Infinite Stars - Softcover

Weber, David; Herbert, Brian; Moon, Elizabeth; Card, Orson Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785654586 ISBN 13: 9781785654589

Publisher: Titan Books, 2018

Synopsis

The one definitive anthology of space opera and military science fiction. Today's most popular writers produce all-new stories set in their most famous universes.

This is the definitive collection of original short stories by many of today's finest authors, writing brand new adventures set in their most famous series. Herein lie canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta's War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more.

Also included are past masterpieces by authors whose works defined the genre. Nebula and Hugo Award winners, New York Times bestsellers, and Science Fiction Grand Masters--these authors take us to the farthest regions of space.

The modern masters of space opera and military science fiction, with 14 brand new stories set in their most famous universes--exclusive to this volume!

DAVID WEBER The Honor Harrington Saga
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON Dune
ELIZABETH MOON Vatta's War
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender's Game
JACK CAMPBELL The Lost Fleet

...plus more new adventures by:
Catherine asard Dave Bara Bennett R. Coles William C. Dietz
Charles E. Gannon Jean Johnson Linda Nagata
Jody Lynn Nye Alastair Reynolds

And ten seminal stories by some of the most famous authors in the genre:
POUL ANDERSON LEIGH BRACKETT & EDMOND HAMILTON
LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD A. C. CRISPIN DAVID DRAKE ANNE McCAFFREY
LARRY NIVEN & JERRY POURNELLE NNEDI OKORAFOR
ROBERT SILVERBERG CORDWAINER SMITH

Truly this is a must-have collection for the SF reader.

About this title

About the Author:

Bryan Thomas Schmidt is a Hugo Award-nominated editor and author. His anthologies include Shattered Shields, Mission: Tomorrow, Galactic Games, Little Green Men-Attack, and, Beyond The Sun. Bryan was the original editor for The Martian by New York Times Bestseller Andy Weir (Crown, 2014). He has also edited or written gaming content for Wars, Dark Expanse, and Ascension, as well as writing tie-in fiction in The X-Files and Predator.

Review:

"INFINITE STARS presents a neat mix of truly classic older Space Opera and brand-new stories, by writers both justly familiar and quite new to me, introducing the reader to some of the best ongoing Space Opera series."  --  Rich Horton, Contributing Editor, Locus--"A stellar cast of authors with some of the finest short stories ever written in the genre?  What in the world are you waiting for?  Thisis a no-brainer. Buy it!"--DavidFarland, New York Times Bestselling author, Dunelords, Star Wars:  TheCourtship of Princeas Leia

NEW starred review from Publisher's Weekly:

Space opera iscelebrated in this capacious anthology with stories from a stellarlineup of its best contemporary practitioners. The 24 selections--whichinclude classics from luminaries such as Robert Silverberg (who alsocontributes an informative historical introduction), Anne McCaffrey,Poul Anderson, and Cordwainer Smith, as well as 15 works original tothis volume--illustrate the wide variety of themes that space opera canaccommodate: galactic empire building across space and time in LeighBrackett and Edmond Hamilton's "Stark and the Star Kings"; the peculiarlives of extraterrestrial fauna in Orson Scott Card's "Renegat" (a newepisode in his long-running Ender saga); interstellar piracy inElizabeth Moon's "All in a Day's Work"; cultural identity in NnediOkorafor's Hugo-winning "Binti"; and military adventures (a staple ofthe subgenre) in stories by Lois McMaster Bujold, David Drake, andBennett R. Coles. Although these short stories don't always have thesweep and scope of novel-length works, the new episodes of severalseries...will make this book irresistible to space opera enthusiasts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785654586
• ISBN 13: 9781785654589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Schmidt Bryan Thomas