page_title: List of space opera media
hierarchical_section_title: List of space opera media
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Imagination, April 1958
context_page_description: The following is a list of space opera media. Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer define as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in the relatively distant future, and in space or on other worlds, characteristically optimistic in tone. It often deals with war, piracy, military virtues, and very large-scale action, large stakes."
  The following are works that independent commentators have characterized as space opera, ordered chronologically by date of first publication.
context_section_description: The following is a list of space opera media. Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer define as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in the relatively distant future, and in space or on other worlds, characteristically optimistic in tone. It often deals with war, piracy, military virtues, and very large-scale action, large stakes."
  The following are works that independent commentators have characterized as space opera, ordered chronologically by date of first publication.
caption: Cover of Sci-Fi magazine, Imagination, April 1958
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