If the way Leviathan Falls pulled back the curtain on the protomolecule’s makers and the beings that haunt the ring space thrilled you—Elvi Okoye trekking into impossibly ancient ruins, Holden confronting entities that think on aeon-long horizons—then you’ll love the millennia-spanning awe of House of Suns. It delivers that same hit of “history so big it redefines the present,” with travelers who carry memories across millions of years and secrets capable of rewriting what humanity believes about the universe.

Did you enjoy how Leviathan Falls juggles Holden, Naomi, Elvi, Teresa, and more—each viewpoint refracting the final crisis from a different angle, yet all racing toward the ring drama and Laconia’s reckoning? Hyperion perfects that tapestry approach: seven travelers tell interlocking stories as they journey toward the Time Tombs and the Shrike. The shifting perspectives build momentum and mystery the way Duarte’s plotline, the underground resistance, and the Rocinante crew’s choices all braided together for the endgame.

If Holden’s attempts to parley with the ring entities—and the unsettling hints Elvi uncovers about minds so alien they barely register us—stuck with you, Blindsight is your next rabbit hole. Its first-contact mission feels like staring into the same abyss that swallowed the protomolecule’s creators: a terrifying, rigorously argued exploration of whether awareness matters, why communication fails, and what we become when the cosmos doesn’t care. It’s the philosophical chill that ran beneath the Roci’s last stand, distilled.

If what hit hardest in Leviathan Falls was the Rocinante’s found family—Naomi holding the line, Amos and Clarissa watching each other’s backs, Holden betting everything on trust in his crew—then Embers of War will feel like home. A war-scarred ship (with a voice of its own) gathers a mismatched team to do the right thing long after the powers that be have failed, echoing the way the Roci kept saving people while Laconia and the Transport Union played empire.

If the emotional wallop of Leviathan Falls worked for you—the sacrifices around the rings, Naomi’s quiet heroism, Holden’s final choice to give others a chance—Project Hail Mary lands a similar punch. It’s a desperate, one-shot gambit to avert extinction that blossoms into a profoundly moving bond with a nonhuman ally. You’ll get that same rush of high-stakes problem-solving and, by the end, a lump-in-the-throat payoff worthy of saying goodbye to the Roci crew.