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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
August 1974

Originally published
  
August 1974

Page count
  
324

Country
  
United States of America

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Editor
  
Brian Aldiss

Publisher
  
Futura

Pages
  
324

Author
  
Brian Aldiss

Cover artist
  
Eddie Jones

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback) (Paperback)

Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction

Similar
  
Brian Aldiss books, Science Fiction books

Space Opera is a 1974 anthology of classic science fiction short stories edited by Brian Aldiss.

Contents

  • Introduction (Space Opera) • (1973) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
  • A Honeymoon in Space (Excerpt) • (1900) • short fiction by George Griffith
  • After Ixmal • (1962) • shortstory by Jeff Sutton
  • All Summer in a Day • (1954) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
  • Answer • (1954) • short-shortstory by Fredric Brown (appeared in Futura edition only)
  • Breaking Point • (1953) • novelette by James E. Gunn (appeared in Futura edition only)
  • Colony • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick (did not appear in Futura edition)
  • Envoi • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
  • Exile Is Our Lot • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
  • Is Everything an Illusion? • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
  • Precipices of Light That Went Forever Up . . . . • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
  • Sea Change • (1956) • shortstory by Thomas N. Scortia
  • The Godlike Machines • (1974) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
  • The Last Question • (1956) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
  • The Mitr • (1953) • shortstory by Jack Vance
  • The Paradox Men • (1949) • novelette by Charles L. Harness
  • The Red Brain • (1927) • shortstory by Donald Wandrei (appeared in Futura edition only)
  • The Star of Life (Excerpt) • (1947) • short fiction by Edmond Hamilton
  • The Storm • [Mixed Men] • (1943) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
  • The Sword of Rhiannon (Excerpt) • (1949) • novella by Leigh Brackett
  • Time Fuze • (1954) • shortstory by Randall Garrett
  • Tonight the Sky Will Fall! • [Tarl Brent] • (1952) • novella by Daniel F. Galouye
  • Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerly Dead • (1972) • short story by Robert Sheckley

    • References

    Space Opera (1974 anthology) Wikipedia
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