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The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
- Narrated by: Amy Tallmadge, Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 28 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
To keep up to date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more - a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious fans. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the inaugural volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.
The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor in chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome "sensawunda" that the genre has to offer.
Neil Clarke is the award-winning publisher and editor in chief of Clarkesworld magazine, winner of three Hugo Awards for Best Semiprozine, and the editor of the 2014 cyborg-themed original anthology Upgraded. Clarke lives in Stirling, New Jersey.
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- Smikey
- 30-03-22
Good stories marred by repeated mispronunciation
Would it be possible for Audible to encourage readers to seek help when they don't know how to pronounce a word? It would seem from these stories that when they don't know, they take a guess and press on unchecked.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-08-23
Good collection
each book is like a full series with good length and this book is the start of many good books in the series
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- Mr. M. Elsy
- 23-08-21
Some great Sci-fi
Some really good Sci-fi stories in this collection. Great narration by both the male and female narrators.
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- Bruno Keyworth
- 15-02-24
Good Collection
As with most collections, this was varied. There were some that I didn't care for, but there were also plenty that I liked and I'd say that there were more that I liked than not, and none I completely disliked.
I think 'The Audience' by Sean McMullen was probably my favourite, with a few others that I really liked being 'Another Word for World' by Ann Leckie, 'Damage' by David L. Devine and 'A Murmuration' by Alastair Reynolds.
The narration was generally good, although there were a few mispronunciations. Another reviewer says these were continuous, although I didn't notice that many and they weren't enough to cause confusion.
In addition to having a bunch of good stories, this collection also introduced me to lots of writers I was previously unfamiliar with, plenty of whom I shall now seek to read more of.
It is also nice that this collection has all of the storied in separate chapters and named, which makes navigation easy.
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- Steve M
- 04-10-22
Great Collection
Brilliant intro to new authors and those I already new. mind stretching concepts and wonderful weirdness
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- Barbara Eberhart
- 10-05-22
excellent performance, good stories
This is a real treat. Most stories are great. Some are a little too long and some more interesting than others but that's what you get in an anthology like this. Overall - loved it !!
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- Thomas
- 10-02-22
Quality stories
A good selection of some quality stories.
It was included in my subscription so I hope the authors are getting paid properly 😐
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- MM Futura
- 16-08-22
Great variety of intresting sci-fi stories
Enjoyable anthology with some well though out sci-fi, some of which are real gems.
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- John Wesker
- 20-09-17
Great Selection!
Where does The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
1 of 1 haha!
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Lots of variety and different genres of Sci-Fi. Great for those long walks.
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- DENNIS
- 28-08-21
Good collection
Some good,some very good and some i did not care for,if you read science
Fiction there should be enough variety here to interest you,good short story collection.
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