Non-military space opera recomendations (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by yaroto98@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for some good space opera. I read a lot on royal road and KU. I love space opera, but I'm sick of military and AI tropes. Any good suggestions? The more ship to ship battles the better. I understand that may be counter-intuitive, but I've read several privateer/freighter/scrapper books that were amazing. Looking for more of the same.

Thanks!

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[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I heartily recommend Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series. I don't think I've read something by Reynolds that I haven't liked

[-] violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

oh yeah these are pretty good

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Pushing Ice was my first and still favorite of his.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'd second this. The perfect dryfus books are set in the same world/ of the series, but are also great standalones

[-] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna look further into this.

[-] yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, this looks great! Thanks!

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