L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 40: The Best New SF & Fantasy of the Year

The 12 winners of the 40th Annual Writers of the Future Award, along with experienced writers Nancy Kress (“Halo”) and S.M. Stirling (“Shaman Dreams”), offer exciting entries that come alive in audio. Science fiction fans will be delighted by the skillful performances of narrators Jim Meskimen, Taylor Meskimen, Tamra Meskimen, and Victoria Summer, who beautifully describe this collection’s varied worlds. The narrators have a knack for taking the authors’ winning material to deliver tear-jerkers one moment and make a toaster’s love for a time traveler (and vice versa) believable the next. Tales of spirits come to life, as do high-tech crises, such as when human miscalculations thwart space explorers’ pioneering efforts. Listeners will appreciate the depth of feeling—and loneliness—expressed in the assortment of dystopian stories, as with the loyal virtual cat who looks for its lost owner or the private eye who no longer has the energy to feed a parasitic squid and wants only to retire and find a true friend.