The New Space Opera 2

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The much anticipated NEW SPACE OPERA 2 dares to up the ante with the biggest names in science fiction's biggest genre, now is a mass market edition. Our anthology the New Space Opera has been better received than we'd ever expected. Publishers' Weekly gave the book a starred review. Booklist said it provided "hours of exhilarating reading," and the Library Journal called it "an exceedingly fine set of stories." Locus (Gary K. Wolfe) said it was "almost certainly one of the defining original anthologies of the year." With even bigger names tHE NEW SPACE OPERA 2 will have an even greater appeal. Some of the authors who have already commited to be contributors include JOHN SCALZI, CORY DOCtOROW, GARtH NIX, ELIZABEtH MOON, CORY DOCtOROW, BRUCE StERLING, CHARLES StROSS, ROBERt CHARLES WILSON, JUStINA ROBSON, NEAL ASHER, SEAN WILLIAMS, and many more.

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. Gardner Dozois was a highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy editor and novelist who won fifteen Hugo Awards for his editorial work. He was Editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011. He passed away in May 2018.

"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