Most Read This Week In Space Opera

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"

Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)

The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)

The Infinite State (The Decurion Saga, #1)

A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)

Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)

Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

Exodus: The Helium Sea (Archimedes Engine, #2)

The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

Exodus: The Archimedes Engine (Archimedes Engine, #1)

Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)

Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)

The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)

Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)

Echoes of Insurrection (The Firebird Chronicles, #6)

The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #3)

The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)

The Worst Spies in the Sector (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #2)

The End and the Death: Volume I (The Siege of Terra, #8)

Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)

The End and the Death: Volume II (The Siege of Terra, #9)

The Republic of Memory (The Song of the Safina, #1)

Backyard Starship (Backyard Starship, #1)

Red Rising (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #1)

Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #1)

The Worst Rescuers in the Republic (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #4)

The Mask of Fear (Star Wars: Reign of the Empire, #1)

Transformers, Vol. 2: Transport to Oblivion

Trials of Conviction (The Firebird Chronicles, #5)

The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)

Echoes of Eternity (The Siege of Terra, #7)

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Quotes Tagged “Space Opera”

“ Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. ”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

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“ But the longing was there. That inexplicable human conviction, older than language, that the stars are not simply out there that they are, in some way that resists articulation, home. ”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

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