Re: Top 10 Space Opera Books and Series

The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On 31 May 2024 21:28:47 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:
>

I would say that Foundation is *not* Space Opera.  In fact it makes some
fun of Space Opera.

>
I'm not sure if it's Space Opera but it's certainly early era science
fiction with a strong "acquisition" from Gibbon - honestly the Bel
Riose section in Foundation + Empire was straight out of Gibbon,

 "With a little bit of cribbin' from the works of Edward Gibbon,
  And that Greek, Thucydides."


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