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Best for readers who like philosophical science fiction about identity, humanity, and the fate of interstellar societies.
Slow Gods
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · Space Opera
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Called “Deeply imaginative and achingly human” by Megan E. O’Keefe, this space opera follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a pilot who dies in deep space and returns as something not quite human, against the backdrop of a supernova that destroys planets and civilizations. Best for readers who like philosophical science fiction about identity, humanity, and the fate of interstellar societies.
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Best of the Year at Gizmodo, Library Journal, and more!
"An astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time
Slow Gods is the galaxy-spanning tale of one man's impossible life charted against the fate of humanity amongst the stars—a powerfully imaginative space opera from multi-award-winning author Claire North, perfect for fans of A Memory Called Empire and The Vanished Birds.
My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself.
In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I should make myself a hero. Pretend I was not used by strangers and gods, did not leave people behind.
Here is one truth: out there in deep space, in the pilot's chair, I died. And then, I was reborn. I became something not quite human, something that could speak to the infinite dark. And I vowed to become the scourge of the world that wronged me.
This is the story of the supernova event that burned planets and felled civilizations. This is also the story of the many lives I've lived since I died for the first time.
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Ideal for readers looking for space opera with corporate warfare, planetary resistance, and morally complicated choices.
Fallen Dragon
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Colonization · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Called “a fascinating, compulsively readable clash of hardware and ideals” by Kirkus Reviews, this standalone science fiction novel follows corporate soldier Lawrence Newton as a mission to a distant colony and his plan to steal a legendary treasure pull him into a resistance conflict, with a 4.1-star average from more than 15,400 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for space opera with corporate warfare, planetary resistance, and morally complicated choices.
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"A fascinating, compulsively readable clash of hardware and ideals" in a stand-alone space opera from an acclaimed sci-fi author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology.
On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local resistance effort, it seems like a stroke of amazing fortune, and Lawrence plans to rob the colony of their fabled gemstone, the Fallen Dragon, to get the money he needs. However, he soon discovers that the Fallen Dragon is not a gemstone at all, but an alien life form that the local colonists have been protecting since it crashed in their area. Now, Lawrence has to decide if he will steal the alien to exploit the use of its inherent biotechnical processes—which far exceed anything humans are capable of—or if he will help the Resistance get the alien home.
"One of Hamilton's best . . . undeniably a page-turner." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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It fits readers who want science fiction with noir instincts, high-stakes intrigue, and a closed-circle mystery unfolding far from any safe exit.
Halcyon Years
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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A small-time investigator aboard a vast starship stumbles into a death that powerful people want buried. In Halcyon Years, Alastair Reynolds threads a murder mystery through class tension, isolation, and the uneasy scale of life in deep space. It fits readers who want science fiction with noir instincts, high-stakes intrigue, and a closed-circle mystery unfolding far from any safe exit.
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A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe. Strap in for a gripping murder mystery.
Yuri Gagarin is a private investigator who picks up small cases from his local community, runs into trouble with the local police, and generally ekes out a living as best he can. He's aboard the Halcyon - a starship, hurtling through space, carrying thousands of passengers with thousands more sleeping the journey away.
Only his usual investigative work - catching cheating spouses, and small time con artists - is about to take a turn. He's hired by a mysterious woman called Ruby Red to look into a death in one of Halcyon's most elite families . . . and then warned off the case again by a second mysterious woman called Ruby Blue. Caught between the two, he's about to be embroiled in a murder mystery in which - at any moment - he could be the latest victim.
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It suits readers who want space opera driven by political unrest, moral risk, and the threat of collapse on a galactic scale.
Sword of the Lamb
Dystopian · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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An empire built on hierarchy starts to fracture as rebellion gathers beneath the surface. In Sword of the Lamb, a future heir to power abandons his place in the ruling class and joins a secret movement that could save civilization or destroy what remains of it. It suits readers who want space opera driven by political unrest, moral risk, and the threat of collapse on a galactic scale.
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The thrilling start to the Phoenix Legacy space opera: "A new classic! Has the sweep and power of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy" (Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth's Children series).
At the heart of the Concord empire, unrest is festering. Unrecognized by the Elite, the ruling class, an undercurrent of rebellion is surging through the enslaved Bond class. It's a threat that could bring down all of civilization, creating a third Dark Age.
