18 books like The Danger Dance

What to read after The Danger Dance — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Hidebound Joy Smith · 2011 Not long after Anfissa meets Ferenc, a strange humanoid bodyguard, on the space cruiser, St. Catherine, she is forced to flee with him, his menacing boss, and another bodyguard in a lifeboat during an attack on the cruiser, to a planet where even the grass is deadly. Travelling across the planet to find a small relay station, Fissa nearly succumbs to dehydration and insect bites until Ferenc… Shares Space opera

paq'balth

paq'balth Floris Schönfeld · 2011 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of the Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of our own ancient heroes Hercules, Ulysses and Gilgamesh. Betrayed by his brother and witness to his father’s brutal slaying, Kahless is pitted against his bitter enemy, the mighty… Shares Space opera

Wulfe's Woman [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML], Book 1 of the series Legends from the Fourth Millennium

Wulfe's Woman [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML], Book 1 of the series Legends from the Fourth Millennium Cherie Singer · 1999 Shares Space opera with this book.

Hawke's Haven

Hawke's Haven Cherie Singer · 2000 Shares Space opera with this book.

Storm at Eldala (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol 2) Diane Duane · 1999 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Space opera with this book.

Spacehounds of IPC

Spacehounds of IPC Edward E. Smith · 1947 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Space opera with this book.

Colony Valjeanne Jeffers · 2012 · 34p · ≈ 1h · Light An erotic, science fiction tale of betrayal and rebirth. Includes the new prequel Colony! "In the instant before he lifted her face to his strange puckered mouth she saw them. Stripes of brown and orange all over his body, and a dozen suction caps lined his chest..." Allandra has always dreamed of life on other planets. But this mission she'll find more than she ever dreamed of. From the… Shares Space opera

paq'balth

paq'balth · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate paq?batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of the Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of our own ancient heroes Hercules, Ulysses and Gilgamesh. Betrayed by his brother and witness to his father?s brutal slaying, Kahless is pitted against his bitter enemy, the mighty… Shares Space opera

Polaris (An Alex Benedict Novel Book 2) Jack McDevitt · 2004 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Space Opera. Antiquities dealers Alex Benedict & Chase Kolpath find lost spaceship Polaris artifacts; then someone tries to kill them 2-3 times to keep the secret of what happened to the ship. Shares Space opera

Space Tripping with the Shredded Orphans

Space Tripping with the Shredded Orphans Sonya Rhen · 2013 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Shredded Orphans are slaves to their job - literally. The galaxy is run by the corporate class and at its head is the Galactic Media Corporation. By night the band plays concerts, by day Lix and the group are on a secret mission to save the universe, one slave at a time. Shares Space opera

Shattermoon Dominic Dulley · 2018 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Space opera with this book.

Victims of the Nova

Victims of the Nova John Brunner · 1989 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate 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… Shares Space opera

Cetaganda (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)

Cetaganda (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures) Lois McMaster Bujold · 2012 Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent on a diplomatic mission to the court of the Cetagandan Empire, Barrayar's former enemy. This sophisticated, genetically advanced but in many ways alien society both fascinates and repels, and when the Cetagandan Empress and her attendant die suddenly, Miles and Ivan find themselves embroiled in intrigues that are hard to fathom. Ivan's romances and… Shares Space opera

Imperium Restored Walter Jon Williams · 2022 · ★ 4.5 Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the third and final volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire's Fall series, comes a tale of blood, courage, adventure, and battle in which the fate of an empire rests in the hands of two lovers. Shattered… Shares Space opera

Xeelee Stephen Baxter · 2017 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate 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… Shares Space opera

Ihre Heimat sind die Sterne Edmond Hamilton · 1976 Shares Space opera with this book.

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

Chaos Zone Kate Sheeran Swed · 2022 Space travel isn't really Sloane Tarnish's thing. She's a med student, not a planet jumper – though to be honest, nano healing and gene therapy aren't exactly her thing, either. And she's definitely not leadership material. Unfortunately, her outlaw of an uncle didn't take her lack of skill into consideration when he disappeared. Instead, he decided to saddle Sloane with his questionable crew… Shares Space opera

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