11 best-selling space opera books like The Thucydides Trap (Imperials #5) by Melinda M. Snodgrass

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The Thucydides Trap (Imperials #5)

By: Melinda M. Snodgrass

4.47

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Thucydides Trap: A point when one great power threatens to displace another, war is unavoidable… …

If you liked the space opera plot in The Thucydides Trap (Imperials #5) by Melinda M. Snodgrass , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. A Princess of Mars / Gods of Mars / Warlord of Mars / Thuvia, Maid of Mars / Chessmen of Mars / Master Mind of Mars / Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom #1-7)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , J. Allen St. John

4.04

Format: 1167 pages, Kindle Edition

When John Carter goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona dessert, he wakes up on the plan… read more

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"The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to hav…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars / Gods of Mars / Warlord of Mars / Thuvia, Maid of Mars / Chessmen of Mars / Master Mind of Mars / Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom #1-7)

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2. The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1)

By: Django Wexler

4.80

Format: None pages,

Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel--but whe… read more

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3. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

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  • space opera
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

4. The Hallowed Hunt (World of the Five Gods, #3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ing… read more

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5. Provenance (Imperial Radch)

By: Ann Leckie

3.84

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be consider… read more

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  • space opera
"Diplomat does not mean nice,"

-Ann Leckie, Provenance (Imperial Radch)

6. Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga [Publication] #5.1-5.3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Limited edition volume. Contents: Frame story that follows Miles' time on Earth in Brothers in Arms… read more

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7. 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

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8. 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

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  • space opera
"(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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9. 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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  • space opera
"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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10. Saga, Volume 10

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they’ve made some new...frien… read more

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11. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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12. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

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13. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

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14. Howling Dark (Sun Eater, #2)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.39

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fa… read more

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  • space opera
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15. Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1)

By: Miles Cameron

4.32

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships.With their vast cargo holds and… read more

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  • space opera
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16. Age of Ash (Kithamar, #1)

By: Daniel Abraham

3.68

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countle… read more

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17. Servant Mage

By: Kate Elliott

3.58

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

Fellian is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists … read more

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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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  • space opera
"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

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19. The Malevolent Seven (The Malevolent Seven, #1)

By: Sebastien de Castell

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

'Seven powerful mages want to make the world a better place. We're going to kill them first.' Pi… read more

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"Teenagers, they never appreciate the fundamental unfairness of existence."

-Sebastien de Castell, The Malevolent Seven (The Malevolent Seven, #1)

"If you haven’t any faith in my integrity, maybe you could at least give me credit for being cheap."

-Sebastien de Castell, The Malevolent Seven (The Malevolent Seven, #1)

"Behold your valiant hero: a self-important, sermonising poser who’d never stoop to getting down in the mud where the real fight’s about to start because he might have to get his hands dirty and that …"

-Sebastien de Castell, The Malevolent Seven (The Malevolent Seven, #1)

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20. Strange Adventures

By: Tom King

4.21

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling writer Tom King is back with a new epic that reinvents one of DC's classic science-fict… read more

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21. The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

By: Naomi Novik

4.13

Format: 407 pages, ebook

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to t… read more

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"Les seuls miracles que nous recevons jamais sont ceux que nous façonnons nous-mêmes, et nous payons par avance pour chacun d'entre eux."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone e…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"The tea was even offered exactly in the same way that Americans always did it, namely with the faint hint that they didn’t really understand why I might like some tea, but they understood that this w…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

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22. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

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23. One Tin Soldier (The Murder of Crows #3)

By: Chris Tullbane

4.51

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Damian Banach's journey from Crow to Cape comes to a thrilling conclusion in this fall's One Tin So… read more

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24. Red Right Hand (The Murder of Crows #2)

By: Chris Tullbane

4.44

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

"If life’s taught me anything, it’s that you scrap and claw for every moment you can get. And if yo… read more

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25. Full House (Wild Cards, #30)

By: George R.R. Martin

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A new Anthology collection of Wild Cards stories. In the aftermath of World War II, an alien virus… read more

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26. Hold Fast Through the Fire (NeoG, #2)

By: K.B. Wagers

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The Near-Earth Orbital Guard (Neo-G)—inspired by the real-life mission of the Coast Guard—patrols a… read more

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  • space opera
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27. 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

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Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

28. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • space opera
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29. Rich Man's Sky

By: Wil McCarthy

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A NEW NOVEL OF REAL SF FROM WIL McCARTHY When billionaires control the space program, where does… read more

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30. The Thucydides Trap (Imperials #5)

By: Melinda M. Snodgrass

4.47

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Thucydides Trap: A point when one great power threatens to displace another, war is unavoidable… … read more

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  • space opera
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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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  • space opera

18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

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John Scalzi

4.16

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