Books like Use of Weapons
The life of Cheradenine Zakalwe, a mercenary used by the Culture to steer less advanced worlds, is told in two strands, one moving forward and one backward, towards the secret at its heart.
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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.
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.
Mirror Dance
Mark, the clone made by Komarran rebels to replace Miles Vorkosigan, impersonates his brother to take the mercenary fleet on a raid to free the clones of Jackson's Whole.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Hyperion
Seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs on Hyperion, each carrying a tale that reveals a different facet of a galaxy at war.