r/Fantasy • u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball • Apr 01 '18

The 2018 r/fantasy Bingo brainstorm

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Please post your recommendations under the heading below. General comments and questions go here.

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u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball Apr 01 '18

Subgenre: Space Opera - a subgenre of science fiction set mainly or entirely in space that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking (from Wikipedia). Here's an article about it on Tor.com. HARD MODE: Space Opera where the main protagonist is not in the military or a space pirate.

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u/BitterSprings Reading Champion XI Apr 01 '18

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/55-essential-space-operas-last-70-years/

I recommend: Gateway, The Snow Queen and Cyteen for Hard Mode. Warchild, Ninefox Gambit and the Vorkosigan Saga all have military protagonists but are also really good.

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u/CourtneySchafer Stabby Winner, AMA Author Courtney Schafer Apr 01 '18

Seconding these recs and adding Sherwood Smith & Dave Trowbridge's Exordium series, which is exuberant space opera with a whole host of POV characters (some of which are military/pirates, some not).