Didn’t sleep well, but got up and started the day with good news. First, news that you can read Greg and Ken’s New Space Opera stories over at the Eos website got boingboinged (thanks Cory!). Second, Diana Gill at Harper let me know that plans are well advanced for a mass market paperback edition of the book this September. Both of those are plenty to make me smile.

Having just come off a weekend where The New Space Opera picked up two Australian awards and when it sits directly linked to four Hugo nominations, I’m feeling very good about the book. Right now, Gardner and I are reading for the second volume.  It’s early days yet, but we have a couple stories in and a lot more scheduled. I think it’ll be a lighter, more adventure-oriented volume, but hopefully will have a similar impact.  I also would love to end up doing one of these every two years.  I think it would be awesomely cool.
I’m also working on an answer to an SF Mind Meld question about space opera.  Working on NSO, The Starry Rift, and Godlike Machines has really brought home to me how much I love, and how other people respond to, centre-of-the-field science fiction, how much we love stories with rocketships, rayguns, robots and stuff.