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Looking for epic space operas (lemmy.ml)

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I really enjoyed The Hyperion Cantos, and the first few Dune books I read a long time ago (may reread these now). Can anyone recommend some other books (or series) along these lines? Huge stories on an epic scale, space battles, cool future tech, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Honor Harrington series is great for epic space opera.

The Bobiverse is really good too, though less... grandiose? It felt more personal to me.

The Well of Souls serie(s) are great.

For less opera and more funny the Phule books by Robert Aspirin are good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome list, thanks! Looks like the first book of Honor Harrington is free on Kindle so I can check it out right away. Should I read that series in publication order?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it chronological in publish order as far as i know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved the Bobiverse series, I'll have to check out the other ones!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my favorite series, but wouldn't really call it space opera

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, more hard SciFi / Empire Building imo