new adventures in space opera

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.

＂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

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.

Jonathan Strahan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is an editor, podcaster, critic, and publisher. Strahan co-founded Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and was the co-publisher of Eidolon Books. He has edited or co-edited more than seventy anthologies and twenty single-author story collections published in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Strahan has won the World Fantasy Award, the Aurealis and Aurealis Convenor’s Awards, the William Atheling Jr. Award, the Ditmar Award, and the Peter McNamara Achievement Award. Strahan is currently the Reviews Editor at Locus Magazine, and a consulting editor for Tor.com where he acquires and edits original novellas and short fiction. Strahan also produces and co-hosts the award-nominated Coode Street Podcast with Gary K. Wolfe. Strahan lives in Perth, Western Australia with his family.