Gardner Dozois is a highly esteemed author and Hugo Award-winning
editor of several SF anthologies and, for twenty years, Asimov's
Science Fiction magazine.
Jonathan Strahan has co-edited The Year's Best Australian Science
Fiction and Fantasy series of anthologies for HarperCollins
Australia, co-edits the Science Fiction: The Best of . . . and
Fantasy: The Best of . . . anthology series with Karen Haber for
Simon & Schuster/ibooks, edits the Best Short Novels anthology
series for the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club, and co-edited
The Locus Awards for Eos with Charles N. Brown. He is also the
Reviews Editor for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and
Fantasy Fields, and reviews for the magazine regularly. He is
currently working on The New Space Opera II.
"Dynamic and exciting, THE NEW SPACE OPERA is...an essential roadmap to the cutting edge of SF today..." -- Charles Stross"One of the best anthologies ever assembled by this most prolific of science fiction editors...." -- Joe Haldeman"Highly recommended!" -- Greg Bear"...Dozois and Strahan bring together some of the finest writers in the field..." -- Vernor Vinge"This anthology is a reminder of why science fiction captured the hearts and minds of generations of generations of readers." -- Orson Scott Card"In sheer breathtaking, mind-expanding scope, this collection ... delivers hours of exhilarating reading." -- Booklist
This solid follow-up anthology to 2007's The New Space Opera includes 19 new stories that show how far space opera has come since its pulp beginnings in the '30s and '40s. These entertaining and provocative tales of interstellar adventure, written by a laundry list of genre heavyweights, range from Mike Resnick's "Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz," a campy misadventure that follows a larger-than-life freelance hero on his quest to regain a musical theater producer's lost song, to John Meaney's "From the Heart," set in his Nulapeiron universe, which revolves around spy Carl Blackstone and an unlikely-and surprisingly poignant-love story at the galactic core. The impressive diversity of stories reaffirms that soap opera is alive and well, and where some of the genre's most innovative writing is taking place. (July) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
"Dynamic and exciting, THE NEW SPACE OPERA is...an essential roadmap to the cutting edge of SF today..." -- Charles Stross"One of the best anthologies ever assembled by this most prolific of science fiction editors...." -- Joe Haldeman"Highly recommended!" -- Greg Bear"...Dozois and Strahan bring together some of the finest writers in the field..." -- Vernor Vinge"This anthology is a reminder of why science fiction captured the hearts and minds of generations of generations of readers." -- Orson Scott Card"In sheer breathtaking, mind-expanding scope, this collection ... delivers hours of exhilarating reading." -- Booklist
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