Space opera, the first thing that comes to mind when presented with this theme for me was the 5th element. Upon the spaceship cruse there is, in the literal sense a space opera, aliens singing operetta in the vast expanse of space. Detaching my self of this idea I'm brought into the book The stars my destination, a classic space opera piece of fiction.
You have in the beginning the man, Gulliver Foyle, stranded alone on his ship marooned to die in the vastness of space. He is shire to die if he didn't find a way to get off the ship and make it onto another planet with out being caught up in the war. He finally sees a ship the Vorga, and sends off flares for them to rescue him, the ship carried on ignoring him and he decides to set the rest of his life to vengeance on the ship that left him. To me, this whole idea of vengeance is very silly and childish. Yes, they didn't pick you up, but could you imagine all the reasons why not? You were in a war, they could think you were a decoy to lure them into fire, or a spy or any other countless reasons. Another thing that at this point perplexed me, was that only when he was shunned by the Vorga, did he get to repairing the engine on the ship. Obviously he could have dine it before, but decided to sit and wait for someone to help him, and only in blind rage did he find the motivation to propel him self to actually doing something to help his own situation. This also falls into the space opera theme nicely, and takes out some what incompetent and lazy hero and places him on the path of big adventure and big space explorative flights. The rest of the book follows the theme of the space opera rather closely focusing around big explosions, girls romance intrigue and our hero wiggling his way out of a number of situations and to be honest, it was quite like a Micheal bay movie written down at points. Not much my taste of novels, but not Impossible to read.
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