![]() It's fascinating how Sterling portrays a society in the early throes of a transhuman evolution, the ideological schisms and reunions and upheavals and revolutions that occur as everything goes unimaginably novel. When I was done, I went back and reread sections over and over. When I started it, I was less than impressed. I generally dislike space opera, because often it's just run-of-the-mill fantasy in a spaceship/raygun setting. Very intelligent and written in a unique style.Ĭame here to say Schismatrix. If it was published 20-30 years later people would've described it as a deconstruction (think Watchmen, but for space opera rather than superheroes). It's almost an anti-space opera, takes a lot of the common tropes (or at least common for its time) and reverses them. To me it's the peak of what the sub-genre has done.Īnother good one is Centauri Device by M. It's one of only a handful of Space Opera works that I think of as good books, rather than merely being entertaining. ![]() ![]() Nova was actually published in '68, but I'd second the recommendation. After this one I recommend anything else by Chip Delany, he's one of the grand masters of the genre, and people are still winning awards by riffing on what he did first and better (Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand). "Chip" Delany, one of the big earthquakes to space opera in the 80s, bringing in a focus on literary merit and characters over flashy vision. ![]()
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