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edited by Allan Kaster
Read by Tom Dheere, Jared Doreck,
Adam Epstein, and Vanessa Hart
playing time: approximately 8.5 hours/ ISBN:
9781884612169
audible download price: $25.89
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4
is now available as an eBook for only $4.99 on the Kindle,
Click here,
and the Nook
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An
unabridged audio collection of the ""best of the best" science fiction stories
written in 2011 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan
Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Dying Young," by Peter M. Ball,
cyborgs, clones and post-humans collide with a dragon bent on revenge in a post-apocalptic
space western. "Martian Heart," by John Barnes, chronicles a teenage
couple taken to Mars as indentured servants in a "rags to riches" tale. In
"Canterbury Hollow," by Chris Lawson, two lovers on a planet orbiting a
killer sun share their few remaining weeks together before they die. "The
Choice," by Paul McAuley, set in the author's Jackaroo universe, follows
two boys who set sail to investigate a beached alien vessel on the English
coast. In "After the Apocalypse," by Maureen McHugh, a mother and
daughter traverse a ravaged U.S. in a tale that takes on McCarthy's, The Road,
from a female viewpoint. "Purple," by Robert Reed, tells of a blind and
maimed young man convalescing in an off-world menagerie of wayward alien
species, prior to returning to Earth. In "Laika's Ghost," by Karl Schroeder,
a Russian and an American search the steppes of the former U.S.S.R. for
metastable weapons that terrorists could use to make nuclear bombs. "Bit Rot,"
by Charles Stross, follows post-humans struggling to survive after their
generation ship is struck by a Magnetar ray in this clever zombies-in-space
tale. In "For I Have Laid Me Down on The Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be
Back Again," by Michael Swanwick, Irishmen plot to strike back against
alien occupiers by enlisting an Irish American tourist to their cause. Finally,
Steve Rasnic Tem, tells of a young man awakened from suspended animation,
on a future Earth, with the technological know-how of plant-like aliens in "At
Play in the Fields."
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