18 books like Extremity
Exile (Five Worlds)
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 Worlds are ripe for invasion, with the fate of all humankind hanging in the balance. And there are others, not human at all, who watch the battle, and plan.
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Saturn
Overview: Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the…
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The January Dancer
A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!
Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people…
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The January Dancer
"An epic tale. . . . evokes old-school space opera . . . but cutting-edge extrapolation breathes vivid life into this universe of scoundrels, heroes and romantics." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning sci-fi writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of…
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Champion of Mars
After Dr. Holland and his team discover an artifact deep in the caverns of Mars, profound consequences ripple throughout time, affecting Holland's present, the distant days of disgraced champion Yoechakanon Val Mora and the eras that bridge the eons between.
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Take Back the Sky
"The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from master of science fiction, Greg Bear. Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really doing in our solar system. Haunted by their dead and…
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Beyond the Empire (The Indranan War Book 3)
The adrenaline-filled space opera trilogy concludes as a gun-smuggling royal fights to protect her empire from devastating enemies."The final installment of Wagers's Indranan War space adventure trilogy has all of the best qualities of the previous books: nerve-wracking action on the ground and in space, dark humor, and the characters' til-the-end loyalty to one another." —Publishers Weekly…
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The Warship
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 of her motives, and both the Polity AIs and the leaders of the alien prador kingdom dispatch fleets of warships in anticipation of conflict.
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Die strahlende Kuppel / Götterdämmerung
Translation of two volumes of the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan which began publication in 1961. It is a space opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction.
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Eyes of the Void
Sequel to Shards of Earth.
An Architect almost destroyed humanity's foremost colony, until Idris Telemmier turned it aside. But that was just the start of the war - and now no planet is safe. Ancient artefacts once repelled these vast aliens, but they are now terrifyingly ineffective. However, the ruins of a lost civilization offer hope.
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Shadow Captain
Bosa Sennen was a scourge of merchants and traders alike. A pirate who struck from the darkness, showed no mercy, and vanished without trace...and whose career was ended by the Ness sisters. They took her crew, her ship and ultimately also her life.
Unfortunately for them, they have also taken on Bosa's fearsome reputation.
Sequel to Revenger. Sequel to this is Bone Silence.
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Das Mutanten-Korps
Translation of two volumes of the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan which began publication in 1961. It is a space opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction.
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Xeelee
Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole.
Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive…
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Partners in Necessity
The first 3 Liaden universe novels, 'Conflict of Honors', 'Agent of Change', and 'Carpe Diem', in one collection. This is where to start if you want to read the Liaden series.
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Shattermoon
A shattered moon. A secret plan. Last girl standing.Orry and her family are the best conmen in the Quadrant, running elaborate heists to target the ruling families of the Ascendancy. This time should be no different . . . but then Orry goes off-script and everything falls apart. Less than an hour later her mark is dead and she's on the run, accused of a murder she didn't commit. Turns out, the…
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In the Lion's Mouth
"An intellectual far-future space opera with a unique Celtic flavor . . . full of enough political intrigue, suspense, and romance to satisfy readers of all genres." —SFScope"A marvelously heroic ancient legend reborn in humanity's future days. Space opera fans will be swept away by the poetic rhythm and subtle plot construction." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)It's a big Spiral Arm, and the…
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Agent of change
"LEE AND MILLER STRIKE SPACE OPERA GOLD."
 —Robin Wayne Bailey
Once a brilliant First-in Scout, Val Con yos'Phelium was "recruited" by the mysterious Liaden Department of Interior and brainwashed into an Agent of Change—a ruthless covert operative who kills without remorse.
Fleeing the scene of his latest murderous mission, he finds himself saving the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson, a…
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Victims of the NovaJohn Brunner
Victims of the Nova
The Complete Zarathustra Trilogy
When the star Zarathustra went nova, the desperate survivors packed themselves into spaceships and fled in all directions. Habitable worlds were few, and colonizing a new planet requires much more than just settling a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, and the differences could mean disaster. Brutal environment,…
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