"Take a faster-than-light trip to the future. Discover where memes rise and fall in moments. Award-winning Australian science-fiction editor Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction of the Year series) presents the quintessential guide to the exciting New Space Opera. This skillfully curated, must-read volume gathers fifteen dramatic, newly classic interstellar adventures from some of the most highly acclaimed and popular speculative-fiction authors."--

Introduction: From the New Space Opera to here / Jonathan Strahan -- Zen and the art of starship maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell -- Extracurricular activities / Yoon Ha Lee -- All the colors you thought were kings / Arkady Martine -- Belladonna nights / Alastair Reynolds -- Metal like blood in the dark / T. Kingfisher -- A temporary embarrassment in spacetime / Charlie Jane Anders -- Immersion / Aliette de Bodard -- Morrigan in the sunglare / Seth Dickinson -- Old dispensation / Lavie Tidhar -- A good heretic / Becky Chambers -- A voyage to Queensthroat / Anya Johanna DeNiro -- Justified / Ann Leckie -- Planestuck / Sam J. Miller -- Last voyage of skidbladnir / Karin Tidback,