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The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7

By: Nina Allan, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Klages, Gareth L. Powell, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Swanwick, Peter Watts
Narrated by: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
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An unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction stories published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents.

In "Marielena" by Nina Allan, an immigrant is haunted by his past, as well as his present and future, in a disturbingly mean-spirited near-future England.

A convicted serial killer is sentenced to "rightminding" to cure his neurological disorder, which resulted in the sociopathic murdering of 13 women in "Covenant" by Elizabeth Bear.

"The Magician and LaPlace's Demon" by Tom Crosshill follows a powerful AI that discovers the existence of magic and then prosecutes a vendetta against the magicians, who grow more powerful as their numbers dwindle.

In "Sadness" by Timons Esaias, a man strikes back, as best he can, against the powerful aliens who conquered Earth long ago.

In "Amicae Aeternum" by Ellen Klages, a young girl shares her last morning on Earth with her girlfriend before boarding a generation starship.

"Red Lights and Rain" by Gareth L. Powell is a blend of sci-fi and vampire-hunting lore in which the vampires are made, not born.

In "The Sarcophagus" by Robert Reed, the maintenance cyborgs of the Great Ship encounter a stranded spacer in a derelict lifesuit from a long ago ship.

"In Babelsberg" by Alastair Reynolds showcases a robot whose account of the dead colonists recently found on Titan are challenged by another AI.

In "Passage of Earth" by Michel Swanwick, a coroner gets a taste of the Earth invaders' superior intelligence while dissecting a giant worm-like alien.

Finally, in "The Colonel" by Peter Watts, Colonel Moore tries to assess the capabilities of the hived human intelligences that have attacked a compound under his command.

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Excellent collection!

My favourite story was "The Magician and LaPlace's Demon" by Tom Crosshill, but every story is really good. Well worth the credit!

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