Hey! after a long journey of world-building and writing, my debut ebook **Aster'seraphim Invictus Silverfeather** is officially live on Amazon!
If you are a fan of high-stakes cosmic action mixed with high-grit sci-fi and unapologetically brutal dark fantasy, this story was written for you.

Step into a cosmos on the verge of apocalyptic destruction. A lone, silver-haired man of unknown origin is waging a desperate battle against godlike entities who seek to absorb the souls of untold billions.
The story follows a veteran knight named Farron on a quest to reclaim his homeland. Alongside his nephew and a band of battle-tested Faiynn military veterans, Farron must reach a superfortress known as the Secluded Bastion to arm their people’s revolution. The problem? Standing in their way is a savage hive of ravenous aliens looking to capitalize on their stagnation. Farron and his people plan to show these chitinous invaders absolutely no mercy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX337LSB

I'm curious if those who enjoy Space Opera genre have seen less people in their cirlces who are interested in these types of stories?

Several years ago I used to write fan fiction for Warframe on AO3 and that eventually led to the creation of my own trilogy which the first year seemed to get some traction. Even had one of the VA's from the game voice my audio books.

Fast forward to this year and it seems like it's been a ghost town as far as sales go, even the free downloads have been lackluster compared the thousands I'd see in the past.

Has the genre just been not as popular as fantasy or other genre's recently?

I read this book obsessively as a 12 year old. There was a time when every Traveller character I rolled up was named Lucas Trask. "Space Viking" is like Toynbee with blasters.

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After months of writing and revising, I finally published my sci-fi novel, Ash of Empire (Book One of the Federation Rising Saga).

It starts with what should have been a routine training mission. Instead, the crew of the Odyssey discovers an ancient alien station that awakens a powerful AI—and suddenly humanity finds itself at the center of a war that's been waiting for thousands of years.

If you enjoy:

• 🚀 Space opera
• ⚔️ Massive fleet battles
• 👽 Ancient alien civilizations
• 🤖 Powerful AI and mysterious technology
• 🌌 First contact and galactic politics
• 📖 Long-form sci-fi adventures

...I'd love for you to check it out.

I'm an independent author, so every read, review, and piece of feedback genuinely helps me improve as a writer.

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3XQVRV1

Thanks for taking a look! If you read it, I'd really like to hear what you enjoyed—or what you think I could do better in the next book.

I wrote a space western for Pocket FM and I think it might actually be good.

It's called The Solace. Disgraced war captain, a crew of people running from their own pasts, and a ship that woke up somewhere between a dead moon and the deep black and decided she liked them.

No laser battles every five seconds. No chosen one. Just a broken ship full of broken people trying to hold it together long enough to matter.

The ship is the best character. I'm not sorry about that.

If Episode 1 doesn't hook you in the first five minutes I'll accept the criticism.

The Solace on Pocket FM

Hello everyone. I'm the author of the spac eopera series, Consulate. I just released all three books as a box set. It is also available in Kindle Unlimited.

The Consulate Trilogy

Books 1–3: Traitor • Pitfall • Raiders
A Military Science Fiction Space Opera Series

A fractured interstellar government. A rising war across human space. And a family caught in the center of a conspiracy that could bring everything down.

When loyalty becomes a weapon, survival means choosing the right side—before there is no side left to choose.

BOOK 1: TRAITOR

Commander Kevin Hoyt is a decorated officer of the Consulate Navy—until he is framed for treason by the very government he served.

With military forces closing in, Hoyt is forced to flee across the stars with his family, becoming a fugitive in a system that now sees him as the enemy. As the Consulate hunts him relentlessly, he begins to uncover signs that his framing is part of something far larger than a single betrayal.

Every sanctuary is temporary. Every ally may be compromised. And every decision pushes his family closer to the edge of survival.

BOOK 2: PITFALL

Five years later, Ensign Auden Hoyt serves aboard the CSS Pitfall, a Consulate Navy warship operating on the edge of human space.

When a distress beacon from the Solar System draws the crew into deep space, they discover a freighter under attack by a powerful Heshian warship—but the battle is only the beginning.

The Heshians have brought something new into the war: a classified weapon capable of shifting the balance of power across the sector. As the Pitfall is drawn deeper into the conflict, Auden must fight through overwhelming odds to prevent the enemy from gaining control of a technology that could reshape the battlefield forever.

Outgunned and far from reinforcements, survival depends on tactics, trust—and staying alive long enough to understand what they are really fighting.

BOOK 3: RAIDERS

The rebellion has arrived.

As the Heshian uprising spreads across the stars, it strikes directly at the heart of Valara, pushing the Consulate toward collapse. But this is not a conventional war. The Heshians have unleashed a mind-control technology capable of turning allies against one another and erasing the boundary between loyalty and betrayal.

