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Hollywood would have no shortage of space stories to tell if they followed the recommendations on this page: What classic space opera novel do you want to see on the big screen? – io9.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hollywood would have no shortage of space stories to tell if they followed the recommendations on this page: What classic space opera novel do you want to see on the big screen? – io9.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-films-and-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-JO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8979,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8979","url_meta":{"origin":2840,"position":0},"title":"Houston Grand Opera commissions opera based on the Columbia space shuttle tragedy","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Houston Grand Opera\u00a0received a A $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. 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