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Review ------ "As if Ziggy Stardust went on a blind date with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then they got smashed and sang karaoke all night long. Cat Valente is mad and brilliant and no one else would have even thought of this, much less pulled it off." (New York Times bestselling and Hugo-Award winning author John Scalzi) “SPACE OPERA is a book I really needed in this dour, dire age: Valente’s book contains a story and prose that is both electric and breathless, It has the heart of Douglas Adams and the soul of David Bowie. I loved it and it made me happy.” (New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig) “Space Opera sings its heart out in full technicolor. This book made me giggle, freak out, and reflect on life’s tawdry beautiful pageant.” (Charlie Jane Anders, Nebula Award-winning author of ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY) "This glorious glitterball dream of a book is Valente at her best: beguiling, bew, and inexplicably demanding. Are you ready to rock?" (Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye series) "Valente’s effervescent prose is wildly creative and often funny...[an] endearing, razzle-dazzle love song about destiny, finding one’s true voice, and rockin’ the house down." (Publishers Weekly) * "Valente has pulled off another spectacular feat of world building (it’s worth reading just for the descriptions of previous performances) and a story which is uproariously funny, sweet, and hopeful." (Booklist, starred review) "It's all big ideas written in glitter. It's surprising tenderness on a galactic scale. It's about loneliness and nerdliness and acceptance and making fun of the old, frowsy powers that be. Valente offers up a universe in which the only thing of true value is rhythm. Not s, not bombs, not money, not power, but sex and love and pop songs. (NPR Books) "Channeling the giants of sci-fi satire and glam rock into a brilliantly over-the-top burlesque, it’s a novel only Catherynne Valente could write." (B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog) "A wildly comical and cheerfully absurd galactic adventure." (The Chicago Tribune) “The funniest science fiction novel I’ve read since Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. (The Verge) Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) About the Author ---------------- Catherynne M. Valente is the accled author of The Glass Town Game, and a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction novels, short stories, and poetry. She has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Locus and Andre Norton award. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, one enormous cat, a less enormous cat, six chickens, a red accordion, an uncompleted master’s degree, a roomful of yarn, a spinning wheel with ulterior motives, a cupboard of jam and pickles, a bookshelf full of folktales, an industrial torch, and an Oxford English Dictionary. Visit her at CatherynneMValente.com. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) See all Editorial Reviews ( /dp/product-description/1481497499/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&isInIframe=0 )