Space Opera category: 13040 books

William Gladstone once pointed out that a culture reveals itself in how it cares for its dead. MOURNER, the third book in the Harmony series, vividly explores how three very different cultures treat their dead when the body of Laud Gregor, Harmony’s High Priest, goes missing between First...

The enemy created the best starfighter in the galaxy. Now he's going to steal it. Star Runners are dying. Lurking in the darkness, the expansion faction of the Zahl Empire has an innovative threat confronting the Tridents of the Galactic Legion of Planets. After surviving pirate attacks...

How can you oppose an adversary willing to claim victory at any cost? Still reeling from recent events in the intergalactic cold war, former Earth resident Austin Stone enters a new phase of his career as a Star Runner with the Galactic Legion of Planets by joining the covert squadron known...

On the edge of UPA space a mysterious vessel has appeared. No one knows where it came from. It has no callsign or identifying marks. The vessel simply transmits a standard S.O.S. in a signal that hasn’t been used in hundreds of years: Morse code. While still recovering...

Starships in all their glory! FTL drive, microgravity or stargates. Trapped, stranded or moving from place to place. Warships, space shuttles, generation ships. Shipwrecks, transports, intergalactic accidents. Humor and drama across the Milky Way and beyond! 10 stories of starships and their...

Aboard the space station First Contact Café, Station Commander General Jake Devlin and Sissy, inexperienced and undereducated High Priestess of Harmony, confront the mystery of an odd eight-limbed stowaway, a mystical refugee who talks in circles rather than reveal the truth, and clues to the...

Harmony, a new utopia for space-faring humans. Or is it a thinly disguised tyranny locked into a rigid caste system, slavery by another name? Either way, xenophobic Harmony holds the secret to Badger Metal, a unique ceramic-metal alloy that protects people from the radiation and hard vacuum...

Hungry for "a wild and woolly journey through time and space," some really cool aliens, and a touch of romance? Book View Café proudly presents the ebook release of JAYDIUM, the debut novel of Deborah J. Ross (originally published under her former name, Deborah Wheeler).  ...

Lauren needed to get to space. Now.   She'd tried following the rules to get an ID but no one would listen. Either she got to space or she starved to death.   Clubbing Idowu Mas, Ceelen warrior, and stealing her jumpsuit and ID weren't smart but it was necessary.   If...

She’s a USMC Sergeant deployed to the Garradian Galaxy. He was raised by the robots who freed him from slavery. It’s a match made nowhere anyone can figure out. They clashed as enemies but joined forces to defeat a common foe. Now they’re tasked with returning some freed...

She wasn't supposed to wake up when dead… During a simple operation Tish Douglas died. And yet, she also awoke… in what the doctors called a 'psi event.' No matter what they called it, it destroyed the life she knew and sent her fleeing Earth to a remote still-operating ancient space station...

Looking for science fiction stories like they used to write? Far Orbit Apogee takes all of the fun-to-read adventure, ingenuity, and heroism of mid-century pulp fiction and reshapes it into modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of writers for today’s reader. Follow the adventures of...

Paul Grayson walked the city street slowly. He was sauntering towards the spaceport, but he was in no hurry. He had allowed himself plenty of time to breathe the fresh spring air, to listen to the myriad of sounds made by his fellow men, and to revel in the grand freedom that being out in the open...

An American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. Serviss's favorite topic was astronomy, as shown by the fact that of the fifteen books he wrote, eight...