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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Aug 2000.
Re: Simple Nuklearwarhead

Re: Simple Nuklearwarhead

Ool <ulr...@t-online.de> wrote:

> "Peter Marquardt aka lastfuture" <las...@lastfuture.de> wrote in
> message news:FAqMOUUBbu67BQZjaru8U=g90...@4ax.com...
> 
> > P.S.: OOL what's space opera?
> 
> Space opera is a genre term.  It includes such kinds of epic science
> fictions--mostly movies--as Star Wars, 2001, etc.  They're all heroic
> stories within extravagantly designed alternate worlds.  The classical
> music and the mythological plot of these sagas is probably the reason
> why they're called "operas."

BTW, as I read it, "space opera" was coined in parallel to "horse
opera", a derogatory term for spagetti westerns. Apparently, someone
found Buck Rodgers-type sci-fi plots to be very similar to westerns.
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Subject: Re: Simple Nuklearwarhead
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