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Space opera

Empires, starships, and stories on a galactic scale.

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3,162 books in space opera

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Space opera1964

Gulliver of Mars

Edwin Lester Linden Arnold

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1990

Gulliver's Fugitives

Star Trek: The Next Generation #11

Keith Sharee

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2016

Halo

Smoke and Shadow

Kelly Gay

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2015

Halo

New Blood

Matt Forbeck

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2008

Halo

the Fall of Reach

Eric Nylund

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2010

Halo

Fractures

Tobias S. Buckell

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2019

HALO

the Flood

William C. Dietz

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1980

Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (Classic Star Wars)

Brian Daley

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2004

Heaven

Ian Stewart; Jack Cohen

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2011

Hell ship

Philip Palmer

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2014

Hellhole

Inferno Bk. 3

Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1989

Henry Martyn

L. Neil Smith

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2011

Hex

Allen M. Steele

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1998

Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!

Poul Anderson

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2000

Hokas Pokas!

Poul Anderson

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2000

Honor Blade: Rihannsu, Book 4

Star Trek #96

Diane Duane

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2002

Hour of the Gremlins

Gordon R. Dickson; Ben Bova

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2005

House of Reeds

Thomas Harlan

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2013

House of Steel

The Honorverse Companion

David Weber

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1987

How Much for Just the Planet?

Star Trek #36

John M. Ford

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2016

Hunters

Whitley Strieber

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1993

Hunting Party

Elizabeth Moon

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2011

Hybrids

Whitley Strieber

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1992

Ice Trap

Star Trek #60

L. A. Graf

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

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