About the Author

Gardner Dozois is a highly esteemed author and Hugo Award-winning editor of several SF anthologies and, for twenty years, Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.

Jonathan Strahan has co-edited The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy series of anthologies for HarperCollins Australia, co-edits the Science Fiction: The Best of . . . and Fantasy: The Best of . . . anthology series with Karen Haber for Simon & Schuster/ibooks, edits the Best Short Novels anthology series for the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club, and co-edited The Locus Awards for Eos with Charles N. Brown. He is also the Reviews Editor for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Fields, and reviews for the magazine regularly. He is currently working on The New Space Opera II.

Reviews

"Dynamic and exciting, THE NEW SPACE OPERA is something new under an alien sun, an essential roadmap to the cutting edge of SF today." -- Charles Stross"This anthology is a reminder of why science fiction captured the hearts and minds of generations of generations of readers." -- Orson Scott Card"In sheer breathtaking, mind-expanding scope, this collection . . . delivers hours of exhilarating reading." -- Booklist"Highly recommended!" -- Greg Bear"Dynamic and exciting, THE NEW SPACE OPERA is...an essential roadmap to the cutting edge of SF today..." -- Charles Stross"...Dozois and Strahan bring together some of the finest writers in the field..." -- Vernor Vinge"The roster of contributors includes some of contemporary sf's brightest innovators... In sheer breathtaking, mind-expanding scope, this collection of some of the finest tale-spinning the subgenre has to offer delivers hours of exhilarating reading." -- Booklist"One of the best anthologies ever assembled by this most prolific of science fiction editors...." -- Joe Haldeman

"Dynamic and exciting, THE NEW SPACE OPERA is something new under an alien sun, an essential roadmap to the cutting edge of SF today." -- Charles Stross"This anthology is a reminder of why science fiction captured the hearts and minds of generations of generations of readers." -- Orson Scott Card"In sheer breathtaking, mind-expanding scope, this collection . . . delivers hours of exhilarating reading." -- Booklist"Highly recommended!" -- Greg Bear"Dynamic and exciting, THE NEW SPACE OPERA is...an essential roadmap to the cutting edge of SF today..." -- Charles Stross"...Dozois and Strahan bring together some of the finest writers in the field..." -- Vernor Vinge"The roster of contributors includes some of contemporary sf's brightest innovators... In sheer breathtaking, mind-expanding scope, this collection of some of the finest tale-spinning the subgenre has to offer delivers hours of exhilarating reading." -- Booklist"One of the best anthologies ever assembled by this most prolific of science fiction editors...." -- Joe Haldeman

Award-winning editors Dozoi (editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine) and Strahan (reviews editor of Locus and coeditor of Science Fiction: The Best of- and Fantasy: The Best of ... anthology series) have put together an exceedingly fine set of stories written specifically for this collection by some of the best sf authors writing today. These 18 tales run the gamut from technologically centered hard science (think exploding comets and artificial intelligence) to character-driven soft science (settling on new worlds). Alien perspectives are balanced by humanistic introspection. Many of the stories mine the genre's favorite nuggets by exploring political and ethical questions from varied and unusual points of view. In the great tradition of space opera-not to be confused with soap opera, although there is some similarity in the epic sprawl of the underpinnings-the collection shows both remarkable diversity and cohesiveness. Standouts from Kage Baker, Paul J. McAuley, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, and Dan Simmons, among others, make this a solid purchase for public libraries with sf and/or short story collections.-Charli Osborne, Oxford P.L., MI Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.