Books like Consider Phlebas
A shapeshifting mercenary fighting for the Idirans in their holy war against the Culture hunts a fugitive AI Mind across a galaxy tearing itself apart.
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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.
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.
The Dreaming Void
In the far future, a man begins dreaming of a perfect world inside the Void at the centre of the galaxy, and when millions decide to follow him there, the galaxy's powers fear that the pilgrimage will trigger the Void's expansion and destroy them all.
Ancillary Justice
A warship's AI, trapped in a single human body after the destruction of its ship, uncovers a galactic conspiracy at the heart of a brutal empire.
A Fire Upon the Deep
When a research team awakens an ancient evil at the edge of the galaxy, two children escape to a medieval world ruled by the Tines, doglike aliens who think in packs, and a rescue mission races across a galaxy where the laws of physics change with distance from the core.
The Vor Game
Miles Vorkosigan, fresh from the Barrayaran military academy, is posted to an Arctic weather station, and soon finds himself back in command of his old mercenary fleet.
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.
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.
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.
Revelation Space
On Resurgam, a barely settled world, the archaeologist Dan Sylveste digs up evidence of the Amarantin, an alien race wiped out nine hundred thousand years ago, while a vast lighthugger crewed by cyborgs crosses the dark to find him.
Light
In 1999 a physicist who murders people is close to a breakthrough in quantum computing, while four centuries later a woman wired into her starship and a burnt-out pilot circle the Kefahuchi Tract, where physics breaks down.
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.