SPACE OPERA
Space Opera is a subclass of science fiction that mark
galaxy war, histrionic adventures, battles between the planets, gothic romance,
riskiness adventures. It set mainly or exclusively in outer space. There are
various movies, comics, books, web series, video games, television series, etc
based on Space Opera. The term ‘Space
Opera’ is not related to music, as in a traditional opera. Space opera
appeared in the 1930s and continued to be published comics, films, books, and
games. In 1936, Flash Gordon a film which is based on the Space Opera comic
strips, created by Alex Raymond. George Lucas’s film The Star Wars made a huge
deal of attraction to this subclass. After the breaking of convention
“new-wave”, followed by the great success of The Star Wars films, Space Opera
became again an extremely acceptable subclass.
The term ‘Space Opera’ was appeared in 1941 by a writer and author Wilson Tucker,
who used it as a dyslogistic term in an article in issue 36 of Le Zombie, a
science fiction fanzine. At that time, many serial dramas in the United States
became popularly known as ‘soap opera’ because many soap manufacturers
sponsored the serials. The ‘Horse Opera’ had also come to describe western
films.
Some
critics differentiate between Space Opera and Planetary Romance. Both have an
adventure in exotic things, but Space Opera punctuates in space travel, while
Planetary Romance focuses on alien worlds.
Space
Opera, emphasizes the effect of progressed technologies and inventions, where
everything is carefully worked out to obey the laws of physics, cosmology,
mathematics, and biology, which can be opposed to “hard science fiction”.
Examples are shown in ‘The Last Starfighter’ movie. At other times, instead of
focusing on scientific validity, Space Opera can accommodate hard science
fiction and differ from soft science fiction, as an example The Risen Empire by
Scott Westerfeld.
List of some Space Opera media: -
Novels and Series: -
·
The Skylark Series by E. E.” Doc”
Smith.
·
Known Space by Larry Niven.
·
The Space Odyssey by Arthur C.
Clarke.
·
The Lensman series and The Vortex
Blaster by E. E. Smith.
Anthologies
and collections: -
·
Space Opera by Brian Aldiss.
·
The New Space Opera and The New Space
Opera-2 by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan.
Comics and manga: -
·
Flash Gordon series by Alex Raymond.
· Guardians of the Galaxy by Marvel Comics.
·
Nexus by Mike Baron and Steve Rude.
·
Space Adventure Cobra by Buichi
Terasawa.
Films,
television, and Videos: -
·
Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry.
·
Star Wars by George Lucas.
·
Lost in Space Web Series.
·
Avatar by James Cameron.
·
John Carter by Andrew Stanton.
· Guardians of the galaxy and its series, Thor: Ragnarok, and Captain Marvel by Marvel Studios.
·
Another Life Series.
Games: -
·
Traveler.
·
Space Opera.
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