Dan simmons hyperion series6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is most often of a romantic or optimistic style, and will normally span a series, rather than just a single novel. (Hope, 2014) It is set in space, or at least in a setting where space is a heavy influence on the context of the novel. Space opera fits underneath the Science Fiction umbrella, and is most often soft science fiction, in that it focuses more on character development and politics than it does on the hard ins and outs of technology and science that hard science fiction would normally take as its focal point of interest. It’s like soap opera, not opera opera.” After I got over the intense embarrassment, I went and researched the very disappointing and not at all musical space opera. ![]() When I was first told that Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos was an example of space opera, I looked sceptically at the friend who was speaking and said, “How is Hyperion a space opera?” Needless to say, she laughed at me for at least five minutes before explaining that “Honey, space opera isn’t an actual opera. ![]()
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