Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy Audiobook By Arthur C. Clarke, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, Fritz Leiber, Connie Willis, Dan Simmons, Jane Yolen cover art

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Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy

By: Arthur C. Clarke, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, Fritz Leiber, Connie Willis, Dan Simmons, Jane Yolen
Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau, Ken Howard, Jack Carter
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Watch out - the Earth just fell into a dark sun's orbit! Or maybe you'd rather visit a theme park called Hell? These are just two of the strange and unnerving tales you'll find in this collection of great science fiction and fantasy stories. Take your imagination into futuristic and mystical worlds where gravity can kill and humans become walking biochip labs. See the world through the eyes of a four-legged creature in Susan Shwartz's "Critical Cats", and meet an electronic storyteller in Isaac Asimov's "Someday".

The other stories include Greg Bear's "Blood Music," Ben Bova's "The Man Who Hated Gravity", Arthur C. Clarke's "Breaking Strain", Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air", Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Sing" and "Story Child", Dan Simmons's "Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell", Connie Willis's "Ado", and Jane Yolen's "Green Messiah."

©198 8; 1990 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; 1956 by Royal Publications; 1991 by Susan Shwartz; 1951 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation, Renewed 1978 by Fritz Leiber; 1949 by Arthur C. Clarke; 1988 by Jane Yolen; 1989 by Davis Publications; 1987 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; 1983 by Greg Bear (P)1991 Dove Audio Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Science Fiction Robotics
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great short stories, when I purchased it I didn't realize I had read it on paper, narration was not very good

Great short stories

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Good variety of stories. the shorter, whimsical ones were my favorite ("Ado", "Someday" ) The standouts for me were "Blood music" and "a pail of air"

good variety of tales

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4 stars for "Critical Cats", "Breaking Strain", "Vanni Fucci" and "Ado" because they each combine an interesting story with good characters. The other stories are interesting but didn't draw me in as much.

4 Great Stories, the rest are interesting

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Wonderful set of stories. This will keep you going for a while - really enjoyed it.

great!

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good variety. keeps me hanging on. easy listeningl. recomend , something for everybody. its it for real

great syfi

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Without a doubt - this book is worth "the price of admission" purely for "Vannic Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell" - a tongue planted firmly in cheek look into a morning religious talk show.

"Vanni Fucci gave God the fig... twice."

Pure brilliance!

Vanni Fucci . . .

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Some great stories with excellent narration. Greg Barr seems to be in just about every collection that is good

Fantastic collectioon

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This is a rare collection of science fiction stories, and the readers are great! I recommend this collection to anyone who enjoys being entertained by great fiction.

Worth double the price

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Does anybody know who the performer is on the first story, Blood music by Greg Baer? Sounds like Ray Manzarek but I am not aware of him doing such things.

Good stories, mixed performances and odd format

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Stories are good. But chapters don’t match the stories. Some end at middle of the chapter.

Chapters don’t match stories

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