Lauded by Publishers Weekly as “a gift for sci-fi lovers” and by Weightless State as “a great edition to any shelf for those who love scifi,” NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, edited by World Fantasy, Aurealis, Atheling, and Ditmar Award award-winning Jonathan Strahan, is now available from all finer booksellers or direct from Tachyon.

SF readers used to seeing space opera as multi-doorstop series will find a lot to love in this collection of skillful short works in a popular subgenre.

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NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA

Edited by Jonathan Strahan

ISBN: 978-1-61696-420-7 (print); 978-1-61696-421-4 (digital)

Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital formats

There is no better or more expert editor working in SF; impeccable taste, great range, excellent choices. Anyone interested in space opera will want to buy NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA.

Adam Roberts, author of The This

Award-winning Australian science-fiction editor Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction of the Year series) presents the quintessential guide to the exciting New Space Opera. This skillfully curated, must-read volume gathers fifteen dramatic, newly classic interstellar adventures from some of the most highly acclaimed and popular speculative-fiction authors.

In “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” a cloud-based contractor finds a human war criminal clinging to the hull of the ship. The clones of “All the Colours You Thought Were Kings,” about to attend their coming-of-age ceremony, are also plotting treason. During “A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” two outlaws go on the run after stealing a device from a space cult.

Take a faster-than-light trip to the future. Discover where memes rise and fall in moments. Here are the new, adventurous, and extremely efficient takes on interstellar battles, sentient spaceships, and galactic intrigue.

A collection of a “who’s who” [in] modern science fiction and Jonathan Strahan’s focus on the selection of superb stories.

Science Fiction Short Story Reviews

Table of Contents

“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir,” by Karin Tidbeck

“Introduction: From the New Space Opera to Here . . . ,” by Jonathan Strahan

“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” by Tobias S. Buckell

“Extracurricular Activities,” by Yoon Ha Lee

“All the Colors You Thought Were Kings,” by Arkady Martine

“Belladonna Nights,” by Alastair Reynolds

“Metal Like Blood in the Dark,” by T. Kingfisher

“A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime,” by Charlie Jane Anders

“Immersion,” by Aliette de Bodard

“Morrigan in the Sunglare,” by Seth Dickinson

“The Old Dispensation,” by Lavie Tidhar

“A Good Heretic,” by Becky Chambers

“A Voyage to Queensthroat,” by Anya Johanna DeNiro

“The Justified,” by Ann Leckie

“Planetstuck,” by Sam J. Miller