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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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