Charge your lasers, and prepare for lightspeed: The SPACE OPERA thread.

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shadok: Dec 12, 2004; You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.; Fun Shoe

Vanilla posted:

I tried reading A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Verge because it got some good reviews here, but I just couldn't get into it.

I made several attempts to read this book over the years because Vinge is one of my favourite authors and "Marooned in Realtime" is one of my favourite books of all time, and I never made it much past the first couple of chapters. Last month I picked it up again randomly and bombed all the way through it. Sometimes books are like that.

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shadok: Dec 12, 2004; You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.; Fun Shoe

fed_dude posted:

Is Dune space opera?

Dune is practically the textbook definition of "space opera".

# ¿ Nov 4, 2009 12:25

shadok: Dec 12, 2004; You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.; Fun Shoe

Anthrovore posted:

On a related note, has anyone here read his short story The Blabber? I hear its set in the zones of thought universe, and I'm wondering how closely related it is to Fire and Deepness.

Technically it's sort of an epilogue to A Fire Upon the Deep, although since it was written before the novel it doesn't fit perfectly. Pham isn't in The Blabber but Ravna is.

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