10 Top space opera books like Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

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Empress of Forever

By: Max Gladstone

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy—a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-ta…

"To live is to grow secrets."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"You’re not who you think you are,"

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"Nevers and onlys and forevers grew as you did."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"She had never been weak enough to need meanness."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

If you liked the space opera plot in Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Dark State (Empire Games, #2) by Charles Stross

2. Dark State (Empire Games, #2)

By: Charles Stross

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant P… read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Dark State (Empire Games, #2) book and Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin, #3)

By: Daniel Abraham

4.08

Format: 497 pages, Paperback

The great war cannot be stopped. The tyrant Geder Palliako had led his nation to war, but every vi… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"That's the whole world. You. Me. The sea, the sky. Every retching thing there is. It's all a dream the dragons dream, and if the last dragon ever wakes up, we're fu*ked."

-Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin, #3)

"There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I f…"

-Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin, #3)

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4. The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4)

By: Daniel Abraham

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

THE RISE OF THE DRAGON AND THE FALL OF KINGS Lord Regent Geder Palliako's war has led his nation an… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Autonomous

By: Annalee Newitz

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Autonomousfeatures a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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6. The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files, #6)

By: Charles Stross

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this this science fiction spy thriller by Hugo Award winning writer Charles Stross, the Laundry … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

7. Echo (Alex Benedict, #5)

By: Jack McDevitt

4.11

Format: None pages,

A new novel of the fantastic unknown by the national bestselling author of Time Travelers Never Die… read more

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8. Coming Home (Alex Benedict, #7)

By: Jack McDevitt

4.30

Format: 503 pages,

Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread … read more

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9. Archivist Wasp

By: Nicole Kornher-Stace

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate a… read more

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10. The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency, #1)

By: K. Arsenault Rivera

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Even gods can be slain.... The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach--bu… read more

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11. Distant Thunders (Destroyermen, #4)

By: Taylor Anderson

4.01

Format: 532 pages,

The fourth thrilling adventure in the Destroyermen series. After the battle in which the men of the… read more

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12. 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 Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • 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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13. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • 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

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14. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

15. 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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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16. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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17. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • 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 Machine (White Space, #2) by Elizabeth Bear

19. Machine (White Space, #2)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.92

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White S… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
"People are so complicated."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Sneaky manipulative bundle of code."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Anxiety was a distraction I did not need."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

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20. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal

21. The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Fated Sky continued the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut Universe, #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal

22. The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut Universe, #3)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Mary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calcul… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"We grieved, yes. But we carried on because that was what made us human."

-Mary Robinette Kowal, The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut Universe, #3)

"We have our catechism of call signs and the high holy language of acronyms."

-Mary Robinette Kowal, The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut Universe, #3)

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23. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)

By: Alex White

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Boots Elsworth was a famous treasure hunter in another life, but now she’s washed up. She makes her… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
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24. Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • queer
"Rest,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I felt even more hollow than I had."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"Good thing for me you’re not a murderer."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I was raised in a clade. There is no real me."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

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25. Drastic Measures

By: Dayton Ward

3.64

Format: 400 pages, ebook

An original novel based upon the explosive new Star Trek TV series on CBS All Access! It is 2246… read more

Similar categories in Dayton Ward's Drastic Measures book and Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"No matter how fast our ships can go, space is still very big."

-Dayton Ward, Drastic Measures

"We will remember, but we will also proceed forward, as we always have."

-Dayton Ward, Drastic Measures

"It doesn’t matter what planet you’re on, there’s nothing like biting into a crisp Fuji apple first thing in the morning."

-Dayton Ward, Drastic Measures

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26. Empress of Forever

By: Max Gladstone

3.79

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy—a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-ta… read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever book and Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • queer
"To live is to grow secrets."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"You’re not who you think you are,"

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"Nevers and onlys and forevers grew as you did."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

"She had never been weak enough to need meanness."

-Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever

Cover of State Tectonics (The Centenal Cycle, #3) by Malka Ann Older

27. State Tectonics (The Centenal Cycle, #3)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

One of the best books of 2018, according to Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Review of Books, and BookRi… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"You don't remember what it was like before Information... Competing data sources tore down any idea of truth; people voted based on falsehoods. We didn't invent surveillance: there were plenty of fee…"

-Malka Ann Older, State Tectonics (The Centenal Cycle, #3)

Cover of Psy (Alien Castaways #3; Intergalactic Dating Agency) by Cara Bristol

28. Psy (Alien Castaways #3; Intergalactic Dating Agency)

By: Cara Bristol

4.24

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

She's locked in a prison of silence. Can a mind-reading alien free her? Cassie Steward has not s… read more

Similar categories in Cara Bristol's Psy (Alien Castaways #3; Intergalactic Dating Agency) book and Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of There Before the Chaos (The Farian War, #1) by K.B. Wagers

29. There Before the Chaos (The Farian War, #1)

By: K.B. Wagers

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The battle for the throne is over. The war for the galaxy is just beginning. Hail Bristol, forme… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Overdue (Library System Reset, #1) by K.T. Hanna

30. Overdue (Library System Reset, #1)

By: K.T. Hanna

4.15

Format: 590 pages, Kindle Edition

The Library once stood proud as a beacon of magic and power. For 500 years, it has been broken.… read more

Similar categories in K.T. Hanna's Overdue (Library System Reset, #1) book and Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Accidental War (Dread Empire's Fall #4) by Walter Jon Williams

31. The Accidental War (Dread Empire's Fall #4)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.94

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a r… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

25 best-selling fiction books like Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

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Aliette de Bodard

3.89

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Dark State (Empire Games, #2)

Charles Stross

4.15

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The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin, #3)

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Adam Christopher

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Vonda N. McIntyre

3.68

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