Space Opera and Planetary Romance Reader Guide (Blue Tyson's SF Guides Book 3)

Over 500 novels, 1500 short stories, 120 collections, 80 anthologies and more are included here.

From Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars through Edmond Hamilton's and E.E. Doc Smith's World Wrecking, Leigh Brackett's planetary romances and past Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality via Frank Herbert's Dune, Niven's Ringworld, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, Greg Bear's Eon, David Brin's Startide Rising, Dan Simmons' Hyperion and all the way to Neal Asher's Polity, Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space and Beyond.

This guide is broken down into space opera and planetary romance by three periods:

Elder = before 1960
Modern = 1960 to 1989
New = 1990 onwards