Gonna write a top 10 space opera post soon. Current unsorted shortlist: Foundation Futurama Star Trek Culture Hainish cycle HHG Expanse Dune (?) Mandalorian Schismatrix Deepness in the Sky Rick and Morty Hyperion (?) Out: Clarke/Rama, Firefly, 3BP, Lost in Space
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I like Solaris, but I would not really call it "fun" (the book, haven't seen the movie)
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Also, probably doesn't really qualify as space opera anyway
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Charley Stross and commenters did an interesting deep-dive on this: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/defining-space-opera.html … Have you seen https://www.amazon.com/Corporation-Wars-Trilogy-Ken-MacLeod/dp/0316489247 … wonder if it qualifies?
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Have you Cowboy Bebop?
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Why’d you decide 3BP didn’t make the cut?
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Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu. The reboot is excellent and accessible, if you don't want to go near the 80s anime.
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Original only
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Babylon 5. Mandalorian is not a space opera imo.
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Wait neither is rick and morty. Idiosyncratic definition is idiosyncratic.
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Commonwealth Saga is a romp of a space opera that ticks both of those boxes. The Void Trilogy set in same universe afterward would as well
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