The Space Opera Renaissance (The Uplift Saga # "Temptation)

Kathryn Cramer, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson, Leigh Brackett, Geoffrey Cobbe, Cordwainer Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Sheckley, David Brin, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, Iain M. Banks, Dan Simmons, Colin Greenland, Peter F. Hamilton, David Weber, Catherine Asaro, R. Garcia y Robertson, Allen M. Steele, Gregory Benford, Donald Kingsbury, Sarah Zettel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Paul McAuley, Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, Michael Kandel, Tony Daniel, Scott Westerfeld, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, John C. Wright

Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
3.83 · 6 ratings · 942 pages · Published: 11 Jul 2006
The Space Opera Renaissance by Kathryn Cramer, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson, Leigh Brackett, Geoffrey Cobbe, Cordwainer Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Sheckley, David Brin, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, Iain M. Banks, Dan Simmons, Colin Greenland, Peter F. Hamilton, David Weber, Catherine Asaro, R. Garcia y Robertson, Allen M. Steele, Gregory Benford, Donald Kingsbury, Sarah Zettel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Paul McAuley, Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, Michael Kandel, Tony Daniel, Scott Westerfeld, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, John C. Wright
"Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new space opera" is one of the defining streams of modern SF.

Now, World Fantasy Award-winning anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled a definitive overview of this subgenre, both as it was in the days of the pulp magazines, and as it has become in 2005. Included are major works from genre progenitors like Jack Williamson and Leigh Brackett, stylish midcentury voices like Cordwainer Smith and Samuel R. Delany, popular favorites like David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and modern-day pioneers such as Iain M. Banks, Steven Baxter, Scott Westerfeld, and Charles Stross.
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    The Space Opera Renaissance by Kathryn Cramer, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson, Leigh Brackett, Geoffrey Cobbe, Cordwainer Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Sheckley, David Brin, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, Iain M. Banks, Dan Simmons, Colin Greenland, Peter F. Hamilton, David Weber, Catherine Asaro, R. Garcia y Robertson, Allen M. Steele, Gregory Benford, Donald Kingsbury, Sarah Zettel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Paul McAuley, Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, Michael Kandel, Tony Daniel, Scott Westerfeld, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, John C. Wright

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