Space Opera is an interesting amalgam of swashbuckling adventure with high-tech gadgets.
No politically correct 1990's-ideology-spouting Star Trek refugees need apply...only the
creme de la creme of the adventure seekers please. Of course when one thinks of Space Opera
one work immediately jumps to mind: Star Wars. Some of the perhaps lesser known space opera
works of literature are no less exciting, however:

John Carter, Warlord of Mars

John Carter is the classic pulp hero in the Space Opera swashbuckler mode.
Heroic to a fault he is also a consummate gentleman and the greatest swordsman on
the ancient world of Barsoom (that's Mars to you and me). Originally a Virginian gentleman
and veteran of the US Civil War, Carter is mystically transported to the dying world
of Barsoom, a place of savage beauty and even more savage characters. Quick to adapt,
Carter soon discovers that he has been imbued with heightened abilities thanks to
the rarefied atmosphere of his new home...good thing too, for he has to face a
veritable bestiary of foes from the four-armed Green Men of Mars to the vicious
White Apes.

The adventures of John Carter and the other denizens of Burroughs' Mars
are found in the following titles:

• A Princess of Mars - In which our hero is first transported to Barsoom and meets the incomparable Deja Thoris.
• The Gods of Mars - John Carter returns to Mars to find himself prey to even greater dangers than before.
• Warlord of Mars - Carter battles his way to the titular role of Warlord.
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars - The son of John Carter has his own adventures on the Red Planet.
• The Chessmen of Mars - Carter's daughter decides to get in on the act too.
• The Mastermind of Mars - Another earthman, Ulysses Paxton, comes to Mars to find adventure.
• A Fighting Man of Mars - Another hero, this time the Barsoomian Sonoma Tora, fights his way to adventure.
• Swords of Mars - John Carter once again takes up the mantle of protector of Mars.
• Synthetic Men of Mars - The diabolical handiwork of an evil mastermind threatens the Martian people.
• Llana of Gathol - John Carter searches for his grandaughter at the Martian Pole.
• John Carter of Mars - The conclusion to Burroughs' Martian series.