Space Operas and Interplanetary Travel

Updated December 16, 2025
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All systems red
Wells, Martha
Audiobook
All Systems Red is the first tense science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld and Ex Machina. All Systems Red by Martha Wells begins The Murderbot Diaries, a new science fiction action and adventure series that tackles questions of the...
Ancillary justice
Leckie, Ann
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.  On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as...
Ancillary mercy
Leckie, Ann
Paper Book
Breq and her crew must stand against an old and powerful enemy and fight for their own destinies in the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. For a moment, things seemed...
Ancillary sword
Leckie, Ann
Paper Book
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to the New York Times bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice.​ Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship....
Artificial condition
Wells, Martha
Audiobook
The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action-adventure All Systems Red Artificial Condition continues The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch...
BadAsstronauts
Hendrix, Grady
Ebook
Now being developed for film by Paramount Pictures! From New York Times bestselling author of My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix takes a break from horror and goes all...
Binti : home
Okorafor, Nnedi
Ebook
The thrilling sequel to the Hugo and Nebula-winning Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, and a finalist for the 2018 Hugo and Nommo Awards It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A...
Calamity
Fay, Constance
Ebook
Dead silence
Barnes, S. A.
Audiobook
Dune
Herbert, Frank.
Ebook
Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides--who would become known as Muad'Dib--and of a great family's ambition to...
Embers of war
Powell, Gareth
Ebook
THE FIRST IN A SCI-FI TRILOGY: This "smart, funny, tragic" space opera puts a fresh spin on genre tropes with Firefly vibes, "gosh-wow ideation, and thriller-style action" (Locus). "Fast-paced and fun and full of adventure." --Ann Leckie, Hugo Award-winning...
The employees : a workplace novel of the 22nd century
Ravn, Olga
Paper Book
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes...
Exit strategy
Wells, Martha
Audiobook
Glow
Ryan, Amy Kathleen
Ebook
One of School Library Journal's Best Fiction Books of 2011 If a violent battle destroyed the only world you've ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there's no turning...
Illuminae the Illuminae Files series, book 1
Kaufman, Amie.
Paper Book
For fans of Marie Lu comes the first book in an epic series that bends the sci-fi genre into a new dimension.    "A truly beautiful novel that redefines the form." --Victoria Aveyard, bestselling author of Red Queen This morning, Kady...
Leviathan wakes The Expanse Series, Book 1
Corey, James S. A.
Paper Book
From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original...
Light bringer A red rising novel.
Brown, Pierce.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Darrow returns as Pierce Brown's New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of...
Molly Fyde and the Parsona rescue The Bern Saga, Book 1
Howey, Hugh.
Ebook
It wasn't easy for Molly being the only girl in Flight Academy, but getting expelled was even worse. Abandoned by her family when she was young and now tossed from the only home she's ever known, her future looks bleak.But then Molly hears that her father's old starship has turned up halfway across...
Network effect Murderbot diaries series, book 5
Wells, Martha.
Paper Book
WINNER of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards! The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Named a Best of the Year by NPR | Book Riot | Polygon ...
Nova
Delany, Samuel R.
Audiobook
Ocean's echo
Maxwell, Everina
Audiobook
Off on a comet, or, Hector Servadac
Verne, Jules
Ebook
Project Hail Mary : a novel
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment Weekly),...
Provenance
Leckie, Ann.
Audiobook
An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy. Though she knows...
Redshirts
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital ShipIntrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn't be better.....
Rendezvous with Rama
Clarke, Arthur C.
Ebook
Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel--"a stone-cold classic" of hard sci-fi ( The Guardian).   An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with...
Rogue protocol
Wells, Martha
Audiobook
The third thrilling book in the increasingly popular Murderbot Diaries, which began with All Systems Red. SciFi's favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more...
Saturn run
Sandford, John.
Paper Book
"Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up." --Stephen King For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and...
The scourge between stars
Brown, Ness
Paper Book
Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. "A perfect scare to swallow up in one sitting." --Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times...
Star Wars : Darth Vader : dark lord of the Sith. Vol. 1, Imperial machine
Soule, Charles
Paper Book
Star Wars : Darth Vader : dark lord of the Sith. Vol. 2, Legacy's end
Soule, Charles
Ebook
System collapse
Wells, Martha.
Audiobook
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly colonized planet in peril, as well as...
Winter's orbit
Maxwell, Everina
Audiobook

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