I love Neal Asher’s books, found him a long time ago in one of those “year’s best” collections of short stories from the library (though the ones with fantasy and horror were always the best, I think I read every single collection for every year and found so many good writers that way.)
They are full of action, good characters and worlds and ideas, sweeping and huge settings. Feels almost more like watching a movie to read them.
Who among us likes these action packed stories?
Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton.
There are so much fantastic space opera out there. Some high-points for me, but depends on what you want out of a space opera:
- Alistair Reynolds, “revelation space” and its’ series
- James Alan Gardner: “expendable” and its’ series
- Timothy Zahn: lord, he has probably dozens
- Allan Cole & Chris Bunch: Sten series
- Simon R. Green: Deathstalker series
- Alan Dean Foster: A Call To Arms and trilogy
- Brandon Sanderson
- John Scalzi did a trilogy a couple of years ago
- John Varley’s “Seven Worlds”(?) series.
- Vernor Vinge: Fire Upon the Deep
- Ken MacLeod’s “Fall Revolution “ series
- Kim Stanley Robinson “Mars” Series
- The Expanse
I really love the Culture series.
For me, the favorite of the genre to date are the Mass Effect games, Star Wars (the good ones, at least), Asimov’s Foundation books, Stanislav Lem’s Solaris book and, even if it’s more grimdark than space opera, Warhammer 40k. I still have to delve into The Expanse but I don’t have the time yet
Saga of the Seven Suns was good from my recollection. I wonder when he’ll revisit, Kevin J Anderson is prolific
isnt Expeditionary force a space opera? at least Skippy would like it to be.
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The Ender series splits and has a series of books from Ender’s pov and the other from Bean’s. Both are great and imo the series that follows Bean was a little more engaging.
Yup. The Bean books are more like, in character, the first Ender book. While the “original” sequels get into some slower more philosophical/religious things. Some of that is good, some weird, some dull.
