18 must-read science fiction books like Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds

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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…

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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

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

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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  • 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)

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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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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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)

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6. Timelike Infinity (Xeelee Sequence, #2)

By: Stephen Baxter

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

2000 years in the future, the solar system has fallen under the domination of an alien species, the… read more

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

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
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  • space
  • audiobook

9. 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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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

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Redemption Ark book and Alastair Reynolds's Redemption Ark

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

11. The Algebraist

By: Iain M. Banks

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasquer… read more

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12. 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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  • space opera
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  • science fiction
  • space
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"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)

13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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  • 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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16. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
"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)

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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

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  • space opera
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  • 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

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  • space
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19. 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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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

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  • space opera
  • fiction
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  • space
  • audiobook
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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

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"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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Iain M. Banks

3.85

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Judas Unchained

Peter F. Hamilton

4.50

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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15 must-read fiction books like Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

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Peter F. Hamilton

4.50

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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

Iain M. Banks

4.28

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Alastair Reynolds

4.17

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Chasm City

Alastair Reynolds

4.17

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