The New Space Opera 2 (2009, ISBN 978-0-06-156235-8) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. It was published in 2009, and includes all original stories selected to represent the genre of space opera. Five of the stories in the book were selected for the Locus recommended reading list for 2009.This anthology follows the The New Space Opera which was published in 2007.