The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction - ed. Alan Kaster

Written by ed. Alan Kaster
Read by Tom Dheere, Sue Bilich, Venessa Hart
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction
Edited by Alan Kaster
Read by Tom Dheere, Sue Bilich & Venessa Hart
Encode: mp3 - 64kbps, Stereo, 44.1 KHz
Total # of Tracks: 12
Total Play time: 09:03:37

Anthology #247
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From Goodreads

This is an unabridged audio collection of the best of the best science fiction prose originally written in 2008 by current and emerging masters of the genre as narrated by top voice talents.

Stories in this collection:

01) The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner
…tells the story of a boy who discovers a ray-gun that affects his life in unanticipated ways, both good and bad. This story won the 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

02) Fixing Hanover by Jeff VanderMeer
A man reluctantly repairs the remains of a mechanical man that washed up on a beach and may be a link to his enigmatic past

03) The Dream of Reason by Jeffrey Ford
A scientist slowly goes mad trying to prove that the distant stars are made of diamond and that matter is just light slowed down

04) City of the Dead by Paul J. McAuley
The town constable in a settlement on a planet in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way befriends a woman who researches dangerous hive rats.

05) The Art of Alchemy by Ted Kosmatka
A steel company will do what it takes to prevent two scientists from releasing the secret of making carbon nanotubes.

06) Turing’s Apples by Stephen Baxter
Two brothers reluctantly work together to decode an alien signal picked up by a radio telescope on the far side of the moon.

07) 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson
A woman buys a traveling monkey show that pretty much runs it self as all the monkeys know what they re-doing.

08) Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear
In a homage to H.P. Lovecraft, a black naturalist, just before World War II, investigates the biology of shoggoths (blobs of jelly) on the New England coast.

09) Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Exhalation, by Ted Chiang, tells the story of a world totally unlike Earth where mechanical men use the gas argon as air, replacing their lung tanks daily from an underground well. Exhalation won both the 2009 British Science Fiction Association Award for best story and the 2009 Locus Award for the best short story.

10) Five Thrillers by Robert Reed
A genetically enhanced psychopathic secret agent battles the Rebirths for the survival of the human race.