Space Opera: 1 (Space Opera, the) - Softcover

"As if Ziggy Stardust went on a blind date with The Hitchiker'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 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

"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

"This glorious glitterball dream of a book is Valente at her best: beguiling, bewitching, 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

* "A wild, weird and witty magnum opus."--Shelf Awareness, starred review

* "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

"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

"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 guns, not bombs, not money, not power, but sex and love and pop songs.--NPR Books

Catherynne M. Valente is the acclaimed 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.