What’s in it
Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.
24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFleet of Worlds
Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner · 304 pages
Humanity has been faithfully serving the Citizens for years, and Kirsten is among the best and the brightest of the humans. she gratefully serves the race that rescued her ancestors from a dying Starship, gave them a home world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from. A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core unleashes a wave of lethal r
Methuselah's Children
Robert A. Heinlein · 188 pages
Rear Cover Synopsis "After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and chronicled in 'Revolt in 2100', the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for all. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or inv
Variable Star
Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson · 320 pages
Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.
The Exiles Trilogy
Ben Bova · 448 pages
The Dark Beyond the Stars
Frank M. Robinson · 412 pages
For two thousand years, the starship Astron has search the galaxy for alien life--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction left to explore is across the Dark, a one-hundred-generation journey through empty space. The ship's captain--immortal, obessed--refuses to abandon the quest. He will cross the Dark, or destroy the ship trying. Only Sparrow, a young cre
Ark
Stephen Baxter · 538 pages
High in the Colorado mountains the US governement built an ark. Not an ark to ride the waves but an ark that will take a select few thousand people out into space to start a new future for mankind. In deep space the crew carry the hope of a new beginning but as ages pass purpose is lost and madness grows. Back on Earth life and man find a new way.
Rama Revealed
Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee · 602 pages
A massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of their generations-long odyssey and toward an epic confrontation with the mysterious Ramans.
Bowl of Heaven
Gregory Benford, Larry Niven · 414 pages
A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
Earthfall
Orson Scott Card · 384 pages
The Wetchik tribe is ready to return to Earth to enlist help in fixing the Oversoul. The continuing bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak threatens the success of this mission.
Coyote
Allen Steele · 424 pages
A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
Grail
Elizabeth Bear · 330 pages
Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grail brings Elizabeth Bear’s brilliant space opera to a triumphant conclusion. At last the generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has arrived at its destination: the planet they have come to call Grail. But this habitable jewel just happens to be populated already: by humans who call their home Fortune. And they are wary of sharing Fortune—espec
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
Broken Bow
Diane Carey, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga · 236 pages
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge · 699 pages
The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time. By the author of A Fire upon the Deep.
Count to a Trillion
John C. Wright · 368 pages
"John C. Wright burst upon the SF scene a decade ago with the Golden Age trilogy, an innovative space opera. He went on to write fantasy novels, including the popular Orphans of Chaos trilogy. And now he returns to space opera in Count to a Trillion. After the collapse of the world economy, a young boy grows up in what used to be Texas as a tough duellist for hire, the future equivalent of a hired
The Ship Who Won
Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye · 330 pages
Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. So, like others before her, she decided to 'become' a spaceship, with a guy called Keffas as her brawn. Their mission is to search the galaxy for signs of intelligent life. Unfortunately their quest is largely in vain, until they arrive on Ozran, a pleasant little world peopled by some very friendly a
Shell Game
Melissa Crandall · 277 pages
Star Trek #63. While on a routine mission, the USS Enterprise encounters a derelict Romulan space station adrift within Federation borders. Exploring the station, the crew finds no survivors but experience ghostly apparitions flitting at the edge of sight. Soon the USS Enterprise is also inexplicably without power, leaving those on the space station stranded. The situation becomes desperate wh