Download Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian AudioBook Free
Janis Ian and 30 top research fiction writers team up to build an astonishing publication of original brief fiction. Stars is a huge anthology in both amount and skill. Each story, available only here, is dependant on a Janis Ian songs that supposed something special to the writer, who then had written the storyplot expressly for Stars, building a meld of jazz, prose, and research fiction found nowhere else - a treasure trove for lovers of both SF and Janis Ian! Ian, who earned the Grammy Prize for spoken-word entertainment for Society's Child, joins the solid of this personal and unique audiobook to narrate helpings of Stars and to perform the music that motivated each story. This release of Stars also features a genuine new story by Michael Swanwick, "For I Have Lain Me Down on the Rock of Loneliness and I'll Not Be AGAIN", based on "Mary's Eyes", a Janis Ian songs that has always transferred him to tears. Stars was put together and edited by Mike Resnick and Janis Ian and includes reviews by Nebula winners and such research fiction greats as Joe Haldeman, Jane Yolen, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, and more. It also includes Ian's first original story, "Prayerville". As Janis herself says, "The reviews have heart. They may have life. They may have real truth. They move me. As an designer, I can ask for nothing more."
