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Lake of Souls

The Collected Short Fiction

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Lake of Souls

By: Ann Leckie
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available for the first time comes the complete collection of Leckie's short fiction, including a brand new novelette, “Lake of Souls.”

Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe.

Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled the Raven Tower.

Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls.

And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie.

©2024 Ann Leckie (P)2024 Orbit
Adventure Anthologies & Short Stories Science Fiction Short Stories Fiction
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Critic reviews

"An acclaimed SFF novelist's first short-story collection... Bloodily clever and darkly comic... The many different approaches Leckie takes to her subject are amazing."—Kirkus

"There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could."—John Scalzi

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I love Leckie’s worlds, but the Raven Tower world is my favorite. Here she explores some of the possibilities.

Delightful

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Getting to spend more time in the worlds Ann Leckie has created is a real treat, especially the stories set in the Raven Tower universe are delightful.

More time in Ann Leckies worlds

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As a fan of the Leckie/Andoh audio combo, this collection doesn’t disappoint. Definitely a treat for a fan of Leckie, though I don’t know if it would be *as* good for someone who’s not familiar with her other work; this book enriches the worlds she’s created already while also giving us some charming one-offs. Hope there’s something in the works for 2025!

Adjoa Andoh and Ann Leckie are Perfection

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I’ve no problem with the stories or performance, but the low audio quality almost ruins it for me. Audiobooks should not sound like AM radio in 2024.

Terrible audio quality

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I even loved the fantasy stories, which is unusual for my sci-fi loving self.
Great ideas and literally still

great works

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Very imaginative and enjoyable listen. How she weaves a story is very detailed and takes you deep into each Story. Really enjoyed the narrator more colorful than most.

Amazing

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This includes several stories from the Raven Tower universe and the Imperial Radch universe, along with a handful of standalone stories. So far, I have fully enjoyed everything I have read by Leckie and this was no exception. I had already read everything else from Leckie. Her world building is among the best. The writing is superior. Each of the stories seems designed to be read on its own. Thus, there is quite a bit of repetitive world building in each story of each universe. So, you may want to space out the stories. Not every story is great, but I can’t think of any that disappointed me.

The narration was nuanced and added to the stories.

Excellent Collection

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Kept listening hoping there would be a diamond in the rough. Some great story to cherish. Most were pointless ramblings that were not worth printing. Usually I can at least give the performance praise, but this was awful. Her reading was so dramatically slow that even with increasing the speed it was too slow. Her character voices sounded like bad cartoon voices on Sesame Street or Barney. I love short stories, but this... hurts my heart.

This could be the worst AB I have ever tried to suffer through.

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