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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 3

By: Neil Clarke - editor
Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Ali Ahn, Lewis Arlt, Michael Braun, MiMi Chang, Karen Chilton, Catherine Ho, John Keating, Ava Lucas, Sneha Mathan, Janet Metzger, Richard Poe, Neil Shah, Greg Tremblay, Dan Woren
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Summary

As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of a failed colony; a man who has transferred his consciousness into a humanoid robot discovers he's missing 30 percent of his memories and tries to discover why; bored with life in the underground colony of an alien world, a few risk life inside one of the whales floating in the planet's atmosphere; an apprentice librarian searching through centuries of SETI messages from alien civilizations makes an ominous discovery; a ship in crisis pulls a veteran multibot out from storage with an unusual assignment: pest control; the dead are given a second shot at life, in exchange for a five-year term in a zombie military program.  

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 3, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and 27 of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017.

©2018 Neil Clarke (P)2020 Recorded Books

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Some great stories!

Suffers from a long & boring introduction.
Some of the stories feature a lot of ecological disaster, death & nasty aspects of human nature - which would normally be fine but is depressing in 2020 when I need escapism! However some of the stories are brilliant and I shall listen again. Highly recommend overall.

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