Have you ever wanted a faster-than-light trip to the future? Are you tired of reading science fiction novels that feel like they’re taking eons to finish? These fifteen award-winning and bestselling science fiction authors, featuring Charlie Jane Anders, Alastair Reynolds, Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Tobias S. Buckell, Ann Leckie, Sam J. Miller, and more. Here are the new, adventurous, and most efficient takes on interstellar battles, sentient spaceships, and galactic intrigue.
Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital formats
Ann Leckie / Becky Chambers / Alastair Reynolds / T. Kingfisher / Charlie Jane Anders / Anya Johanna DeNiro / Yoon Ha Lee / Lavie Tidhar / Tobias S. Buckell / Arkady Martine / Aliette de Bodard / Seth Dickinson / Karin Tidbeck
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. The future is sooner than you think, and there’s only so much time to visit.
“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
Jonathan Strahan is an award-winning editor, podcaster, critic, and publisher from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has edited or co-edited more than seventy anthologies and twenty short story collections. Strahan has received the World Fantasy, Aurealis, Atheling, and Ditmar Awards. He is currently the Reviews Editor at Locus Magazine, and a consulting editor for Tor.com. Strahan lives in Perth, Western Australia, with his family.
“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
“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir,” by Karin Tidbeck
New Adventures in Space Opera
Jonathan Strahan
Have you ever wanted a faster-than-light trip to the future? Are you tired of reading science fiction novels that feel like they’re taking eons to finish? These fifteen award-winning and bestselling science fiction authors, featuring Charlie Jane Anders, Alastair Reynolds, Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Tobias S. Buckell, Ann Leckie, Sam J. Miller, and more. Here are the new, adventurous, and most efficient takes on interstellar battles, sentient spaceships, and galactic intrigue.
New Adventures in Space Opera
by Jonathan Strahan
ISBN: 978-1-61696-420-7 (print); 978-1-61696-421-4 (digital)
Published: August 13, 2024
Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital formats
Ann Leckie / Becky Chambers / Alastair Reynolds / T. Kingfisher / Charlie Jane Anders / Anya Johanna DeNiro / Yoon Ha Lee / Lavie Tidhar / Tobias S. Buckell / Arkady Martine / Aliette de Bodard / Seth Dickinson / Karin Tidbeck
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. The future is sooner than you think, and there’s only so much time to visit.
“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
Jonathan Strahan is an award-winning editor, podcaster, critic, and publisher from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has edited or co-edited more than seventy anthologies and twenty short story collections. Strahan has received the World Fantasy, Aurealis, Atheling, and Ditmar Awards. He is currently the Reviews Editor at Locus Magazine, and a consulting editor for Tor.com. Strahan lives in Perth, Western Australia, with his family.
“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
“The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir,” by Karin Tidbeck