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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)
The Polymorph
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater, #6)
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
Service Model
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Shroud
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Defiant (Skyward, #4)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
Alien Clay
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
Slow Gods
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
Some Desperate Glory
The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)
Red Star Rebels
Halcyon Years
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Sunreach (Skyward, #2.1)
Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
ReDawn (Skyward, #2.2)
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
Evershore (Skyward, #2.3)
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
Translation State
A Hole in the Sky (Arkship #1)
The Stardust Grail
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)
Saga, Volume 12
The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
Echoes of Insurrection (The Firebird Chronicles, #6)
The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)
The Last Shadow (The Shadow Series, #6)
Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16)
Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
Termination Shock
Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)
The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
Antarctica Station
Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
Exodus (Archimedes Engine #1)
Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)
These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)
Saga, Volume 11
The Fourth Consort
Jitterbug
The Scourge Between Stars
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force, #12)
Master of Evil (Star Wars)
Failure Mode (Expeditionary Force, #15)
Saga, Volume 10
Memory's Legion
Trap Line
Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)
Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
The Rising Storm (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Hard Knocks (SC Marva Collins, #3)
Into the Dark (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
Hunt the Stars (Starlight's Shadow, #1)
The Worst Spies in the Sector (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #2)
The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)
Eversion
Brotherhood (Star Wars)
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe
Against All Odds (Grimm's War, #1)
School Days (SC Marva Collins, #1)
Outlaw Planet
The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
Traditions of Courage (Grimm's War #7)
Imperial Deserter (Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire Book 1)
The Last Gifts of the Universe
Corvus (Frontlines: Evolution, #2)
How to Steal a Galaxy (Chaotic Orbits, #2)
Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)
On Vicious Worlds (The Kindom Trilogy, #2)
The Fallen Star (Star Wars: The High Republic)
The End and the Death: Volume II (The Siege of Terra, #9)
The Folded Sky (White Space, #3)

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Quotes Tagged “Space Opera”

Max Nowaz
“ Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes ”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
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Christopher Ruocchio
“ Evil occurs because we are insufficient to challenge it. Too weak to stop it at the gates, too blind to see it bubbling within. Were we all angels in our virtue and heroes in our capacity, we might hold all chaos at bay, might stop even the unkindling of the stars. Yet we are but men. ”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man
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