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Space Opera

Grand, melodramatic science fiction productions without the music, but with lots of great scenery, anguish, death, and an occasional fat lady.

Related Genres

Galactic Empires

Authors & Titles

• Allen, Roger MacBride: Chronicles of Solace series
  
  1. The Depths of Time
     
  2. The Ocean of Years
     
• Anderson, Kevin J.: The Saga of the Seven Suns
  
  (prequel) Veiled Alliances
  
  1. Hidden Empire
     
  2. A Forest of Stars
     
  3. Horizon Storms
     
  4. Scattered Suns
     
  5. Of Fire and Night
     
  6. Metal Swarm
     
• Asher, Neal: Polity series
  
  (prequel) Shadow of the Scorpion
  
  1. Prador Moon
     
  2. Gridlinked
     
  3. The Line of Polity
     
  4. The Skinner
     
  5. The Voyage of the Sable Keech
     
• Banks, Iain M.: The Algebraist
  
• Bayley, Barrington J.: Annihilation Factor
  
• Bayley, Barrington J.: The Garments of Caean
  
• Bayley, Barrington J.: The Grand Wheel
  
• Bayley, Barrington J.: The Pillars of Eternity
  
• Bayley, Barrington J.: The Star Virus
  
• Bayley, Barrington J.: The Zen Gun
  
• Bentley, C.F.: Harmony series
  
  1. Harmony
     
  2. Enigma
     
• Carver, Jeffrey A.: Chaos Chronicles
  
  1. Neptune Crossing
     
  2. Strange Attractors
     
  3. The Infinite Sea
     
  4. Sunborn
     
• Carver, Jeffrey A.: Eternity's End
  
• Cherryh, C.J.: At the Edge of Space
  
• Donaldson, Stephen R.: Gap series
  
  1. The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
     
  2. The Gap Into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
     
  3. The Gap Into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises
     
  4. The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order
     
  5. The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die
     
• Doyle, Debra & MacDonald, James D.: Mageworlds series
  
  1. The Price of the Stars
     
  2. Starpilot's Grave
     
  3. By Honor Betray'd
     
  4. The Gathering Flame
     
  5. The Long Hunt
     
  6. The Stars Asunder
     
  7. A Working of Stars
     
• Glass, James C.: Shanji Empire series
  
  1. Shanji
     
  2. Empress of Light
     
• Green, Simon R.: Deathstalker series
  
  (prelude 1) Mistworld
  (prelude 2) Ghostworld
  (prelude 3) Hellworld
  
  1. Deathstalker
     
  2. Deathstalker Rebellion
     
  3. Deathstalker War
     
  4. Deathstalker Honor
     
  5. Deathstalker Destiny
     
  6. Deathstalker Legacy
     
  7. Deathstalker Return
     
  8. Deathstalker Coda
     
• Hamilton, Peter F.: Intersolar Commonwealth series
  
  1. Pandora's Star
     
  2. Judas Unchained
     
  3. The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy #1)
     
  4. The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy #2)
     
• Hamilton, Peter F.: Night's Dawn series
  
  1. The Reality Dysfunction Part 1: Emergence
     
  2. The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion
     
  3. The Neutronium Alchemist Part 1: Consolidation
     
  4. The Neutronium Alchemist Part 2: Conflict
     
  5. The Naked God
     
• Harper, Steven: Silent Empire series
  
  1. Dreamer
     
  2. Nightmare
     
  3. Trickster
     
  4. Offspring
     
• Harrison, Harry: Stainless Steel Rat series
  
  1. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
     
  2. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted
     
  3. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues
     (#1-3 collected in one volume as A Stainless Steel Trio )
     
  4. The Stainless Steel Rat
     
  5. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
     
  6. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
     
  7. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
     
  8. The Stainless Steel Rat For President
     
  9. Stainless Steel Visions
     
  10. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell
      
  11. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus
      
• Harrison, M. John: Light series
  
  1. Light
     
  2. Nova Swing
     
• Herbert, Brian: Timeweb Chronicles
  
  1. Timeweb
     
  2. The Web and the Stars
     
  3. Webdancers
     
• Ingrid, Charles: Patterns of Chaos series
  
  1. Radius of Doubt
     
  2. Path of Fire
     (above two titles collected in one volume as The Patterns of Chaos Vol. 1 )
     
  3. The Downfall Matrix
     
  4. Soulfire
     (above two titles collected in one volume as The Patterns of Chaos Vol. 2 )
     
• Jessup, Paul: Open Your Eyes
  
• Lee, Sharon & Miller, Steve: Liaden Universe series
  
  1. I Dare
     
  2. Local Custom
     
  3. Scout's Progress
     
  4. Conflict of Honors
     
  5. Agent of Change
     
  6. Carpe Diem
     
  7. Plan B
     
  8. Balance of Trade
     
  9. Crystal Soldier (Great Migration #1)
     
  10. Crystal Dragon (Great Migration #2)
      
  11. Fledgling
      
  12. Saltation
      
  13. Mouse and Dragon
      Omnibus volumes:
      Pilots Choice (contains Local Custom and Scout's Progress)
      Partners in Necessity (contains Agent of Change and Carpe Diem)
      
