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Space opera
Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing powerful (and sometimes quite fanciful) technologies and abilities. Perhaps the most...
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Hyperion
Hyperion is a Hugo Award-winning 1989 science fiction novel by Dan Simmons. It is the first book of his Hyperion Cantos, and is the only book in it to extensively employ the literary device of the frame story (although arguably The Fall of Hyperion...
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- 1989
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Sporting Chance
Sporting Chance is a science fiction novel, written by Elizabeth Moon. Published in 1994, it is the second novel in the Familias Regnant fictional universe, and the second in the Heris Serrano trilogy. It follows on the heels of Hunting Party and is...
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- Sep 1994
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Once a Hero
Once a Hero is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is the first of the three books of the Esmay Suiza trilogy in Moon's fictional Familias Regnant universe, following the three of the Heris Serrano trilogy.
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- 1997
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Winning Colors
Winning Colors is the third novel in the space opera, military science fiction Familias Regnant fictional universe written by Elizabeth Moon; it continues the plot centered on the adventures of captain Heris Serrano and the maturation of several...
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- Aug 1995
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Hunting Party
Hunting Party is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is the first novel set in her Familias Regnant fictional universe, and the first novel in the informal Heris Serrano (the main character) trilogy. It is followed by Sporting Chance and...
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- Jul 1993
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Heirs of Empire
Heirs of Empire is 1996 military science-fiction novel by David Weber. It is the third novel in the Dahak trilogy, after the de facto duology of Mutineers' Moon and The Armageddon Inheritance. Heirs of Empire is a stand-alone work that focuses on...
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- Mar 1996
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Path of the Fury
Path of the Fury is a stand-alone science fiction novel by David Weber, in three books of 34 chapters. It centers around former elite commando Alicia DeVries's quest to attain revenge on the interstellar pirates who killed her family. The work is...
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- Dec 1992
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Change of Command
Change of Command is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is set in her Familias Regnant fictional universe, and is the third novel in the informal Esmay Suiza trilogy.
The title of Change of Command refers to two events that drive the plot...
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- 1999
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Against the Odds
Against the Odds is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is her seventh and last novel set in the Familias Regnant fictional universe. It does not fall in either informal trilogy (the Heris Serrano and the Esmay Suiza trilogies); fittingly...
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- 2000
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Line of Delirium
Line of Delirium and Emperors of Illusions are two 1995 books of a space opera trilogy by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko (Shadows of Dreams is a short prequel to Line of Delirium and is usually included in the second book). The...
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Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth is a 1982 science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz.
The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as...
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- 1982
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Empire From the Ashes
Empire From The Ashes is a science fiction novel written by David Weber.
Published in 2003] by Baen books, it is an omnibus re-issue of Weber's Dahak trilogy.
It includes Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire.
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- Mar 2003
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Genome
Genome (Russian: Геном, Genom) is a science fiction/detective novel by the popular Russian sci-fi writer Sergei Lukyanenko. The novel began a series also called Genome, consisting of Dances on the Snow (a prequel, although written later) and...
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Dances on the Snow
Dances on the Snow is a science fiction novel written by the Russian sci-fi and fantasy writer Sergey Lukyanenko. Despite the fact that the novel was written later, it is considered to be an indirect prequel to the novel Genome. It takes place in...
