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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.

Also see Planetary Romance, which has similarities. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Space Opera"

Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
The Last Contract of Isako
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
Shroud
Defiant (Skyward, #4)
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater, #6)
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
Slow Gods
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
The Infinite State (The Decurion Saga, #1)
Botanical Mischief (Cosmic Dryad #1)
The Demon Star
Alien Clay
The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
Radiant Star
Exodus: The Helium Sea (Archimedes Engine, #2)
Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
Halcyon Years
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
Slow Time Between the Stars
Sunreach (Skyward, #2.1)
Some Desperate Glory
Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)
Translation State
Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
Evershore (Skyward, #2.3)
ReDawn (Skyward, #2.2)
Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine (Archimedes Engine, #1)
How It Unfolds
Saga, Volume 10
Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #1)
Failure Mode (Expeditionary Force, #15)
Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)
The Sixth Nik
Saga, Volume 11
Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)
The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)
Memory's Legion
The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)
Paradise-1 (Red Space, #1)
Termination Shock
Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)
Echoes of Insurrection (The Firebird Chronicles, #6)
Red Rising (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #1)
Master of Evil (Star Wars)
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
The Long Game
Legacy (Star Wars)
The Stardust Grail
Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16)
Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
Brotherhood (Star Wars)
Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)
Eversion
The Last Shadow (The Shadow Series, #6)
Saga, Volume 12
The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
The Deep Sky
Outlaw Planet
Girl Missing (Kaitlyn Carr #1)
Facets of Revolution (The Firebird Chronicles, #4)
Whalesong (Arcana Imperii #3)
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force, #12)
Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
Red Star Rebels
The Fourth Consort
The Fallen Star (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Revenant-X (Red Space, #2)
Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)
The Engineer (The Last Horizon, #2)
The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)
Hunt the Stars (Starlight's Shadow, #1)
The Captain's Daughter (Arkship #2)
Sunward
The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #3)
Floating Hotel
Trials of Conviction (The Firebird Chronicles, #5)

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Quotes Tagged “Space Opera”

Ian Hills
“ Briefness is the glow of meaning, and the drive to purpose. ”
― Ian Hills, The Operator
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Andri E. Elia
“ When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village? ”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
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