Space opera and space exploration

A novel of a gifted boy trained in an orbiting school for war against aliens.

A space opera of a war between the Culture, a machine-run utopia, and its enemies.

The colonisation of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to a revolution.

A novel in which a scientist answers an alien warning and invites first contact.

A Culture novel: a woman marked for her family's shame, and a war with death itself.

A novel of an astronaut left alone on Mars who must survive until rescue.

An officer must find a 9,000-year-old man to clear her name as her people go Sublime.

A novel of an amnesiac astronaut sent to stop a microbe that is dimming the sun.

Retirees join Earth's colonial army in an interstellar war against advanced species.

In 2380, a wormhole-linked commonwealth of 600 worlds sees a distant star vanish.

Travellers from 800 years ahead come through a gate to take an alien home.

Ancient machines built to suppress intelligent life awaken after a fatal discovery.