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    Drowned Worlds
    Drowned Worlds
    Drowned Worlds
    Audiobook11 hours

    Drowned Worlds

    Written by Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, James Morrow and

    Narrated by Jason Culp, Basil Sands, Jay Aaseng and

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and James Morrow. We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time of Man. The world is warming and seas are rising. We may deny it, but we can't hide when the water comes. Already the streets of Miami flood regularly and Mick Jones looks more and more prescient when he sang that "London is drowning and I, I live by the river!" all those years ago. And yet water is life. It brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises in its place. There has always been romance and adventure in the streets of a drowned London or on gorgeous sailing cities spanning a submerged world, sleek ships exploring as land gets ever rarer. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise, good or bad. Here you'll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard's The Drowned World, Sterling's Islands in the Net, and Ryman's The Child Garden. Stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all. Author bio: Jonathan Strahan is the multi-award winning editor of such anthologies as Engineering Infinity, Fearsome Magics, The Best of Science Fiction Fantasy, The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other ground-breaking collections of the very finest genre fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 13, 2017
    ISBN9781501974007
    Drowned Worlds
    Author

    Ken Liu

    Ken Liu is an award-winning author of speculative fiction. His books include the Dandelion Dynasty series (The Grace of Kings), The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, and the Star Wars tie-in novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics like futurism, machine-augmented creativity, the mathematics of origami, and more. He lives near Boston with his family.

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    • 4/5
      Given the tight restriction on the subject matter and that all the stories were written for the anthology, there is some variety of tone and view, but not enough unless read over 3 or 4 months.
    • 4/5
      3.5 starsA solid anthology, in which, although most of the stories were worth the time I spent reading them, very few were memorable. I had to alternate this book with a few others because I found some stories slightly repetitive and a bunch of them too moralizing for my taste. But as I said before, most of the stories were good enough, and my standouts were those by Kim Stanley Robinson and Sam J. Miller and, most of all, James Morrow’s ‘‘Only Ten More Shopping Days Left Till Ragnarok’’, maybe partly due to the fact that it’s sarcastic and funny, unlike most of the rest of the stories which are quite sad and depressing.