Old Venus: A Collection of Stories Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois

From pulp adventures such as for example Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to basic short stories such as for example Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary books such as for example C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the earth Venus offers loomed almost as large in the imaginations of research fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But as the about Old Venus: A Assortment of Tales Red World conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposing: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our intimate visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish globe inimical to all or any life.

But don’t despair! This fresh anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers-edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois-turns back the clock to that more innocent time, prior to the hard-won understanding of technology vanquished the infinite likelihood of the imagination.

Join our cast of award-winning contributors-including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more-as we travel back in its history to a planet that never was but must have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries.

Offering ALL-NEW STORIES BY

Eleanor Arnason • Elizabeth Carry • David Brin • Tobias S. Buckell • Michael Cassutt • Joe Haldeman • Matthew Hughes • Gwyneth Jones • Joe R. Lansdale • Stephen Leigh • Paul McAuley • Ian McDonald • Garth Nix • Mike Resnick • Allen M. Steele • Lavie Tidhar

And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois

Tales and Narrators:

Launch by Gardner Dozois go through by Roy Dotrice

“Frogheads” read by Jake Weber

“The Drowned Celestial” read by Roy Dotrice

“Planet of Dread” go through by Tisha Donnelly

“Greeves as well as the Evening Star” browse by Stephen Fry

“A Planet Called Desire “ go through by Jake Stormoen

“Living Hell” go through by W. Morgan Sheppard

“Bones of Air flow, Bones of Rock” read by Gethin Anthony

“Ruins” read by Mandy Williams

“The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss” read by Wil Wheaton