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I would recommend 'To Live Forever' and 'Monsters in Orbit' then.

8/10 in fact.

No,but from the descriptions I just saw it sounds pretty good. Shame there's no ebook of it anywhere at the moment ;)

ok,ok..touche,I yield! You've obviously researched the guy...I haven't. I have no idea,I was just basing my comment about the editing off his work on a thing I read online about 5 minutes before I posted it (can't remember it,but I just googled CAS editing or something) where some literature...

Yeah,sort of...but also with Romance usually,tragedy and pathos and all that sort of stuff that you find in actual Opera. Actually,I probably should have said,with the emphasis on 'Adventure' really. ;)

Yep,well done,it's Boris ;)

Oh well,good to see some dissenting opinion! I was just exaggerating about CAS' output,but I'm sure his estate has done very well over the years. I've read quite a few things about the editing of his stuff,and my understanding is that the man himself did most of it at the request of his...

It's obviously a hard issue,the whole copyright thing,I can totally see it from both sides (being a musician who has long ago given up trying to sell cd's myself) I've actually done a complete turnaround with this in recent years,I've converted to a total 'free music and books and art of all...

Well,definitions of 'Space Opera' aside,amazingly no one has mentioned Leigh Brackett...The Queen of Space Opera...her nickname says it all,right? (my definition of Space Opera would be 'Romantic Adventure Science Fantasy'...with the emphasis on 'Romantic'...the opposite to hard sci-fi in...

I just started 'To Live Forever' from 1956...it's a good one.

Well,each to their own,but I think ebooks are just a million times better in every way than paper books (especially new books...they're all way too big,heavy,unwieldy...stupid sizes that don't fit on your shelves etc...lame cover art,etc etc) Oh,and you can't support an author if he's been dead...

Some more...

Here are some that I like...

Me too...Jack ranges from the ridiculously good (Lyonesse/Dying Earth/a lot of his early short stories,a few others) through a decent list of pretty good,to another decent list of the very ordinary,bordering on lame... ;) I've had an old copy of Emphyrio since about 1978 or something but I...

'the Silmarillion ... also has a lot of darkness and pathos, and borders on Greek tragedy at times, which gives it a more gut level impact'. Yes,it's not a kid's book...;) 'Furthermore, it's interesting that despite all this, the success of LOTR in the US was mostly driven by a very...

After quickly going over the whole thread I can't believe there's not one vote for any of my choices!! I might have missed them though... It's hard enough thinking of just five,impossible to put them in order... Dancers at The End of Time - Moorcock Skaith trilogy (if it has to be one book ...

Well it depends what you like,but I would recommend Leigh Brackett's 'Skaith' trilogy to anyone. Imho she was as good a science fiction author as anyone ever,and better than 95% of them...male or female. ;)...