![]() ![]() The outer realm may be lawless, but it’s not like the law has ever been on Solara Brooks’s side. Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis. When their paths cross after a brutal attack Aly is falsely accused of making on Rhee, they are forced to work together to save their own lives and the universe. Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.Įmpress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa’s dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter. Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited plane. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner ![]() The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship’s artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all. Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.Īs plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. The following recommendations are all on display on the second floor Teenspace and compiled in Beanstack as a recommended reading list.Īfter escaping her abusive family’s interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted.Īurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Perhaps the most significant trait of space opera is that settings, characters, battles, powers, and themes tend to be very large-scale.” () Our RecommendationsĪmanda, library teens specialist, has put together a list of young adult space operas (6th grade to adults). Even though the costumes and graphics appear campy by today’s standards, the writing and acting is good enough to make the program a timeless classic.According to Goodreads, “ space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing powerful (and sometimes quite fanciful) technologies and abilities. However, the original Star Trek program was the first of the higher quality shows. The history of space opera in television is a long one. Yet they are villains that we love to hate.įilms: Star Wars movies, Star Trek movies, The Fifth Element, Serenity, The Chronicles of Riddick, Starship Troopers. From Darth Vader to Khan, and Zorg to the Lord Marshal, they are all twisted characters exhibiting nasty, sadistic behavior. Space Opera movies are known for great villains. Banks, ‘Revelation Space’ by Alastair Reynolds, ‘The New Space Opera’ edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan Space Opera Movies There are also many good examples of short fiction, such as those stories collected in ‘The New Space Opera’ anthology.īooks: ‘Foundation’ by Isaac Asimov, ‘Ringworld’ by Larry Niven, ‘Vorkosigan Saga’ novels by Lois McMaster Bujold, ‘Culture’ novels by Iain M. From Asimov’s world-spanning tale of galactic empire upheaval, to Banks’ focus on a utopian society that struggles in a hostile universe, space opera books are uber-epic. Space opera books are the most popular science fiction tomes on planet Earth. The literature of space opera is varied and many books are available. There is plenty of action and adventure in space opera. ![]() Typically, space opera occurs on a galactic scale, has multiple types of spacecraft, from speedy corvettes to battleships capable of destroying planets. The genre has almost no relationship to the opera music form, except for the similarity of grand scope and dramatic intensity. Space opera is a genre of science fiction literature, and the term can also be applied to movies and TV programs. ![]()
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