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.
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New Releases Tagged "Space Opera"

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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
Shards of Honour  (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)

Są niezliczone sposoby śmierci. Najgorszym jest przeminąć bez celu. - Serena Butler, ostatnia wiadomość dla Xaviera Harkonnena
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

Leigh Brackett
Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving great acclaim, and each and every one of them can be expected to write at least one article stating flatly that the day of space opera is over and done, thank goodness, and that henceforth these crude tales of interplanetary nonsense will be replaced by whatever type of story that writer happens to fav ...more
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