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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOld Man's War
John Scalzi · 319 pages
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o
Song of Scarabaeus
Sara Creasy · 354 pages
Golden Son
Pierce Brown · 464 pages
"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded amo
Crown of Slaves
David Weber, Eric Flint
Darkship Thieves
Sarah A. Hoyt · 370 pages
"Athena Hear Sinistra has survived reformatories, madhouses and ballet schools. But nothing prepared her for waking up in her father's space cruiser with a stranger looming over her bed." "Facing mutiny armed only with a torn nightgown and her wits, Athena has no choice but to escape into space - and to confront singlehanded the darkships that have terrorized Earth's power collectors for centuries
The Quiet War
Paul McAuley · 439 pages
"Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems." "On the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the Outers, descendants of refugees
Shards of Honour
Lois McMaster Bujold · 296 pages
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
Eric S. Nylund · 384 pages
To Honor You Call Us
H. Paul Honsinger · 454 pages
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks · 471 pages
Consider Phlebas is perhaps one of the lesser-known, but nevertheless the first, of the revelationary late Iain M. Banks' science fiction books. Consider Phlebas introduces us to the complex world of the mind-controlling, ubiquitous utopia of the Culture, which contrasts to their mortal sentient enemies. Iain Banks creates an imaginative and encapsulating premise to keep the reader hooked for more
The Empire's Corps
Christopher G. Nuttall · 504 pages
Vanguard
Jack Campbell · 327 pages
"Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance. and the men and women who fought to create it. Earth is no longer the center of the universe. After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast
Heir to the Empire
Timothy Zahn · 402 pages
It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years a
Eye of the Storm
John Ringo · 420 pages
With a new invasion from a previously unknown race threatening the Federation capital, Darhel Tir Dal Ron faces his ultimate nightmare: He is going to have to reinstate the one man human soldiers trust, a man with the power and knowledge to destroy the Darhel oligarchy forever--General Michael O'Neal--and convince him, against all logic, to save the Darhel.
The Diabolic
S.J. Kincaid · 416 pages
Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.
Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages
**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side
The Morcai Battalion
Susan Kyle, Diana Palmer · 373 pages
The galaxy is on the brink of disaster, the long-awaited truce torn apart by an unprovoked attack. The colony whose residents represented more than a hundred planets has been destroyed, and the new vision for unity in the universe is at risk. Faced with a war that would mean destruction and chaos, one man has stepped forward to lead those fighting for their lives. Undeterred by insurmountable odds
March Upcountry
David Weber, John Ringo · 608 pages
When his spaceship crashes en route to a boring ceremonial appearance, Roger MacClintock, a spoiled young prince, and his guardian Royal Marines must take a perilous trek across a planet filled with dangerous plants and hostile peoples.
The Clone Wars
Karen Traviss · 256 pages
Across the galaxy, the Clone Wars are raging. The Separatists, led by Count Dooku, the onetime Jedi and now secret Sith Lord, continue to press forward, and more and more worlds are either falling, or seceding and joining the cause. Under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the Republic heroically battles on, championed by its huge army of cloned soldiers and their Jedi generals. An
Poor Man's Fight
Elliott Kay · 434 pages
A Soldier's Duty
Jean Johnson · 422 pages
"Ia is a precog, blessed--or cursed--with visions of the future. She has witnessed the devastation of her home galaxy three hundred years in the future, long after she is gone, but believes she can prevent it. Enlisting in the modern military of the Terran United Planets, Ia plans to rise through the ranks, meeting and influencing important people and building a reputation that will inspire others