Space opera

:For other meanings of this term see Space Opera (disambiguation).

Sample space opera backgrounds

Books

• A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
• Alliance-Union universe by C. J. Cherryh
• Culture series by Iain M. Banks
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
• Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Hyperion Cantos and Ilium by Dan Simmons
• Lensman series by E. E. Smith (possibly the prototype of all others)
• Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton
• Noon Universe by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Revelation Space universe by Alastair Reynolds
• Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson
• Uplift Universe by David Brin
• Vorkosigan Saga series by Lois McMaster Bujold

Comic Strips

• Dan Dare by Frank Hampson
• Buck Rogers by Dick Calkins
• Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond
• Schlock Mercenary - a webcomic
• ' by Jean-Claude Mezieres and Pierre Christin

Television

• Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
• Babylon 5, created by J. Michael Straczynski
• Battlestar Galactica (1978), created by Glen A. Larson
• Blake's 7, created by Terry Nation
• Farscape, created by Rockne S. O'Bannon
• Firefly, created by Joss Whedon
• Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry
• Stargate SG-1 (and its spin-off, Stargate Atlantis)

Film

• Barbarella directed by Roger Vadim
• Star Wars, created by George Lucas
• The Fifth Element written and directed by Luc Besson

Games

Role playing games:

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• Bulldogs!
• Fading Suns
• Space Opera Space Opera, setting created by E. Simbalist, M. Ratner & P. Mc Gregor
• Traveller, setting created by Marc W. Miller

Board games:

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• Full Thrust, a popular 2D space battle simulation board (and miniatures) game
• Hard Vacuum, a board/miniatures game of WWII space combat in an alternate universe where the Allies and Axis have both achieved space flight

Computer games:

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• Star Control, a series of strategy/adventure games.
• Star Craft, real time strategy game and often cited as one of the best and most popular PC games of the world. Probably one of the best known exemples of Space Opera settings in the computer gaming.
• X-Com, space-based action strategy game
• Homeworld, a 3D space real time space battle simulation with a space opera story (campaign)
• Master of Orion and Alpha Centauri, classic 4X games
• ', a game of real time tactical combat with an epic story
• Alpha Centauri, seven factions scattered from their unity missile, among a planet in outer space, and restart civilization.

Console games:

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• Xenosaga
• Star Ocean
• Star Fox 64

Other

• Kai, Death of Dreams - an opera
• Orion's Arm - a transhumanist space opera website