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Kitt Letor
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6061 - 2016-04-25 13:27:05 UTC
His first published work, The Skylark of Space, written in collaboration with Lee Hawkins Garby, (August–October 1928, Amazing Stories) is often called the first great space opera.
row
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6062 - 2016-04-25 13:27:08 UTC
It merges the traditional tale of a scientist inventing a space-drive with planetary romance in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Arilyn Moonblade
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6063 - 2016-04-25 13:27:11 UTC
Smith's later Lensman series and the works of Edmond Hamilton, John W. Campbell, and Jack Williamson in the 1930s and 1940s were popular with readers and much imitated by other writers.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6064 - 2016-04-25 13:29:57 UTC
By the early 1940s, the repetitiousness and extravagance of some of these stories led to objections from some fans and the coining of the term in its original, pejorative sense.
Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6065 - 2016-04-25 13:29:58 UTC
Eventually, though, a fondness for the best examples of the genre led to a reevaluation of the term and a resurrection of some of the subgenre's traditions.

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Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6066 - 2016-04-25 13:30:00 UTC
Writers such as Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson had kept the large-scale space adventure form alive through the 1950s, followed by writers like M. John Harrison and C. J. Cherryh in the 1970s.
Rain6635
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6067 - 2016-04-25 13:30:01 UTC
By this time, "space opera" was for many readers no longer a term of insult but a simple description of a particular kind of science fiction adventure story.

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Rain6636
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6068 - 2016-04-25 13:30:02 UTC
Some critics distinguish between space opera and planetary romance.

lol planetary romance

ey baby moon you look mighty fine in that new belt. is that your north pole or are you just happy to see me. Seeing you is a total eclipse of the heart. let's planetbone
Mhairi
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6069 - 2016-04-25 13:30:04 UTC
Where space opera grows often out of both the Western and sea adventure traditions,[citation needed] the planetary romance grows out of the lost world or lost civilization tradition.
The Kinetic
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6070 - 2016-04-25 13:30:06 UTC
Both feature adventures in exotic settings, but space opera emphasizes space travel, while planetary romances focus on alien worlds.
Kitt Letor
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6071 - 2016-04-25 13:30:07 UTC
In this view, the Martian, Venusian, and lunar-setting stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs would be planetary romances (and among the earliest), as would be Leigh Brackett's Burroughs-influenced Eric John Stark stories.
row
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6072 - 2016-04-25 13:30:20 UTC
Space opera can also sometimes be contrasted with "hard science fiction", in which the emphasis is on the effects of technological progress and inventions, and where the settings are carefully worked out to obey the laws of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and biology.
Arilyn Moonblade
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6073 - 2016-04-25 13:30:59 UTC
Some examples are seen in the works of Alastair Reynolds or the movie The Last Starfighter. At other times, space opera can concur with hard science fiction and differ from soft science fiction by instead focusing on scientific accuracy such as The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld. Other space opera works may be defined as a balance between both or simultaneously hard science fiction as well as soft science fiction such as the Dune prequel series by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert, the Star Wars series created by George Lucas or the Babylon 5 series J. Michael Straczynski.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6074 - 2016-04-25 13:35:49 UTC
Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6075 - 2016-04-25 13:36:26 UTC
what about SPACE JAM

come on and SLAM

and welcome to the JAM

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Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6076 - 2016-04-25 13:37:15 UTC
hey lagleers you really don't need to like rainstorms -_- it would make me feel better if you didn't bother.
LordOdysseus
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#6077 - 2016-04-25 14:06:06 UTC
Rain6639 wrote:
hey lagleers you really don't need to like rainstorms -_- it would make me feel better if you didn't bother.


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Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#6078 - 2016-04-25 14:42:08 UTC
But I never asked for all of these likes.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#6079 - 2016-04-25 14:47:08 UTC
The Kinetic wrote:
Both feature adventures in exotic settings, but space opera emphasizes space travel, while planetary romances focus on alien worlds.

But, but what about erotic settings? Exotic erotic. That sounds nice.
Kryptik Kai
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#6080 - 2016-04-25 15:12:25 UTC
Well this is getting annoying fast

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