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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)
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
Demon in White (The Sun Eater, #3)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
Shroud
Defiant (Skyward, #4)
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)
Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater, #6)
Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
Slow Gods
Some Desperate Glory
Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Alien Clay
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
Elder Race
Crank Palace (The Maze Runner, #3.5)
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)
The Lesser Devil (The Sun Eater, #1.5)
On Destiny
ReDawn (Skyward, #2.2)
Rogues Lie (Caldryn Parliament #3)
Saga, Volume 12
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
Evershore (Skyward, #2.3)
Sunreach (Skyward, #2.1)
Translation State
The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
Saga, Volume 11
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
Saga, Volume 10
The Stardust Grail
The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)
Iron Prince (Warformed: Stormweaver, #1)
The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
Corvus (Frontlines: Evolution, #2)
Chaos Rising (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #1)
Memory's Legion
Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)
Backyard Starship (Backyard Starship, #1)
Exodus (Archimedes Engine #1)
Antarctica Station
The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)
Grimm Up North (DCI Harry Grimm, #1)
Last Chance to Save the World (Chaotic Orbits, #3)
The Fourth Consort
The Rising Storm (Star Wars: The High Republic)
The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)
The Pilot (The Last Horizon #4)
The Fallen Star (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Termination Shock
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)
The Infinite and the Divine (Warhammer 40,000)
Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
The Captain (The Last Horizon, #1)
Failure Mode (Expeditionary Force, #15)
Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16)
The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force, #12)
Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)
Critical Mass (Expeditionary Force, #10)
The Engineer (The Last Horizon, #2)
Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)
Hunt the Stars (Starlight's Shadow, #1)
Brotherhood (Star Wars)
Paradise-1 (Red Space, #1)
Into the Dark (Star Wars: The High Republic)
The Vanished Birds
Scorpio (Frontlines: Evolution, #1)
Queen's Peril (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #2)
Frank Herbert's Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1
Floating Hotel
This Brutal Moon (The Kindom Trilogy #3)
Sunward

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Quotes Tagged “Space Opera”

“ Na wojnie jest więcej sposobów przegrania niż wygrania. - Iblis Ginjo, Krajobraz ludzkości ”
― Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
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“ Początkiem uzdrowienia jest uruchomienie zdolności regeneracji, bez względu na to, czy mamy do czynienia z organizmem fizycznym czy też jego różnymi formami społecznymi i politycznymi. - doktor Radżid Suk, Notatki z pól bitewnych ”
― Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
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