Lucas Blogs About Space Opera
You can kinda judge this one by its cover. So, what's this book's deal? Space Opera is a Hugo-nominated sci-fi comedy premised around a pan-galactic version of the Eurovision Song Contest. Oh, a low-stakes affair? Nope! The very fate of the Earth itself hangs in the balance. See, after the last big interplanetary war, the sentient species of the galaxy instituted the Metagalactic Grand Prix as a way of sorting out the people from the meat. That's sort of an artless way of putting it. Anyway, an alien who looks like a turquoise flamingo with an anemone on it's head appears to every human simultaneously to explain that their only chance to prove their worth as a species is to not come in dead last in the next Grand Prix. Should they come in last, the planet will be destroyed. And you say this is a comedy? Indeed. It is a very silly book. And honestly, that silliness is somewhat infectious. It starts off with a whole chapter that basically posits the boo...