Download The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction AudioBook Free
This is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science-fiction prose, formerly written in 2008 by current and rising masters of the genre so when narrated by top voice talents. Among the reviews: "Exhalation", by Ted Chiang, explains to the storyline of a world totally unlike Earth where mechanised men use the gas argon as air, updating their lung tanks daily from an underground well. "Exhalation" acquired both the 2009 British Research Fiction Association Honor for best account and this year's 2009 Locus Honor to discover the best short account.
"The Ray-Gun: A Love Report", by Wayne Alan Gardner, explains to the story of the guy who discovers a ray-gun that impacts his life in unanticipated ways, both good and bad. This story acquired this year's 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Honor.
In Stephen Baxter's "Turing's Apples" two brothers reluctantly work together to decode an alien sign picked up by a radio telescope on the far side of the moon.
In a homage to H. P. Lovecraft, a dark-colored naturalist, just before World Conflict II, investigates the biology of shoggoths (blobs of jelly) on the brand new England coastline in Elizabeth Bear's "Shoggoths in Bloom".
A scientist slowly but surely goes mad wanting to prove that the faraway stars are constructed of diamond which matter is merely light slowed down in Jeffrey Ford's "The Imagine Reason".
A steel company will do what it takes to prevent two experts from releasing the trick of making carbon nanotubes in "The Skill of Alchemy" by Ted Kosmatka.
In Paul McAuley's "The City of the Deceased", the town constable in a settlement on a world in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way befriends a female who researches dangerous hive rats.
And a genetically improved psychopathic key agent fights the "Rebirths" for the survival of the human race in Robert Reed's "Five Thrillers".
