The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5

An unabridged collection of the â€œbest of the bestâ€ science fiction stories published in 2012 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In â€œInvisible Men,â€ by Christopher Barzak, a maid in an inn encounters the Invisible Man who makes her an offer to be more than she is in this quasi-retelling of H.G. Wellsâ€™ famous story. In this yearâ€™s Nebula Award winner for best novelette, â€œClose Encounters,â€ by Andy Duncan, an old man is hounded by reporters about the stories he used to tell of an alien who took him into space and the dog he brought back with him. â€œBricks, Sticks, Straw,â€ by Gwyneth Jones, follows virtual scientists forced to survive within their remotes when a young science team on Earth loses remote contact with their telepresences on Jupiterâ€™s moons. In â€œArbeitskraft,â€ by Nick Mamatas, Friedrich Engels strives to spread class revolution as a labor organizer for factory cyborg matchstick girls. â€œThe Man,â€ by Paul McAuley, is a Jackaroo tale about a solitary woman, living in a cabin on the planet Yanos, whose life is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a naked man at her door. In â€œNahiku West,â€ by Linda Nagata, set in the authorâ€™s Nanotech Succession sequence, officer Zeke Choy investigates an accident involving an illegal enhancement which was used to save a life. â€œTyche and the Ants,â€ by Hannu Rajaniemi, showcases the plight of a young girl hidden on the moon by her parents, along with grags and Brain, as robotic ants have come from the Great Wrong Place to take her away. In â€œKatabasis,â€ by Robert Reed, human adventurers on a journey in an inhospitable high-gravity region of the Great Ship must use porters, evolved for massive worlds, to aid them. â€œThe Contrary Gardener,â€ by Christopher Rowe, tells of the tough decisions a talented gardener in a society which genetically grows some crops for ammunition must come to when sheâ€™s recruited for the war effort. Finally, in â€œScout,â€ by Bud Sparhawk, a reconstructed marine is deployed to a planet occupied by the Shardies to reconnoiter by making use of his â€œturtleâ€ enhancements to avoid detection.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label AudioText
Manufacturer AudioText
NumberOfPages 240
PublicationDate 2013-07-09
Publisher AudioText
ReleaseDate 2013-07-09
Studio AudioText

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	AudioText
Manufacturer	AudioText
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2013-07-09
Publisher	AudioText
ReleaseDate	2013-07-09
Studio	AudioText

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5

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