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Dan Abnett · 2001 · UK · science fiction
Book 1 of 4 in Eisenhorn
★ 4.13 Goodreads · 16,337 ratings

Gregor Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor of the Imperium, hunts a heretic across the stars and uncovers a conspiracy around an ancient forbidden book.

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First and Only

Dan Abnett · 1999 · UK 98% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 11,661 ratings
shares: gaming, scifi, space · speculative, action-packed

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt leads the Tanith First and Only, the last regiment of a world destroyed on the day it was founded, through an endless galactic war.

Horus Rising

Dan Abnett · 2006 · UK 97% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 44,213 ratings
shares: gaming, scifi, series starter · cold, speculative

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.

Halo: The Fall of Reach

Eric Nylund · 2001 · US 96% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 15,991 ratings
shares: gaming, scifi, space · cold, speculative

John-117, taken from his family as a child for the secret SPARTAN-II programme, grows up into the supersoldier who will fight humanity's war against the alien Covenant.

Planetside

Michael Mammay · 2018 · US 96% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 5,214 ratings
shares: scifi, investigative, detective, mystery · cold, speculative

Colonel Carl Butler, called out of retirement, is sent to a war-torn planet to find out what happened to a powerful officer's missing son.

Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 2019 · New Zealand 94% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 199,285 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Locked Tomb
shares: occult, space, gothic, mystery · speculative, cold

A necromancer's cavalier apprentice arrives at a crumbling space palace where the heirs of nine ancient houses are being murdered one by one.

Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh · 2023 · UK 94% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 22,837 ratings
shares: scifi, space · speculative, cold

Kyr, raised on Gaea Station, the last outpost of humanity after aliens destroyed Earth, has trained all her life for vengeance, and is furious to be assigned to the nursery instead of the fight.

Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos · 2013 · US 94% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 34,252 ratings
shares: scifi, space, series starter · easy read, cold

Andrew Grayson escapes the welfare tenements of a crowded future North America the only way he can, by enlisting, and is sent to fight rioters at home and something far worse in space.

Columbus Day

Craig Alanson · 2016 · US 94% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 36,442 ratings
shares: scifi, space, series starter · speculative, easy read

When aliens invade Earth on Columbus Day, Joe Bishop, a young army specialist, is sent to fight on alien worlds and ends up teamed with Skippy, an ancient, arrogant AI in something like a beer can.

Skyward

Brandon Sanderson · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 4.46 Goodreads · 175,118 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Skyward
shares: scifi, space, series starter · speculative, easy read

Spensa, a girl on the planet Detritus whose father was branded a coward, wants nothing more than to be a pilot fighting the alien Krell, and finds a broken ship with an AI in a cave.

Moving Mars

Greg Bear · 1993 · US 93% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 8,007 ratings
shares: scifi, space · speculative, cold

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.

Downbelow Station

C. J. Cherryh · 1981 · US 93% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 16,812 ratings
shares: space, series starter · speculative, deep world-building

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.

Dauntless

Jack Campbell · 2006 · US 93% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 34,660 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Lost Fleet
shares: space, series starter · speculative, cold

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.