About the book
Originally published in The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan eds. (HarperCollins). No single publishing news event dominated the year; instead, people interested in the industry focused on cutbacks and losses, and pondered the future. He is the author of a large and influential body of short fiction, much of which have been collected in Crystal Express, Globalhead, A Good Old-Fashioned Future and Visionary in Residence. It's the pistol shot that finally wakes the young Carlotta.