Modern Space Opera Books (that Aren't the Expanse)
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Hey, really appreciate you reviewing modern sci-fi (and not just Tchaikovsky), it feels like so many booktube scifi channels are obsessed with the past - the 'golden age', but the genre's still alive and kicking! Some fantastic ideas and stories are being produced.
Oh thanks. I get a lot of complaints that I read "too much new stuff" so it's nice to hear that you don't mind it
I agree with this 🙂
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Hard scifi? Not for beginners? Complex plot? Rereads provide more clarity? Count me in! Shards of Earth is definitely on my reading list now. I loved Children of Time and need to finish that series first but will queue the Shards of Earth for later in 2024.
Sounds like it will be right up your alley!
Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of my favorite authors, especially science fiction. He and Alastair Reynolds are definitely my favorite modern Sci-Fi authors, though I will admit I haven't read any Peter F. Hamilton or Iain Banks yet. I've read the entire Final Architecture series and really loved it. Superb world building, big ideas, inventive alien civilizations, hints of past history without just info dumping, and enough character development with multiple POV's to keep things interesting in that regard. At this point I'm willing to read anything that he has published. Children of Time was just utterly brilliant, and I need to read the rest of that trilogy. I'm also planning on reading his fantasy novels including the Shadows of the Apt series.
I too am a fan of Adrian Tchaikovsky after a couple of his books I read last year. I think you will love Iain M Banks too though. He is at the top of any list of sci fi masters. Highest recomendation for quality writing and deep ideas.
I love White Space! I wish Elizabeth Bear would write more in this universe.
I literally was searching Space Opera recs this morning!!! Wild. Thanks for the recommendations, great list
What great timing
I added so many to my TBR! I'm excited to get to Shards of Earth in January!
I read Machine and will look for some of the others mentioned. Still missing the Expanse. Thanks for the video 😊
Yeah it's a big gap to fill
The Vorkosigan Saga is one of my favorites definitely recommend
That's a series I need to get back to
Definitely adding some of these to my never ending TBR list!
Good recommendations! I added a few to my TBR list. 🚀
Reading the Architect series because of your video popping up in my feed, and loving it! Thanks so much!
I hope you enjoy it
@@TheShadesofOrange Absolutely love the first two and can't wait to get to the third!
Great list. I've only heard of shards of earth and it's on my TBR. Nice to hear unfamiliar books.
Happy to put some different books on your radar
Great video. So many new and interesting recommendations. thanks!
Glad it was helpful
I always recommend anything from Michael Manmay or Marko Kloos; also, the excellent Lost Fleet and follow ups from Jack Campbell, are prime space opera.
Gonna try that Architect series on this recommendation. Thanks!
I just caught up on the latest Red Rising book and am sooooo thirsty for more space opera~ Thanks for all the recs! Adding good bulk to my TBR lol.
Yay!
I will start reading the Elizabeth Bear book, and then the others. Thanks! Your show is so friendly. :)
Glad to hear it
Love the 1st two Architecture Trilogy. Must read the last book.
Risen Empire! Havent read that in a while. Quite a few there i don't know, good to get some new recs. Thanks!
I loved Children of time and Children of Ruin, currently reading Children of Memory! Definetly will carry on reading Tchaikovsky's books. Ancestral night is also on my wishlist.
Love your channel, Rachel. Definitely going to check out Shards of Earth. Ancestral Night looks good, too.
OK, here's a rec... Recently finished and absolutely loved The Code trilogy by RR Haywood. First book is The Worldship Humility. Earth, about to be hit by an asteroid sends out a fleet of worldships to find a new planet and save humanity. This was the funnest space opera I've read in years. If you like the generational starship trope with great characters, then I can't recommend this enough. Wonderful mix of drama, mystery and humour. The banter between some of the characters is just priceless.
Thanks for the rec
Thanks Rachel ! I reserved Ancestral Night at the library😊
I hope you enjoy it
I think I have all of those except Fortuna. I read the synopsis and wasn’t sure if it was to my taste.
Great video. I’ll watch again and check my library list to make sure I do have them
Great Recommendations will check their audio versions
Nophek Gloss sounds like something I'd enjoy! I'm not terribly versed in sci-fi, so I doubt i could rec anything to you that you have read/heard of. But, my favorite sci-fi/SO books are ones that focus on the character(s). I love seeing how people behave and the choices authors imagine they would make in the vast scapes available on a galactic scale.
I hope you enjoy it
nice review! thanks. 🚀
I really like your lists with modern picks. The classics have their own importance, don't get me wrong, but just like with any other subgenre of fiction, some readers are not interested in diving into our fathers of science fiction or they have already read treir works. Times change, some of these new books will be absolute nonsense, others will be a pleasant discovery. That's the fun part of reading - finding it out. I'm always interested in watching your videos because you read a lot of unknown (at least to me) authors that capture the space horror/space opera genre. And it's awesome! So thank you.
Yes there are some fantastic classics but I feel like there are a million internet lists of them so I try to bring something new to RUclips
Thanks for the recommendations Rachel 🚀 I've just binged read (listened) to 5 books of the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. Wow! While it starts out with shades of Name of the Wind and Dune it turns into its own expansive space opera with horror elements. Highly recommended
Oh yes that's a good rec
Thanks I love when you do science fiction reviews. I love space opera.
Thanks
all great recommendations! I really like the premise of Shards of Earth so might have to pick that up, I love anything with Ancient Aliens or theories of our beginnings that involves Aliens lol
I'm the same way
Wow this list intimidates me…. 😂 way better than my list! i didnt know u had already ancestral night 🎉 so glad u liked it, ill move that up in my TBR. Thanks for this video!
Hey we don't need to compete. I bet you'll have some series I haven't read yet
So many great recommendations! 🚀🛰️🔭🪐🛸
I just picked up Shards of Earth from the cheap rack at chapters. I have heard good things about Tchaikovsky in the past. I hope i enjoy it as much as you did.
I hope you enjoy it
good video. thanks rachel
Thank you for the great space opera gems, it is definitely {IMHO} one of those underrated sub-genres.
I am going to check your previous video about it as well.
Thanks!
Surprisingly I've only read one of those books, but some of the others are on my radar. I'm very keen to try Nophek Gloss
It was great
Great recs ❤🚀
Great list , Having read Westerfield Y A Leviathan series .(an alternate history ) I will check out Then Risen Empire ( when it hits one of my fast vading book stores ) I am a bit of an old timer 😂 , so i first started out eons ago with the stories of E E Smith . And i mean eons ago 😂 . For more newer ones i read the stories of David Weber . In both we have worlds, space ships , good guys and women , villains, alliens , battles , romance et el . Thanks for the list .👍
Oh yes I really enjoyed Leviathan
Good recommendations!👍👍👍 Most of these are already on my tbr📚 I'm almost done with shards of earth. The crew is not as charming as in the expanse or tim pratts axiom, for example, but great concepts to explore. Rachel, have you read the dreaming void by peter f hamilton? Ancestral night is going on my tbr📚
I haven't read any Peter F Hamilton yet. I know ! It's shameful
@TheShadesofOrange Me, neither.
Man did I LOVE Nophek Gloss
Saw it on the shelf at barnes and noble a while back, and it was honestly such a fun read
Highly recommend finishing the trilogy. I loved the final book that came out this year
Reading The Risen Empire right now. Very engaged so far.
Glad you're enjoying it
Loved Ancestral Night and it's indirect sequel The Machine, especially with the Goodlaw making a welcome appearance.
Yeah I really loved Machine
The first book is going on my tbr. I own Shards of Earth and the Scott Westerfield duology but haven't gotten to them yet
I hope you enjoy them
Not sure if this counts as a space opera, but An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon is *chef’s kiss*! 🥰🚀
Oh yes I need to reread that one
Have you done a video on top ten strong character development/ focus in science fiction? I’d love your opinions on this.
Hmm no I haven't
Someday I'll read Scott Westerfeld's Evolution's Darling, from back in his weird adult sf phase.
I'll have to look up that one
@@TheShadesofOrange The OP isn't wrong about it being really, really weird. Also: lots of explicit sex.
Have you read any of the Serrano Legacy series by Elizabeth Moon? The first three are okay but the fourth (which has a different main character) is one of my absolute favourite space opera novels
No I haven't it
Its a little older series..80s-90s Bill Baldwins Helmsman series. I haven't got close to finish all 8 of the books. Fun classic tropes..sort of Top Gun in space but with more charcters and plot.
That sounds fun
Have you read "Pushing Ice" by Alastair Reynolds? One of my favorites. Thanks for your lists...very helpful.
It's on my spring tbr! I actually just got a copy this week
Shards: Great. Void: Strangest planet drama ever. Bib Fortuna sounds interesting.
I'm reading "A Fire Upon The Deep" by Vernor Vinge mostly because I don't want to get
President Rachel mad at me.
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Haha I like to keep some fear in the Galactic citizens
I've gotten away from reading space operas for a couple of reasons but stolen earth sounds readable since it's a stand-alone and I always love mysteries⚛😀
I hope you enjoy it
Just checking, but are you often combining Scavenger with Salvager? It sounds like you are saying Scalvengers :)
I just relistened to myself (something I hate to do haha) and I'm not hearing it but I do need to work on my enunciation at times
Could you please make a video specifically for space opera audiobooks?
I almost always physically read space opera so I would basically just recommend the Expanse which I reread on audio
I am looking for a space opera that has a love story or romance subplot. Any recommendations there?????
Maybe Winter Orbit or Fortune's Pawn
@@TheShadesofOrange Thank you for your reply!! 🥰
Will someone please review Jason Russell's 224-Verse? Nobody's talking about it but it's fantastic.
I haven't heard of that one
@@TheShadesofOrange Yes, it seems like few have but I'd recommend it and would love to see you tackle it someday here. It follows a bounty hunter named Zan Dane trying to track down his daughter through the Andromeda galaxy. It's sorta like if Alastair Reynolds wrote some Star Wars books.
Terminal alience by jim c hines, space zombies
Also, Long Way to a Small Planet by Becky Chambers, rag tag crew turns found family on a long work trip.
Thanks for the recs
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