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The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois And Jonathan Strahan Eos Supplied for review by Harper Collins New Zealand |
Reviewed By: Diana Lowe |
| In the first volume of this series, the editors put together
a snapshot of how the space-opera story has evolved, from its 1940s pulp beginnings to one
of the most popular forms of modern science fiction. Volume two is more of the same.
It’s a varied collection, "ranging from cool, cutting extrapolation on the
extreme edge of cosmology to baroque romanticism to the swashbuckling adventures of space
pirates." From the satirical To Go Boldly by Cory Doctorow to the layers-within-layers The Lost Princess Man by John Barnes, to the flamboyant Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings by comics writer Bill Willingham, to Mike Resnick’s brisk and funny farce Catastrophe Baker And A Canticle for Leibowitz, this really is a box of mixed chocolates, with some things you’ll like and others you mightn’t as much. It’s worth the getting. |
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