Winner of the Locus Award, from award-winning and nominated editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, a stellar collection of the grandest, most cutting-edge epic stories in science fiction's biggest genre--all never-before-published--by it's most revereds practitioners and most promising newcomers.
Contributors include Stephen Baxter - Greg Bear - Gregory Benford - Tony Daniel - Greg Egan - Peter F. Hamilton - M. John Harrison - James Patrick Kelly - Nancy Kress - Ken Macleod - Ian McDonald - Alastair Reynolds - Robert Silverberg - Dan Simmons - Michael Swanwick - Walter Jon Williams
What sets space opera apart from other fiction is its sheer scale: it is an exuberant celebration of the very large and the very small, of the very old and the very new, of the vast, panoramic instant we live in; the instant in which everything that went before melds with everything yet to be. It is
Star Wars
and
Battlestar Galactica
.
The only book of its kind,
The New Space Opera
brings together for the first time the generation of writers who spawned and embody the "new space opera, " aswell as other talents destined to join their ranks. Going beyond everything that has come before, this fresh, visionary anthology is essential reading for every science fiction fan.