Lord Alexand, first born of the House of DeKoven Woolf, stands to inherit a vast industrial conglomerate along with a seat on the Directorate, the Concord's ruling body. But he sees the writing on the wall and realizes that if the Bonds explode into total rebellion, there will be nothing to inherit, and the toll in human suffering will be beyond calculation. He makes the difficult decision to "die" and join the Society of the Phoenix, a clandestine organization whose existence is known to only a few Directorate Lords, who consider membership treason and punishable by death. But it may be humanity's only hope . . .
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Wonder and ruin travel together as humanity carries its oldest habits to a new world.
The Martian Chronicles
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Wonder and ruin travel together as humanity carries its oldest habits to a new world. In The Martian Chronicles, linked stories trace Earth’s settlement of Mars through encounters shaped by longing, conquest, memory, and loss. Bradbury blends literary science fiction with haunting atmosphere and quiet emotional force, creating a vision of colonization that feels both mythic and deeply human.
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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.
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Humanity’s first contact with superior alien allies comes with a cost, and soldiers are the ones sent to pay it.
The War Dogs Trilogy
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Humanity’s first contact with superior alien allies comes with a cost, and soldiers are the ones sent to pay it. In The War Dogs Trilogy, Michael Venn and other skyrines are thrown into an interstellar conflict after Earth becomes entangled with the Gurus and their enemies. This military science fiction collection delivers large-scale war, hostile worlds, and the pressure of fighting for humanity’s future.
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Collected in a single volume for the first time, the epic War Dogs trilogy of interstellar war from a master of science fiction.
The Gurus made their presence on Earth known thirteen years ago. Providing technology and scientific insights far beyond what mankind was capable of, they became indispensable advisors and promised even more gifts that we just couldn't pass up.
But they were followed by mortal enemies -- the Antagonists -- from sun to sun, planet to planet, and now the Gurus are stretched thin -- and they need humanity's help.
Our first bill has come due.
Skyrines like Michael Venn have been volunteered to pay the price. They face insidious enemies who were already inside the solar system, establishing a beachhead on Mars.
Venn and his comrades will be lucky to make it out alive -- let alone preserve the future of all of mankind.
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Time Salvager fits sci-fi readers who want time travel under pressure, ruined Earth survival, outlaw tension, and a fast-paced story where one impossible choice puts all of humanity’s…
Time Salvager
Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
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A condemned criminal makes his living stealing from the past until one forbidden rescue turns a routine mission into a future-shattering mistake. Time Salvager fits sci-fi readers who want time travel under pressure, ruined Earth survival, outlaw tension, and a fast-paced story where one impossible choice puts all of humanity’s rules at risk.
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Time Salvager: a fast-paced time travel adventure from Wesley Chu, the award-winning author of The Lives of Tao.
Convicted criminal
James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.
James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point, and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his.
On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim, an intriguing scientist from a previous century, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, and in violation of the chronmen's highest law, James brings Elise back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's home world.
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Good for readers who want space opera with magic, conspiracies, interstellar conflict, and reluctant alliances.
Starship’s Mage
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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Called “thoroughly engaging space opera” by Cat Rambo, Starship’s Mage follows Jump Mage Damien Montgomery and Captain David Rice as pirates and politics push them into a partnership across orbitals, prisons, and alien graveyards, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want space opera with magic, conspiracies, interstellar conflict, and reluctant alliances.
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Will magic save the galaxy... or tear it apart?
Damien Montgomery is as much a nobody as a Mage of the star-spanning Protectorate of Mars can be. Trained as a Jump Mage, one of the elite who teleport ships across interstellar space, he lacks the connections to find a ship that will take him.
Until pirates and politics strand Captain David Rice of the jump freighter Blue Jay in his home system. The two men's matching needs birth a choice and a partnership that will take them from high-end orbitals to prisons to alien graveyards in forgotten star systems.
And in the shadows of the Protectorate, Damien is faced with a simple question: who is he in the dark?
Starship's Mage is The Atlas Six meets Genesis: First Colony—combining Olivie Blake's magical conspiracies with Ken Lozito's vast interstellar conflict.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its release, Glynn Stewart and Faolan's Pen Publishing are releasing new revised editions of the first five books in this best-selling science fiction & fantasy adventure. The first Starship's Mage novel was initially released as a series of serialized Kindle books. In 2014, these episodes were combined and published as a single novel for the first time.
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For generations, carpetmakers have devoted their lives to weaving impossibly intricate carpets from the hair of their wives and daughters, never questioning why.
