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Non-military space opera recomendations (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by yaroto98@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for some good space opera. I read a lot on royal road and KU. I love space opera, but I'm sick of military and AI tropes. Any good suggestions? The more ship to ship battles the better. I understand that may be counter-intuitive, but I've read several privateer/freighter/scrapper books that were amazing. Looking for more of the same.

Thanks!

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[–] Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m not super clear on what genre space opera is exactly, but The Locked Tomb trilogy might fit the bill??

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My understanding is a space opera is where space serves as a backdrop or theme to the story, as opposed to hard sci-fi where the the science is more forthright. Space operas focus heavy on character development and adventure, that just happen to be in space.

[–] Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah! I think the Firefly example dialed it in for me. I know Star Wars also get called that, but both get sorted under “space western” in my mind, so I was never really clear on the exact use of space opera. Would things like Enders Game or even Dune technically count?? Like those are political dramas at a point. Enders game is maybe a bit simplified, but Dune has heavy character development with the backdrop of Arrakis and the technology required for survival.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

Star Wars, Firefly, and The Expanse are examples.

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Ah, I tried reading the first one and couldn't get past the first few chapters.

Space Opera, think Firefly.