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New - Sale edited by Allan Kaster
Read by Tom Dheere, Sue Bilich, and Vanessa Hart
playing time: approximately 9 Hours & 4 Minutes / ISBN: 978-1884612-85-5/
Regular price: $32.99 /
Sale price: $29.99 / 8 CDs
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. “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. “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. In
Stephen Baxter’s “Turing’s Apples” two brothers
reluctantly work together to decode an alien signal picked up by a radio
telescope on the far side of the moon. In a homeage 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 in Elizabeth
Bear’s “Shoggoth’s in Bloom.” A scientist slowly goes mad trying to
prove that the distant stars are made of diamond and that matter is just light
slowed down in Jeffrey Ford’s “The Dream of
Reason.” In Kij Johnson’s “26 Monkeys, Also
the Abyss,” a woman buys a traveling monkey show that pretty much runs it self
as all the monkeys know what they’re doing. A steel company will do what it
takes to prevent two scientists from releasing the secret of making carbon
nanotubes in “The Art of Alchemy” by Ted Kosmatka.
In Paul McAuley’s “The City of the Dead,”
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. A genetically
enhanced psychopathic secret agent battles the “Rebirths” for the survival of
the human race in Robert Reed’s “Five
Thrillers.” Finally, in “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. |
