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edited by Allan Kaster
Unabridged readings by Tom Dheere and Nicola Barber
playing time: approximately 8 Hours & 54 Minutes / ISBN: 9781884612947
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Starships
come in many shapes and sizes. Their crews and passengers are an eclectic lot.
They venture into the deep voids of space on their assigned missions. Sometimes
they succeed and sometimes they do not. This collection tells the stories of six
of these starships. Those aboard the Mayflower II are determined to be
the first generation ship to successfully reach another galaxy in a story (“Mayflower
II”) by Stephen Baxter that takes place in the Xeelee universe. In “Boojum,”
by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, space pirates are on the
prowl for booty aboard the living starship, Lavinia Whateley. In “The
Political Officer,” by Charles Coleman Finlay, the crew aboard a military
starship must contend with both the enemy and a political officer. In “The Tomb
Wife,” by Gwyneth Jones, the navigator of the interstellar freighter,
Pirate Jenny, hears a ghost from an alien tomb in its cargo hold. Two
competitive physicists aboard the Kepler use uploads of themselves to
probe the scientific mysteries of radiation-rich space in “Shiva in Shadow” by
Nancy Kress. A wealthy woman explores the lives of the less fortunate
aboard a starship larger than Earth in Robert Reed’s “The Remoras,” part
of the author’s ongoing Marrow series. |
