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The Kinetic
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:19:23 -
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In the late 1970s, the Star Wars franchise (1977GÇôpresent) created by George Lucas brought a great deal of attention to the genre. |

Kitt Letor
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:19:27 -
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Space opera is defined as an adventure science fiction story. |

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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:19:29 -
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The term "space opera" was coined in 1941 by fan writer (and later author) Wilson Tucker, in a fanzine article,[2] as a pejorative term. |

Arilyn Moonblade
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:19:33 -
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At the time, serial radio dramas in the US had become popularly known as soap operas because many were sponsored by soap manufacturers. |

Rain6637
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:27 -
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Tucker defined space opera as the science fiction equivalent: a "hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn".
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Rain6638
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:31 -
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Even earlier, the term horse opera had come into use as a term for western films.
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Rain6639
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:33 -
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In fact, some fans and critics have noted that the plots of space operas have sometimes been taken from horse operas and simply translated into an outer space environment, as famously parodied on the back cover of the first issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. |

Rain6635
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:36 -
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Still, during the late 20s and early 30s when the stories were printed in science fiction magazines, the stories were often referred to as "super-science epics".
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Rain6636
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:38 -
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Beginning in the 1960s, and widely accepted by the 1970s, the space opera was redefined, following Brian Aldiss' definition in Space Opera (1974) as (in the paraphrase Hartwell and Cramer) "the good old stuff".
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Mhairi
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:41 -
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Yet soon after his redefinition, it began to be challenged, for example, by the editorial practice and marketing of Judy-Lynn del Rey and in the reviews of her husband and colleague Lester del Rey. |
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The Kinetic
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:44 -
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In particular, they disputed the claims that space operas were obsolete, and Del Rey Books labeled reissues of earlier work of Leigh Brackett as space opera. |

Kitt Letor
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:47 -
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By the early 1980s, space operasGÇöadventure stories set in spaceGÇöwere again redefined, and the label was attached to major popular culture works such as Star Wars. |

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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:52 -
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It was only in the early 1990s that the term space opera began to be recognized as a legitimate genre of science fiction. |

Arilyn Moonblade
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:21:58 -
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Hartwell and Cramer define space opera as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in the relatively distant future, and in space or on other worlds, characteristically optimistic in tone. |

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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:23:36 -
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Page 303 snipe! |

Rain6637
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:06 -
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It often deals with war, piracy, military virtues, and very large-scale action, large stakes.
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:08 -
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Early works related to but preceding the subgenre contained many elements of what would become space opera.
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Rain6639
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:39 -
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They are today referred to as proto-space opera. |

Rain6635
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:42 -
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The earliest proto-space opera was written by a few little-known mid-nineteenth century French authors, for example Star ou Psi de Cassiop+¬e: Histoire Merveilleuse de lGÇÖun des Mondes de lGÇÖEspace (1854) by C. I. Defontenay and Lumen (1872) by Camille Flammarion.
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Rain6636
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:44 -
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Not widely popular, proto-space operas were nevertheless occasionally written during the late Victorian and Edwardian science fiction era.
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Mhairi
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:47 -
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Examples may be found in the works of Percy Greg, Garrett P. Serviss, George Griffith and Robert Cromie. |

The Kinetic
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:50 -
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One critic cites Robert William Cole's The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 as the first space opera. |

Kitt Letor
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:52 -
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The novel does depict an interstellar conflict between solar men of Earth and a fierce humanoid race headquartered on Sirius. |

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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:55 -
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However, the idea for the novel arises out of a nationalistic genre of fiction popular from 1880 to 1914, called future war fiction,[9] and many would therefore dispute its claim to be called the first space opera. |

Arilyn Moonblade
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:24:58 -
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While these early stories included interplanetary and interstellar travels and adventures, intergalactic travels and galaxies other than the Milky Way would not be introduced until years later when tales like Outside the Universe (Weird Tales, JulyGÇôOctober 1929) by Edmond Hamilton appeared, after Hubble had published his discoveries in 1924-1925, and made the public aware that the universe expanded beyond our own galaxy and was much larger than the limited and static universe people had believed in until then. |

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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:26:47 -
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Despite this seemingly early beginning, it was not until the late 1920s that the space opera proper began to appear regularly in pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories.
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:26:50 -
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In film, the genre probably began with the 1918 Danish film, Himmelskibet.
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:26:52 -
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Unlike earlier stories of space adventure, which either related the invasion of Earth by extraterrestrials, or concentrated on the invention of a space vehicle by a genius inventor, pure space opera simply took space travel for granted (usually by setting the story in the far future), skipped the preliminaries, and launched straight into tales of derring-do among the stars. |

Rain6635
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:26:54 -
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Some early stories of this type include J. Schlossel's "Invaders from Outside" (January 1925, Weird Tales),[11] Ray Cummings' Tarrano the Conqueror (1925), Edmond Hamilton's Across Space (1926) and Crashing Suns (in Weird Tales, AugustGÇôSeptember 1928), J. Schlossel's The Second Swarm (Spring 1928, in Amazing Stories Quarterly), and The Star Stealers (February 1929 in Weird Tales).
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Posted - 2016.04.25 13:26:57 -
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Similar stories by other writers followed through 1929 and 1930.
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