25 Best Space Opera Science Fiction Books

Here is a list of the Best Space Opera Science Fiction Books. These Space Opera SciFi Books are some of the best and were selected because they are set in outer space and include a more melodramatic theme. Also, if you are interested in listening to any of these Space Opera Science Fiction Novels go to Audible's one month free trial and get yourself two free books.

1.

The Big Jump

By Leigh Brackett


No products found.

In the year 2045 the world is an ugly place. The only place Wade Watts feels like a real human is in the virtual utopia, also known as the OASIS. Devoting his life to hidden puzzles inside of the OASIS, he finds himself accomplishing challenges no one has ever done before. 

2.

Battlefield Earth

By L. Ron Hubbard


No products found.

Battlefield Earth is a landmark work of space opera science fiction by genre heavyweight L Ron Hubbard. The story centers on an Earth which has been occupied by alien forces for over a millennium. The story centers on the surviving humans attempts to fight back and overthrow their oppressors once and for all. A truly action packed science fiction tale for fans of the space opera subgenre.

3.

Cities in Flight

By James Blish


No products found.

Being a four volume series written by James Blish, Cities in Flight is covers a span of two thousand years filled with entires cities capable of flying through space. The four novels in this series include, They Shall Have Stars; A Life for the Stars; Earthman, Come Home; A Clash of Cymbals.

4.

A Fire Upon the Deep

By Vernor Vinge


No products found.

A Fire Upon the Deep is an exciting novel about a galactic war being told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years in the future there are more than just humans roaming the lands of the universe.

The potential mind of the inhabitants are solely based on where their location is in space. Some of these minds include super intelligent entities in the Transcend, and then where minds are limited in the Unthinking Depths. Here only the simple creatures and technology reside.

5.

Falling Free

By Lois McMaster Bujold


No products found.

Leo Graf was nothing special. He was a highly efficient engineer that did what he was told. Day after day he would mind his own business fixing what was broken and moving on to the next. However this was all changed when he was assigned to the Cay Habitat.

Graf was faced with an immediate challenge as hundreds of helpless children were wrongly treated by a heartless mega-corporation. 

6.

Ender's Game

By Orson Scott Card


No products found.

Set in Earth’s future humanity has begun to master interplanetary spaceflight and have started to explore t