What are some other good recent space opera series?

[Matt]

I'm looking to read more in this genre. I have this book and I'm looking at Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, and Iain M. Banks. Anyone else particularly noteworthy? I've read Orson Scott Card and Dan Simmons, so they're out.

[Clyde]

I am quite enjoying Sabrina Chase's Sequoyah series.
http://www.goodreads.com/series/85575...

Good space opera!

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David Brin, Brightness Reef
Neal Asher, Line of Polity and related stories

[Alexander]

All of Banks' Culture novels are excellent. Also I'd recommend David Brin's Uplift series, and Charles Stross's Singularity Sky/Iron Sunrise twofer. But I always come back to Iain M Banks, as no-one does it better IMO

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The true "back in the day" space opera has to be the Lensman series by E E Doc Smith.

Can't remember how many in the series but perhaps 6 to 8?

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You coud also try Greg Bear and the Anvil of Stars series?

[Matthew]

Try CJ Cherry's Downbelow Station. The union/alliance novels associated with that novel are really good. Cyteen especially.

[Phil]

Try, for something different, the Golden Age of the solar clippers series by Nathan Lowel (no antimatter torpedoes) a cross between the british navy and spaceopera

[Ric]

I've been looking around for good space opera as well, and as noted in the prior posts, there's a lot from the past. So am starting on: . Hopefully, these will match up to LW and it's sequel Caliban's War

[Clyde]

Ric wrote: "I've been looking around for good space opera as well, and as noted in the prior posts, there's a lot from the past. So am starting on: [bookcover:B..."

To really appreciate Trent the uncatcheable, you should most definitely read The Long Run before reading The Big Boost.

(For some reason links didn't work right.)

[Clyde]

DT wrote: "I'd recommend A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge."

Second that. A Fire Upon the Deep is a great book.

[Ric]

Clyde wrote: "To really appreciate Trent the uncatcheable, you should most definitely read The Long Run before reading The Big Boost...."
Agree, 100%. I started with
Emerald Eyes then The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time, both 5-star books. Now perhaps I'm ready fr The A.I. War: The Big Boost.

[Gerhard]

Paul J McAuley's Quiet War series is baroque, thoughtful and hugely entertaining.

The Quiet War
The Gardens of the Sun
In the Mouth of the Whale
Evening's Empires (forthcoming)

[Gerhard]

John C Wright's Golden Age books are certainly one of the weirdest 'out there' space operas

The Golden Age
The Phoenix Exultant
The Golden Transcendence

[Gerhard]

M John Harrison: one of my favourite writers, in any genre. His Kefahuchi Tract novels are a highpoint of intelligent, genre-busting space opera.

Light
Nova Swing
Empty Space

[Ric]

Gerhard wrote: "John C Wright's Golden Age books are certainly one of the weirdest 'out there' space operas

The Golden Age
The Phoenix Exultant
The Golden Transcendence"

I tried starting on the Golden Age. It is quite weird. Still deciding if its worth continuing. So many other books on the to-read list.

[Gerhard]

Ric wrote: "Gerhard wrote: "John C Wright's Golden Age books are certainly one of the weirdest 'out there' space operas

The Golden Age
The Phoenix Exultant
The Golden Transcendence"

I tried starting on the G..."

Yeah, I forgot quite how weird TGA is, which is why it appealed to me at the time. Sort of 'baroque' space opera. I didn't enjoy the other two nearly as much. A relatively quick read, as I recall. Yes, there is way too much to read out there. My 'to read' pile seems to grow exponentially. I would definitely recommend Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, and anything by Paul J. McAuley. These are far more conventional and satisfying.

[Katy]

Dancing with Eternity by John Patrick Lowrie

[Katy]

Also, Primary Inversion

[Gerhard]

Katy wrote: "Also, Primary Inversion"

Thanks for that, haven't read Lowrie.

[Gerhard]

Sean wrote: "The Lensmen books are nuts. I read the first one and saw where George Lucas must have found inspiration for the first Star Wars film."

E.E. 'Doc' Smith! ... Loved Lensman. This started out as a serial in 1948, I think -- got to be the grand daddy of space operas.

[Locke]

Matt wrote: "I'm looking to read more in this genre. I have this book and I'm looking at Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, and Iain M. Banks. Anyone else particularly noteworthy? I've read Orson Scott Ca..."

I recommend reading the Night Dawn Trilogy of Peter F. Hamilton, it was such a nice read for me that I went into and bought several space operas.

[Ric]

Gerhard wrote: "E.E. 'Doc' Smith! ... Loved Lensman. This starte..."

EE Smith also wrote the very first space opera, The Skylark of Space.

[William]

I can really recommend the Odyssey One series.. Into the Black: Odyssey One

Human kind has recently discovered faster than light travel and sends out a vessel called Odyssey to discover what lies beyond our own solar system.

Leviathan Wakes is also really good.

[Locke]

Ric wrote: "Gerhard wrote: "E.E. 'Doc' Smith! ... Loved Lensman. This starte..."

EE Smith also wrote the very first space opera, The Skylark of Space."

I have read it, and although science wise its outdated, story/plot wise... I am left speechless!

[Kevin]

Graham wrote: "The true "back in the day" space opera has to be the Lensman series by E E Doc Smith.

Can't remember how many in the series but perhaps 6 to 8?"

6 in the official canon (if I can use that term). At least one other set in the same universe. Fantastic series - a favorite of mine since high school.

[Kevin]

Have to add one other thought about Smith's 'Lensman' series:

Re-read them a few years back, and was floored to see him refer - in a book written in the forties - to information stored on "shiny metal discs."

!!!

[Jeff]

Here's another suggestion: the Liaden novels by
]Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.

[Susan]

I loved C.J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station and the Chanur series.

[J.D.]

This is totally self serving but *ahem* I have a space opera novella you might find enjoyable. It was one of eight finalists last year in the the Writers of the Future contest...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Mark]

I second the Neal Asher POLITY Books.
A good start would be PRADOR MOON, a high-tech, rip- roaring extravaganza of action and not too much deep thought required, a popcorn novel but a bloody good one. IMHO.

[sailor _stuck_at_sea]

Allen Steele's Coyote Trilogy