18 Top space books like Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds

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Absolution Gap

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - …

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1. The Neutronium Alchemist (Night's Dawn, #2)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.27

Format: 1273 pages, Paperback

Not every fallen angel comes from heaven... The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde,… read more

Similar categories in Peter F. Hamilton's The Neutronium Alchemist (Night's Dawn, #2) book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"I sailed upon oceans, and I thought no challenge could be greater, and now men sail the void between stars. Oh, how I remember them. The constellations burning so bright at night. How could I ever ha…"

-Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist (Night's Dawn, #2)

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2. 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 fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"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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3. Judas Unchained

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.50

Format: 231 pages,

Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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4. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.28

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"Escape is a commodity like anything else."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

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5. Absolution Gap

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - … read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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6. 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 fantasy
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
"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)

7. The Temporal Void

By: Peter F. Hamilton

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrima… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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8. Pandora's Star

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in d… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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9. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more

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

10. The Dreaming Void

By: Peter F. Hamilton

3.41

Format: 32 pages,

The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwealth forces barely staved off human extinctio… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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11. Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.16

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section's moral espionage weapon, the very cuttin… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"They also,"

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

"Do you want to work with us?"

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

"Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?"

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

"I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk."

-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)

12. The Evolutionary Void

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government … read more

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13. The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized… read more

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14. 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 Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
"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)

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15. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

By: Barry Kirwan

4.23

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more

Similar categories in Barry Kirwan's The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"

-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

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16. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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17. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

Format: 596 pages, ebook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2) book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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18. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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19. Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.13

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linke… read more

Similar categories in Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1) book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause."

-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

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20. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) book and Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2) by Peter F. Hamilton

21. 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 Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"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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Peter F. Hamilton

4.27

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3.85

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Peter F. Hamilton

4.50

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Jennifer Foehner Wells

3.83

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J.H. Walker

3.60

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Danielle Bourdon , Kimberly Hoyt

5.00

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Mari Mancusi

3.48

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