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Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1500 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 340,115 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1010 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,714,725 ratings — published 1965
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 960 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,323 ratings — published 2014
Caliban’s War (Paperback)
by (shelved 903 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.39 — 194,625 ratings — published 2012
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 885 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,731 ratings — published 2013
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 756 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 164,125 ratings — published 2013
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 747 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.23 — 234,904 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 734 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 320,323 ratings — published 1989
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 686 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.84 — 104,348 ratings — published 1987
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 659 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 135,847 ratings — published 2014
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 646 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,805 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 605 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.45 — 122,359 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 598 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,173 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 581 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 198,319 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 568 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 55,207 ratings — published 2004
Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
by (shelved 564 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.06 — 41,565 ratings — published 1986
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
by (shelved 547 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 61,839 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 541 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.17 — 617,030 ratings — published 1951
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 534 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 105,320 ratings — published 2016
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 509 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,736 ratings — published 1992
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)
by (shelved 490 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 49,549 ratings — published 1993
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 468 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.38 — 93,106 ratings — published 2017
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 451 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,589 ratings — published 2014
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 420 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,505,914 ratings — published 1985
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
by (shelved 414 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.57 — 87,681 ratings — published 2019
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 401 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.90 — 447,712 ratings — published 1969
The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
by (shelved 398 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,183 ratings — published 1986
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 383 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.27 — 995,127 ratings — published 2014
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 380 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.28 — 84,327 ratings — published 1988
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 375 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.10 — 412,665 ratings — published 2017
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 372 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,702 ratings — published 1996
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
by (shelved 369 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.25 — 158,083 ratings — published 1990
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 365 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.12 — 100,906 ratings — published 2006
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 362 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.37 — 93,996 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
by (shelved 361 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.92 — 68,417 ratings — published 2018
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 361 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 146,810 ratings — published 2016
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 37,307 ratings — published 2021
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 356 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,938 ratings — published 2015
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 349 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.51 — 619,151 ratings — published 2015
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,062 ratings — published 2016
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 337 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.55 — 503,089 ratings — published 2016
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
by (shelved 324 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,455 ratings — published 2005
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,617 ratings — published 2008
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 322 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.14 — 185,650 ratings — published 1974
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
by (shelved 316 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.54 — 76,355 ratings — published 2021
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 313 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.22 — 234,453 ratings — published 1952
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 311 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,079 ratings — published 2021
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
by (shelved 308 times as space-opera)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,468 ratings — published 2013
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
by (shelved 306 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,539 ratings — published 1990
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 305 times as space-opera)
avg rating 4.18 — 107,331 ratings — published 1991
“Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse.
No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!”
―
No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!”
―
“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 favor — closet dramas, psychological dramas, sex dramas, etc., but by God important dramas, containing nothing but Big Thinks. Ten years late, the writer in question may or may not still be around, but the space opera can be found right where it always was, sturdily driving its dark trade in heroes.”
― The Best of Planet Stories 1
― The Best of Planet Stories 1
