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Space opera tells large-scale adventures among stars, spacecraft and interstellar societies. Its stories can encompass exploration, politics, war and encounters with other worlds.

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March 2023

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Battlestar Galactica: the space opera that Star Wars couldn’t quite crush (video).

In the wake of the astronomical success of the first Star Wars movie, says Rowan J Coleman, TV studios scrambled to replicate the…

ColonelFrog27 Mar 2023

Seven Seas signs up a runaway mermaid and a retired hitwoman with a gacha habit for 2027 (manga and books news).

Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news).

Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature).

Monster Hunter Outlanders is out on mobile, so you can now carve up an Elder Dragon on the bus (games news).

Such sights to show you, again: BOOM! collects Clive Barker’s 1990s Pinhead comics for the first time since 1993 (comics news).

Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature).

Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)

Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature).

Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot.

Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026

Exterminate the writers? Russell T Davies calls the BBC boss’s AI Doctor Who remarks “clumsy”, and puts a date on the new Doctor (news).

7,350 days and counting: the Osaka office worker whose daily webcomic has just outrun Schlock Mercenary (comics news).

Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).

Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news).

“Never say never”: Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made their peace with losing Solo, and Kathleen Kennedy sent a nice note about Project Hail Mary (Star Wars news).

Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name

The superhero novel written to escape comics goes back to them: IDW is adapting Wildbow’s web serial Worm (comics news).

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Space opera

March 2023

Battlestar Galactica: the space opera that Star Wars couldn’t quite crush (video).