Science Fiction Space Operas

The Atlantic Crossing

By Melvin Maddocks, the editors of Time-Life Books, of Time-Life Books

The Stone Gods

By Jeanette Winterson

Obelisk

By Stephen Baxter

Cat's Cradle

By Kurt Vonnegut

The Memory of Earth

By Orson Scott Card

The Return of Nathan Brazil

By Jack L. Chalker

Iron Sunrise

By Charles Stross

Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy

By David Brin

Shards of Earth

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Deepness in the Sky

By Vernor Vinge

Semiosis: A novel of first contact

By Sue Burke

Cities In Flight

By James Blish

Greybeard

By Brian Aldiss

A Case Of Conscience

By James Blish

Command Decision: Vatta's War: Book Four

By Elizabeth Moon

Blue Shift: A thrilling alien space adventure with an unforgettable new heroine

By Jane O'Reilly

Adrift: The epic of survival and adventure in deep space

By Rob Boffard

Dark Victory

By William Shatner

War Drums

By John Vornholt

Nightshade

By Laurell K. Hamilton

Hunting Party: The Serrano Legacy 1

By Elizabeth Moon

System Failure

By Joe Zieja

Thorns

By Robert Silverberg

Adventures in Time and Space

By Mary Taylor

The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction

By Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Neal Asher, George Mann

Doctor Who: Made of Steel

By Dicks, Terrance

Providence

By Max Barry

Morhelion: the second in the action-packed space opera The Long Game

By Dominic Dulley

Deep Blue

By Jane O'Reilly

Cibola Burn

By James S A Corey