Two Quotes on Space Opera for Your Monday — from Iain M Banks & Gareth L Powell

Last week, I posted on reading Station Eternity, the first in Mur Lafferty’s Midsolar Murders series — which as noted, is space opera with plenty of whodunnit thrown in.

I also think it more than meets this quote from the great Iain M Banks on space opera:

“I think space opera in general celebrates a certain manic wildness and vivacity of vision, a refusal to be constrained.”

To which Gareth L Powell added:

“Space opera affords us the chance to indulge our imaginations, giving us the twin infi...