The New Space Opera 2

Solid...Entertaining and provocative tales of interstellar adventure, written by a laundry list of genre heavyweights...The impressive diversity of stories reaffirms that space opera is alive and well and where some of the genre's most innovative writing is taking place.

A lively bunch of established authors and newcomers is responsible for this volume's nineteen exuberantly inventive tales, which offer visions of galactic empires, swashbuckling space piracy, and grimly dystopian far-futures...Speculative-fiction fans looking for consummately crafted fiction that expands the genre's creative possibilities to their outer limits will find it here in abundance.