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Non-military space opera recomendations (lemmy.world)
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I'm looking for some good space opera. I read a lot on royal road and KU. I love space opera, but I'm sick of military and AI tropes. Any good suggestions? The more ship to ship battles the better. I understand that may be counter-intuitive, but I've read several privateer/freighter/scrapper books that were amazing. Looking for more of the same.

Thanks!

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't go wrong with some Culture books from Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas , Excession and Hydrogen Sonata (and probably others I'm forgetting) definitely have some big space battles without the overhead of military tropes.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    IIRC, Excession is a novel about AI spaceships thwarting an existential threat involving tens of thousands of warships. It’s a great read, but arguably about AI & military, though Banks doesn’t rely on common tropes.

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