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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHeir 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
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 815 pages
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
Isaac Asimov, Paul French · 182 pages
The barren crust of Mercury lay covered by a network of wire designed to harness the dazzling blaze of the sun and send it sizzling through hyperspace. But someone, or something, on tha airless world was sabotaging the top secret mission. Where no life was said to exist, impossible “ghosts” had been seen, and murderous snakes of alien rock had condemned the innocent to death. It is to this t
The Lost Destroyer
Vaughn Heppner · 424 pages
First to Fight
David Sherman, Dan Cragg · 384 pages
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle · 560 pages
Science fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the peak catastrophe is known as the "crazy eddy point". Introduces the concept of frictionless toilets that don't have any water in them but I suspect the authors didn't think it all the way through - I don't recall a negative air pressure that would keep odours in their rightfull place. Nevertheless a fascin
Revenge of the Ancients
Jay Allan · 344 pages
Shadows in Flight
Orson Scott Card · 240 pages
Realms of Time
Mark Wayne McGinnis · 272 pages
Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga)
Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card, Pasqual Ferry, Frank D'Armata
Cibola Burn
James S.A. Corey · 592 pages
"The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learne
Those Left Behind
Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews · 104 pages
Guardians of the Galaxy/All-New X-Men: The Trial of Jean Grey
Brian Michael Bendis
Starship's Mage: Omnibus
Glynn Stewart · 348 pages
Invincible
Jack Campbell
"Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary earned his rank after being revived from cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance to victory against the Syndicate Worlds. But his superiors question his loyalty to the regime. Now in command of the First Fleet, Geary is tasked with exploring the frontier beyond Syndic space, a mission he fears deliberately puts the fleet--and himself--in harm's way. An encounter with
The Last Colony
John Scalzi · 320 pages
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
Earth Awakens
Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston · 397 pages
The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens. Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that
The Uplift War
David Brin · 638 pages
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all
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