Authors List for Space Opera Libretti Announced

Let us recall January 16, not so long ago.  This had been the call:  Dramatic, large-scale stories of the distant future, focused on optimism and inclusion and blowing things up.  Weird mashups.  Actual arias.  Fat ladies singing on funeral pyres. . . .  The market in question, SPACE OPERA LIBRETTI, a mostly new-story clearly somewhat light-hearted anthology but accepting perhaps a few reprints, including my own, “The Needle-Heat Gun,” originally published in NIGHT LIGHTS (Geminid Press, 2016).  And now a complete [image error]list of authors has been released, or, according to co-editor Brian McNett:  Brian here.  Jennifer has asked me to do this announcement.  She’s swamped with life, and adulting, and the cat’s dental care.  We’ve been waiting on the final dotting of “I”s and crossing of “T”s and the signings on the lines which are dotted.

Now that all that important documentation is out of the way, I get to announce the list of contributors to “Space Opera Libretti.”

Our contributors are, in no specific order:

Ingrid Garcia

K.G. Anderson

Jean Graham

Julia Huni

Tom Barlow

Harry Turtledove

EDE Bell

James Dorr

Larry Hodges

Cait Gordon

Dave D’Alessio

Minerva Cerridwen

Bruce Taylor

Alex Kropf

Dawn Vogel

Lizz Donnelly

Dean Brink

Spruce Wells

Jennifer Lee Rossman

Brian McNett

And with a bit of a compliment after:  Jennifer and I are editing furiously, but to be honest, our contributors have shown themselves to be real professionals, even the beginners.  Our edits will only be to the end of making their perfect darlings even better.

More news when it comes.