Flux: Tales of Human Futures: Book 2 of Maps in a Mirror Audiobook (Free)

This second level of Orson Scott Card’s five-book anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the people.

A Thousand Deaths In Soviet-occupied America, Jerry Crove is available guilty and convicted of understanding about the planned assassination of the Russian high formal and not reporting it to the authorities. Instead of a forced confession and apology on television, he gives a talk on American freedom. His sentence is to be repeatedly put to loss of life about Flux: Stories of Individual Futures: Book 2 of Maps in a Mirror and cut back alive until he apologizes convincingly.

Clap Hands and Sing An old man travels back in its history to fall in love with a women he let get away.

Dogwalker A man hacks into a federal government database using a program administrator’s security password. But obtaining the code right actually is very wrong.

But We Try Not to Act like It A guy complains to the television workplace that he cannot turn off his Television which it-especially the soap operas-disturbs him in his attempts to learn, his preferred activity. He’s told that he’ll be allowed to turn off it only when he adjustments his social position by making some close friends or creating a sexual relationship.

I Put My Blue Genes Globe, right now an uninhabitable wasteland of biological warfare, is revisited by a contingent of human beings who find a little music group of “not-quite-human” beings still fighting an enemy that has very long since been annihilated.

In the Doghouse Aliens from a doomed planet relocate to Globe, having maintained only their intellectually superior minds. Forbidden by their moral code from killing another sentient being, they select Earth’s widely cherished dogs as their brand-new vessels-but they quickly find out what this means to “be in the doghouse.”

The Originist Within this story set in Isaac Asimov’s Basis universe, a brilliant scientist focusing on a thorny problem is referred to the Galactic Library, an indexing project of astonishing breadth.