The Other Animals

De: Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Ken Liu, R. Eric Thomas, Lulu Miller, Shruti Swamy, Max McClure, Kaeli Swift, Kelly Weinersmith

Narrado por: Ken Liu, Lulu Miller, Max McClure, Shruti Swamy, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, R. Eric Thomas, Kaeli Swift, Kelly Weinersmith

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In The Other Animals, a worm breaks up with a snail, a vulture contemplates the act of killing, a whale falls in love with a song, and more.

This funny, moving collection of eight stories - written by a crew of scientists, literary writers, and comics, and informed by animal behavioral science - explores what animal perspectives can show humans about the world we all share. It includes stories by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (Something That May Shock and Discredit You), R. Eric Thomas (Here for It), Ken Liu (The Paper Menagerie), Lulu Miller (Why Fish Don’t Exist), Kelly Weinersmith (Soonish), Shruti Swamy (O’Henry Award winner), Max McClure (Grist), and Kaeli Swift (Biosphere).

Cover art by Noah Grigni.

©2019 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.

Lovely!

A collection of animal-centric short stories. Some funny, some sad, all of them makes you think. I'm always on the lookout for good xenofiction (non-human POVs), and while some of these take a lot of artistic liberty with regards to biology, I enjoyed every story regardless.

Hard to hear

The introduction to this book made it sound intriguing and a tempting collection of stories. But the perpetual background music was too distracting to enable concentrating on the speech. Had to give up and am sorry but Instead will try snd buy the print version as I still hope to read this book.

Excellent

These are classics. Funny, sweet, scary and Wonderful! Thank you to all the Authors and Readers.

Lovely collection - funny and touching

This was a lovely read - a little set of quirky stories that invite the reader to consider new perspectives. They range widely in tone and focus, but that's part of the fun. Something here is guaranteed to touch you.

Unique Storytelling from Unsung Perspectives

This was such a delight to listen to! Definitely a fan for anyone who has liked Sy Montgomery's body of work, especially her popular collection of short stories, "How to Be a Good Creature". This collection of short stories, however, are written by different people, are fictional instead of memoir-based, and are told from the perspective of anthropomorphised animals. While most of the stories are from the point of view of creatures who we would not usually see as charismatic, such as snail-symbiotic worms or vultures, there are also stories about crows and whales, both of which have captured the fascination of humans for centuries. Some stories were better than others, but overall this has real quality in its humor, inventiveness, and discussion of possibilities.