# Suggest a space opera for a person who doesn't read science fiction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [March 15, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-space-opera-for-a-person-who-doesnt-read-science-fiction/937902 "2021-03-15T00:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 87
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-space-opera-for-a-person-who-doesnt-read-science-fiction/937902/87 "2021-03-17T04:17:05Z")
One of the pleasures of Hyperion is trying to figure out which sf author is being imitated in each story, which I think would be far, far more difficult to do in an audio version. > [@Question about Hyperion (Dan Simmons novel)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hyperion-dan-simmons-novel/673439): > > As many of us know, the structure of [Hyperion](http://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-Dan-Simmons/dp/0553283685), the science fiction novel by Dan Simmons, follows [The Canterbury Tales](http://www.amazon.com/Canterbury-Tales-Geoffrey-Chaucer/dp/1480263303/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383935489&sr=1-1&keywords=the+canterbury+tales) by Geoffrey Chaucer - a group of disparate people joining together on a journey to a common destination, each of them telling a tale of how they came to be on that journey at that time.\* However, I have read a couple of times that Simmons used the “writing voices” of specific science fiction authors for each of the stories, but I have never read (a) confirmations that this is tr… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-space-opera-for-a-person-who-doesnt-read-science-fiction/937902)._