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Science Fiction Space Opera

Douglas Adams
  A+ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  C Mostly Harmless
Poul Anderson
  B The Enemy Stars
  C Fire Time
Isaac Asimov
  A The Naked Sun
  C The Stars, Like Dust
Iain Banks
  B The Algebraist
  C Consider Phlebas
Greg Bear
  D Eon
Gregory Benford
  C In the Ocean of Night
Ben Bova
  A Mars
  A Moonrise
  B The Precipice
  A Return to Mars
  B Tales of the Grand Tour
Ray Bradbury
  B Now and Forever
David Brin
  B Sundiver
Lois McMaster Bujold
  B Cetaganda
  A Cordelia's Honor
  C Ethan of Athos
  A The Vor Game
  B The Warrior's Apprentice
Orson Scott Card
  A Ender in Exile
  A+ Ender's Game
  A Ender's Shadow
  C Children of the Mind
  B Shadow of the Giant
  A Speaker for the Dead
  B Xenocide
Lin Carter
  B The Man Without a Planet
Arthur C. Clarke
  B 2010: Odyssey Two
  B A Fall of Moondust
  C The Garden of Rama
  B Rama II
  A Rendezvous With Rama
Arthur Byron Cover
  F Planetfall
Gordon R. Dickson
  B Dorsai!
Edward Es
  A Skyeyes
Alan Dean Foster
  F The Dig
Harry Harrison
  B The Stainless Steel Rat
  B The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
Robert A. Heinlein
  B The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  B Farmer in the Sky
  D Orphans of the Sky
  F The Number of the Beast
  B The Rolling Stones
Robert A. Heinlein & Spider Robinson
  A Variable Star
James P. Hogan
  C Voyage from Yesteryear
Robert Howard writing as Edmund Hamilton
  B The Haunted Stars
Peter Jurasik and William H. Keith, Jr.
  C Diplomatic Act
Susan Kearney
  B Jordan
  B Lucan
 
C
 Rion
Nancy Kress
  B Probability Moon
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
  D Isaac Asimov's Robot City Book 1: Odyssey
     
     

Traditional science fiction of humans traveling in space

 
 
Madeleine L'Engle
  A+ A Wrinkle in Time
Paul Levinson
  C Borrowed Tides
C.S. Lewis
  B Out of the Silent Planet
  B Perelandra
  D That Hideous Strength
William Manchee
  B Tarizon: Conquest Earth
  B Tarizon: The Liberator
Anne McCaffrey
  C The City Who Fought
  C Decision at Doona
  C Freedom's Choice
  B Freedom's Landing
  B Nimisha's Ship
  A The Ship Who Sang
Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball
  B Acorna The Unicorn Girl
  C Acorna's Quest
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon
  C Sassinak
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  C Catalyst
Anne McCaffrey and S.M. Stirling
  B The City Who Fought
Jack McDevitt
  C The Engines of God
   
Larry Niven
  B Rainbow Mars
  B Ringworld
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  B The Mote in God's Eye
Frederik Pohl
  A Gateway
  C The Other End of Time
  C The Voices of Heaven
Kim Stanley Robinson
  C Blue Mars
  B Green Mars
  A+ Red Mars
John Scalzi
  B Old Man's War
  A Redshirts
Charles Sheffield
  B Summertide
Robert Silverberg
  C Starborne
  D To Open the Sky
Clifford D. Simak
  B Time and Again
Sheri S. Tepper
  A The Margarets
John Varley
  D The Golden Globe
  C Steel Beach
S.L. Viehl
  A Beyond Varallan
  A Endurance
  B Eternity Row
  A Plague of Memory
  C Rebel Ice
  B Shockball
  A StarDoc
Kurt Vonnegut
  B Slaughterhouse Five
Sharon Webb
  B Ram Song
Connie Willis
  B Uncharted Territory
Robert Charles Wilson
  C Bios
Jeanette Winterson
  C The Stone Gods
   
     
     

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