Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
S. La saga de los Aznar; The Saga of Seven Suns; The Saga of Shadows; Saturn's Children (novel) Second Stage Lensmen; Sector General; Sentinels novels; The Serrano Legacy
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 ...
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.
The Serrano Legacy, also known as Familias Regnant, is a series of military science fiction [1] / space opera [2] books by Elizabeth Moon.The series includes seven books total (a trilogy and two spin-off duologies), published from 1993 to 2000, and portrays a society in the distant future where the Familias Regnant serves as the governing body for an area of the galaxy.
The Five Gold Bands (alternate title: The Space Pirate, author's preferred title: The Rapparee) (1953) Vandals of the Void (young adult novel) (1953) To Live Forever (1956) Big Planet (1957) The Languages of Pao (1958) Slaves of the Klau (original title: Planet of the Damned; alternate title preferred by Vance: Gold and Iron) (1958) Space Opera ...
Two additional novels, set in the time 263 years before (A.B.D.) and five years after (N.W.S.) "The Void Trilogy", were released in 2014 (The Abyss Beyond Dreams) [1] and 2016 (Night Without Stars). [2] Like Hamilton's earlier The Night's Dawn Trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga is an epic space opera that extends across dozens of worlds and ...
Publishers Weekly gave Shards of Earth a starred review, calling it "dazzlingly suspenseful" and "space opera at its best". [6] In a review for Grimdark Magazine, Carrie Chi Lough praised the novel's nuanced characterization of the Intermediaries and the Partheni, and called the novel "the paragon of epic space operas". [2]
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.