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unusual facts about Space opera



Captain Z-Ro

Modeled on the science fiction space operas popular at the time (cf. Captain Video and Space Patrol), it featured sets and costumes emulating the futuristic designs of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.

Plenty series

The Plenty series is a Space opera series by Colin Greenland, consisting of three novels and two short stories.

Viagens Interplanetarias

The Viagens Interplanetarias series is a sequence of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the late 1940s and written under the influence of contemporary space opera and sword and planet stories, particularly Edgar Rice Burroughs's Martian novels.


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Adam Christopher

In April 2012, Christopher signed a book deal with Tor Books for a dark space opera entitled The Burning Dark (formerly known as Shadow's Call).

Ann Leckie

The reviewer of Locus appreciated the ambitious structure of Leckie's novel, which interweaves several past and present strands of action in a manner reminiscent of Iain M. Banks's Use of Weapons, and its engagement with the tropes of recent space opera as established by Banks, Ursula K. Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh and others.

Donnelly Rhodes

Rhodes provides the voice of the American president at the start of each episode of the CBC Radio One space opera/comedy series Canadia: 2056.