Tcharos illustrates opera's engagement in a larger musical sphere of Arcadian Rome, where opera inspired debate and fuelled ideological reform.

The best-ever anthology of one of science fiction's most vigorous subgenres

100 years of peace, mankind ascends into the stars, space colonies, and machines of great complexity spread ever deeper into space. The Earth is the centerpiece in an alliance of powers from across the solar system consolidated under The Planetary Cabinet. The Lunar Protectorate, The Federated Colonies of Mars, TianShanTech, and the Kuipterran Autocracy form up the four central powers within the Cabinet. The powers struggle over the Cabinet every ten years in a broadcasted mech tournament known as "The Unified War." After an unexpected result in the final round, events marked by tragedy bring conflict between the inner planets and colonies. In the turmoil, the remaining mech pilots struggle against the disintegration of the century of peace, fighting to protect the innocent from an uncertain future.

In this sequel to John Russell Fearn’s classic Liners of Time, Time Liner Pilot Sandford Lee continues his battle against Elnek Jelfel, the Jovian wizard of science intent on galactic domination. Zagribud carries out their contests against an interstellar canvas, with Jelfel using his scientific powers to ultimately take possession of the Earth and carry out mass vivisection on humanity. This is the first unabridged book edition of a classic pre-war serial from the pages of Amazing Stories. It’s a cosmic saga of super-science from a bygone era of science fiction, in the tradition of E. E. 'Doc' Smith!

Halo. When you read this name, a soundtrack starts playing in your ears and tons of images flash in front of your eyes. A whole universe appears in your mind. Welcome to the game series imagined and produced by the Bungie studio. Halo is more than an incredible space opera, it is the flagship of a community and the most important franchise for one of the three hardware manufacturers on the market.

What if the way to defeat the ancients lay in a set of codes? Kyda is running out of time to save her father. With a vessel and her friends, she embarks on a rescue mission to the House of Goen, where she will encounter evil beyond her imagination. Can Kyda get to her father before he is lost to Pandora's wrath? In the Code continues the epic Space Opera series about friendship and family, which will take you to new worlds, relentless enemies and a heart pound space adventure.

A collection of excerpts from some of the best original science fiction short fiction published by Tor.com Blast off into adventure with psychic powers, half-human revolutions, haunted luxury spaceships, murderous sentient robots, and genetic experiments. Check out excerpts from five short works that will be lighting up the stars this summer: Starfire: A Red Peace by Spencer Ellsworth The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison Acadie by Dave Hutchinson All Systems Red by Martha Wells Killing Gravity by Corey J. White. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

While this book happens 23 years before the main events of this series, it contains characters, events, and context needed to fully enjoy the rest of the series. This is the preferred reading order, but it can also be read any time before, during, or right after books 1 and 2. THE RULER IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE RULER. Homaj Rhialden has lived his whole life knowing his older sibling, not himself, will rule his interstellar kingdom—and as a court rake, he’s perfectly okay with that. But when his parents are assassinated and the Heir goes missing, Homaj is suddenly thrust into power. All evidence points to an inside job, but who among his father’s trusted advisors are his enemies? Determined to track down his parents’ killers and prove himself in an increasingly hostile court, Homaj hatches a plan with his servant cousin, Iata, to use their shapeshifting abilities to switch places: while Iata impersonates him and rules the kingdom as a willing target, Homaj searches for the Heir in the capital city. But in a kingdom ruled by shapeshifters, anyone can be anyone, and not even your own identity is safe. When lies run deep enough to shatter a kingdom and family is hardly friendly, can Homaj protect both his kingdom and his identity from crumbling around him? A Bid to Rule is a fast-paced royal thriller with a genderfluid lead and glittering court intrigue! This book was first published as The Seritarchus in serial form. This LGBT science fiction thriller in space is perfect for fans of: Suzanne Collins Kiera Kass Rebecca Rode Alexandra Rowland Marie Liu Lindsay Buroker Brandon Sanderson Ann Leckie Everina Maxwell Emily Skrutskie Becky Chambers Jessie Mihalik Arkady Martine Yoon Ha Lee

If it’s not one thing, it’s another… or another… or another. The hits just keep coming as Captain Dani Devereaux and the rest of Osirion’s crew take being lost in space to a whole new level. Once again, Dani is faced with a tough decision and little time to weigh her limited options. Doing what she believes is best for her crew is her motto but her choice takes them into an unexplored star system with challenges of its own. How will Dani and her crew survive the unknown, and more importantly, how will they get home? Find out what dangers await for the crew of Osirion in Uncharted Territory!

Since the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of early modern composers to arrive at styles that were intensely dramatic. Drawing on a series of case studies, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi traces the productive, if at times rivalrous, relationship between opera and tragedy from the institution of French regular tragedy under Richelieu in the 1630s to the reform of opera championed by Calzabigi and Gluck in the late eighteenth century. Blair Hoxby and his fellow contributors shed light on “neighbouring forms” of theatre, including pastoral drama, tragédie en machines, tragédie en musique, and Goldoni’s dramma giocoso. Their analysis includes famous masterpieces by Corneille, Voltaire, Metastasio, Goldoni, Calzabigi, Handel, and Gluck, as well as lesser-known artists such as Luisa Bergalli, the first female librettist to write for the public theatre in Italy. Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi delves into a series of quarrels and debates in order to illuminate the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre.