Changes

|title=The Ascendant Stars

|sort=Ascendant Stars

|publisher=Orbit

|date=August 2012

|website=http://www.michaelcobley.com/

|summary=Definitely not the way into Humanity's Fire - but a pretty decent finale to a well envisaged and robustly executed battle for the future of sentience throughout the the galaxies.

}}

''Space Opera has never been in more capable hands'' is the Guardian quote that concludes the blurb for this, Cobley's wrap up part of the ''Humanity's Fire'' trilogy that started with [[Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|Seeds of Earth]] and continued through [[The Orphaned Worlds (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|The Orphaned Worlds]]. It's hard to disagree, but it's also hard to get away – on this evidence – from the fact that Space Opera might be closer to Soap than Classical, when it comes to opera classification.