7 Best space opera books like Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

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Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),…

"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

If you liked the space opera plot in Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1) by Michael Crichton

1. The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

By: Michael Crichton

3.91

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: cu… read more

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"Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves."

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

"A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ign…"

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

3. Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its supe… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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4. I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Su misma superioridad lo perdió"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is no Master but the Master,"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

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5. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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6. Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

By: Orson Scott Card

4.31

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
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  • fantasy
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"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."

-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."

-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

"None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing."

-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

"Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly."

-Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

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7. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.27

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • science fiction
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  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You have to live to really know things, my love"

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Cover of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

8. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey

9. Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.31

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars … read more

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  • audiobook
"GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Fish and company start to smell after three days."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

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10. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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  • classics
  • military fiction
  • space opera
  • war
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

Cover of Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) by Orson Scott Card

11. Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

By: Orson Scott Card

4.10

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning … read more

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  • space opera
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  • space
  • fantasy
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"The piggies were not to be disturbed-"

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"Darkness bound them closer than light."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

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12. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

Cover of Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

13. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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  • classics
  • military fiction
  • space opera
  • war
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Cover of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke

14. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

15. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more

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Cover of Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov

16. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • space
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"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

Cover of Dune (Dune, #1) by Frank Herbert

17. Dune (Dune, #1)

By: Frank Herbert

4.27

Format: 658 pages, Hardcover

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble famil… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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"Hope clouds observation."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"Fear is the mind-killer."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"There’s a Bene Gesserit saying,"

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"Humans are almost always lonely."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

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18. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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  • fantasy
"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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19. Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

By: John Scalzi

4.24

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined t… read more

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  • military fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It’s war, you jackasses,"

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"Christ on a Popsicle stick."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"What we don't know can't hurt us."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"We don’t get to choose our battles."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

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20. Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

By: Michael Crichton

4.11

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind… read more

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"Welcome...to Jurassic Park!"

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

"They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners."

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

Cover of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

21. Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

4.02

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Meta… read more

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"They made data a controlled substance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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Michael Crichton

3.91

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William Gibson

3.89

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Isaac Asimov

3.82

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