Books like Foundation and Empire
The Foundation faces the Mule, a mutant conqueror who can bend people's emotions, a power Hari Seldon's predictive mathematics could never have foreseen.
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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.
The Player of Games
The Culture sends one of its citizens to infiltrate a game-obsessed empire, and the board game he must win has consequences far beyond the tournament.
A Memory Called Empire
A young ambassador from a small colony arrives at the heart of a vast empire, where memory is currency and identity is a political weapon.
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.
Seveneves
When the Moon is shattered by a mysterious agent, humanity has two years to get enough people off Earth before the hard rain of debris makes the surface uninhabitable.
Heir to the Empire
Five years after the fall of the Empire, as Leia and Han await twins and Luke Skywalker trains alone as a Jedi, Grand Admiral Thrawn, a brilliant strategist from the Unknown Regions, takes command of what is left of the Imperial fleet.
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.
Children of Time
Spiders inherit a terraformed world meant for humans and evolve into a civilisation, until the last human ark ship arrives to claim what was never theirs.
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.
Empire of Silence
Hadrian Marlowe, heir to a minor lord of the Sollan Empire, runs from a future as a torturer for the Chantry, is stranded penniless on a distant world and drawn towards the empire's war with the alien Cielcin, in a story he tells long after history has condemned him.
Babel-17
Rydra Wong, a poet and starship captain, is recruited to crack Babel-17, an enemy code behind a string of sabotage, and discovers that it is a language that changes the way its speakers think.
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.