Twenty Core Space Operas Every True SF Fan Should Have On Their Shelves
23 Mar, 2017
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As with the first core list, here are twenty space operas chosen entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field [1]. No implication is intended that these are the only twenty works you should consider.
- Dust by Elizabeth Bear
- Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
- The Price of the Stars by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
- Hellflower by Rosemary Edghill
- City of Diamond by Doris Egan
- Valor’s Choice by Tanya Huff
- The Starmen of Llyrdis by Leigh Brackett
- The Myriad by R. M. Meluch
- Agent of Change by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
- Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon
- Judgment Night by C.L. Moore
- Vast by Linda Nagata
- Dark Piper by Andre Norton
- Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore
- Minisuka Pairētsu by Yūichi Sasamoto
- Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott
- Phoenix in Flight by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge
- Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree, Jr.
- House of the Wolf by M.K. Wren
1: There are two filtering rules:
- Only one work per author per list
- No given work appears on more than one list.