A great light dawns

[stephbg]

No wonder I've become disenchanted with the current state of space opera. What I'm really looking for is space adventure.



I'm sure they used to be synonymous, but then some fool decided that an administrative debate about trade tariffs was more exciting than spaceships and lightsabers and running about.

"Use the Force, Luke! ...but first, you'll need to fill in these application forms in triplicate and produce 100 points of ID. Then wait 30,000 years until a new civilisation arises and we'll arrange an interview 1,000,000 light years away. For the second interview 50,000,000 years later you'll need to slough off your corporeal body and become a galactic gas cloud. Bring references."

Comments

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the Liad series?

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I don't believe so. By whom?

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

Hey, look, ariaflame beat me to it!

Liad is cool.

http://www.korval.com/liad.htm

Scroll on down to the sample chapters. Electronic copies are available through Baen.

I most enjoyed Balance of Trade
and
Conflict of Honors but they're all pretty good.

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

that explains so much!

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I rather like space opera with bureaucracy etc, actually, when its done well. Iain Banks often does it (I just fnished his latest, Matter, which includes this as a plot element). And then there was Reynolds The Prefect, which I thought did a fantastic job of combining space opera and police procedural (the latter naturally including administrative detail, just as it does on The Bill).

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I'm happy with procedure done well; in fact I'm quite fond of it. Peter F. Hamilton does it in lots of different ways. I adore Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. It's more the scope and slow pace of grand epic ponderous space opera that bores me sometimes, but that's mainly a function of my expectations. When I read The New Space Opera I overlooked the "new" and expected just "more".

I have made an attitude adjustment and am ready to return to society. Please. Sir.