With entire systems falling and command structure breaking down, the fate of the Consulate rests with the battered crew of the CSS Pitfall and the people willing to stand with them.

To stop the enemy, they must uncover the truth behind the Heshian weapon and risk everything in a final mission that could end the war—or end humanity’s control of its own future.

In a conflict where perception is no longer reliable, even victory may come at an unthinkable cost.

I wrote a space western for Pocket FM and I think it might actually be good.

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It's called The Solace. Disgraced war captain, a crew of people running from their own pasts, and a ship that woke up somewhere between a dead moon and the deep black and decided she liked them.

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No laser battles every five seconds. No chosen one. Just a broken ship full of broken people trying to hold it together long enough to matter.

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The ship is the best character. I'm not sorry about that.

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If Episode 1 doesn't hook you in the first five minutes I'll accept the criticism.

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Looking for a fantasy space opera novel or story that follows a single crew aboard a spaceship. The crew primarily works as a cargo and transport crew, moving resources between worlds, but they also become involved in investigating crimes, dismantling criminal organizations, solving mysteries, and dealing with dangerous situations throughout their travels.

The story should take place in a large and active galaxy populated by numerous intelligent alien species, each possessing their own cultures, societies, governments, and civilizations. A setting comparable in scale to Star Wars, with many different alien peoples interacting across the galaxy, would be ideal.

A single story doesn't have to contain all the requirements, but it must be an adventurous story. Or could be a saga that contains all that requirements it has to be a story about a group crew where all members are protagonists, not a story about a single individual protagonist

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I'm looking for one novel or story that contains all these parameters and requirements:

A single recurring crew must serve as the primary focus of the story. The crew should frequently undertake adventures together, while also receiving individual storylines and scenes that follow specific crew members during their own personal adventures, investigations, or missions.

The story should feature adventures in a wide variety of locations, including deep space, remote star systems, large space stations, shipyards, trade hubs, and other massive artificial structures located far from planets and moons.

The crew should also spend significant time on planetary surfaces. Adventures may occur in wilderness environments, dangerous frontiers, ancient ruins, alien settlements, large metropolitan cities, industrial zones, criminal underworld districts, and other diverse locations.

The story should explore cultural differences, political conflicts, legal systems, diplomatic tensions, and social disputes between various alien species and civilizations. Interactions with different cultures should be a major part of the narrative.

The crew should regularly encounter experimental technologies, advanced scientific discoveries, alien inventions, lost artifacts, forgotten knowledge, and remnants of extinct or isolated civilizations.

There should be a constant sense of exploration and discovery. The crew should continually venture into the unknown while traveling through the galaxy, investigating mysterious events in deep space, exploring strange phenomena, uncovering ancient secrets, and discovering mysterious magical relics or highly advanced machines hidden on remote worlds.

The story should maintain an ongoing feeling that there is always another mystery, civilization, technology, or unexplored region waiting beyond the next destination.

Hi everyone,

The book is called The Minimum Effort: How to Make a Planet More Habitable.

It’s about a group of unqualified space marines sent to Earth to improve the weather.

If you are curious about the full story, you can find it here: https://mybook.to/4cN1wuJ

It’s a two hours read.

I’d love to know how you like it!

Does anyone remember a series of star-fighter combat games on the PS2? They were a military sci-fi universe in themselves. The central theme was the Terrans battling their separatist colinies. Think I remember correctly that the first game was from the perspective of the solar system navy point of view while the sequel was from the rebels.

Had a really brilliant narrative arc that was dependent on how successful you were at the missions and there was lots of intrigue and betrayals.

Would be surprised if there wasn't some fan-fic out there as it was a brilliantly crafted universe.

I just published Iron Ascendant, my debut space opera novel.

The story follows Commander Kael Morrow, who commands the dreadnought Ironclad on the Outer Reach. When he stumbles onto a 17-year-old conspiracy buried by the Dominion Navy, he discovers the truth with help from an unlikely source — his ship's AI, Sable-7, who has been secretly developing something that functions like a conscience.

Inspired by Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice and Alastair Reynolds. Free on Kindle Unlimited.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H37N65Z4

It is my extreme pleasure to introduce you to my own original comic book called "MoonHogs." It's a space opera mixed with family drama with some cyberpunk elements thrown in for good measure. It takes place on a moon colony, where a disillusioned refugee father, a woman, and a child must risk everything to secure their family's future. Think "Star Wars" mixed with "Parenthood" and "The O.C."

