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At 6:47 p.m. on a Tuesday, Jett Calloway's V8 died without the drama he'd grown accustomed to in three decades of building engines. There was no snarling collapse at Rattlesnake Pa
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Space Opera Fiction books
Every book here is tagged space opera and filed under Fiction. Read the first chapters of all 8 of them free, with no account and no card.
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- The first 20% of every book, rounded up, so at least one chapter. Across this shelf that is about 4 chapters per book, and every book here is 20 chapters long.
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- The free sample ends at the paywall. Dracon Omni unlocks every chapter of every book on this shelf, including the ones we give away, and keeps them on your devices.
- Who writes space opera fiction books?
- 8 authors write them, led by Caspian Pemberton, Kade Orbit and Kai Starfield. Every one opens its first chapters free.
Space Opera Fiction on the shelf
Iron in the Vela Drift
Mara Voss scrapes corrosion off a contract and commits: forty thousand credits to recover a derelict gunship adrift in the Vela Drift, the graveyard where Republic seals rot and un
Iron Silence
A fractured distress beacon pulses from the heart of the Vega-7 debris field, three beats, then nothing, repeating for nine hours and counting. Ensign Maren Vex knows the pattern.
The Ferrum Gambit
Sera Vance knows how to disappear. On the orbital docks of Caelum Prime, silence is her currency and solitude her armor, until a ghost from her past detonates the careful life she'
Ironwake
When the Prometheus drive fails, Commander Darius Vex wakes from cryosleep alone. The Ironwake drifts in a starfield that should be moving but isn't. Her crew is scattered across c
Ashfall Protocol
Deep in the salvage locker of the derelict freighter Gilded Cessation, Della Merrow watches a red console light pulse once every three seconds, steady as a funeral drum. The ship i
Iron Tide Reckoning
Callum Vasek wakes from cryo-sleep with blood on his tongue and a dead ship screaming around him. The Kotrom Kazarov is bleeding atmosphere, its corridors lit by emergency amber an
The Covenant of the Veiled Reach
When Kael Virello sets the Ember Wake down on Silo-9, the docking clamps groan like a warning. He expects a routine refuel, a brush with Dockmaster Hargus, and a quiet exit before