The Carpet Makers
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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For generations, carpetmakers have devoted their lives to weaving impossibly intricate carpets from the hair of their wives and daughters, never questioning why. In The Carpet Makers, that sacred tradition begins to unravel when the empire behind it suddenly vanishes and strangers arrive from the stars searching for answers. This far-future science fiction novel is quiet in scope but massive in implication, unfolding into something strange, unsettling, and far bigger than it first appears.
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"Enthusiastically introduced by no less than Orson Scott Card, this far-future novel does credit to everyone concerned, starting with its German author." —Booklist
Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifetime.
This art descends from father to son, since the beginning of time itself.
But one day the empire of the God Emperor vanishes, and strangers begin to arrive from the stars to follow the trace of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief, more than anything they could have ever imagined . . .
Brought to the attention of Tor Books by Orson Scott Card, this edition of The Carpet Makers contains his special introduction.
"Eschbach's first novel will blow you away. Yes, it's that good." —Analog
"A considerable achievement, and one that suggests the presence of a world-class SF voice that we ought to know about." —Locus
"Andreas Eschbach is incontestably the shooting star of the German SF scene." —Heyne Science Fiction Yearbook
"That such a magnum opus has been allowed to languish in the shadows for ten years is damning evidence of how parochial SF publishing can be. Even more astounding, it was Eschbach's debut." —Kirkus Reviews
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Ideal for readers looking for large-scale space opera with alien civilizations, mysterious origins, and an immense starship at its center.
Marrow
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Called “an exhilarating ride” by The New York Times Book Review, Marrow follows the near-immortal crew of an enormous starship as they discover a hidden planet at its center and send their best captains to investigate. Trapped on Marrow, the team must build a new civilization and seek a way back, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for large-scale space opera with alien civilizations, mysterious origins, and an immense starship at its center.
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The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets.
Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship is . . . a planet. Marrow. But when a team of the Ship's best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they return with the origins of the Ship--or will they bring doom to everyone on board?
Robert Reed, whose fantastic stories have been filling all the major SF magazines for the past several years, spins a captivating tale of adventure and wonder on an incredible scale in this novel based on his acclaimed novella.
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Time becomes a battlefield where loyalty has no fixed point.
The Corridors of Time
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
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Time becomes a battlefield where loyalty has no fixed point. In The Corridors of Time, imprisoned ex-marine Malcolm Lockridge accepts a mysterious offer that thrusts him into a war waged across centuries between rival factions. As he moves through shifting historical eras, the lines between good and evil blur. A classic science fiction adventure of temporal conflict, destiny, and moral uncertainty.
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A young man from the twentieth century is recruited to fight in a war that rages throughout time in this classic science fiction adventure from a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning master.
College student, ex-marine, and martial artist Malcolm Lockridge is in prison awaiting his trial for murder when he receives an unexpected visit from an extraordinarily beautiful woman named Storm. Claiming to be a representative of the Wardens, a political faction from two thousand years in the future, Storm offers the astonished young man a proposition: freedom in return for his assistance in recovering an unspecified lost treasure. But it is not long before Malcolm realizes that, in truth, he's been recruited as a soldier in the Wardens' ongoing war against their rivals, the Rangers. And this war is different from any that has ever been fought, because the battlefield is not a place but time itself.
Traveling backward and forward through corridors connecting historical epochs separated by thousands of years, Malcolm is soon embroiled in a furious conflict between the forces of good and minions of evil. But the deeper he is pulled into this devastating time war, the clearer Malcolm's ultimate role in humankind's destiny becomes, causing the troubled young soldier from the twentieth century to question whether he's been chosen to fight on the side of good or evil . . . and if such a distinction even exists.
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Seekers in the Void begins with a first command that carries more risk than prestige in a corporate empire that controls interstellar travel.
Seekers in the Void
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Seekers in the Void begins with a first command that carries more risk than prestige in a corporate empire that controls interstellar travel. Captain Cirilo Webster takes charge of a freighter serving a powerful megacorporation, only to face a distrustful crew, a questionable mission, and rising tensions with rival interests. This space opera blends political maneuvering, corporate intrigue, and evolving artificial intelligence against a vast colonial backdrop.
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Captain Cirilo Webster is a loyal officer of the Santiago Corporation, the multistellar megacorporation that controls all travel between the Seventy-Seven human colonies.
Finally given command of his first interstellar freighter, he is determined to do well by both his crew and his employers—but nothing is ever that simple.
His crew is used to Captains passing through on their way to better ships. The Company’s policies have made more enemies than he can count. Their mission is unusual and the client might be lying to him.
And if all of that wasn’t enough? One of the cyborgs his ship uses for security is starting to do things like read encyclopedias for fun.
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