6 must-read space opera books like Detonation Boulevard by Alastair Reynolds

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Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, …

If you liked the space opera plot in Detonation Boulevard by Alastair Reynolds , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Jenny Trapdoor by Neal Asher

1. Jenny Trapdoor

By: Neal Asher

4.39

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. Th… read more

Similar categories in Neal Asher's Jenny Trapdoor book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
Cover of Detonation Boulevard by Alastair Reynolds

2. Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space opera
  • fiction
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3. Europa Deep

By: Gary Gibson

4.17

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Echogenesis and Stealing Light comes a gripping 22nd Century adventure set among… read more

Similar categories in Gary Gibson's Europa Deep book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

4. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Void (The Far Reaches, #2) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Cover of The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) by Ann Leckie

5. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

6. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

7. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

8. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) by Nnedi Okorafor

9. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of War Bodies (Polity Universe, #1.5) by Neal Asher

10. War Bodies (Polity Universe, #1.5)

By: Neal Asher

4.16

Format: 572 pages, Kindle Edition

Rebellion could be their salvation – or their doom. War Bodies by Neal Asher is a gripping, high-oc… read more

Similar categories in Neal Asher's War Bodies (Polity Universe, #1.5) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

11. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
Cover of The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler

13. The Job at the End of the World

By: Ray Nayler

3.76

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A weary resilience worker should know better than no one is safe when the world is always ending..… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. The Passing of the Dragon

By: Ken Liu

4.10

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"We’re all trying to tell our own story, And we make other people parts of our own stories. We’re meant to bring our stories together, to speak and listen and know that the stories are real and they m…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Life is one long story we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and in our quest for meaning, we make other people players in our own psychomachia. Sometimes the consequence of doing that can be…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

Cover of After the Animal Flesh Beings by Brian Evenson

15. After the Animal Flesh Beings

By: Brian Evenson

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's After the Animal Flesh Beings book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. Ceffo

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.69

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Ceffo book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • short stories
Cover of Form 8774-D by Alex Irvine

17. Form 8774-D

By: Alex Irvine

3.91

Format: 54 pages, ebook

It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employe… read more

Similar categories in Alex Irvine's Form 8774-D book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Counting Casualties book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space opera
  • fiction
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19. The Star-Bear

By: Michael Swanwick

3.31

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda… At the Pub… read more

Similar categories in Michael Swanwick's The Star-Bear book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • short stories
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20. The Three O’Clock Dragon

By: John Wiswell

3.80

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing drago… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's The Three O’Clock Dragon book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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21. Headhunting

By: Rich Larson

3.61

Format: 36 pages, ebook

A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a … read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Headhunting book and Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard

  • short stories

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