Exile (Five Worlds) vs The Warship: Which Should You Read?

Exile (Five Worlds) Al Sarrantonio · 1996 320 pages · ≈ 5 h 56 m · Moderate

In the year 2500 A.D., four of the nine planets in our solar system have been colonized, and a fifth, Venus, is being terraformed. Then a bloody coup on Mars puts a ruthless leader in charge, and suddenly the Four…

The Warship Neal L. Asher · 2019 ★★★★☆ 4.3 480 pages · ≈ 8 h 53 m · Moderate

The haiman Orlandine, charged with safeguarding lethal Jain tech swirling inside an accretion disc located in the distant reaches of space, has weaponised a black hole to eliminate the threat. But others are suspicious…