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"

The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Low Red Moon (Star Wars: Outlaws)
Red Star Rebels
Detour (Detour, #1)
Echoes of Insurrection (The Firebird Chronicles, #6)
Was niemand kommen sah
Vom Himmel gefallen
The Polymorph
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Shroud
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Dune (Dune, #1)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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)

Brian W. Aldiss
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.
Brian W. Aldiss

Andri E. Elia
A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.
Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

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