16 must-read space opera books like Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1) by Peter F. Hamilton

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Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.13

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linke…

"Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause."

-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

If you liked the space opera plot in Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1) by Peter F. Hamilton , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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2. Chasm City

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Chasm City book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • space
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Absolution Gap book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • 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

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
"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. 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 Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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6. Century Rain

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catast… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Century Rain book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • audiobook
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction

7. 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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8. The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his … read more

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9. 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

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"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)

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10. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
  • 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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11. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
  • 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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12. 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

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
"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)

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13. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Eversion book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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14. Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.07

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic hu… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"The place is of no concern to them. They've left it to fester. An informational dead zone. The abstraction doesn't penetrate here, by design. The dome rebuffs it. The family craved their privacy, the…"

-Alastair Reynolds, Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)

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15. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1) by Peter F. Hamilton

17. Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.13

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linke… read more

Similar categories in Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause."

-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

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18. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

19. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.43

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book in the series, ‘Inara’, prepares the reader for the aftermath of Godfrey, and his fr… read more

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"Isn’t this exciting!"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

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21. 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

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) book and Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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Alastair Reynolds

4.17

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Alastair Reynolds

4.17

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Absolution Gap

Alastair Reynolds

4.17

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Peter Watts

4.01

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Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

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Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

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Martha Wells

4.15

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