New Opera

Known as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form’s conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges the perception of opera as aloof by urging, among other things: performing operas in “non-places,” such as parking lots; encouraging the use of amplification; and shuffling the traditional structure of classic works, like performing Puccini’s La bohème in reverse order, ending not with the tubercular heroine Mimi’s death but with her first falling in love.

Following the success of their Locus Award-winning anthology

The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan up the ante with

The New Space Opera 2, in which more of the most beloved names in science fiction spin stunning tales of interstellar adventure and wonder.

This dazzling anthology includes epic interstellar adventures, tales of space and wonder, from some of the brightest names in science fiction.

Every dark romance you have ever read learned something from this book. Published in 1910, The Phantom of the Opera invented an archetype that has never gone away: the brilliant, monstrous man who loves with a violence that destroys everything it touches, including himself. Gaston Leroux was not writing a love story. He was writing about obsession — the kind that builds an underground palace for a woman who does not know you exist, that fills it with music, and that cannot understand why she is afraid. The Phantom — He lives beneath the Paris Opéra, in the darkness below five basements...

Alone in the Zeta quadrant, I made one reckless choice. Now I’m pregnant, trapped on a pirate ship, and my only ally is a gruff, brooding cook with a dark past. Ruby As a lone human in the Zeta quadrant, my life revolves around survival. It’s isolating, and in a moment of weakness, I give in to my deepest desire—to have a child. Now, pregnant and more vulnerable than ever, everything is twice as terrifying. When I discover smuggled drugs aboard my ship, I’m furious. When pirates arrive to steal everything of value, I’m horrified. Desperate to survive, I strike a deal with the ...

Return to the atmosphere and spectacle of the Victorian age in the company of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H Watson. In the course of his career, Holmes encountered an enormously diverse spectrum of villains and scoundrels, but he only allowed Watson to chronicle a mere sixty of them. Now, we finally learn the truth of some of his most thrilling adventures upon the grave and terrible stage that was Victorian London… and beyond. Comprising the collections ‘Grave Events’ and ‘This Great & Sombre Stage,’ within are eight recently unearthed cases related by Dr Watson in the finest ...

There’s the new treecat adoptee who needs to be kept from becoming a risk to the carefully guarded secret of just how smart the arboreal inhabitants of Sphinx really are. There’s the overeager journalist whose campaign to protect the treecats from exploitation as the newest, coolest pet on any planet could threaten the very creatures he seeks to defend. And there’s the mysterious rash of weird accidents that are plaguing Sphinx’s younger inhabitants—including some of those nearest and dearest to Stephanie.

**CONTAINS A BONUS CD-ROM!** At long last, the New York Times bestselling series that launched the Star Wars saga into the next generation and into thrilling new territory reaches its spectacular finale. Side by side, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, their children, and their comrades...

🏆 BookFest First Place – Science Fiction! Shapeshifting’s impossible. So is having telepathic, opinionated hair. Unfortunately for me, I’ve got both. If anyone discovers what I am, I won’t be heading to an alien university as an exchange student. I’ll be dissected, weaponized, or owned by people with very bad intentions. Instead, I’m boarding the same starship where my brother died before I was born. I'm hiding two impossible secrets and undertaking one dangerous mission from my mother: Find out what really happened to him. Easy enough, right? Wrong. Someone knows I’m ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER There can be no surrender. There will be no mercy. It’s not just the future of the galaxy at stake— It’s the destiny of the Force. In the stunning finale of the epic Fate of the Jedi series, Jedi and Sith face off—with Coruscant as their battlefield. For the...

Five decades ago, Corporal Isiah “Bull” Amato, Unity Coalition Marine Corps, was ordered to lay down his arms and became a prisoner of war of the Sirius Alliance Syndicate. When he returned to his home planet of New Cotswold, the government had had enough of galactic politics, so it withdrew from the coalition, disbanded its military, and disavowed war. Not everyone got the memo. Bull is the commander of his aging-out Veterans of Galactic Wars post when drop troopers land and quickly take over Bally on the Vine. He once swore he would never allow himself to be taken prisoner again, but ...

The dazzling Star Wars space adventure continues in The New JediOrder as Luke Skywalker, Anakin Solo, Mara Jade Skywalker, and others battle their deadliest enemy in a tale of nonstop action, shadowy evil, and spectacular triumph . . . No longer content with the destruction the Yuuzhan Vong have...

As the Yuuzhan Vong’s spectacular conquests continue unchecked, Luke Skywalker, Han and Leia Solo , and Wedge Antilles are forced to destroy what they have risked their lives to create. . . . Scattering like rats before the Yuuzhan Vong’s invasion of Coruscant, the panic-stricken members of...

The Star Wars epic continues its dazzling space odyssey in The New Jedi Order–as Luke and Mara, Leia and Han, and others battle the mighty enemy from beyond the galactic rim. The brutal Yuuzhan Vong are scouring the universe for Jedi to slaughter. With no help from the divided New Republic...

Three sexy meerkats. One confused diplomat. Absolutely no intergalactic chill Commander Lyra Starling came to broker peace. Instead, she got hit with glitter, rituals, and three dangerously seductive humanoid meerkats who all want to mate her for political reasons. Welcome to Meerkathi Prime — a planet ruled by shirtless ceremony, sacred fruit chases, and rituals so absurd they make Vegas look understated. Lyra expected diplomacy. Instead, she got Korran, the broody alpha with honour issues. Jaxx, the flirt who weaponises charm and citrus. And Solis, the poetic one who probably journals ...

The first novel in a new trilogy starring veteran New Republic pilots! On the brink of victory in a brutal war, five New Republic pilots transform from hunted to hunters in this epic Star Wars adventure. Set after Return of the Jedi, Alphabet Squadron follows a unique team, each flying a...

Wraith Squadron soars back into action, on a full-throttle mission to match wits and weapons with an Imperial General gone rogue. Wraith Squadron: The elite X-wing unit of rogues and misfits who became legends of the Rebellion, specializing in carrying out the most dangerous and daring...

Arrogant warlords just killed one of his crew and destroyed his ship. He unleashes a torrent of human fed anger the likes of which they have never seen before. And, what is this Prophecy thing about humans, anyway. . . and why does he have to be involved? An addictive, heart-stopping, military science fiction and space opera thriller you just can’t put down, so, warn your family and friends you’ll be in another universe for a while… Grab your copy right now, put on your battle armor and web into your ship-couch as you join Captain Derek Hamilton and his warrior crew on the wild ride ...

In a stunning turn of events, Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben, joined forces with members of the Sith armada sent to kill them—and turned their combined might against the monstrous being Abeloth. But with Abeloth gone, the Sith reverted to form, making a treacherous attempt on Luke’s life...

When New Lyon falls to the Aurigan Empire, a professional Anglo intelligence officer slips into the occupied city with a forged identity, a concealed radio, and a mission to build a resistance from nothing. With one artificial leg and extraordinary tradecraft, Madeleine Ward creates an invisible network of couriers, saboteurs, and ordinary citizens who refuse to surrender. As Aurigan security closes in, one moment of intuition saves her from a catastrophic trap—but at a terrible cost. Perfect for readers who enjoy wartime espionage, classic SOE adventures, and science-fiction resistance ...