Download The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories AudioBook Free
An unabridged sound collection spotlighting the "best of the best" hard technology fiction stories published in 2016 by current and rising experts of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Vortex", by Gregory Benford, astronauts find a once thriving microbial lifeform that carpets the caves of Mars dying off. A code monkey songs down the vain originator of any pernicious software trojan that people jack cerebrally in "RedKing", by Craig DeLancey. In "Number 9 Moon", by Alex Irvine, illicit scavengers on Mars are on a recovery mission to save themselves after one of their associates dies. A young girl's thirst for vengeance becomes a struggle for survival when she actually is swallowed by the gigantic sea creature by using an alien globe in "Of the Beast in the Belly", by C.W. Johnson. In "The Seventh Gamer", by Gwyneth Jones, a copy writer immerses herself into a MMORPG community to find characters being enjoyed by real aliens from other worlds. A woman equipped with a rifle stalks a herd of cloned wooly mammoths in English Columbia in "Chasing Ivory", by Ted Kosmatka. In "Fieldwork", by Shariann Lewitt, a volcanologist challenges with her research on Europa where both her mom and grandmother suffered dire consequences. A daughter compensates homage to her mom with mega-engineering jobs to deal with climate change over eons in "Seven Birthdays", by Ken Liu. In "The Visitor from Taured", by Ian R. MacLeod, a cosmologist in the near future is obsessed with showing his theory of multiverses. The citizens of a little town on a "Jackaroo" planet subject to a corporation putting a radio telescope near local alien artifacts in "Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What IT HAD BEEN", by Paul McAuley. And, finally, in "16 Questions for Kamala Chatterjee", by Alastair Reynolds, a graduate scholar defends her dissertation on a solar anomaly that threatens mankind.
