Be thankful there seem to be eBooks out there, last time I checked there weren’t. Best space opera audiobooks series#This series is an oldie but a goody, and is hard to get hold of in dead tree as it’s OP. Despite what Amazon says, there are three in the first series ( The Price of the Stars, Starpilot’s Grave, By Honor Betray’d), a spin off ( The Long Hunt), a stand alone prequel ( The Gathering Flame) and (I think) a prequel series ( The Stars Asunder, A Working of Stars, and I thought there was one other? ). If you want some magic and politics mixed in with your space opera then you can do no better than The Mageworlds series by Doyle and MacDonald. Because, well, I’m an author so I know how the game is played. I have, however, supported the series by buying them all. Tanya has joined my ill fated list of authors for whom I am suspicious of the dropsies (see The Silvered) so I am waiting until she concludes Valor satisfactorily to finish the books. I intend to finish this series, but at this juncture I am waiting for her to complete it. So if you have read Huff before and not liked her, I still suggest giving Valor’s Choice a try. Blood series and Keeper series) and both in turn different from her fantasies (e.g. The tone of Valor is entirely different from that of her urban fantasy stuff (e.g. A truly remarkable ability in an author, and one I admire greatly. She completely changes her author voice depending on the genre. Please, don’t make the mistake of comparing Tanya Huff’s different series to one another. I am a particular fan of the first book in the Valor series because it opens with a post sex pheromone hangover and ends with a battle based on one of the early moments in the Zulu War. And these 25 books are among the best space opera books out there - in this universe or any other.Marvelous characters and alien races, extremely snappy dialogue, an endearing and tough heroine, and lots of fast action. It’s got the drama and heart of the very best of fiction, but set in a sci-fi universe, whether on a spaceship or alien planet. That’s what space opera is, essentially: science fiction that’s more concerned with exploring the characters and world than getting into the nitty gritty of plausible science. But choices must be made, and I was the one to make them, so while this list features some of the best space opera books I know of, it’s certainly possible some escaped my attention - or my regard.Īs a long-time reader of science fiction (and space operas in particular), I loved scouring through some of my personal favorite reads as well as other seminal works of the genre and new classics to create a list that I think will appeal to anyone who loves a good sci-fi novel focused on character and story. I’m certainly unimpressed when I see “best of the best” lists featuring almost exclusively cis het white male authors when I know there’s so much more to the literary world than that. Best space opera audiobooks full#(She says, knowing full well this is exactly what she’s done.) It’s going to be too narrow or too recent or not include your favorite book that obviously should’ve been counted among the best, so the entire premise of the list is therefore null and void. Any list claiming to feature the best “insert adjective here” books of all time is inevitable going to be a bit controversial.
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