The Space Opera Renaissance - Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell - Google Books

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"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…