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ISBN 9780765306173
REGISTERED: 05/11/18
UPDATED: 07/10/25
The Space Opera Renaissance
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The Space Opera Renaissance

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  • The Space Opera Renaissance available on November 20 2014 from Amazon for 39.95
  • ISBN bar code 9780765306173 ξ3 registered November 20 2014
  • ISBN bar code 9780765306173 ξ1 registered May 24 2012
  • ISBN bar code 9780765306173 ξ2 registered May 24 2012
  • Product category is Book
  • Manufacturered by Tor Books 


     

     

     

     
 

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    ^  (2012). The space opera renaissance, Macmillan. Product.  (revised May 2012)
    ^  (2012). The space opera renaissance, Macmillan. Wiki.  (revised May 2012)
    ^  (2006). The Space Opera Renaissance, Tor Books. Amazon.  (revised Nov 2014)

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This is a big book and it felt like a big book to read since I could easily put it down. Lots of stories. Some good, some not so good. The surprising thing about this book was that it wasn't more upbeat. When I think of Space Opera I think Star Wars but that kind of fun is a throwback in todays Sci-Fi universe. These stories were very modern and although thought provoking a lot ended with a feeling of 'so what' or 'where's the fun'.Michael J. FoyAuthor of The Kennedy Effect
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In the Introduction to this superb anthology, space opera was coined by Bob Tucker in 1941: "In these hectic days of phrase coning, we offer one. Westerns are called "horse operas," the morning housewife tear-jerkers are called "soap operas." For the hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn space ship yarn, or world saving for that matter, we offer space opera." By 1959 the connotation remained "A hack science fiction story, a dressed up western" as noted by Fancyclopedia II. By the 1960s space opera was cons..
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I'm working my way through the Hartwell & Cramer SPACE OPERA RENAISSANCE anthology, and finding it well-done and to my taste -- I think it's Hartwell's best BIG review-anthology yet. Truly a doorstop: 940 pages!, with a surprisingly large number of new-to-me stories.Space Opera, as Hartwell points out in his nicely-done introductory essay and story notes, is a flexible concept. And when you get to New Space Opera, or Widescreen Baroque Space Opera -- well, no one really knows what these are. Really, space ..
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