The Space Opera Renaissance
by Ursula K. Le Guin and Dan Simmons and Leigh Brackett and Jack Williamson and Iain M. Banks and Robert Reed and Stephen Baxter and John C. Wright and Robert Sheckley and David Drake and Charles Stross and David Brin and Gregory Benford and Michael Moorcock and Edmond Hamilton and Samuel R. Delany and Allen Steele and David Weber and Michael Kandel and Cordwainer Smith and Colin Greenland and Lois McMaster Bujold and David G. Hartwell and Paul McAuley and Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton and Tony Daniel and R. Garcia y Robertson and Scott Westerfeld and Donald Kingsbury and Kathryn Cramer and Catherine Asaro and Sarah Zettel and Geoffrey Cobbe
"Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new space opera" is one of the defining streams of modern SF. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled a definitive overview of this subgenre, both as it was in the days of the pulp magazines, and as it has become in 2005. Included are major works from genre progenitors like Jack Williamson and Leigh Brackett, stylish midcentury voices like Cordwainer Smith and Samuel R. Delany, popular favorites like David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and modern-day pioneers such as Iain M. Banks, Steven Baxter, Scott Westerfeld, and Charles Stross.
Release Date:
July 10, 2006
