Audiobooks by Neil Clarke

The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5

A colony survives among the icy rings of a planet, hiding from alien robots determined to destroy them … at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment … a man who can’t feel pain has been bioengineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give in to his fate … a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction. For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-eight of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2019.

Neil Clarke (Author), Catherine Ho, Christopher Salazar, Jennifer O'Donnell, Lisa Renee Pitts, Michael Braun, Sneha Mathan, Tony Tambi (Narrator)

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6

Visit a future where you can rent out your body, just like an apartment ... join a robot dog repurposed for mining as it fights to stay alive after being judged as defective ... follow a woman who must race across the surface of an alien world alone and through deadly flora and fawna to save the life of her mentor ... discover what happens when an autonomous undersea drone sent to find life on Enceladus begins demonstrating signs of an emerging consciousness ... find out what happens when you have your boyfriend test out your newest playbot. For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and thirty-three of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2020.

Neil Clarke (Author), Avi Roque, Jasmin Walker, Neil Shah, Nikki Massoud, Ronald Peet, Sneha Mathan (Narrator)

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 3

As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of a failed colony; a man who has transferred his consciousness into a humanoid robot discovers he's missing thirty percent of his memories, and tries to discover why; bored with life in the underground colony of an alien world, a few risk life inside one of the "whales" floating in the planet's atmosphere; an apprentice librarian searching through centuries of SETI messages from alien civilizations makes an ominous discovery; a ship in crisis pulls a veteran multibot out from storage with an unusual assignment: pest control; the dead are given a second shot at life, in exchange for a five-year term in a zombie military program. For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-seven of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017.

Neil Clarke (Author), Ali Ahn, Ava Lucas, Catherine Ho, Dan Woren, Greg Tremblay, Janet Metzger, John Keating, Karen Chilton, Lewis Arlt, Michael Braun, Mimi Chang, Neil Shah, Richard Poe, Sneha Mathan, Vikas Adam (Narrator)

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The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). On July 20, 1969, mankind made what had only years earlier seemed like an impossible leap forward: when Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the moon, and Neil Armstrong the first person to step foot on the lunar surface. While there have only been a handful of new missions since, the fascination with our planet's satellite continues, and generations of writers and artists have imagined the endless possibilities of lunar life. From adventures in the vast gulf of space between the earth and the moon, to journeys across the light face to the dark side, to the establishment of permanent residences on its surface, science fiction has for decades given readers bold and forward-thinking ideas about our nearest interstellar neighbor and what it might mean to humankind, both now and in our future. The Eagle Has Landed collects the best stories written in the fifty years since mankind first stepped foot on the lunar surface, serving as a shining reminder that the moon is and always has been our most visible and constant example of all the infinite possibility of the wider universe. Table of Contents Introduction Bagatelle by John Varley The Eve of the Last Apollo by Carter Scholz The Lunatics by Kim Stanley Robinson Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis Waging Good by Robert Reed How We Lost the Moon by Paul McAuley People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter Ashes and Tombstones by Brian Stableford Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's by Adam Troy Castro Stories for Men by John Kessel The Clear Blue Seas of Luna by Gregory Benford You Will Go to the Moon by William Preston SeniorSource by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Economy of Vacuum by Sarah Thomas The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt Fly Me to the Moon by Marianne J. Dyson Tyche and the Ants by Hannu Rajaniemi The Moon Belongs to Everyone by Michael Alexander and K.C. Ball The Fifth Dragon by Ian McDonald Let Baser Things Devise by Berrien C. Henderson The Moon is Not a Battlefield by Indrapramit Das Every Hour of Light and Dark by Nancy Kress In Event of Moon Disaster by Rich Larson

Neil Clarke (Author), Deepti Gupta, Denice Stradling, Jonathan Todd Ross, Laura Waddell, Morgan Hallett, Richard Poe, Steven Crossley (Narrator)

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 4

From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more-a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome 'sensawunda' that the genre has to offer. Table of Contents Introduction: A State of Short SF Field in 2018 When We Were Starless-Simone Heller Intervention-Kelly Robson All the Time We've Left to Spend-Alyssa Wong Domestic Violence-Madeline Ashby Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae-Ian McDonald Prophet of the Roads-Naomi Kritzer Traces of Us-Vanessa Fogg Theories of Flight-Linda Nagata Lab B-15-Nick Wolven Requiem-Vandana Singh Sour Milk Girls-Erin Roberts Mother Tongues-S. Qiouyi Lu Singles' Day-Samantha Murray Nine Last Days on Planet Earth-Daryl Gregory The Buried Giant-Lavie Tidhar The Anchorite Wakes-R.S.A. Garcia Entropy War-Yoon Ha Lee An Equation of State-Robert Reed Quantifying Trust-John Chu Hard Mary-Sofia Samatar Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling-L.X. Beckett Okay, Glory-Elizabeth Bear Heavy Lifting-A.T. Greenblatt Lions and Gazelles-Hannu Rajaniemi Different Seas-Alastair Reynolds Among the Water Buffaloes, a Tiger's Steps-Aliette de Bodard Byzantine Empathy-Ken Liu Meat and Salt and Sparks-Rich Larson Umbernight-Carolyn Ives Gilman

Neil Clarke (Author), Catherine Ho, Jennifer O'Donnell, Luis Moreno, Morgan Hallett, Richard Poe, Shari Peele (Narrator)

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The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact

The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them. Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. With galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, from generations ships to warp drives, exploring new worlds to first contacts, science fiction writers have given readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe. The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.

Neil Clarke, Neil Clarke (editor) (Author), James Anderson Foster, James Langton, Karen Cass, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tim Campbell (Narrator)

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