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Space Opera was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [1] and for the 2019 Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.Kirkus Reviews found it "charming", albeit "(l)ight on plot and originality", and drew parallels to Rick and Morty and the works of Daniel Pinkwater. [2]
Space Opera is a novel by the American science fiction author Jack Vance, first published in 1965 by Pyramid Books. It is a stand-alone work, not part of any of Vance's novel sequences. The term "space opera" is typically used in science fiction literature to connote interstellar adventures, clashes of spacefleets and galactic empires.
Cover of Sci-Fi magazine, Imagination, April 1958. The following is a list of space opera media.Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer define as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in ...
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Space opera has been defined as "a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story". [9] Some critics distinguish between space opera and planetary romance. [10] Both feature adventures in exotic settings, but space opera emphasizes space travel, while planetary romances focus on alien worlds.
Perry Rhodan is a German space opera franchise, named after its hero. It commenced in 1961 and has been ongoing for decades, written by an ever-changing team of authors. It commenced in 1961 and has been ongoing for decades, written by an ever-changing team of authors.
Space Opera is a 1974 anthology of classic science fiction short stories edited by Brian Aldiss. [1] Contents "Introduction" (Brian W. Aldiss)
The Saga of Seven Suns is a series of seven space opera novels by American writer Kevin J. Anderson, published between 2002 and 2008.The books are set in a not-too-distant future where humans have colonized a number of other planets across the galaxy, thanks in part to technological assistance from an ancient alien race, the Ildirans.