In The Space Opera Renaissance, Kathryn Cramer and David Hartwell had this to say about space operas: John Harrison, Gary Gibson, and Paul McAuley are all great contributors to this time.ĭespite all these wonderful contributions, the space opera didn't become recognized as its own legitimate genre until the early 1990's. Readers had redefined the negative connotation associated with Space Operas as now a specific type of SciFi adventure.Īround this time, British writers also help to propel space operas into commonplace SciFi during the British Golden Age of SciFi. And their ever-growing popularity reached a milestone in the 60's and 70's. Well, despite having a jaded name, space operas remained a guilty pleasure for readers. So, if space operas didn't start out so great. The term has stuck and later evolved to be one of the most popular areas of science fiction. A story that was little more science fiction than fantasy. This inspired Tucker to first use the phrase "space opera". That many of these "horse operas" were simply being moved to outer space- with the details changed to suit galactic conditions. SciFi fans of the time started to notice something funny.
(Thus, soap operas.) The term had extended itself to some the Spaghetti Westerns being produced at the time as well under the term "horse opera". These radio dramas were often hokey dramas sponsored by soap companies. Remember this was the golden age of radio. In the late 1930s and 1940s, there were several radio dramas that aired. Tucker used it as a derogatory term in Issue 36 of science fiction fanzine Le Zombie. And it wasn't very nice at the time either. The genre was first christened the "Space Opera" back in 1941 by fan fiction writer and independent author Wilson Tucker.
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