A Civil Campaign (Vorkosigan Saga)

Science fiction is a terrific genre for exploring concepts and ideas that may change our lives. Romance is a terrific genre for exploring our inner, emotional selves and our quest for community. SF is great at “what if” and romance is great at creating memorable characters we fall in love with. Of course, these are […]

The term “space opera” conjures grand vistas, massive spaceships, multi-threaded plots of romance and intrigue, dashing protagonists, and dastardly villains, evoking all the grandiosity of an opera and the hallmarks of the best imaginative science fiction. But while all this is true, operas rarely come in a single flavor. There are gothic horror operas, romantic operas, fantastical operas, […]

Spaceship battles! Political intrigue! Romantic subplots! Everyone loves a good space opera. The sub-genre, once a staple of sci-fi, has come roaring back in recent years thanks to an influx of new writers doing fresh, innovative things with old tropes. One thing that hasn’t changed is the operatic nature of the stories—these are larger than […]

Ada von Hasenberg is kinda having a bad day. She’s been captured by mercenaries who’d be happy to inspect the merchandise, her intended husband wants to kidnap her, and she’s sharing a cell with the galaxy’s most wanted criminal. That leaves her with a few options in her potential captivity: Albrecht Von Hasenberg was nothing […]