The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories

An unabridged audio collection spotlighting the â€œbest of the bestâ€ hard science fiction stories published in 2016 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In â€œVortex,â€ by Gregory Benford, astronauts find a once thriving microbial lifeform that carpets the caves of Mars dying off. A code monkey tracks down the vain creator of a pernicious software virus that people jack cerebrally in â€œRedKing,â€ by Craig DeLancey. In â€œNumber Nine Moon,â€ by Alex Irvine, illicit scavengers on Mars are on a rescue mission to save themselves after one of their team members dies. A young girlâ€™s thirst for vengeance becomes a struggle for survival when she is swallowed by a gigantic sea creature on an alien planet in â€œOf the Beast in the Belly,â€ by C.W. Johnson. In â€œThe Seventh Gamer,â€ by Gwyneth Jones, a writer immerses herself into a MMORPG community to search for characters being played by real aliens from other worlds. A woman armed with a rifle stalks a herd of cloned wooly mammoths in British Columbia in â€œChasing Ivory,â€ by Ted Kosmatka. In â€œFieldwork,â€ by Shariann Lewitt, a volcanologist struggles with her research on Europa where both her mother and grandmother suffered dire consequences. A daughter pays homage to her mother with mega-engineering projects to deal with climate change over eons in â€œSeven Birthdays,â€ by Ken Liu. In â€œThe Visitor from Taured,â€ by Ian R. MacLeod, a cosmologist in the near future is obsessed with proving his theory of multiverses. The citizens of a small town on a â€œJackarooâ€ planet object to a corporation placing a radio telescope near local alien artifacts in â€œSomething Happened Here, But Weâ€™re Not Quite Sure What It Was,â€ by Paul McAuley. And finally, in â€œSixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee,â€ by Alastair Reynolds, a graduate student defends her dissertation on a solar anomaly that threatens humanity.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2009493311
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781976168987
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2009493311
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781976168987
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories

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