num_pages: 944
description: "Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern 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.
language: English
title: The Space Opera Renaissance
titlecomplete: The Space Opera Renaissance
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Collections, Anthologies, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy
ratings_count: 313
series: Saga of the Skolian Empire, The Uplift Saga
publisher: Tor Books