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Originally Posted by Jason Durall
The genre is also called interplanetary adventure, interplanetary romance, interplanetary stories, etc. .
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Unhelpfully so, I would argue, because the action is largely surface-bound (I suppose we might call it "epiplanetary" if we're hellbent for big word classicism).
But my point is that the
literal meaning of "interplanetary" is misleading. Someone reading, say, the title of this thread may quite naturally assume the name refers directly to the subject matter rather than to a genre label. I can't help but think this faciliated previous posters jumping to the conclusion the genre is space opera.