Space opera and epic science fiction, from Multcolib My Librarian ErikaLike this list

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• A Memory Called Empire

  Martine, Arkady,

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  Courtly intrigue, diplomatic shenanigans, murder, and poetry.

• Ancestral Night

  Bear, Elizabeth,

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  Smart space opera featuring sentient ships, infectious alien artifacts, and strong female characters.

• Sweep of Stars

  Broaddus, Maurice,

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  Founded after secession from an oppressive Earth, the Muungano empire now stretches from Mars to Titan. But maintaining a cooperative, utopian society is hard, and to make matters even more difficult, there are aliens on the other side of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Collapsing Empire

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. But now the Flow is breaking down... and an empire…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ninefox Gambit

  Lee, Yoon Ha,

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  What if the only way to win a battle is with the help of a devious undead war criminal? What if the calendar you use changes the laws of physics? Mind-bending military SF.

• Binti

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  Binti is the first of her people to attend a prestigious university on another planet. Unfortunately aliens attack her ship on the way there, and she must use both her mathematical abilities and her cultural skills to survive. While this is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

  Chambers, Becky,

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  Rosemary finds work on a scrappy wormhole tunneling ship and joins a ragtag crew that includes many aliens. An adventure that is more about friendship than space battles. Humorous but also touching.

• Children of Time

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  The epic tale of humanity's attempt to find a new home, only to discover that the terraforming at their destination has gone terribly wrong.

• Ancillary Justice

  Leckie, Ann

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  Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.

• Some Desperate Glory

  Tesh, Emily,

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  Kyr is genetically enhanced, raised to be a fighter for the last holdouts of humanity in a war with aliens. Imagine her surprise when even though she is clearly exceptional, she’s selected for a career in Nursery, bearing and raising children.

• The Last Watch

  Dewes, J. S.,

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  The Divide. It's the edge of the universe. Now it's collapsing -- and taking everyone and everything with it. The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels -- the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military.

• Leviathan Wakes

  Corey, James S. A.,

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  Humanity has colonized the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond -- but the stars are still out of our reach. This is the story of how we get there. Features political maneuvering, a noir detective story, and eventually,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Artifact Space

  Cameron, Miles,

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  Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships...

• A Fire Upon the Deep

  Vinge, Vernor,

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  When humans awaken an ancient menace, one ship escapes with a key to its destruction, and crashlands on a strange alien world, where doglike creatures with multibody consciousnesses have formed a medieval society.

• Consider Phlebas

  Banks, Iain, 1954-2013,

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  Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dreaming Void

  Hamilton, Peter F.

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  At the very heart of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be breached, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be stopped as it steadily expands in all directions, consuming everything in its path, and entangling itself with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Revelation Space

  Reynolds, Alastair

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  Complex, cerebral tale of cyborgs, posthumans, and alien artifacts, full of cold and menacing atmosphere.

• Hyperion

  Simmons, Dan, 1948-

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  As the time tombs on the planet Hyperion open, a group of pilgrims gather to tell their stories, while the menacing Shrike awaits. Melds horror and SF, inspired by The Canterbury Tales.

• Dune

  Herbert, Frank,

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  The SF classic that was inspired by the Oregon dunes.

• Foundation

  Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992

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  For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only psychohistorian Hari Seldon can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save…Read moreRead more of this annotation