I really enjoyed The Hyperion Cantos, and the first few Dune books I read a long time ago (may reread these now). Can anyone recommend some other books (or series) along these lines? Huge stories on an epic scale, space battles, cool future tech, etc.

  • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I think The Expanse is a pretty obvious recommendation.

    I also really like the Remembrance of Earth’s Past books by Cixin Liu, but I’m not sure I’d call that a Space Opera. It’s a series, yes, but it is very unlike other long-form space operas.

    • hbar@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I’ve heard the Expanse books are great, I watched the Amazon series already. Are the books even better?

      • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I watched the show first (I’ve never gotten past season 4, personally) and I liked the books WAY more. The show added a lot of unnecessary drama that distracted from the overall plot IMO.

      • Knoll0114@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’m seconding the other guy that the books are even better! Plus they go past the point of the show so you’ll be able to get more out of the world.

  • Octorine@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Alastair Reynolds’s Revelation Space series is fantastic and sounds like what you’re looking for.

  • tiny_fingers@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I really enjoyed Peter Hamilton’s Commonwealth Saga (Pandora’s Star/Judas Unchained) + The Void Trilogy which is in the same universe as the Commonwealth Saga books and features some of the same characters.

  • Cybertardis@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would recommend the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. Every book takes place on a different planet with an amazing amount of character building and detail in the plot.

  • JollyRoberts@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The Honor Harrington series is great for epic space opera.

    The Bobiverse is really good too, though less… grandiose? It felt more personal to me.

    The Well of Souls serie(s) are great.

    For less opera and more funny the Phule books by Robert Aspirin are good.