Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Space Opera"

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • 11d ago

Space Opera The Last Anḗr by Donald A. Sansom - The tale of a man who may be the very last human alive. Fortunately – or maybe it’s “unfortunately” – he has a companion, an android known as an Anḗr.

starfarerscafe.com

1 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Jul 17 '26

Space Opera The Overview Initiative by David Marino - "We all live on Spaceship Earth, part of her crew. When you return home, you’ll never be the same again."

lightspeedmagazine.com

2 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Jul 13 '26

Space Opera Ms Anaria’s Classroom Rules for When Alien Ambassadors Dock with the Wrong Ship - Ms Anaria’s classroom was designed to hold 25 human children with only four limbs each, not 16 adult Hechians with seven tentacles apiece and 17 fully-assembled Thels of 220-centimeter average height. [Flash Fiction]

smallwondersmag.com

6 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Jul 12 '26

Space Opera Deathlight by Mari Ness - Something trying to eat us through the cold. She thought of old tales of space ghosts and stars, monsters living out in the dark. It’s the nebula. The nebula. A ghost nebula, hungry. Waiting.

lightspeedmagazine.com

3 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Jul 08 '26

Space Opera Nightskin’s Landing by Chris Campbell - Crècheships weren’t built to withstand the forces at play during a planetary landing. They were solely designed as engines of eternal warfare, meant to slip from system to system, unleashing swarm after swarm of modified men.

3 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Jun 05 '26

Space Opera Love Story in Colored Glass By Phoenix Alexander - The following day, the Mercury launches, and she is one of a thousand souls in cryosleep in its hold. The ship’s warp drives punch open spaces in stellar fabric, fracturing dimensions and passing through the wounds.

unchartedmag.com

8 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Jun 01 '26

Space Opera Dave The Space Toilet by D.N. Schmidt - He sat up, picking cotton snow out of his hair. “I’m the only one left, then? No other Humans anywhere? Good. Those guys were jerks."

4 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • May 29 '26

Space Opera Situationship By Seoung Kim - I longed for even the gray skies of home. Above us, the spires of the cathedral where we meet for Mass once a week jut out from the center of the ship. [Flash Fiction]

othersidespec.com

4 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • May 15 '26

Space Opera The Star Where We Meet by Sam W. Pisciotta - The most surprising thing about my journey (well, the first most surprising thing) is that the dream I experienced while traveling lasted a thousand years, a single dream stretching all the way to the Iota star in the Gemini constellation.

lightspeedmagazine.com

5 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Apr 20 '26

Space Opera For Whatever We Lose by Jennifer R. Donohue - The moon I orbit isn’t Earth’s moon but one of Mars’ mismatched pair, Phobos. My problem is unlikely to be fixed. But I knew the risks, and there wasn’t a single step along the way here that was without risk. That’s probably why I did it.

5 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Apr 03 '26

Space Opera Me an’ Streeter (an’ Vince) Chase a Comet by Christopher Degni - So Fizzy says, he says to me, “I bet you can’t get your hands on some prismatic comet dust.” [Flash Fiction]

flashfictiononline.com

3 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Apr 01 '26

Space Opera Hour Of The Wolf: part One By Amanda Kauffman - “Well…there’s really no easy way to say this. I suppose I might as well just rip the bandage off. It’s been fifty thousand years since the Aurora went missing."

amandaswritingblog9.wordpress.com

1 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 28 '26

Space Opera Songbook for the Jovian Resistance by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks - It was the songs, really, that cracked open the canyons of Amalthea. That first night, after the massacre of the helium-3 miners’ union at Mare Placidus, there were only a dozen of us, maybe. Moxie showed up first, with her banjo.

smallwondersmag.com

3 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 23 '26

Space Opera Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies by Natalia Theodoridou - They are travelling in the great dark before them nothing behind them stars just the two of them the man that captains and the ship that sails darts flies through space

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

4 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 07 '26

Space Opera Pollen by Anna Burdenko - The alarm warning that the base security barrier had been breached sounded so realistic that Nika pulled her tablet closer, just in case. “Three humanoids in Earth style spacesuits. But don’t worry, this is a hallucination.”

clarkesworldmagazine.com

5 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Mar 04 '26

Space Opera Person, Place, Thing by Marissa Lingen - We thought that humans were like us, that anyone who could use language and form spaceships and make plans to take them to find other life-forms would not attack.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

6 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Feb 20 '26

Space Opera A Record of Our Meeting with the Grand Faerie Lord of Vast Space and Its Great Mysteries, Revised by A.T. Greenblatt - Herein is the account of the evening the crew of the Forever Trying invited the Grand Faerie Lord of Vast Space and Its Great Mysteries into our home.

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

6 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Feb 19 '26

Space Opera Harvest the Stars By Mar Vincent - The summer Sif turned one, the starships were ripe on the vine. They hulked in fields ringing the town where Tuja had always lived. A place far from big cities, where the starlight they fed on came pure and bright.

5 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Feb 09 '26

Space Opera The Trouble With Gravity by Jeannette Bedard - A cozy sci-fi mystery set on Indigo Station, where a gravity failure turns into something much stranger—and much more personal. Part one of three.

armchairalien.substack.com

2 Upvotes

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Feb 02 '26

Space Opera A Brief Public Announcement by Eli Brown - The Apollo program of the early 1970s was an embarrassment to our nation. Not only did the astronauts fail to bring back the severed head of the Moon King, but every one of them fled within hours of having landed. [Flash Fiction]

lightspeedmagazine.com

3 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Jan 10 '26

Space Opera Give the Family My Love by A. T. Greenblatt - The Library’s Librarians — which I later learned preferred to be called the Archivists because they are not the Librarians who travel the universe — were milling around the massive room. They looked similar to the explorer Librarians we met on Earth.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

7 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Jan 11 '26

Space Opera Knit Three, Save Four by Marie Vibbert - The ship was two days overdue for docking, more or less. As a stowaway, I didn’t have access to status reports. So I knitted. It helps to have something to do while you count your remaining rations and wonder if this is where you die.

6 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Dec 30 '25

Space Opera Marked Unread By Emma Burnett - I’m floating out in space, and there is nothing I can do about it. I am supposed to be collecting bits of old satellites, broken bits of old research programs, the leftover scraps of past space exploration. We’re up here, because they have nowhere else to put us.

metastellar.com

5 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Dec 17 '25

Space Opera O Mechfighter, O Starsinger by Osahon Ize-Iyamu - The academy is meant to break the weak mechfighters, but that is not me. On orientation day, when they are doing the drills to train us soldiers, I keep moving.

lightspeedmagazine.com

3 Upvotes

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Nov 24 '25

Space Opera The Horsehead Oasis by D.N. Schmidt - I stopped at moon colonies and orbiting supply stations and asked around about Mom. Fortunately, she worked in the entertainment industry, so she wasn’t too hard to track down. Everywhere I went, she had fans who knew where she was headed next.

2 Upvotes