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Space Opera

An Anthology of Way-Back-When Futures

By Brian Aldiss (Editor)

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In this collection, Brian Aldiss honors science fiction's little sister: space opera.

Space opera is full of "melodrama, dreams, and a seasoning of screwy ideas," and these fourteen stories (written between 1900 and the present) run the gamut - from and unusual honeymoon on Venus to a cataclys Continue

In this collection, Brian Aldiss honors science fiction's little sister: space opera.

Space opera is full of "melodrama, dreams, and a seasoning of screwy ideas," and these fourteen stories (written between 1900 and the present) run the gamut - from and unusual honeymoon on Venus to a cataclysm threatening to destroy the universe. A few tales are set on Earth, but most take place on other planets, other solar systems, to the far reaches of the galaxy in the distant and sometimes not-so-distant future.

Sprinkles with Bradbury, van Vogt, Dick, Asimov, and Sheckley, the volume also contains lesser-known quthors whose stories have never been reprinted before.

Some of the works are lighthearted, come serious, but all are exciting, intriguing, and thoroughly enjoyable. A tribute to space opera by one of science fiction's leading writers and editors.

Critics

  • Newton's Wake: A Space Opera

    With science fiction the future's the thing. Whiz-bang, we're in the twenty-third century; or the twenty-fifth century; or thirty-five years in the future. And so, dropped in the future, surrounded by the future, and headed for the future in the futu ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

  • The New Space Opera

    The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, as noted in the introduction to The New Space Opera, defines space opera as “colorful action-adventure stories of interplanetary or interstellar conflict.” Many of the authors collected in this anthology are well- ... (read full critics)

    raintaxi published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 305 Pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 1974
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