If the breakneck raids, duels, and world‑spanning battles that swept Owen Deathstalker from scholar to outlaw thrilled you, Consider Phlebas delivers that same headlong rush. You’ll follow the shapeshifting mercenary Horza through subterranean megastructures, orbital catastrophes, and a war between the Culture and the Idirans that rivals Empress Lionstone’s empire for sheer scale and spectacle—complete with heists, jailbreaks, and gloriously over‑the‑top firefights reminiscent of Hazel d’Ark’s smash‑and‑grab heroics.

If the venomous court of Empress Lionstone and the scheming that dogs Owen’s rebellion hooked you, Dune scratches the same itch. Paul Atreides is thrust into a lethal web of noble vendettas, Sardaukar enforcers, and prophecy, mirroring the way Lionstone’s secret police and courtiers play knife‑edge games. The chessboard maneuvering, betrayals, and long‑game power plays echo the Deathstalker saga’s decadent throne rooms and back‑channel conspiracies.

If you enjoyed how Deathstalker juggles Owen, Hazel, Jack Random, and other rogues on converging paths, Leviathan Wakes gives you that same ensemble energy. You’ll bounce between Jim Holden’s idealistic crew aboard the Rocinante and Detective Miller’s grim hunt through Ceres, with each perspective ratcheting up tension until their stories collide—much like the way the rebel outlaws, aristocrats, and killers in Deathstalker keep crashing into each other’s orbits.

If the sprawling scale of the rebellion against Lionstone—complete with rogue nobles, corporate cabals, and post‑human threats like the Hadenmen—was your jam, The Reality Dysfunction turns the dial even further. Hamilton unleashes a massive cast and clashing power blocs across colonized space, with bar fights, starship duels, and frontier worlds escalating into a crisis that forces unlikely alliances—very much in the spirit of Owen and his band forging a rebellion out of criminals, aristocrats, and legends.

If you were drawn to Owen Deathstalker’s journey from reluctant noble scholar to ruthless rebel—never entirely clean, sometimes doing the necessary ugly thing—Empire of Silence offers a kindred soul. Hadrian Marlowe flees a gilded cage, stumbles into gladiatorial arenas and alien wars, and makes choices that blur heroism and culpability, much like Owen and Hazel’s morally gray path as they topple Lionstone’s regime by any means required.