![]() ![]() ![]() Here are ten of the best space opera stories for your reading list: The stories themselves are not only telling us we can go to the stars, but they are telling us how to get there. ![]() They usually involve conflict between opponents possessing advanced abilities, futuristic spaceships, weapons, and other sophisticated technology. The stories emphasize space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, courageous heroes and their risk-taking. Today, space opera stories are more popular than ever. You have satellites out there, man has walked on the moon, you have probes going to the planets, don’t you? Somebody had to dream the dream, and a lot of somebodies like those great writers of The Golden Age and later had to get an awful lot of people interested in it to make it true.” “As one of the crew of writers that helped start man to the stars, I’m very proud of also being known as a science fiction writer. And many of the hottest scientists around were also writing science fiction on the side … “For a while, and before and after World War II, I was in rather steady association with the new era of scientists, the boys who built the bomb, who were beginning to get the feel of rockets. But from Campbell and from ‘shooting the breeze’ with other writers of the time, one got the very solid impression that they were doing a heavy job of beating the drum to get man to the stars … ![]() I cannot, of course, speak for my friends of that period. “Science fiction, particularly in its Golden Age, had a mission. Ron Hubbard stated in the introduction to Battlefield Earth: How and why did it endure? Because the authors and the stories they write have a purpose. It was originally termed “space opera” in 1941 by author Wilson Tucker, with the derogatory meaning “a hacky, outworn, spaceship yarn.” Now, nearly 80 years later it’s amongst the bestselling science fiction categories on the market.Ī proudly offers over 10,000 space opera stories and this now timeless category continues to grow. The science fiction sub-genre of space opera has not always been the most popular category in sci-fi books. ![]()
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