The Space Opera Renaissance
by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson, Geoffrey Cobbe, Cordwainer Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Sheckley, David Brin, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, Colin Greenland, David Weber, Catherine Asaro, R. Garcia y Robertson, Allen M. Steele, Gregory Benford, Donald Kingsbury, Sarah Zettel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, Michael Kandel, Tony Daniel, Scott Westerfeld, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, Peter F. Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, John C. Wright, Dan Simmons, Paul McAuley, Iain M. Banks
2007·958 pages·en
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- 9780765306180
About this book
"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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.