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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The story combines elements ofspaceopera, dark cyberpunk, romance and rock-band road-trip adventure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Both feature adventures in exotic settings, butspaceoperaemphasizes space travel, while planetary romances focus on alien worlds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Given the cross-pollination between planetary romance andspaceopera, many stories are difficult to classify as being wholly one or the other.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Despite this success, the magazine had a reputation for low-qualityspaceoperaand adventure fiction, and modern literary historians refer to it in dismissive terms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The newspaceoperawas a reaction against the old.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The series is a science fiction story set in the far future, incorporating aspects ofspaceopera.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Spaceoperasubgenre was less developed, because both state censors and highbrow intelligentsia writers watched it unfavorably.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The books are set in the modern day, but include major elements ofspaceopera.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is usually classified as humorousspaceopera.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He has done notable works of cyberpunk andspaceopera.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is best known for writingspaceopera.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The termspaceoperais sometimes used pejoratively, to describe improbable plots, absurd science, and cardboard characters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nominallyspaceopera, it explores the politics and culture of a future where cyborg technology is universal, yet major decisions can involve using tarot cards.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The genre can be divided similarly with science fiction literature into sub-genres, such as cyberpunk orspaceopera.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a popular plot device in science fiction, especially in thespaceoperasub-genre.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Stories typically merge classic urban crime, noir, and drama, with occasional forays into political thriller, survival horror, andspaceopera.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Influenced by classic literary science fiction, the series mixesspaceoperawith time travel plots.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While it does retain the interstellar scale and scope of traditionalspaceopera, it can also be scientifically rigorous.
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