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Non-military space opera recomendations (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by yaroto98@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for some good space opera. I read a lot on royal road and KU. I love space opera, but I'm sick of military and AI tropes. Any good suggestions? The more ship to ship battles the better. I understand that may be counter-intuitive, but I've read several privateer/freighter/scrapper books that were amazing. Looking for more of the same.

Thanks!

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[–] unfnknblvbl@kbin.earth 3 points 4 days ago

check out the OG space operas, the Lensman and Skylark series by E.E. 'doc' Smith if you haven't already. He also has a bunch of other rollicking adventure tales that are pretty great. You just need to bear in mind the time period they were written in (1920s-1950s)..