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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"

Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
The Polymorph
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
Shroud
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5)
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
Service Model
Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater, #6)
Slow Gods
Defiant (Skyward, #4)
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
Alien Clay
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)
How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
Halcyon Years
Red Star Rebels
Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
Some Desperate Glory
Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
ReDawn (Skyward, #2.2)
Echoes of Insurrection (The Firebird Chronicles, #6)
Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)
Sunreach (Skyward, #2.1)
A Hole in the Sky (Arkship #1)
Saga, Volume 12
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)
The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)
Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)
Translation State
The Stardust Grail
Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
Evershore (Skyward, #2.3)
The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
The Fourth Consort
Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
Jitterbug
Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)
Last Chance to Save the World (Chaotic Orbits, #3)
Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)
Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
How to Steal a Galaxy (Chaotic Orbits, #2)
Memory's Legion
Exodus (Archimedes Engine #1)
Task Force Hammer (Expeditionary Force, #17)
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force, #12)
Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16)
The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)
Lesser Evil (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #3)
Sunward
Know Thy Enemy (Grimm's War, #5)
The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)
The Last Shadow (The Shadow Series, #6)
Failure Mode (Expeditionary Force, #15)
Saga, Volume 11
Low Red Moon (Star Wars: Outlaws)
Into the Dark (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Outlaw Planet
Saga, Volume 10
Trap Line
Hard Knocks (SC Marva Collins, #3)
Corvus (Frontlines: Evolution, #2)
Termination Shock
Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore
The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #3)
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
Exordia
Brotherhood (Star Wars)
The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)
School Days (SC Marva Collins, #1)
Backyard Starship (Backyard Starship, #1)
Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
Antarctica Station
Imperial Deserter (Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire Book 1)
Master of Evil (Star Wars)
Paradise-1 (Red Space, #1)
The Folded Sky (White Space, #3)
Eversion
The Rising Storm (Star Wars: The High Republic)
The Worst Spies in the Sector (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #2)
Halo: Oblivion: A Master Chief Story (26)

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Quotes Tagged “Space Opera”

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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Kameron Hurley
“ I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world. ”
― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion
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