Its surprisingly difficult to find a good science fiction space opera novel on this site that doesn't have major wuxia/xinia elements or outright magic fantasy. I've already read both the Ender's game quartet and The Expanse series. I'd prefer a longer series with several volumes with elements of space battle, alien culture, and exploration. I'd prefer a series that doesn't have overly powerful esper abilities that allow a normal person to easily destroy a large ship, unless that ability is the series Mcguffin. I do not mind minor psychic abilities are common place like bionic abilities are in the mass effect game series. I'm trying to avoid ones that overly emphasize giant robots such as gundam, Tempest of the Stellar War I'm interested in recommendations for books even with a price tag as long as they can be achieved with amazon, kindle or a reputable book store. ~~~If only IEatTomatoes wrote a full space opera novel. Swallowed Star is good, but the cultivation element puts the science fiction far on the back burner and just doesn't fill my craving.
i tend to avoid anything modern-futuristic, so you won't get much from me. skyfire's the only 1 i've partially read, but it kinda lost me after awhile.
I don't think. You should mix sci-fic with Xianxia or even Wuxias. Cuz Xianxia= High Fantasy or Wuxia = Low Fantasy. So it does not make sense with Xianxia and Sci-fi. You can search for Koreans novels or Japanese. But with Wuxia or xianxia. No way. Its made for cultivation
I would recomend that too, but when people become strong enough, ships don't mean *s**t. It has the same problem as Swallowed Star to the OP
I recommend you this: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/ref/universes/jenkinsverse/chronological_reading_order Something I'm working through right now. Been reading this over a week now.
If you're looking for 'traditional' space opera this site probably isn't the best place to look. You want to go check out the sci-fi sections on Amazon, stuff like the Honor Harrington series. Troy Rising by John Ringo is one of my personal favorites and fits your requirements pretty much perfectly.
An sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable form magic, but a person in space without a void suit destroying a battle-cruiser with a sneeze is no longer in the realms of physics. I just want a novel where the characters can't create a planet with their mind or split a world with their fist. A few good selections. -Galactic Dark Net seems interesting, but if it's similar to Swallowed Star it doesn't completely solve my fey mood. -I completely ignored Ark The Legend because for some reason i thought it was The Legendary Sculptor so that might hook me now that im not hopelessly confusing it. -I feel a bit of disappointment in myself for now knowing babylon 5 was a book before a show. If it has enough differences I'll probably pick it up. -Just finished reading the intro to jenkinsverse and I'll be hitting that pretty hard. Looks like I might have another translation to look forward to from Yukkuri in the future as well.
Seconded. I dont think there's many scifi novels that is more developed than this one, with the infodump flowing naturally along the story.
Yeah I agree with what someone else said earlier, if you are looking for space opera, check out western sources, not eastern webnovels
If you're willing to try Western novels, then try some of the following: - The Vorkosigan saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold. (spies and spaceships, romance and politics, oh my!) - Sector General series, by James White (pacifist alien doctors in space try to treat weird but fascinating aliens) - The RCN series, by David Drake (talented spaceship captain partners with information specialist) (first book available legally for free) Also check out Christopher Anvil's anthologies of short stories. Those are pretty engaging and funny.
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