The New Space Opera is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois

Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...

 and Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....

. It was published in 2007, and includes all original stories selected to represent the genre of space opera

Space opera

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in outer space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing advanced technologies and abilities. The term has no relation to music and it is analogous to "soap...

. It includes a five-page introduction, plus a brief introduction to each of the stories, and a dedication to Jack Dann

Jack Dann

Jack Dann is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres...

. The front and back covers include endorsements by Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

, Charles Stross

Charles Stross

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...

, Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...

, Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge

Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep , A Deepness in the Sky , Rainbows End , Fast Times at Fairmont High ...

, and Greg Bear

Greg Bear

Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution...

. Ten out of the eighteen stories in the book were selected for the Locus

Locus (magazine)

Locus, subtitled "The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field", is published monthly in Oakland, California. It reports on the science fiction and fantasy publishing field, including comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genre. It is considered the news organ and trade...

recommended reading list for 2007. http://www.locusmag.com/2008/2007RecommendedReading.html

Contents

• Gwyneth Jones
  Gwyneth Jones (novelist)
  Gwyneth Jones is an English science fiction and fantasy writer and critic, and a young adult/children's writer under the name Ann Halam.-Biography and writing career:...
  
  : "Saving Tiamaat"
• Ian McDonald: "Verthandi's Ring"
• Robert Reed
  Robert Reed
  Robert Reed was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular...
  
  : "Hatch"
• Paul J. McAuley: "Winning Peace"
• Greg Egan
  Greg Egan
  Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...
  
  : "Glory"
• Kage Baker
  Kage Baker
  Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.- Biography :Baker was born in Hollywood, California and lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language...
  
  : "Maelstrom"
• Peter F. Hamilton
  Peter F. Hamilton
  Peter F. Hamilton is a British author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide.- Biography :...
  
  : "Blessed by an Angel"
• Ken MacLeod
  Ken MacLeod
  Ken MacLeod , is a Scottish science fiction writer.MacLeod was born in Stornoway. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics....
  
  : "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?
  Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?
  "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" is a science fiction short story published in 2007 by Ken MacLeod. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story...
  
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• Tony Daniel
  Tony Daniel (science fiction writer)
  -Biography:Daniel has appeared numerous times in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. He has authored five books and numerous short stories. The novels Metaplanetary and Superluminal are part of a series, based upon the short story "Grist."Daniel is an editor at Baen Books...
  
  : "The Valley of the Gardens"
• James Patrick Kelly
  James Patrick Kelly
  James Patrick Kelly is an American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the science fiction field....
  
  : "Dividing the Sustain"
• Alastair Reynolds
  Alastair Reynolds
  Alastair Preston Reynolds is a British science fiction author. He specialises in dark hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle, where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD from St Andrews, Scotland...
  
  : "Minla's Flowers"
• Mary Rosenblum
  Mary Rosenblum
  Mary Rosenblum is a science fiction and mystery author. Mary Rosenblum grew up in Allison Park, "a dead little coal mining town outside Pittsburgh PA," and attended Reed College in Oregon, earning a biology degree. She attended the Clarion West workshop in 1988.Her first story came out in 1990...
  
  : "Splinters of Glass"
• Stephen Baxter
  Stephen Baxter
  Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :...
  
  : "Remembrance"
• Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
  
  : "The Emperor and the Maula"
• Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine...
  
  : "The Worm Turns"
• Walter Jon Williams
  Walter Jon Williams
  Walter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired , Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Stationn...
  
  : "Send Them Flowers"
• Nancy Kress
  Nancy Kress
  Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title...
  
  : "Art of War"
• Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
  
  : "Muse of Fire"