Download The Year's Top Short SF Novels 7 AudioBook Free
Short books are movie-length narratives that may be the perfect length for research fiction experiences. This sound collection, practically 16 hours long, reveals the best-of-the-best research fiction novellas posted in 2016 by current and growing masters of this vivid form of storytelling. In "Wyatt Earp 2.0", by Wil McCarthy, a tough and tumble Martian mining town reconstructs Wyatt Earp to revive order. In "The Fee and the Storm", by An Owomoyela, an uneasy co-existence between human refugees from a crashed spaceship and the aliens who saved them is threatened by human dissidents. In "Lazy Dog Out", by Suzanne Palmer, a spaceship pilot becomes embroiled in a sinister conspiracy that threatens a space station's way of life and everything she holds dear. In "The Flat iron Tactician", by Alastair Reynolds, Merlin hunts the galaxy for a superweapon powerful enough to eliminate the berserker-like robots called Huskers. "Einstein's Shadow", by Allen M. Steele, can be an alternate history in which an American detective becomes Albert Einstein's bodyguard as the physicist flees the Nazis onboard an aircraft the size of an ocean liner. In "The Vanishing Kind", by Lavie Tidhar, occur post-World Battle II London where Nazi Germany triumphed in the battle, a lovesick, former German soldier searches for an old fire hoping to rekindle a romance in this chilly, stark world. Finally, in "The Steel Demimonde", by Nick Wolven, amidst a world dominated by automation, a carney interested in her carnival ride has a fling with a jobless boy who rages against those machines. This unabridged collection was edited by Allan Kaster and read by Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari, and Wil McCarthy.
