Terraform by Brian Merchant audiobook

Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn

Edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
By various authors
Read by Hillary Huber, Stefan Rudnicki, Cary Hite, Tim Campbell, Chelsea Stephens, Chris Henry Coffey, Meghan Kelly, Rasha Zamamiri, Marisa Calin, Feodor Chin, Bahni Turpin, Kyla Garcia, André Santana, Janina Edwards, Mark Bramhall, Vivienne Leheny, Graham Halstead, and Eunice Wong

Blackstone Publishing 9780374602666

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798212271325

  • ISBN: 9798212271318

  • ISBN: 9798212271332

Runtime: 14.39 Hours
Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

An anthology of near future science fiction from VICE’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform―in print for the first time.

Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we’re hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we’ll end up next.

Section by section―Watch/Worlds/Burn―the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. With a potent roster of established names and rising talents―from Bruce Sterling, Ellen Ullman, Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, and Omar El Akkad, to E. Lily Yu, Elvia Wilk, Fernando Flores, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Gus Moreno―it confronts the issues that orbit our everyday existence, and takes them to unsettling dimensions.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“This is the kind of book we need now, a collection of stories bursting with visions, ideas, nightmares, and utopian plans, all in the aid of creating cognitive maps for navigating the very difficult future that is coming. When dread and joy combine, what is that? Excitement? Read this and see what you think.” Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author
“Someday a future intelligence will find this, washing up on shore or archived on a server farm deep underground or drifting as ones and zeros through space, and they’ll have a document of who we were, who we are, and who we imagined we might be. This anthology is filled with work from brilliant writers, new and familiar, and out of their anxieties come nightmares and dreams, an assortment of stories that is equal parts terrifying and entertaining.” Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author
“Read these short, biting, vibrant stories for their wit, inventiveness, and verve.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“This showcase of today’s leading imaginations offers enough vivid cautionary tales to make even the most optimistic tech utopian hesitate…While the tone throughout tends toward the bleak and searing, hope shines through.” Publishers Weekly
Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn is through and through Luddite science fiction: critical, not cynical; perceptive, not preachy; imaginative, not derivative; but above all else, rooted in the idea that the world we’ve made is a world we can unmake.” Edward Ongweso Jr., cohost of This Machine Kills
“Be careful. These stories may burn you with their scalding visions of other worlds and alternate tomorrows.” Annalee Newitz, author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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Reviews

Author

Author Bio: various authors

Author Bio: various authors

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Runtime: 14.39
Audience: Adult
Language: English