• MacLeod, Ken: Newton's Wake
  
• Maloney, Mack: Starhawk series
  
  1. Starhawk
     
  2. Planet America
     
  3. The Fourth Empire
     
  4. Battle at Zero Point
     
  5. Storm Over Saturn
     
• May, Julian: Rampart Worlds series
  
  1. Perseus Spur
     
  2. Orion Arm
     
  3. Sagittarius Whorl
     
• McCaffrey, Anne: Nimisha's Ship
  
• McDevitt, Jack: Academy series
  
  1. The Engines of God
     
  2. Deepsix
     
  3. Chindi
     
  4. Omega
     
  5. Odyssey
     
  6. Cauldron
     An Academy novella appears in Down These Dark Spaceways (edited by Mike Resnick & Catherine Asaro)
     An Academy novella appears in Forbidden Planets (edited by Marvin Kaye)
     
• Meaney, John: The Nulapeiron Sequence
  
  1. Paradox
     
  2. Context
     
  3. Resolution
     
• Meluch, R.M.: Tour of the Merrimack series
  
  1. The Myriad
     
  2. Wolf Star
     
  3. The Sagittarius Command
     
• Norman, Lisanne: Sholan Alliance series
  
  1. Turning Point
     
  2. Fortune's Wheel
     
  3. Fire Margins
     
  4. Razor's Edge
     
  5. Dark Nadir
     
  6. Stronghold Rising
     
  7. Between Darkness and Light
     
• Palmer, Philip: Debatable Space
  
• Picano, Felice: Dryland's End
  
• Resnick, Mike: Santiago series
  
  1. Santiago
     
  2. The Return of Santiago
     
• Reynolds, Alistair: House of Suns
  
• Reynolds, Alistair: Revelation Space series
  
  1. Revelation Space
     
  2. Redemption Ark
     
  3. Absolution Gap
     
  4. The Prefect
     (short stories) Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
     (short stories) Galactic North
     
• Sakers, Don: Scattered Worlds series
  
  3.75 - Dance for the Ivory Madonna
  4.55 - Weaving the Web of Days
  4.882 - A Voice in Every Wind
  5.38 - A Rose From Old Terra
  8.50 - The Leaves of October
  
• Scott, Melissa: The Game Beyond
  
• Scott, Melissa: The Roads of Heaven series
  
  1. Five-Twelfths of Heaven
     
  2. Silence in Solitude
     
  3. The Empress of Earth
     (omnibus) The Roads of Heaven (contains all three titles)
     
• Shatner, William: Quest For Tomorrow series
  
  1. Delta Search
     
  2. Into Alien Hands
     
  3. Step Into Chaos
     
  4. Beyond the Stars
     
  5. Shadow Planet
     
• Smith, E.E. "Doc": Lensman series
  
  1. Triplanetary
     
  2. First Lensman
     
  3. Galactic Patrol
     
  4. Gray Lensman
     
  5. Second Stage Lensman
     
  6. Children of the Lens
     
  7. Masters of the Vortex
     Second Stage Lensman series by David A. Kyle:
     
  8. The Dragon Lensman (Second Stage Lensman #1)
     
  9. Lensman From Rigel (Second Stage Lensman #2)
     
  10. Z-Lensman (Second Stage Lensman #3)
      
• Smith, E.E. "Doc": Skylark of Space series
  
  1. The Skylark of Space
     
  2. Skylark Three
     
  3. Skylark of Valeron
     
  4. Skylark DuQuesne
     
• Smith, Kristine: Jani Kilian series
  
  1. Code of Conduct
     
  2. Rules of Conflict
     
  3. Law of Survival
     
  4. Contact Imminent
     
• The Space Opera Renaissance (edited by David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer)
  
• Stross, Charlie: Singularity Sky series
  
  1. Singularity Sky
     
  2. Iron Sunrise
     
• Weber, David: Off Armageddon Reef
  
• Westerfeld, Scott: Succession series
  
  1. The Risen Empire
     
  2. The Killing of Worlds
     
• Williams, Paul O.: Gorboduc series
  
  1. The Gifts of the Gorboduc Vandal
     
  2. The Man From Far Cloud
     
• Williams, Sean: Astropolis series
  
  1. Saturn Returns
     
• Williams, Sean & Dix, Shane: Evergence series
  
  1. The Prodigal Sun
     
  2. The Dying Light
     
• Williams, Sean & Dix, Shane: Geodesica series
  
  1. Geodesica: Ascent
     
• Williams, Sean & Dix, Shane: Vincula series (aka Orphans series)
  
  1. Echoes of Earth
     
  2. Orphans of Earth
     
  3. Heirs of Earth
     
• Williams, Walter Jon: Dread Empire's Fall series
  
  1. The Praxis
     
  2. The Sundering
     
  3. Conventions of War
     (short story) "The Stickpin" available on Amazon Shorts
     
• Williamson, Jack: Legion of Space series
  
  1. The Legion of Space
     
  2. The Cometeers
     
  3. One Against the Legion
     
  4. The Queen of the Legion
     (omnibus volume) Three From the Legion (contains The Legion of Space, The Cometeers, and One Against the Legion)
     
• Williamson, Jack: Seetee series
  
  1. Seetee Shock
     
  2. Seetee Ship
     
• Zahn, Timothy: Angelmass