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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, ” as well 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.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• Saving Tiamaat - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• Verthandi's Ring - (2007) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
• Hatch - (2007) - shortstory by Robert Reed
• Winning Peace - (2007) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Glory - novelette by Greg Egan
• Maelstrom - (2007) - novelette by Kage Baker
• Blessed by an Angel - (2007) - shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton
• Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
• The Valley of the Gardens - (2007) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• Dividing the Sustain - (2007) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Minla's Flowers - (2007) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
• Splinters of Glass - (2007) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• Remembrance - (2007) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• The Emperor and the Maula - (2007) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Worm Turns - (2007) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Send Them Flowers - (2007) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Art of War - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Muse of Fire - (2007) - novella by Dan Simmons

Following the success of their Locus Award-winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan now up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, new stories from some of the biggest names in science fiction’s biggest genre.

Table of Contents:

• Utriusque Cosmi - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
• The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
• Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance - (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
• To Go Boldly - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• The Lost Princess Man - (2009) - novelette by John Barnes
• Defect - (2009) - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves - (2009) - novelette by Jay Lake
• Shell Game - (2009) - novelette by Neal Asher
• Punctuality - (2009) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• Inevitable - (2009) - novelette by Sean Williams
• Join The Navy and See the Worlds - (2009) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings - (2009) - novelette by Bill Willingham
• From the Heart - (2009) - novelette by John Meaney
• Chameleons - (2009) - novella by Elizabeth Moon
• The Tenth Muse - (2009) - novelette by Tad Williams
• Cracklegrackle - novelette by Justina Robson
• The Tale of the Wicked - (2009) - novelette by John Scalzi
• Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz - (2009) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• The Far End of History - (2009) - novelette by John C. Wright