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 Last Contract of Isako
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Radiant Star
The Republic of Memory (The Song of the Safina, #1)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
The Photonic Effect
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
The Last Contract of Isako
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Radiant Star
Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4)
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
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 (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
Shards of Honour  (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)

Moim największym błędem było to, że wierzyłem, iż samodzielnie podejmuję decyzje. Nawet najbardziej spostrzegawczy człowiek może nie zauważyć sznurków, za pomocą których ktoś kieruje nim jak marionetką. - Xavier Harkonnen, prywatny list do Voriana Atrydy
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
Leigh Brackett, The Best of Planet Stories 1

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