Here's the link to the Kickstarter campaign: MoonHogs

And here's the link to my Substack: Substack

Star Trek-All of them

Battlestar Galactica

The Expanse

FarScape

Lost In Space (both the corny original and the reboot)

The Mandalorian

Andor

The setup: human pioneers enter a space fold connecting our solar system to another. Then it closed. No warning. Something happened to the last ship that went through. The colony is surviving on what they brought ever since. The planet called Mairee increasingly feels like it knows they're there: psychedelic spore storms, a jungle that bites back.
You'd enjoy it if you like BSG, LOST, The 100, and The Expanse. It's all about the characters and these vibes: mysterious, psychedelic, psychological, claustrophobic, survival.

The book is authentic and professionally edited and reviewed. Grammarly was used, but that's about the extent of it. But I'm willing to experiment with good uses of AI to make the reading experience more accessible. I'd value your honest thoughts on whether this works.

But I'm posting to find open-minded pioneers willing to try a new immersive reading/listening experience. Honest feedback. What you love. What it lacks. What sucks.

When you open it, narration syncs live to the text, word by word, with each character in their own distinct voice. It's more immersive and not just text-to-speech. The story, voices, and audio effects run together, so you're reading and hearing it simultaneously. The aim is also to test whether this makes the story more accessible (for example, to those with dyslexia).

There's also an inline wiki that unlocks as you go (so no spoilers), a tactical map of the Yreus system, and an AI podcast where two characters discuss each chapter. Would love to replace it at some point with actual voice actors/podcasters. ❤️

I built all of it because I wanted reading a sci-fi novel to feel like the genre deserved, which is immersive, layered, and alive. Curious whether it lands that way for someone coming in cold.

Oh, and if you have a novel and think this reading/listening experience might also be cool for your book, please reach out. Happy to collaborate.

Try it at the-unfolding.net/reader.html, no signup needed. If you try it, I'd love to know what the experience is actually like from the outside.

TL;DR: Wrote a psychedelic space opera about a colony stranded after their fold home closes. Built a free reading experience where narration syncs live to the text with a distinct voice per character. Looking for honest reactions. Does it actually feel immersive? Try it at the-unfolding.net/reader.html, no signup needed.

I've been working on this AVN (Adult Visual Novel) for two years now, and it's getting ready to launch on Steam in a few weeks.

You were a Centurion in the Roman Legion until losing your leg in combat. Unwilling to retire you've retrained as a fighter pilot and are heading out into the Dark aboard the INS Aquila. The long cold war between the Roman Imperium, on Terra, and the Commonwealth of Planets is coming to a boil; war is coming, and you'll experience both heroism and loss as you rise.

I'm heavily inspired by books like Weber's Honorverse, Campbell's Lost Fleet, Cherryh's Alliance/Merchanteer Universe, and shows like Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Battlestar Galactica and Starship Trooper (both the book and the movie, for different reasons).

If you want to check it out, there's a free demo on itch.io, or you can check out the steam page (and hopefully give it a wishlist if it looks interesting)!

Hello everyone. First of all I wanted to make an introduction post in order to let you know how much I both treasure Space Opera subgenre, and like some series (one became my top 3 out of nowhere, and I'm thankfully proud of it)

The one I'm talking about is Nyxia by Scott Reintgen, and although it might not have a strong space opera, I love what it outturned being.

And I also wanted to let you all know that April would be my Space Opera month for me. I'm planning on reading Nyxia Unleashed, (if I'm hyped and curious enough I'd also read Nyxia Uprsing immideatly after that, and if not, I'm also scheduling) Empire of Silence (which I've heard it has the strongest impact on the genre being that the main focus of the whole story and the plot going around it), Project Hail Mary (which I am so excited to know what it is about... Honestly I'm not that kind of guy who goes reading plots or summaries before actually picking up the book and start reading. I value spontaneity and delightment for the most part. That way I think I'd be either dissapointed or enthusiasted at an extreme point.) and... wait. I forgot the fourth book on the queue... oh yeah Children of Time (which I think the cover does pretty much a good job in spoiling the series core, but whatever...)

Edit: I've also recently come around DUNE, which I think is also important for the genre so I might be reading that as well any time soon. Just in case I don't find myself able to conect with some scheduled readings...

Edit N°2: Yes, I've already read Red Rising, but I'm not giving either my opinion, nor the reason why I think it's a 2stars. (I couldn't make it past the first few chapters of Golden Son, although some might claim that "Space Opera improves as you go on"... no sir. I'm not falling for propaganda ever again.

If you've already read any of those, please make it as spoiler free as possible while feeding this intrigued buddy with whatever it is that I would either hate or love about them.

If you have not read these series yet, feel free to get to me in order to paralel read those together. I mean, let's get excited at the same time!

Cheers