The Space Opera Renaissance by Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell (Editors)
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Overview: "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.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
CONTENTS
I. Redefined Writers
The Star Stealers, by Edmond Hamilton
The Prince of Space, by Jack Williamson
Enchantress of Venus, by Leigh Brackett
The Swordsmen of Varnis, by Clive Jackson
II. Draftees (1960s)
The Game of Rat and Dragon, by Cordwainer Smith
Empire Star, by Samuel R. Delany
Zirn Left Unguarded, The Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead, by Robert Sheckley
III. Transitions / Redefiners (Late 1970s to Late 1980s)
Temptation, by David Brin
Ranks of Bronze, by David Drake
Weatherman, by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Gift from the Culture, by Iain M. Banks
IV. Volunteers: Revisionaries (Early 1990s)
Orphans of the Helix, by Dan Simmons
The Well Wishers, by Colin Greenland
Escape Route, by Peter F. Hamilton
Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington, by David Weber
Aurora in Four Voices, by Catherine Asaro
Ring Rats, by R. Garcia y Robertson
The Death of Captain Future, by Allen Steele
V. Mixed Signals / Mixed Categories (To the Late 1990s)
A Worm in the Well, by Gregory Benford
The Survivor, by Donald Kingsbury
Fool’s Errand, by Sarah Zettel
The Shobies’ Story, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Remoras, by Robert Reed
Recording Angel, by Paul J. McAuley
The Great Game, by Stephen Baxter
Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel, by Michael Moorcock
Space Opera, by Michael Kandel
VI. Next Wave (Twenty-First Century)
Grist, by Tony Daniel
The Movements of Her Eyes, by Scott Westerfeld
Spirey and the Queen, by Alastair Reynolds
Bear Trap, by Charles Stross
Guest Law, by John C. Wright
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