This list features some of the best space opera books ever written.
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835 books · 1,073 voters · list created August 12th, 2009 by Kevis Hendrickson (votes) .
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message 1: by Melody (new)

Melody Mixed I wish I could find more of the second and up books in series used. Lots buy the first one it seems then stop. Of course I wish i could win the lottery to then i could buy all my books as they came out instead of having to wait to find them use most of the time.


message 2: by Emily (new)

Emily This list suffers from a serious lack of E.E. "Doc" Smith, who basically invented the genre!


message 3: by Kevis (new)

Kevis Hendrickson Emily wrote: "This list suffers from a serious lack of E.E. "Doc" Smith, who basically invented the genre!"

You're absolutely right. Adding him now. ;)


message 4: by Jason (new)

Jason Emily wrote: "This list suffers from a serious lack of E.E. "Doc" Smith, who basically invented the genre!"

I agree


message 5: by Greg (new)

Greg Strandberg Too many Star Wars books, in my humble opinion.


message 6: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca This is a sausage fest.


message 7: by Phil (new)

Phil Friel Far too many of the books on this list are not even "space opera". Lists of this type really need to stick strictly to their respective sub-genre of SF, rather than just adding other kinds of SF willy-nilly. Chucking in lots of hard SF, military SF, time travel and books not even set in space is cheating and greatly dilutes the value of this list. The same is true of most of these Listopia lists. They tend to turn into generic SF lists.


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