It's an easy novel to love, speaking as a kid who grew up with British comedy, from reading those books to watching Monty Python's Flying Circus. Valente's humor here recalls Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy and Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Space Opera is Eurovision meets British speculative comedy. But the Esca insist that Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes are humanity's only chance to avoid eradication, so it's off to a sex-fueled spaceship for Dess and Oort, and possibly bye-bye forever to Earth's dominant species. Earth's reigning governments balk at the idea of sending Dess into the fray, as do Dess and his other surviving bandmate, rocker-turned-family man Oort St. All of them, that is, except for one.ĭecibel Jones, "the ultimate glamgrind messiah of the late 2010s," is a washed-up diva whose life fell apart after his three-piece band, Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes, suffered the loss of one of its key members. They've identified a list of the human musicians most likely to avoid losing the Metagalactic Grand Prix. Not to worry, though, because the species most recently declared sentient - the Esca, a race of giant, blue flamingo people - have come along to help ease humans into their first competition. You see, if humans don't compete, or if their competitor places dead last in the contest, the coalition of sentient races that run the Metagalactic Grand Prix will annihilate them, allowing another species - probably house cats - a chance at achieving sentience. As the species most recently identified as being potentially sentient, Earth's humans have been invited to compete in the upcoming contest. In Space Opera, the contest in question isn't Eurovision, but the Metagalactic Grand Prix - a competition between sentient species from across the universe. Prominent Eurovision acts include Céline Dion, who won for Switzerland in 1988 Olivia Newton-John, who competed for the UK in 1974 and ABBA, who won for Sweden in 1974. Such acts are extravagant, to put it mildly, and often absurd, in a delightful way. Since 1956, a whole host of countries - primarily those in Europe, but also including Australia and select Asian and African nations - have competed in Eurovision: an annual, televised, musical event that pits representative musical acts from each nation against one another. Valente's Space Opera exceed my expectations. in space! So when I see a book repeatedly likened to Eurovision. Īs a reader, gamer, and all-around media consumer, I'm a sucker for literally anything ". Bustle's I'm So Jealous series is dedicated to the books, TV shows, movies, podcasts, and more that super fans are so jealous someone else gets to experience for the first time.
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