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 authorThe Ship Who Searched
Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey · 312 pages
A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness. Tia Cade is a headstrong, smart, and very normal girl until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life. Tia's only hope: to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, the
The Ship Who Sang
Anne McCaffrey · 248 pages
From back cover of Del Rey paperback 1979: HELVA HAD BEEN BORN HUMAN ... but only her brain had been saved -- saved to be schooled, programmed and implanted in the sleek, titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner -- male or female -- to share her exhilarating escapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding -- resplendent with dari
A Pocket Full of Lies
Kirsten Beyer · 400 pages
Brain Ships
Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Margaret Ball · 528 pages
City of Ruins
Kristine Kathryn Rusch · 303 pages
When Boss learns of mysterious deaths on a planet in the Enterran Empire, she suspects steam tech may be the cause. Venturing to the city of Vaycehn to investigate the mysterious "death holes" that explode in the city randomly, Boss and her team find more answers than they seek, as well as something that will change not only their lives, but the universe as well.
Defy the Stars
Claudia Gray · 528 pages
*She's a soldier.* Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel. *He's a machine.* Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that's begun to evolve. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. To the people of Genesis,
The Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi · 320 pages
From the back cover: The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, fast, strong, and totally without normal human qualms. The universe is a dangerous place for humanity -- and it's about to become more dangerous. Three races we've
Cytonic
Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction from the author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive. Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus a
On Basilisk Station
David Weber · 427 pages
Honor in Trouble: Having made him look like a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames *her* for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants
Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold · 311 pages
Agent Miles Vorkosigan investigates terrorism and financial speculation on the planet Komarr. The story is told through the eyes of Ekaterin, the unhappily married wife of a government official with whom Vorkosigan falls in love.
Moss'd in Space
Rebecca Thorne · 368 pages
Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a meteoric sign of stupidity.” Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now… but it’s Torian’s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex… ah, captain… said. Except Torian’s first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic com
Firebird
Jack McDevitt · 375 pages
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.
Neptune's Brood
Charles Stross · 346 pages
After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.
Guardians of the Galaxy/All-New X-Men: The Trial of Jean Grey
Brian Michael Bendis
Expendable
James Alan Gardner · 344 pages
From the back cover: Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is now war, little crime, and life is sacred... unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different -- and terrible
To Trade the Stars
Julie E. Czerneda · 479 pages
Caretaker
L.A. Graf, Michael Piller · 279 pages