10 Best space opera books like Barbarians of the Beyond by Matthew Hughes

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Barbarians of the Beyond

By: Matthew Hughes

4.26

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Twenty years ago, five master criminals known as the Demon Princes raided Mount Pleasant to enslave…

If you liked the space opera plot in Barbarians of the Beyond by Matthew Hughes , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks

1. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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2. Throy (Cadwal Chronicles, #3)

By: Jack Vance

3.91

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

In the conclusion of the Cadwal Chronicles, the swirling plots and intrigue surrounding the House o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
"We are a down-trodden race."

-Jack Vance, Throy (Cadwal Chronicles, #3)

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3. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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4. Araminta Station (Cadwal Chronicles, #1)

By: Jack Vance

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

The planet "Cadwal" is forever set aside as a natural perserve, owned and administered by the Natur… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

5. 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

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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)

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6. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned … read more

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  • fiction

7. CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga, #14)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan … read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga, #14) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
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8. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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  • fiction
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

9. Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

On opposing sides, Captain Cordelia Naismith and Admiral Lord Aral Vorkosigan marry and live in ari… read more

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10. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)

By: Ellis Peters

4.39

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael... A Morbid Taste for… read more

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11. A Crown for Cold Silver (The Crimson Empire, #1)

By: Alex Marshall

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An outstanding, game-changing epic fantasy debut featuring an unforgettable female warrior. FIVE VI… read more

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12. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

Similar categories in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

13. Emphyrio

By: Jack Vance

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of t… read more

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14. The Anome (Durdane, #1)

By: Jack Vance

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

DURDANE THE IMPRISONED A world of strange ways and stranger people. A land where men and women are … read more

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15. Ecce and Old Earth (Cadwal Chronicles, #2)

By: Jack Vance

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The planet Cadwal has an ecosystem unique in the human-explored galaxy; a thousand years past it wa… read more

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16. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

By: Garth Nix

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers w… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • fiction
"Shakespeare knew too much."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"I read. And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"Books help us anchor our souls, or re-anchor them; particularly for us, the left-handed, given the things we have to do."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

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17. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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18. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Addison's The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • fiction
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19. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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20. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

21. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1) by Jim Butcher

22. The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

By: Jim Butcher

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera nove… read more

Similar categories in Jim Butcher's The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I love you,"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

"It's a tradition,"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

"HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

"Predator is not property,"

-Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)

Cover of The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1) by Katherine Addison

23. The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

By: Katherine Addison

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, 'The Goblin Em… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Addison's The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • fiction
"I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses"

-Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

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24. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • fiction
Cover of Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2) by Peter F. Hamilton

25. Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.30

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

The comparative utopia of twenty-third century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingl… read more

Similar categories in Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
"Underneath the drones, the pedestrians and board riders along Plough Lane had stopped to look around in confusion as power and digital connectivity was taken from them—basic human rights since before…"

-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2)

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26. 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 Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
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27. Barbarians of the Beyond

By: Matthew Hughes

4.26

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Twenty years ago, five master criminals known as the Demon Princes raided Mount Pleasant to enslave… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Phaedra:  Alastor 824 by Tais Teng

28. Phaedra: Alastor 824

By: Tais Teng

3.78

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Wake the living Galleons at your peril... The Elder Race once ruled the entire Alastor cluster. … read more

Similar categories in Tais Teng's Phaedra: Alastor 824 book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

29. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) book and Matthew Hughes's Barbarians of the Beyond

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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30. The Unbalancing

By: R.B. Lemberg

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

New love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Fox Valley Murders (Joe Bain #1) by John Holbrook Vance

31. The Fox Valley Murders (Joe Bain #1)

By: John Holbrook Vance

3.94

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction

24 Best fiction books like Barbarians of the Beyond by Matthew Hughes

Transform Your Habits

Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Throy (Cadwal Chronicles, #3)

Jack Vance

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Araminta Station (Cadwal Chronicles, #1)

Jack Vance

3.74

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18 Best fiction books like Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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