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Written by: Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, Andy Weir
Narrated by: Evan Rachel Wood, Rosa Salazar, Jason Isaacs, David Harbour, Steven Strait, Janina Gavankar
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2020 Audie Award Finalist for Best Short Stories/Collection Audiobook

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward.

ARK by Veronica Roth, read by Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld)

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.

SUMMER FROST by Blake Crouch, read by Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel)

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.

EMERGENCY SKIN by N. K. Jemisin, read by Jason Isaacs (Star Trek: Discovery)

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.

YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT YOUR DESTINATION by Amor Towles, read by David Harbour (Stranger Things)

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.

THE LAST CONVERSATION by Paul Tremblay, read by Steven Strait (The Expanse)

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about human consciousness.

RANDOMIZE by Andy Weir, read by Janina Gavankar (True Blood)

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

Ark © 2019 by Veronica Roth. Summer Frost © 2019 by Blake Crouch. Emergency Skin © 2019 by N. K. Jemisin. You Have Arrived at Your Destination © 2019 by Amor Towles. The Last Conversation © 2019 by Paul Tremblay. Randomize © 2019 by Andy Weir. ℗ 2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Ark: Not my style. spends endless time describing pointless things. A paragraph each describing several flower. The character doesn't "get dressed for the cold weather", instead "she buttons up her jacket, puts on one boot, ties it, pulls on the other, ties it, finds her hat and puts in on, pulls on each glove, checks the weather outside again...." endless, pointless detail. very difficult not to just skip entirely. Tolkien wasted a lot of time on detail, but I felt he made an occasional interest point, this one just fizzled out into sentimentality. The narrator herself sounds bored reading it.

still listening, will update.

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J’en aurais pris plus long, pour toutes les histoires! Certaines font beaucoup réfléchir, j’ai adoré!

Incroyable!

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It's a collection some stories are excellent others are OK. I would listen/buy again. All of them made me think. Especially liked the AI one as well as the story narrated by Evan Rachel Wood.

Pretty good...

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These stories are about a present pretending to be 'the future,' and not in a good way. There's so much great contemporary speculative fiction in the world, it's hard to understand how this book got past the publisher. Too many stories are about drunks doing dumb things. Too many stories seem to have 1950s attitudes, again, not in a good way. I had to check the publication date more than once. If I wanted to read about drunken male antics, I would choose a different book.

Insulting

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Stories have no substance, every one of them feels empty, very long to get a a simple ending. Very predictable. Narration is terrible, i don't know how it came that they all suffer the same issue. They "pause" 3 or 4 seconds before each sentence. Leaving you unsure if a new chapter is starting, or the app froze ... If you're expecting good sci-fi, don't get this one.

Very disappointing

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