10 Best space opera books like The Outside (The Outside, #1) by Ada Hoffmann

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The Outside (The Outside, #1)

By: Ada Hoffmann

3.80

Format: 401 pages, ebook

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the futu…

If you liked the space opera plot in The Outside (The Outside, #1) by Ada Hoffmann , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

1. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

2. The Stars Are Legion

By: Kameron Hurley

1.50

Format: None pages,

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is t… read more

Similar categories in Kameron Hurley's The Stars Are Legion book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

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3. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

4. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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5. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

Cover of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

6. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine

7. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

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8. The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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9. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

Cover of These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) by Bethany Jacobs

11. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

Similar categories in Bethany Jacobs's These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

12. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

13. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

15. Phoenix Extravagant

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. … read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Phoenix Extravagant book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’ll go up first,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

Cover of The Outside (The Outside, #1) by Ada Hoffmann

16. The Outside (The Outside, #1)

By: Ada Hoffmann

3.80

Format: 401 pages, ebook

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the futu… read more

Similar categories in Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

17. The Genesis of Misery

By: Neon Yang

3.44

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy from Neon Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven, full … read more

Similar categories in Neon Yang's The Genesis of Misery book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch by Garth Nix

18. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch

By: Garth Nix

3.92

Format: 34 pages, ebook

A new short story from Garth Nix, best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.In this raucous, st… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern

19. Depart, Depart!

By: Sim Kern

4.23

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the D… read more

Similar categories in Sim Kern's Depart, Depart! book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
Cover of Redsight by Meredith Mooring

20. Redsight

By: Meredith Mooring

3.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An imaginative new space opera filled with sapphic romance, space pirates, a blind witch and powerf… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Mooring's Redsight book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Deep Black (Arcana Imperii #2) by Miles  Cameron

21. Deep Black (Arcana Imperii #2)

By: Miles Cameron

4.40

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

Marca Nbaro had always dreamed of serving aboard the Greatships, with their vast cargo holds and a … read more

Similar categories in Miles Cameron's Deep Black (Arcana Imperii #2) book and Ada Hoffmann's The Outside (The Outside, #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera

19 Top fiction books like The Outside (The Outside, #1) by Ada Hoffmann

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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