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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 8687202" data-attributes="member: 3649">Space Opera is Big. There needs to be Something Big. What that Big thing is varies, but it needs to be larger than life, larger than the average largeness of fiction or&nbsp; even adventure fiction usually brings to the table. Then go further and faster than that, and then show people that was just the start. The Expanse I think of as Space Opera because we have the Gates. That's certainly a Big Thing. The protovirus rebuilding parts of Venus. The vastness of the network opening up to humans basically by accident, which is the equivalent of putting a loaded revolver in the hands of a toddler. The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Humans find out one of the Big Secrets about the universe, something the elder races already knew about but knew that humans would just have to find out for themselves. Then it goes even bigger than that. Joshua Calvert Does The Even Bigger Thing Than That near the end. Scope and stakes come into it as well. It's sometimes used as a decisive term but I totally think of Dune as space opera. Huge spans of time, huge effects on the entire galaxy as a whole, the fate of the entire race of humanity, etc etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 8687202, member: 3649"] Space Opera is Big. There needs to be Something Big. What that Big thing is varies, but it needs to be larger than life, larger than the average largeness of fiction or even adventure fiction usually brings to the table. Then go further and faster than that, and [I]then [/I]show people that was just the start. The Expanse I think of as Space Opera because we have the Gates. That's certainly a Big Thing. The protovirus rebuilding parts of Venus. The vastness of the network opening up to humans basically by accident, which is the equivalent of putting a loaded revolver in the hands of a toddler. The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Humans find out one of the Big Secrets about the universe, something the elder races already knew about but knew that humans would just have to find out for themselves. Then it goes even bigger than that. Joshua Calvert Does The Even Bigger Thing Than That near the end. Scope and stakes come into it as well. It's sometimes used as a decisive term but I totally think of Dune as space opera. Huge spans of time, huge effects on the entire galaxy as a whole, the fate of the entire race of humanity, etc etc. [/QUOTE]

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