Free Hugo-nominated space opera stories from Greg Egan and Ken Macleod

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 28, 2008 2:46 AM | permalink

Editors Jonathan Strahan and Gardner Dozois have just posted the full text of two of the best stories from their original anthology The New Space Opera, from superstars Ken Macleod and Greg Egan. Both of these stories have been nominated for this year's Hugo award, and deservedly so. Space opera is a venerable sub-genre in science fiction with a lot of juice still left in it, as is evidenced by these masterful pieces. I was so impressed with this volume that I've agreed to write a story for the next one, my first crack at space opera proper. Link (Thanks, Jonathan!)

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#1 posted by Simon Greenwood

, March 28, 2008 4:08 AM

Always nice to find a new Ken MacLeod story but I wished they'd formatted it a bit or turned it into a PDF like the Greg Egan story.

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#2 posted by 0xdeadbeef , March 28, 2008 4:39 AM

Is there some kind of rivalry between publishing houses that prompts a tit-for-tat in genre books?

The Space Opera Renaissance edited by Hartwell and Cramer came out about the same time, and given that they also edit the Year's Best SF series (as opposed to Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction), I wondered if one prompted the creation of the other.

Not that I'm complaining, mind you, I bought both and always buy both yearly anthologies. I just think it's funny that there would be some sort of Coke vs. Pepsi war in science fiction.

We should all become zealot fanboys and root for one or the other and death to the infidels and all that.

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#3 posted by Evil Paul

, March 28, 2008 6:12 AM

I actually leapt out of chair when I saw this. Two fantastic writers.

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#4 posted by Jeff , March 28, 2008 6:30 AM

I look forward to the Egan. Best of luck with your operatic story, Cory. I'm sure you'll add to the genre's greatness.

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#5 posted by Kestral , March 28, 2008 6:10 PM

Already read the book, and dsfinitely nice to see the stories freely available, as they're good ones. Sadly, I've already read the book, so it does take some of the fun out of reading them, as they're not completely new now.

But they're good enough that I don't mind reading them again.

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#6 posted by dakinijoy , August 27, 2008 8:09 AM

Does anyone know how to contact greg egan by email? I just read the exceptional Distress- wanna ask him if he has ever read .... well I'd like to ask him!