18 books like Honourbound

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Handler's Break Ingrid Moon · 2011 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Elyon has a habit of running off. Every time she defies Boone’s orders, he’s ready to shoot her himself. But he is grudgingly obligated to safeguard the Overlord’s “weapon” - a feisty, impetuous teen-aged girl - until the Overlord can use two rare crystals to control her. As Elyon’s talents grow, Boone realizes that such a weapon should not be in the hands of a madman. He devises a risky plan… Shares: Military Fiction, Space opera, Science Fiction

Outriders Jay Posey · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Captain Lincoln Suh died on a Wednesday. And things only got harder from there. Snatched out of special operations and thrown headfirst into a secretive new unit, Lincoln finds himself as the team leader for the 519th Applied Intelligence Group, better known as the Outriders. And his first day on the job brings a mission with the highest possible stakes. A dangerously cunning woman who most… Shares: Military Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space opera, Science Fiction

Salvation Lost Peter F. Hamilton · 2019 · ★ 4.3 · 736p · ≈ 24h · Moderate Duplicate of https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20840033W/Salvation_Lost?edition= Shares: Space opera, English literature, Science Fiction

The Human Neal L. Asher · 2020 · ★ 4.3 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate A Jain warship has risen from an ancient prison, wielding lethal technology. The ship's goal is to catch its old adversary, the Client, and to destroy all who stand in its path. Humanity and the prador thought the Jain were long extinct. But their nemesis is back, and Orlandine must prepare humanity's defence. She'll need the Client's knowledge to do this - but is the enemy of your enemy a friend? Shares: Space opera, English literature, Science Fiction

Jack Four Neal Asher · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Jack Four is one of twenty human clones, sold to the alien prador's king for warfare. However, no clone should possess the secrets in Jack's head - and they could help him escape. The prador king has been horribly mutated by the Spatterjay virus. But the prador will use any weapon against humanity, so they've infected a human. Now this experiment has broken free to rampage through the king's… Shares: Space opera, English literature, Science Fiction

War Bodies Neal Asher · 2023 · ★ 3.5 Rebellion will be their salvation or their doom. Long ago, the Cyberat faction left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by the powerful dictator Castron on a distant colony world, they believe machines should replace the physical body. But these beliefs are challenged when emissaries from Earth's Polity civilization arrive, igniting rebellion. Piper was raised as a covert weapon against… Shares: Space opera, English literature, Science Fiction

Bone Silence Alastair Reynolds · 2020 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Sequel to Shadow Captain. Shares: Space opera, English literature, Science Fiction

War Bodies Neal Asher · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Duplicate of https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29326678W/War_Bodies Shares: Space opera, English literature, Science Fiction

Morning Star H. Rider Haggard · 1910 · ★ 4.3 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Morning Star is a historical novel with fantasy elements by H. Rider Haggard, set in Ancient Egypt. Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy

Firebreak Nicole Kornher-Stace · 2021 · ★ 3.9 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Like everyone else she knows, Mallory is an orphan of the corporate war. As a child, she lost her parents, her home, and her entire building in an airstrike. As an adult, she lives in a cramped hotel room with eight other people, all of them working multiple jobs to try to afford water and make ends meet. And the job she’s best at is streaming a popular VR war game. The best part of the game… Shares: Dystopia, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Every Star a Song Jay Posey · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Far in the future, human beings have seeded themselves amongst the stars. Since decoding the language of the universe 8,000 years ago, they have reached the very edges of their known galaxy and built a near-utopia across thousands of worlds, united and ruled by a powerful organization known as the Ascendance. The peaceful stability of their society relies solely on their use of this Deep Language… Shares: Space opera, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Every Sky a Grave Jay Posey · 2020 · ★ 3.7 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate HER WORD IS HER WEAPON. Mankind has spread out and conquered the galaxy by mastering the fundamental language of the universe. With the right training, the right application of words, truth itself can be rearranged. Language is literally power. Peace reigns now. Order reigns. For if a planet deviates too far from what the authorities plan, an agent is sent out to correct that. To quietly and… Shares: Dystopia, Space opera, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Wings in the Night Robert E. Howard · 2005 · 38p · ≈ 1h · Moderate This latest volume in the planned ten-volume set of The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard collects Robert E. Howard's fiction and prose published in Weird Tales from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howard's infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all--Conan the Cimmerian--and ably demonstrate that each of Howard's stories improved… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy

Don Rodriguez Lord Dunsany · 1922 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Lord Dunsany's first novel, "Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley" conveys its young disinherited protagonist through a fantasized Spain, gifting him with a Sancho Panza companion, good luck with magicians, and a castle" [The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]. It is a landmark tale for Dunsany, beginning his move from the otherworldly short stories for which his reputation is justly famous to… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, English literature, Fantasy

The Warship Neal L. Asher · 2019 · ★ 4.3 · 480p · ≈ 16h · 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 of her motives, and both the Polity AIs and the leaders of the alien prador kingdom dispatch fleets of warships in anticipation of conflict. Shares: Space opera, Science Fiction

Die strahlende Kuppel / Götterdämmerung Karl-Herbert Scheer · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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. Shares: Space opera, Science Fiction

Eyes of the Void Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2022 · ★ 4.2 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. Shares: Space opera, Science Fiction

Shadow Captain Alastair Reynolds · 2019 · ★ 3.8 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 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. Shares: Space opera, Science Fiction

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