In addition, I looked for series and singular novels alike, but I do confess that a singular novel is difficult to find in this subgenre because it is a bit odd to have a one episode/season Soap Opera. In this page of this guide, I have decided to only include two entries when it comes to Star Wars, and they work in an almost complementary way. Every entry into the Star Wars galaxy is a new potential starting point, and the further we go, the more it is all getting connected. To me a space opera has big battles in outer space, romance, high tech, adventure, and is often a bit campy and perhaps unrealistic. Stories can be a bit campy but also grandly heroic or thought provoking.” They point to Star Wars as one of the best know examples, with 9+ movies, video games galore, books more than you can count, a budding comic storyline, and now extremely popular TV shows, you can see where the Soap Opera style comes in. They typically take place in outer space, in spaceships or on planets. They say, “Space Operas include stories of space warfare or adventure and almost always involve the triumph of good over evil. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction by Wyatt and Saricks puts it best, I think. “Space Opera, I don’t like musicals”- real words from someone who didn’t know what I was talking about.

Instead, space operas are typically set in a space-inspired version of the future, and the biggest plot points focus on conflicts between civilizations, political conflicts within civilizations, and over-the-top love stories. The first jumping point for a reader into Sci-Fi is usually a Space Opera, but that title may come off as odd. Space opera is a different, more-romantic narrative genre within sci-fi. The typical space opera, in fact, puts very little emphasis on space and the technologies that enable humans to get there.

What is space opera