets into high-stakes military sci-fi with 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon.
Boneshaker
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Joshua Dalzelle’s Boneshaker rockets into high-stakes military sci-fi with 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon. When a rogue Terran cruiser threatens to spark a galactic war, First Lieutenant Jacob Brown and his battle-worn scout team must find it before it’s too late. Explosions, bad odds, and found-family grit power this pulse-pounding space adventure.
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Marine First Lieutenant Jacob Brown didn’t sign up for boredom. But babysitting a ragtag scout team on a broken-down shuttle wasn’t exactly the action-packed career he imagined.
Then orders drop. No rest, no refit. Just a new mission: hunt down a Terran cruiser gone rogue deep in hostile space.
The Eagle’s Talon has vanished into the heart of the newly conquered Eshquarian Empire, where a rebel fleet is gathering strength. If the Talon is found among them, Earth faces all-out war.
With only a battered ship, a team held together by duct tape and sarcasm, and enemies on all sides, Jacob has one shot to find the Talon before the shooting starts.
The clock is ticking. And in this war, failure isn’t an option, it’s annihilation.
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Ideal for readers looking for far-future science fiction with alien biology, authoritarian politics, survival, and scientific mystery.
Alien Clay
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Called “Unputdownable” by Stephen Baxter, Alien Clay follows political dissident and xeno-ecologist Professor Arton Daghdev after he is exiled to a labor camp on Kiln, a planet whose dangerous ecosystem and vanished civilization may transform what humanity knows about life and intelligence, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 7,900 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for far-future science fiction with alien biology, authoritarian politics, survival, and scientific mystery.
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"A staggering, alien vision of deepest solidarity." – Esquire, Best of the Year.
From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet.
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there.
In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go? If he can survive both the harsh rule of the camp commandant and the alien horrors of the world around him, then Arton has a chance at making a discovery that might just transform not only Kiln, but distant Earth as well.
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Best for readers who like survival-driven, generation-spanning sci-fi.
Children of Memory
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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In this far-reaching space opera, a fragile human colony survives generations after Earth’s failure, losing technology while clinging to life on a terraformed planet. When strangers arrive with advanced knowledge and promises of help, their rescue may come at the colony’s expense, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 9,800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like survival-driven, generation-spanning sci-fi.
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The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.
Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology – and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.
Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.
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The empire is fractured, the sandworms are dying, and the Lost Ones are returning.
Heretics of Dune
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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The empire is fractured, the sandworms are dying, and the Lost Ones are returning. Heretics of Dune earns 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon and pushes Frank Herbert’s iconic saga into uncharted territory. As a desert prophet emerges on Rakis, old religions and rival powers collide in this sweeping fifth entry of the legendary Dune Chronicles.
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Fifteen hundred years after the death of the God Emperor, the empire lies in tatters. Civilization has scattered across the stars. Rakis has dried into desert once more, and the sandworms—once gods, now relics—are dying.
Power vacuums don’t stay empty for long. As the Lost Ones return, old factions clash with new forces, and ancient prophecies awaken.
At the center of it all is Sheeana, a girl raised in the dust of Rakis with the uncanny ability to command the sandworms. Her rise sparks a wave of religious fervor, echoing Leto’s legacy and threatening to reshape the galaxy once again.
In this fifth installment of the Dune Chronicles, Herbert weaves a tale of rebellion, prophecy, and the ever-persistent hunger for power.
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In the aftermath of humanity’s war against thinking machines, old bloodlines, new schools, and dangerous beliefs begin shaping the future of an empire still afraid of its own…
Sisterhood of Dune
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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In the aftermath of humanity’s war against thinking machines, old bloodlines, new schools, and dangerous beliefs begin shaping the future of an empire still afraid of its own past. Sisterhood of Dune follows the rise of the Bene Gesserit, Mentats, Navigators, and anti-technology zealots as competing visions of power collide across the Imperium.
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The inspiration for the HBO original series DUNE: PROPHECY, coming Fall 2024!
It is 83 years after the last thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium.
The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and Salusa Secundus. The descendants of the disgraced Abulurd Harkonnen have sworn vengeance against Vor, blaming him for the downfall of their noble family.
Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School and, through a terrible ordeal, has become the first Reverend Mother.
The descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva use mutated, spice-saturated Navigators who fly precursors of Heighliners.
And Gilbertus Albans, ward of the hated thinking machine Erasmus, is teaching humans to become Mentats…while hiding an unbelievable secret.
Led by the fanatic Manford Torondo, the Butlerian movement, fiercely opposed to all forms of "dangerous technology," sweeps across the known universe in mobs, millions strong, destroying everything in its path.
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A girl with a borrowed body.
Nona the Ninth
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic · Space Opera
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A girl with a borrowed body. A city on the brink. And a birthday she may never see. Nona the Ninth continues Tamsyn Muir’s Hugo-nominated Locked Tomb series with 4.6 stars on Amazon and all the weird necromantic chaos fans crave. Equal parts heartwarming and horrifying, this is sci-fi fantasy at its most original and unforgettable.
