Space Opera
The Space Opera (also space opera ) is a genre of science fiction, which is primarily concerned with romantic adventure, foreign worlds and peoples than-light travel and spaceship battles, although not necessarily, however, getting all these topics. The main plot line is often a ( interstellar ) conflict. Previously, the term had a slightly negative connotation of cheap mass product ( a kind of soap opera with spaceships ). Meanwhile, the partially modified.
The first space opera in the science fiction film form the series of Flash Gordon (USA 1936-1940 ) and Buck Rogers (USA 1939).
The term Space Opera was coined by the American writer Wilson Tucker ( 1914-2006 ).
Examples of space opera in the literature
- Armageddon cycle by Peter F. Hamilton
- Captain Future by Edmond Hamilton
- Ender Series by Orson Scott Card
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds cycle
- Cities in Flight by James Blish
- The Hyperion by Dan Simmons chants
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov cycle
- Hainish by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Honor Harrington by David Weber
- Culture cycle by Iain M. Banks
- Lensmen cycle by Edward E. Smith
- People like gods - trilogy by Sergei Snegow
- Perry Rhodan series
- Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson
- Uplift Universe by David Brin
- Space partisans of Nikolai von Michalewsky aka Mark Brandis
- Ginga Densetsu Eiyū by Yoshiki Tanaka
- Ren Dhark
- Barrayar: The Miles Vorkosigan saga of Louis - MacMaster Bujold
Examples of space opera in film and television
- Andromeda
- Babylon 5
- Battlestar Galactica
- Blake 's 7
- Captain Video and His Video Rangers
- Cowboy Bebop (Anime )
- Farscape
- Firefly - The Rise Of Serenity
- Futurama
- Lexx - The Dark Zone
- Space Patrol
- Space 2063
- Space Patrol
- Star Trek
- Star Wars series
- Stargate SG -1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe
- Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
- Uchū Senkan Yamato
Examples of space opera in video and computer games
- Starcraft series ( Starcraft, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty )
- Space Quest
Well-known writers of the genre
- Wilson Tucker
- David Weber
- Edward Elmer Smith ( Lensmen cycle, Skylark )
- Edmond Hamilton
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Leiji Matsumoto