The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction: Volume 02 - ed. Allan Kaster

Written by ed. Allan Kaster
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction: Volume 02
Edited by Allan Kaster
Read by Tom Dheere, Vanessa Hart & J. P. Linton
Encode: mp3 - 64k, Mono, 22 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 26
Total Play time: 16:22:48

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Here is an unabridged audio collection of the “best of the best” science-fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents.

Stories in this collection:

01) Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance by John Kessel
—a monk, in the far future, steals the only copies of a set of plays from a repressive regime and uses this loot to free his people.

02) This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Robert Charles Wilson
—is an alternate American Civil War history in which the war was never fought, slavery gradually disappeared, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin was never published.

03) Before My Last Breath by Robert Reed
—a geologist discovers a strange fossil in a coal mine that leads to the discovery of a peculiar graveyard.

04) Erosion by Ian Creasey
—a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying earth.

05) The Island by Peter Watts
—a woman on a spaceship must decide whether to place a stargate near an alien society that will ultimately destroy it.

06) A Story, with Beans by Steven Gould
—the role of religion in a dystopian future plagued with metal-eating bugs is considered.

07) Mongoose by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
—Set in the Lovecraftian “Boojum” universe, a vermin hunter and his tentacled assistant come on board a space station to deal with toves and raths.

08) As Women Fight by Sara Genge
—a hunter has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife’s body in a society of body-switchers.

09) On the Human Plan by Jay Lake
—a mysterious alien visits a far-future, dying earth in search of the death of Death.

10) Crimes and Glory by Paul J. McAuley
—Set in the Jackaroo sequence, a detective chases a thief to recover alien technology that both aliens and humanity are desperate to recover.