Books like Barrayar
Cordelia, now married to Aral Vorkosigan, comes to live on Barrayar, a militaristic, backward world, just as Aral becomes regent for its boy emperor.
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Red Rising
On a colonised Mars, a miner discovers the brutal caste system's darkest secret and is recruited for a revolution from the inside.
On Basilisk Station
Commander Honor Harrington, given a refitted light cruiser and a humiliating posting to the backwater Basilisk system, starts doing the job properly and stumbles on a plot by the Republic of Haven.
The Mote in God's Eye
In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.
The Snow Queen
On the ocean planet Tiamat, ruled for a century and a half by Arienrhod, the Snow Queen, who keeps herself young with the blood of the sea creatures, the time of change is coming, and the queen has secretly made a clone of herself.
The Curse of Chalion
Cazaril, a former courtier broken by years as a galley slave, limps home to Chalion, is made tutor to the royesse Iselle, and finds the royal house lies under a curse.
Downbelow Station
As the Company Wars end, Pell Station, orbiting a world inhabited by gentle natives, is swamped with refugees and caught between the Earth Company's fleet and the rising Union.
Pandora's Star
In 2380 humanity has spread across hundreds of worlds linked by wormholes, and when an astronomer sees two distant stars vanish inside a barrier, a starship is sent to find out why, with consequences no one foresaw.
Startide Rising
Genetically uplifted dolphins and their human crew flee through space in a damaged ship, carrying a secret that every civilisation in the galaxy wants.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
On a survey mission to an uncolonised moon, xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic that bonds itself to her, and the discovery drags her into first contact and a war that spreads across the stars.
Horus Rising
Two hundred years into the Great Crusade to reconquer the galaxy, the Emperor withdraws and names the primarch Horus his Warmaster, and Captain Garviel Loken of the Luna Wolves watches what follows.
Dauntless
Captain John 'Black Jack' Geary, frozen in a survival pod for a hundred years and revered as a legend, is woken to take command of a trapped fleet deep in enemy space.
Moving Mars
Casseia Majumdar, a young student from one of the family clans that run Mars, is drawn into the politics of the colonies as Earth tightens its grip.