18 books like Triplanetary

What to read after Triplanetary — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Dark intelligence Neal L. Asher · 2015 · ★ 4.1 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate After awakening one hundred years after his death at the hands of a haywire AI, Thorvald Spear vows revenge on the machine intelligence and marshalls Isobel Satomi, former criminal and part AI herself, to his cause. Shares: Human-alien encounters, Space Warfare

Redshirts John Scalzi · 2012 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)… Shares: Human-alien encounters, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Junkyard Planet H. Beam Piper · 1631 · ★ 2.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Demanding This novel had its genesis in a much shorter story called "Graveyard of Dreams" (Galaxy, 1958) Piper expanded it to book length, and it appeared in 1963 as Junkyard Planet. Ace later renamed the book The Cosmic Computer for its paperback appearance. This edition returns the book to Piper's original title, Junkyard Planet.Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his home world of Poictesme, dubbed "The… Shares: Scientists, Science Fiction

Blood of the Cosmos: The Saga of Shadows, Book Two Kevin J. Anderson · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Second in the Saga of Shadows trilogy from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Dark Between the Stars and coauthor of Sisterhood of Dune.The titanic conflict continues between galactic civilizations and the life-destroying force of sentient shadows . . . After the events in the Hugo-nominated The Dark Between the Stars, the humans and Ildirans have narrowly escaped annihilation… Shares: Human-alien encounters, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card · 1996 · ★ 4.1 · 377p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the… Shares: Human-alien encounters, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein · 1959 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the… Shares: Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Babylon’s ashes James S. A. Corey · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Expanse Saga continues in the 6th installment. The Free Navy – a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships – has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden… Shares: Human-alien encounters, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

The Time Machine H. G. Wells · 1895 · ★ 3.9 · 119p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's… Shares: Scientists, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Seeds of Earth Michael Cobley · 2009 · ★ 3.6 · 650p · ≈ 21h · Moderate More than 150 years after an alien race destroyed Earth, the planet Darien hosts a thriving human settlement, but this settlement is soon to become the focus of an intergalactic power struggle that dates back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient races at the dawn of galactic civilization. Shares: Space Warfare, Science Fiction

The Ganymede Takeover Philip K. Dick · 1971 · ★ 3.3 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The Ganymede Takeover is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writers Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson. It is an alien invasion novel, and similar to Dick's earlier solo novel The Game-Players of Titan. Dick later admitted that The Ganymede Takeover was originally going to be a sequel to his alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle with the Japanese occupying the United States not… Shares: Human-alien encounters, Science Fiction

Novels H. G. Wells · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this collection you will find : Novels -The Time Machine -The War of the Worlds -The Invisible Man -The Island of Doctor Moreau -The Sleeper Awakes -A Modern Utopia -The Wheels of Chance -The First Men in the Moon -The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth -In the Days of the Comet -Ann Veronica Short Stories -Tales of Space and Time -The Red Room -The Diamond Maker -Æpyornis… Shares: Scientists, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Star Wars - Thrawn - Alliances Timothy Zahn · 2018 · ★ 4.3 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate “I have sensed a disturbance in the Force.” Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root—its existence little more than a glimmer, its consequences as yet unknowable. But it is troubling enough to the Imperial leader to warrant investigation by his most powerful… Shares: Human-alien encounters, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

The Cole Protocol Tobias S. Buckell · 2008 · ★ 4.4 · 363p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled… Shares: Human-alien encounters, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Star Wars - Catalyst - A Rogue One Novel James Luceno · 2016 · ★ 3.8 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate War is tearing the galaxy apart. For years the Republic and the Separatists have battled across the stars, each building more and more deadly technology in an attempt to win the war. As a member of Chancellor Palpatine's top secret Death Star project, Orson Krennic is determined to develop a superweapon before their enemies can. And an old friend of Krennic's, the brilliant scientist Galen Erso,… Shares: Scientists, Space Warfare, Science Fiction

The Cobra War Trilogy Timothy Zahn · 2016 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Moderate Shares: Human-alien encounters, Science Fiction Shares: Human-alien encounters, Science Fiction

Eternity's Mind: The Saga of Shadows, Book Three Kevin J. Anderson · 2016 · ★ 3.9 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Eternity's Mind, the climactic final volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Hugo-nominated Saga of Shadows trilogy. The desperate war with the Shana Rei seems lost. All across the transportal network, space is tearing apart, the links between the gateways are breaking down, the fabric of space unraveling, and entire sections of the Spiral Arm are becoming galactic dead zones. The Shana Rei have… Shares: Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Angels' bane Ryan Kunz · 2012 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Ten years ago, the rebel angels under Apollyon seized control of the Holy Galactic Imperium, slaying the emperor and his family and scattering the human defenders of the galaxy. While the human citizens of the Imperium chafe under the unholy rule of their conquerors, some dream of freedom. But what man can fight against the angels when an angel's mere presence immolates a human? When the… Shares: Space Warfare, Science Fiction

Exhalation Ted Chiang · 2014 · ★ 4.3 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel,… Shares: Scientists, Science Fiction

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