If you loved how every Rocinante member carried their own crucial thread in Nemesis Games—Naomi wrestling with Marco Inaros on the Chetzemoka, Amos and Clarissa clawing through a wrecked Earth, Alex and Bobbie chasing vanished Martian firepower, and Holden fighting sabotage on Tycho—you’ll click with the way Revelation Space braids Dan Sylveste’s dig on Resurgam, Ilia Volyova’s haunted lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity, and Ana Khouri’s mission into one relentless, crew-driven crisis. It’s that same feeling of multiple specialists whose loyalties and secrets collide at light-speed stakes.

Nemesis Games splits perspectives masterfully—Holden on station politics, Naomi embedded with the Free Navy, Amos surviving ground zero, Alex and Bobbie unraveling a black-market fleet—until all roads lead to Marco’s coordinated strikes. Pandora’s Star delivers that same sprawling, many-POV momentum: from physicist Dudley Bose’s vanished star mystery to detective Paula Myo’s dogged investigations and explorers crossing the Commonwealth, the narrative strands race toward a single, breathtaking reveal the way the Free Navy plot snaps into focus.

If the Free Navy’s scheming—Martian defectors trading warships, Belter radicals seizing the moment, and Holden caught between Tycho, Medina, and OPA power plays—was your jam in Nemesis Games, you’ll enjoy the knife-fight politics of The Collapsing Empire. Emperox Grayland II, scientist Marce Claremont, and merchant Kiva Lagos navigate sabotage and dynastic backstabbing as the Flow (their FTL lifeline) starts failing. It hits the same nerve as watching Marco Inaros weaponize chaos while everyone else scrambles to read the board—and survive it.

Even with the Rocinante scattered in Nemesis Games, the heartbeat is found family—Naomi’s desperate code-laced messages to Holden, Amos phoning in from a ruined Earth, and Alex and Bobbie watching each other’s six. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet leans into that same comfort: Rosemary, Sissix, Dr. Chef, Kizzy, Jenks, and Ashby build trust and belonging aboard the Wayfarer while tackling risky contracts. If you cared about the Roci’s bonds more than the bullets, this warm, character-forward voyage will land perfectly.

If Amos’s trek across a devastated Earth with Clarissa—scavenging, planning burns between safe havens, and hacking together fixes the way Naomi did with suit code and airlocks on the Chetzemoka—had you glued to the page, The Martian brings that same problem-solving adrenaline. Mark Watney’s meticulous, funny, and desperate fight to stay alive on Mars scratches the exact itch of watching capable people beat physics and bad odds with grit, duct tape, and terrifyingly thin margins.