The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6

An unabridged collection of the â€œbest of the bestâ€ science fiction stories published in 2013 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In â€œZero for Conduct,â€ by Greg Egan, an Afghani teenager, living in a near-future Iran with her exiled grandfather, makes a game-changing superconductor discovery. A young girl struggles to survive on a planet, with a stringent class structure, where Doors are used to go off-world in â€œExit, Interrupted,â€ by C. W. Johnson. â€œPathwaysâ€ by Nancy Kress, follows a teenage girl from a small Kentucky mountain town, in a near-future U. S., struggling with her family and culture as she seeks treatment for Fatal Familial Insomnia. In â€œEntangled,â€ by Ian R. MacLeod, an Indian woman, in a Britain turned upside down by a disease that links peopleâ€™s minds, searches for answers to her personal catastrophe. In â€œThe Irish Astronaut,â€ by Val Nolan, a colleague brings the ashes of an astronaut, who died in the Aquarius disaster, to Ireland for final burial. In â€œAmong Us,â€ by Robert Reed, a government agency goes to extraordinary lengths to identify and track the aliens among us. â€œA Map of Mercury,â€ by Alastair Reynolds, showcases the plight of a failed artist dispatched to retrieve an artistic genius from a collective of cyborgs parading across the face of Mercury. In â€œMartian Blood,â€ by Allen M. Steele, a researcher from Earth goes on an expedition into the untamed regions of Mars to extract blood from its natives. â€œThe She-Wolfâ€™s Hidden Grin,â€ by Michael Swanwick, set in the same milieu as Gene Wolfeâ€™s â€œThe Fifth Head of Cerberus,â€ follows the childhoods of two sisters on a planet far from Earth. Finally, in â€œThe Best We Can,â€ by Carrie Vaughn, a frustrated scientist pursues first contact among an apathetic populace.
Country USA
Manufacturer Infinivox
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-08-04
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Infinivox
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-08-04
Format	Kindle eBook

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6

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