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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5

By: Neil Clarke
Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Jennifer O'Donnell, Lisa Renee Pitts, Michael Braun, Sneha Mathan, Christopher Salazar, Tony Tambi
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A colony survives among the icy rings of a planet, hiding from alien robots determined to destroy them … at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment … a man who can’t feel pain has been bioengineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give in to his fate … a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction.

For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-eight of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2019.

©2020 Neil Clarke (P)2022 Recorded Books Adventure Anthologies & Short Stories Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Fiction
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The stories in this collection lean towards the bleak - but are all intriguing and clever enough to make this a very good listen. Mixed bag of narrators but most are really good and do the stories justice.

Really recommend this series overall.

Some Thought Provoking Clever Sci Fi

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the stories were generally really good, and the narrators were also generally good, but I couldn't listen to some of them - Lisa Renee Pitts - I skipped all hers - seems like she's really great at her thing - seems well respected - but not reading these for me. the rich Larson one was just hard to understand.

good stories narration mostly good

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Excellent range of authors and concepts and ideas to make you think. I love the series.

Great variety

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