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Looking for epic space operas (lemmy.ml)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved the Bobiverse series, I'll have to check out the other ones!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my favorite series, but wouldn't really call it space opera

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, more hard SciFi / Empire Building imo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1st trilogy is great - highly recommend.

Couldn't make it through the 1st book of the second trilogy. Just couldn't care about most of the point of views.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The first book of the second trilogy was a bit rough, it felt to me that the entire thing was just giving backstory setting up the story. I did enjoy book 5 though.