Hartwell, David G. (ed.) - The Space Opera Renaissance / Хартвелл, Дэвид (ред.) - Космическая опера / Новая космическая опера [2011, EPUB, ENG]

The Star Stealers / Похитители звёзд novelette by Edmond Hamilton The Prince of Space / Принц космоса novella by Jack Williamson Enchantress of Venus / Венерианское чародейство novella by Leigh Brackett The Swordsmen of Varnis / Меченосцы Варниса short story by Clive Jackson (as by Geoffrey Cobbe) The Game of Rat and Dragon / Игра с крысодраконом short story by Cordwainer Smith Empire Star / Имперская звезда novella by Samuel R. Delany Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead / Зирн без охраны, дворец Дженгик горит, Джон Вестерли мёртв short story by Robert Sheckley Temptation / Искушение novella by David Brin Ranks of Bronze / Бронзовые шеренги short story by David Drake Weatherman / Метеоролог novella by Lois McMaster Bujold A Gift from the Culture / Дар Культуры short story by Iain M. Banks Orphans of the Helix / Сироты спирали novella by Dan Simmons The Well Wishers / Грезящие над кладезем novella by Colin Greenland Escape Route / Сквозь горизонт событий novella by Peter F. Hamilton Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington / Гардемарин Харрингтон novella by David Weber Aurora in Four Voices / Утренняя заря novella by Catherine Asaro Ring Rats / Судовые крысы novella by R. Garcia y Robertson The Death of Captain Future / Смерть капитана Фьючера novella by Allen Steele A Worm in the Well / Червь в колодце novelette by Gregory Benford The Survivor / Изгой novel by Donald Kingsbury Fool's Errand / Подвиг шута short story by Sarah Zettel The Shobies' Story / История «шобиков» novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin The Remoras / Реморы novelette by Robert Reed Recording Angel / Внимая ангелу novelette by Paul J. McAuley The Great Game / Большая игра short story by Stephen Baxter Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel / Волшебница Безмолвной Цитадели novelette by Michael Moorcock Space Opera / Космическая опера short story by Michael Kandel Grist / Грист novella by Tony Daniel The Movements of Her Eyes / Движения её глаз novelette by Scott Westerfeld Spirey and the Queen / Спайри и королева novelette by Alastair Reynolds Bear Trap / Медвежий капкан novelette by Charles Stross Guest Law / Гостевой закон novelette by John C. Wright

They met at Ve Port more than a month before their first flight together, and there, calling themselves after their ship as most crews did, became the Shobies. Their first consensual decision was to spend their isyeye in the coastal village of Liden, on Hain, where the negative ions could do their thing. Liden was a fishing port with an eighty-thousand-year history and a population of four hundred. Its fisherfolk farmed the rich shoal waters of their bay, shipped the catch inland to the cities, and managed the Liden Resort for vacationers and tourists and new space crews on isyeye (the word is Hainish and means “making a beginning together,” or “beginning to be together,” or, used technically, “the period of time and area of space in which a group forms if it is going to form.” A honeymoon is an isyeye of two). The fisherwomen and fishermen of Liden were as weathered as driftwood and about as talkative. Six-year-old Asten, who had misunderstood slightly, asked one of them if they were all eighty thousand years old. “Nope,” she said. Like most crews, the Shobies used Hainish as their common language. So the name of the one Hainish crew member, Sweet Today, carried its meaning as words as well as name, and at first seemed a silly thing to call a big, tall, heavy woman in her late fifties, imposing of carriage and almost as taciturn as the villagers. But her reserve proved to be a deep well of congeniality and tact, to be called upon as needed, and her name soon began to sound quite right. She had family—all Hainish have family—kinfolk of all denominations, grandchildren and cross-cousins, affines and cosines, scattered all over the Ekumen, but no relatives in this crew. She asked to be Grandmother to Rig, Asten, and Betton, and was accepted. . . .