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For the purpose of this list, a space opera is a story set mostly on a spaceship and has the following characteristics:

- set mostly in space and on a ship
- set far in the future
- adventurous in nature
- usually features a grand/operatic/large-scale plot that spans the galaxy-- or galaxies

Books added to this list should have most, if not all, of these characteristics.
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