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The city is crumbling. The dead are rising. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.
She’s sweet, curious, and loves dogs. She teaches kids, takes beach walks, and tries to be normal. But Nona is not normal. Six months ago, she woke up in a stranger’s body. Now she’s being told she might be the key to stopping the war between the Nine Houses and the rebels at the gates.
She doesn’t want to be a weapon. She wants a life.
With the planet teetering on the edge of ruin and strange dreams haunting her sleep, Nona has to decide who she is, who she wants to be, and what she’s willing to become.
Wildly inventive and deeply emotional, Nona the Ninth is like nothing you’ve read before.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to science fiction with espionage, murder mysteries, and interstellar travel.
Night Train to Rigel
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Opera
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Called “rip-roaring” by Publishers Weekly, this space-opera thriller follows former government agent Frank Compton as a stranger’s death draws him aboard the interstellar Quadrail and into a conspiracy that threatens the galaxy, with a 3.9-star average from more than 3,400 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to science fiction with espionage, murder mysteries, and interstellar travel.
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A secret agent aboard a galactic railroad must derail a sinister conspiracy in this "rip-roaring" thriller by the #1 bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn (Publishers Weekly).
Hugo Award–Winning Author
The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing activities got him fired, Compton is now being sought out by the Spiders, the robotic alien beings responsible for the upkeep and operation of the Quadrail transportation system, which connects the galaxy's twelve inhabited empires. The discovery of a sinister plot to use the Quadrail for ill has brought the Spiders to Compton—for only someone possessing the former agent's unique skills can stop the scheme for good.
But when Compton leaves Earth behind—joining forces with Bayta, the Spiders' beautiful, half-human representative aboard the Quadrail—the terrifying scope of a vast, galaxy-wide conspiracy begins to reveal itself. Targeted on all sides by alien assassins of every shape and species, Compton and his enigmatic new partner are suddenly in a race against a clock ticking down to an irreversible doomsday, one in which the galactic night train will derail, carrying all members of humanity screaming to their deaths.
The first in the Quadrail series from the Hugo Award–winning author of Blackcollar and many New York Times–bestselling Star Wars novels, Night Train to Rigel is an action-packed "great read" (Booklist).
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No hyperspace, just hard science.
Gravity Wars: Interstellar Assault
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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No hyperspace, just hard science. In Interstellar Assault, a generational starship flees annihilation while three alien missiles close in—over 300 years. From bestselling author Vaughn Heppner comes a gripping saga of nuclear-powered ships, generational heroes, and the grim reality of space war. Fans of The Expanse and Red Mars will devour this 4.4-star hard sci-fi epic.
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No warp drives. No telepathy. No shortcuts. Just pure science and the brutal reality of deep space warfare.
As a ravaged race flees the relentless Vims aboard a massive generational ship, the clock starts ticking—three interstellar missiles have been launched. They’ll take 300 years to arrive, but the chase has begun.
From the heroic Sargon to his descendants Ningal and Assur, this is a saga of survival, betrayal, and raw courage. Meanwhile, on 2060 Earth, powerful CEO James Petty and Colonel Mike Steele helm the planet’s desperate response: the Orion, a nuclear-bomb-propelled starship.
In a war measured in centuries and fought across stars, only one truth remains—gravity always wins.
Welcome to Interstellar Assault—where the science is real, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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Ideal for readers looking for cerebral science fiction, Gothic atmosphere, recurring realities, and a slowly unfolding mystery.
Eversion
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Dr. Silas Coade serves as physician aboard a series of expeditions separated by centuries, from a sailing ship and an airship to a spacecraft approaching a mysterious alien structure. As each journey ends in disaster, Silas begins to question why events keep repeating. Ideal for readers looking for cerebral science fiction, Gothic atmosphere, recurring realities, and a slowly unfolding mystery.
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From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact.
In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
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Dark, daring, and unforgettable, it’s a must-read for fans of morally complex space operas.
Executive
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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In Tyrant, Hope Hubris—the absolute ruler of Jupiter—goes undercover as a rebel leader to orchestrate his own downfall. This bold sci-fi saga from New York Times–bestselling author Piers Anthony explores justice, sacrifice, and the fine line between madness and power. Dark, daring, and unforgettable, it’s a must-read for fans of morally complex space operas.
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Hope Hubris rules the United States of Jupiter with an iron will—and a ruthless vision for justice. As dictator, he’s feared, reviled, and worshipped in equal measure, wielding absolute power to purge the corruption infecting his world. But to achieve his ultimate goal, Hope must become the enemy.
Assuming a secret identity, he infiltrates a revolution intent on his own overthrow. As he fights a war of subterfuge, sacrifice, and self-deception, Hope finds himself unraveling—torn between ambition and love, control and chaos.
In Tyrant, Piers Anthony delivers a dark, provocative installment in the Bio of a Space Tyrant saga—where power demands painful choices, rebellion is a mask, and justice may come at the cost of a man’s sanity.
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