The Best of Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine

This is a wonderful collection of short stories that riveted my wife and I during a car trip along the East Coast. As mentioned by another reviewer, "The Astronaut From Wyoming", is worth the price of this collection: deep, vivid characters; occasionally emotional and hilarious prose in a near-present time setting.

Excellent and varied stories, great readers and audio quality, gripping science fiction. No fluff in this collection. I've found these medium length stories to be perfect for my iPod listening. I was moved and emotionally drained by the gut-wrenching 9/11 story of one man's redemption and final understanding. Perhaps because I was at the Pentagon when it was struck on the morning of 9/11. Highly recommended listening for any fan of good fiction.

Especially two stories made a profound impression on me:
;The astronaut from Wyoming; with a message about how stupidity in the media and religious fanatics can make scientific discoveries and progress very hard.
;in spirit; is a beautiful novel which actually made tears to my eyes (not very difficult) shows some promise and hope for mankind.

All of the stories in this series are worth the purchase, but "The Cowboy from Wyoming" is one that I will always remember. What a great short about being tolerant of others' differences and not judging by appearance. The narrators are obviously professionally trained, and the sound quality of this program was superb. You can't go wrong with this one.

This was a good collection, but the last story really stands out, and the narrator, Stefan Rudnicki, was wonderful. I will be looking for more of his work.

I'm a short story fan and these were, of course, the best.

Wonderful, superb, please give us more, Mr Audible. Why not add it as a monthly subscription????? I have missed reading Analog for the past 10 years since eye problems stopped my 20 odd year subscription, so this was a like a breath of mountain air for me. To all free thinkers I can't recommend it highly enough, and I recommend it even higher to the rest!

I like 3 out of 4 of them very much--the 9/11 story at the end was incredibly sappy and naive, but the other three were good, especially "The Astronaut from Wyoming". Definitely not "hard" science fiction, much more like gentle human-interest fiction.

I love collections of science fiction short stories, even if they aren't the greatest stories, they are one of my favorite things to read or listen to. Even so, I did not find this collection very entertaining. The "Astronaut from Wyoming" is an average story, worth killing some time with while commuting. The story about 9/11 brought up some emotions, but there wasn't much of anything to it. After listening to the other two stories in the collection, I felt as if I'd rather have rolled the window down and listened to the wind, I just couldn't find anything entertaining or original about either one of them.

I would say that stories 1 & 3 were good, 4 was average, and 2 was horrible enough for me to regret this purchase.

The Astronaut from Wyoming is horrible. Long, dragged out, preachy, everything good sci-fi short stories shouldn't be. Listen to the last 15 minutes if you must listen to it at all. Try to ignore the reader's (purposeful?) mispronoucation of NASA as "Nassau".

On the other hand, "Slow Life" and the dinosaur stories were good, and the 9/11 one wasn't bad.