Books like The Diamond Deep

Loved The Diamond Deep by Brenda Cooper? Here are 9 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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9 books

1Consider Phlebas
Consider Phlebas
Iain Banks
A large-scale space opera set across a galaxy of advanced civilizations, with wide scope and a sense of scale similar to what the genre offers.
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2Leviathan Wakes
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
A space opera that follows human settlers and worlds spread across the solar system, with political tension between them.
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3Pandora's Star
Pandora's Star
Peter F. Hamilton
A sprawling future-history space opera with many worlds, factions and long timescales.
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4Revelation Space
Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
A hard-edged space opera with deep time, distant human colonies and a mystery spread across the galaxy.
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5Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
A space opera about an empire of ships and human bodies, focused on identity, power and loyalty.
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6Red Rising
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
A space opera set in a rigidly stratified future society, with a rebel protagonist and a large cast of rival houses.
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7Shards of Honor
Shards of Honor
Lois McMaster Bujold
A space adventure about interstellar diplomacy and an uneasy alliance between two military cultures.
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8Hyperion
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
A far-future science fiction novel in which travellers on a distant world tell their stories, with a wide range of settings.
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9A Fire upon the Deep
A Fire upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
A space opera spanning a galaxy divided into zones of different technological levels, with a strong sense of scale.
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