The Space Opera Renaissance

From two acclaimed editors comes the best-ever anthology of science fiction's most vigorous subgenres: the space opera.

"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 ...