Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1)

Melissa Scott

Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

Timothy Zahn

For the Emperor (Ciaphas Cain, #1)

Sandy Mitchell

Sten (Sten, #1)

Chris Bunch

Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

The Snow Queen

Joan D. Vinge

The Madness Season

C.S. Friedman

The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, #1)

Walter Jon Williams

The Risen Empire (Succession, #1)

Scott Westerfeld

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

Ann Leckie

Lost Stars (Star Wars)

Claudia Gray

Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

Yoon Ha Lee

Empress of Forever

Max Gladstone

A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine

The Splinter in the Sky

Kemi Ashing-Giwa

These Burning Stars

Bethany Jacobs

The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

James S.A. Corey

Dune (Dune, #1)

Frank Herbert

The Carrion Throne (Vaults of Terra #1)

Chris Wraight

A Matter of Oaths

Helen S. Wright

Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)

Lois McMaster Bujold

Winter's Orbit (Winter's Orbit, #1)

Everina Maxwell

The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi