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Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing powerful (and sometimes quite fanciful) technologies and abilities. Perhaps the most significant trait of space opera is that settings, characters, battles, powers, and themes tend to be very large-scale.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Space Opera"

Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
Shroud
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater, #6)
Defiant (Skyward, #4)
The Last Contract of Isako
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Service Model
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Slow Gods
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Alien Clay
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
Sunreach (Skyward, #2.1)
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)
ReDawn (Skyward, #2.2)
Saga, Volume 12
Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
Evershore (Skyward, #2.3)
The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
Some Desperate Glory
The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)
The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)
The Stardust Grail
Halcyon Years
Red Star Rebels
Saga, Volume 10
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)
Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16)
Master of Evil (Star Wars)
Saga, Volume 11
The Rising Storm (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Echoes of Insurrection (The Firebird Chronicles, #6)
Memory's Legion
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force, #12)
Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits #1)
Jitterbug
Outlaw Planet
Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
Translation State
The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)
The Worst Spies in the Sector (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #2)
Failure Mode (Expeditionary Force, #15)
Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)
Trials of Conviction (The Firebird Chronicles, #5)
Into the Dark (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1)
Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)
Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)
Backyard Starship (Backyard Starship, #1)
Exodus (Archimedes Engine #1)
Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore
The Last Shadow (The Shadow Series, #6)
Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)
Brotherhood (Star Wars)
A Hole in the Sky (Arkship #1)
The Fourth Consort
Convergence (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Last Chance to Save the World (Chaotic Orbits #3)
Know Thy Enemy (Grimm's War, #5)
These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)
Mortis (The Siege of Terra, #5)
Facets of Revolution (The Firebird Chronicles, #4)
Sunward
The Fallen Star (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Eversion
Warhawk (The Siege of Terra, #6)
Queen's Hope (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #3)
The Last Gifts of the Universe
Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
Termination Shock
The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #3)
The End and the Death: Volume I (The Siege of Terra, #8)
Deep Black (Arcana Imperii, #2)

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Quotes Tagged “Space Opera”

Max Nowaz
“ They could be totally ignored by Earth without infringing on their lifestyle because of the vastness of the planet. ”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
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Naiyem Chowdhury Rony
“ Death, it turned out, had a sense of irony. ”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Children of Titan
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