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Space opera2000

Look to Windward

Iain Banks

4.1(35)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2016

Calamity

Brandon Sanderson

4.1(37)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2019

A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine

4.1(38)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1951

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

4.1(39)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration2004

Pandora's Star

Peter F. Hamilton

4.1(44)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2017

The collapsing empire

John Scalzi

4.1(61)Open Library rating out of 5

Ender's Shadow

Orson Scott Card

4.1(73)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1993

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons

4.0(97)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2019

Recursion

Blake Crouch

4.0(86)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2007

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

4.1(39)Open Library rating out of 5

Artificial intelligence2010

Surface Detail

A Culture novel

Iain Banks

4.1(36)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2009

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood

4.1(36)Open Library rating out of 5

Spin

Robert Charles Wilson

4.1(33)Open Library rating out of 5

Time travel2019

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar; Max Gladstone

4.1(30)Open Library rating out of 5

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Becky Chambers

4.1(30)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2008

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking

Book One

Patrick Ness; Nick Podehl

4.1(28)Open Library rating out of 5

Time travel1950

Pebble in the Sky

Isaac Asimov

4.1(26)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2018

Restore Me

Tahereh Mafi

4.1(26)Open Library rating out of 5

Head On

John Scalzi

4.1(25)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2005

Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank; Pat Frank

4.1(24)Open Library rating out of 5

Book2005

The Futurological Congress

Stanisław Lem

4.1(23)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2011

Fuzzy Nation

John Scalzi

4.1(22)Open Library rating out of 5

The Evolutionary Void

Peter F. Hamilton

4.1(22)Open Library rating out of 5

Book1950

Welcome to the Monkey House, The Special Edition

Kurt Vonnegut

4.2(18)Open Library rating out of 5