The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 3

By: Neil Clarke - editor

Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Ali Ahn, Lewis Arlt, Michael Braun, MiMi Chang, Karen Chilton, Catherine Ho, John Keating, Ava Lucas, Sneha Mathan, Janet Metzger, Richard Poe, Neil Shah, Greg Tremblay, Dan Woren

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 30 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 3, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and 27 of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017.

©2018 Neil Clarke (P)2020 Recorded Books

Loved every story!

The narrators were wonderful and the stories were fantastic! This was well worth the purchase!

Excellent listening opportunity.

This was an interesting listen, in that the stories ranged in a wide imagination.

Sci-fi short story collection

Edited by Neil Clarke, this sci-fi collection consists of twenty-five short stories. All the works were pro-duced in 2017. While all fall squarely within the sci-fi genre, the is an eclectic mix in both style and quality with many nominations for various short fiction awards.

Each story has its own narrator with generally excellent renditions.

very entertaining!

Some of the narration was too breathless but otherwise well done. I particularly liked the last two stories about spacefaring robots.

Not as good as the others in this series

I was only able to get half way through this collection before I gave up. The stories were hard to follow. The authors indulged in literary flourishes over clear plot lines. Many stories shifted points of view and characters within chapters. As a result, I found it hard to root for any of the characters. The characters spent too much time internalizing. The asides were dense and seemingly innumerable,
The others in this series were enjoyable, especially the first one.