Space opera
A subgenre of grand, adventurous science fiction set across galaxies, featuring interstellar conflict and larger-than-life stakes.
Space opera in fiction: 13 works
A galaxy-spanning tale of the fall and renewal of a vast interstellar empire.
Its interplanetary vendetta across a teleporting solar-system society is grand space opera.
Its interplanetary sweep from Mars to Titan is picaresque space opera.
Its feuding noble houses and galactic empire make it a defining space opera.
Colonists who rule as technologically empowered gods span a mythic galactic setting.
Its interstellar crew and galaxy-scale artifact place it in the space-opera tradition.
Its galaxy-spanning adventure and mythic scope epitomize space opera.
Its interstellar romp across a comic galaxy parodies and inhabits space opera.
Its galaxy-spanning worlds, Hegemony, and mysteries are grand space opera.
A ragtag crew's adventures across a settled star system are frontier space opera.
Court intrigue at the heart of a vast, seductive interstellar empire is grand space opera.
Its feuding houses and imperial politics across the galaxy are epic space opera.
Its galaxy-spanning conflict of empire and insurgency is grounded space opera.