The Ages of Space Opera

[bluetyson]

Having considered The Space Opera Renaissance tome recently - very long ratings post here : http://spaceoperareader.blogspot.com/2007/12/space-opera-renaissance-david-g.html, and gone through a lot of what I have read, here are the averages and number of pieces of work from the various time periods

Comments

scoring

[davefreer]

explain your scoring, please.

Re: scoring

[bluetyson]

Dave, haven't written a FAQ up for Space Opera as such, but really the same as this :-

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2006/12/faqguide-to-not-free-sf-reader.html

Or in a nutshell, 1 to 5.

1 = Terrible
3 = Average
5 = Great

3.5 = Above average, etc.

E.g. Crawlspace, 4 out of 5 = Good.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/07/crawlspace-dave-freer-and-eric-flint.html

So out of 10 if you like I suppose, but LibraryThing had this, so mostly done so it is the same.

Or if you prefer different adjectives, you could say 3.5 = Good, 4 = Very Good, 4.5 = Excellent, 5 = Great, or something like that.

The Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying Game ranks would be fun, too.

Feeble
Poor
Typical
Good
Excellent
Remarkable
Incredible
Amazing
Monstrous
Unearthly

But be really long to type, and Monstrous is a bit out of place. ;-)

Re: scoring

[bluetyson]

Whipped one up fast here :-

http://spaceoperareader.blogspot.com/2007/12/faq-and-guide-to-space-opera-reader_12.html

Re: scoring

[davefreer]

Thanks. I'm obliged. So you think modern space opera is marginally better, and new space opera better than that? Interesting.

Dave (who has been accused of writing space opera, but didn't think he did much except for Wizards of Karres. I've just written a short that is though)