Space Opera (1996 anthology)
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{{infobox Book |
| name = Space Opera
| title_orig =
| image = Space Opera (1996 anthology).jpg| image_caption =
| editor = Anne McCaffrey
Elizabeth Scarborough
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = Jim Burns
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = DAW Books
| pub_date = 1996
| english_pub_date =
| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 400
| isbn = 978-0-88677-714-2
}}
Space Opera is a 1996 anthology of science fiction short stories and novelettes edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Scarborough.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?SPCOPERA1996 Internet Science Fiction Database, Space Opera][http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?160942 Locus, March 1997] review by Shira Daemon
Contents
- Introduction (Space Opera) • essay by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- Bird in the Hand • short story by Anne McCaffrey
- Calling Them Home • short story by Jody Lynn Nye
- Saskia • novelette by Charles de Lint
- Songchild • short story by Robin Wayne Bailey
- A Song of Strange Revenge • short story by Josepha Sherman
- Our Father's Gold • novelette by Elisabeth Waters
- Thunderbird Road • novelette by Leslie Fish
- Scarborough Fair • novelette by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- Soulfedge Rock • short story by Suzette Haden Elgin
- Ever After • short story by Paula Lalish
- The Impossible Place • short story by Alan Dean Foster
- A Hole in the Sky • short story by Margaret Ball
- Drift • novelette by Steven Brust
- Heavenside Song • short story by Warren Norwood
- Swan Song • shortstory by Lyn McConchie
- Space Station Annie • short story by Cynthia McQuillin
- Roundelay • shortstory by Mary C. Pangborn
- The Last Song of Sirit Byar • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
- To Drive the Cold Winter Away • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Bluesberry Jam • novelette by Gene Wolfe