The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal Trilogy #1)
By: Greg Egan
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's wor…
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1. 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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- space opera
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2. 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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- fantasy
"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)
3. 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
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- space opera
- hard science fiction
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4. 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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- hard science fiction
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"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)
5. Excession (Culture, #5)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.20
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical ta… read more
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"[A]ll her hardships had been self-inflicted and recreational in the past."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
"Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to a sort of truce; but it was at the expense of any closeness."-Iain M. Banks, Excession (Culture, #5)
6. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
By: Ada Palmer
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, t… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
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7. The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal Trilogy #1)
By: Greg Egan
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In Yalda's universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's wor… read more
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- steampunk
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- science fiction
- space
- fantasy
8. The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
By: Hannu Rajaniemi
4.16
Format: None pages,
Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him … read more
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- science fiction
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- fantasy
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9. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
By: Alastair Reynolds
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Diamond Dogs The planet Golgotha--supposedly lifeless--resides in a remote star system, far from th… read more
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10. Redemption Ark
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the In… read more
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11. Pushing Ice
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comet… read more
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12. Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"-Greg Bear, Blood Music
13. Accelerando
By: Charles Stross
3.72
Format: 640 pages,
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits… read more
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14. Embassytown
By: China Miéville
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient … read more
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15. House of Suns
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more
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16. Tau Zero
By: Poul Anderson
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more
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17. The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Biron Farrell was young and naive, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm… read more
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18. 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
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- space opera
- fiction
- science 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)
19. 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
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- fiction
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- fantasy
"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)
20. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- space
- fantasy
"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
21. Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.11
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known… read more
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- hard science fiction
- fiction
- science fiction
- space
"The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’ Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two."-Alastair Reynolds, Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)
