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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"

Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
The Last Contract of Isako
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
Defiant (Skyward, #4)
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Radiant Star
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
Shroud
Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater, #6)
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
Alien Clay
Slow Gods
Sunreach (Skyward, #2.1)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
Echoes of Insurrection (The Firebird Chronicles, #6)
Exodus: The Helium Sea (Archimedes Engine, #2)
The Captain's Daughter (Arkship #2)
ReDawn (Skyward, #2.2)
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
Evershore (Skyward, #2.3)
The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)
Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)
Red Star Rebels
Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)
The Republic of Memory (The Song of the Safina, #1)
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
Some Desperate Glory
Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
A Hole in the Sky (Arkship #1)
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Translation State
Saga, Volume 10
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
The Stardust Grail
Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)
Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)
Halcyon Years
Termination Shock
Failure Mode (Expeditionary Force, #15)
Outlaw Planet
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine (Archimedes Engine, #1)
Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #1)
Saga, Volume 12
How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force, #12)
The Pilot (The Last Horizon #4)
Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
Facets of Revolution (The Firebird Chronicles, #4)
Hunt the Stars (Starlight's Shadow, #1)
Memory's Legion
Saga, Volume 11
The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)
The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)
Trials of Conviction (The Firebird Chronicles, #5)
Backyard Starship (Backyard Starship, #1)
The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16)
Scorpio (Frontlines: Evolution #1)
Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore
The End and the Death: Volume III
Master of Evil (Star Wars)
Corvus (Frontlines: Evolution #2)
Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)
The Knight (The Last Horizon, #3)
Padawan (Star Wars)
Brotherhood (Star Wars)
The Sixth Nik
The End and the Death: Volume I (The Siege of Terra, #8)
Paradise-1 (Red Space, #1)
Centers of Gravity (Frontlines, #8)
The Rising Storm (Star Wars: The High Republic)
The End and the Death: Volume II (The Siege of Terra, #9)
Sunward
The Fourth Consort
Antarctica Station
The Stars Too Fondly
The Engineer (The Last Horizon, #2)
These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Space Opera”

Max Nowaz
“ The ship had made the jump into hyperspace, so there were no stars or worlds to be seen, just a vortex of light and shade they were passing through. ”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
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Kameron Hurley
“ The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters. ...more ”
― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
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