Space Opera Author:Rich Horton (Editor) An anthology of novelettes and short science fiction stories, Space Opera presents a stimulating, entertaining and energetic approach to modern SF and brings to connoisseurs and lovers of science fiction, strange exciting stories. Spans a vast range of epic interstellar adventure stories told against a limitless cosmos fil... more »led with exotic aliens, heroic characters, and incredible settings. A truly stellar compilation of tales from one of the defining streams of science fiction, old and new, written by a supernova of genre talent.
Contents:
Introduction: Space Opera Then and Now • essay by Rich Horton
The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars (2013) / shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
The Wreck of the Godspeed (2004) / novella by James Patrick Kelly
Saving Tiamaat (2007) / shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
Six Lights off Green Scar (2005) / shortstory by Gareth L. Powell
Glory (2007) / novelette by Greg Egan
The Mote Dancer and the Firelife (2012) / shortstory by Chris Willrich
On Rickety Thistlewaite (2010) / shortstory by Michael F. Flynn
War Without End (2010) / shortstory by Una McCormack
Finisterra (2007) / novelette by David Moles
Seven Years from Home (2010) / novelette by Naomi Novik
Plotters and Shooters [Mars] (2007) / novelette by Kage Baker
The Muse of Empires Lost (2006) / novelette by Paul Berger
Boojum [Boojum] (2008) / shortstory by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Lehr, Rex (2006) / novelette by Jay Lake
Cracklegrackle (2009) / novelette by Justina Robson