Chilling Effect Is an Off-the-Wall Zany Space Opera with Real Heart
Valerie Valdes debut novel Chilling Effect began its publishing life with #DVPit, the popular Twitter pitch content in which authors try…
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The Best Ragtag Crews in Space Opera
Space opera is having a good year. The genre has never been a more popular—or better represented—and it’s easy to…
Empress of Forever Is a Fiercely Feminist Space Opera
On the surface, the sprawling, bizarro space opera Empress of Forever marks a departure for Max Gladstone, author of the Hugo-nominated Craft…
As The Expanse Nears its End, Tiamat’s Wrath Only Raises the Stakes
Across the eight previous books in James S.A. Corey’s space opera epic The Expanse, we’ve seen humanity evolve from contentious tribes…
A Bad Deal For the Whole Galaxy Is a Great Deal For Space Opera Fans
At one point in Alex White’s A Bad Deal For the Whole Galaxy, the ne’er-do-well crew of the Capricious is simultaneously engaged…
Salvation Is a Twisty Space Opera Thriller
Among space opera aficionados, Peter F. Hamilton is best known for the Commonwealth novels, a centuries-spanning sci-fi saga pitting utopian…
After the Revolution: Revenant Gun Ends a Strikingly Complex Space Opera Trilogy
It’s easy, in so many ways, to write revolutions; the harder thing to write is the aftermath. Revenant Gun, the…
Space Unicorn Blues Is More Than a Silly Space Adventure
A unicorn walks into a bar…. When the murderer Gary Cobalt trotted into the Bitter Blossom, he nearly gave himself…
Empire of Silence Signals the Arrival of an Epic Science Fiction Talent
A hero to some, a monster to many more, Christopher Ruocchio’s chunky, ambitious debut Empire of Silence introduces Hadrian Marlowe, a reviled…
A Big Ship At the Edge of the Universe Delivers Big Space Opera Fun
A few chapters into A Big Ship At the Edge of the Universe, a marvelous new space opera from Alex White (Every…
Humans Make a Mess of First Contact in Patrick S. Tomlinson’s Sci-Fi Comedy Gate Crashers
First contact stories generally break one of two ways: either the aliens are benevolent, and humans mess things up; or…
Elizabeth Bear Answers 6 Questions About Her Return to Sci-Fi in Ancestral Night
First up, that cover, designed by Saga Art Director Michael McCartney, which hints at the plot’s multi-dimensional qualities. Take a look…
Quietus Crosses Time and Space to Deliver a Different Kind of Strong Female Character
Who among us has not played the Tardis game? If you could go anywhere, anywhen in the whole universe, where…
A Definitive Ranking of Iain M. Banks’ Culture Novels
Few science-fictional settings are as intriguing as the one created across the nine novels (and one novella) that comprise Iain…
Humanity Elevates the Space Opera Action of Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War
Space operas are often all about war, whether as a main subject or the source of the action. There’s an…
Black Star Renegades is a Zippy Space Opera Set to the Tune of Star Wars
Comics writer Michael Moreci, author of the impressive sci-fi/noir graphic series Roche Limit, among many other comics, makes his novel…
The Wrong Stars Is a Space Opera with Personality
The Wrong Stars is space opera, but it’s all about the people. Rather than fill his series-starter with loads of…
With The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks Perfected His Space Opera
The Scottish author Iain Banks famously led a double life in publishing. Some of his books—the ones published under the name…
