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<DIV><B>THE SPACE OPERA RENAISSANCE</B><BR></div><DIV><DIV><b>I.</b></div><DIV><b>REDEFINED WRITERS</b></div><DIV>Chubby, brownette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space.</div><DIV>--E. E. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D., <i>Triplanetary,</i> Chapter 5: "1941"</div></div><DIV><DIV><b>EDMOND HAMILTON</b></div><DIV>Edmond Hamilton [1904-1977] (tribute page: www.pulpgen.com/pulp/edmond_hamilton) was the great original writer of space opera in science fiction. Jack Williamson says: "With his tales of the Interstellar Patrol, beginning with 'Crashing Suns' (1928), he was arguably the inventor of space opera. Long on future progress, if a bit short on hard science, he imagined a vast interstellar civilization, always in danger of some cosmic catastrophe to be averted at the last instant by his little band of human and alien heroes."</div><DIV>Hamilton was born in Youngstown, Ohi

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Author
David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780765306180
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction
Rating
3.91 / 5 (50 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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