Books like 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.
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Excession
An artefact older than the universe appears at the edge of the galaxy, and the Culture's ship Minds, a rival empire and a pair of estranged lovers are caught up in what to do about it.
Blindsight
First contact with an alien species so incomprehensible that the crew sent to meet them questions whether consciousness itself is an evolutionary dead end.
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.
Hyperion
Seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs on Hyperion, each carrying a tale that reveals a different facet of a galaxy at war.
House of Suns
Six million years from now the Gentian Line, a thousand clones of one woman, criss-cross the galaxy and meet every two hundred thousand years to share their memories. Campion and Purslane, two of them who have fallen in love against the Line's rules, are running late for the reunion.
Nova Swing
In Saudade City, on the edge of an event site where the laws of physics have broken down, Vic Serotonin makes a living taking tourists into the site, while Detective Lens Aschemann investigates what comes out of it.
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.
The Quantum Thief
Jean le Flambeur, a legendary thief, is broken out of the Dilemma Prison, where copies of him play endless rounds of the prisoner's dilemma, by Mieli, a warrior from the Oort cloud whose employer wants a job done in the Oubliette, a moving city on Mars.
Ninefox Gambit
Captain Kel Cheris, a soldier of the hexarchate, whose weapons work only while its people keep a shared calendar, is disgraced for unorthodox tactics and given one chance: retake the Fortress of Scattered Needles with the help of Shuos Jedao, an undead general who once massacred his own army.
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.
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.