The Long List Anthology, David Steffen
The Long List Anthology, David Steffen
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The Long List Anthology
More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List

Author: David Steffen, Elizabeth Bear, Max Gladstone, others

Narrator: Vikas Adam, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki, Judy Young, Xia Jia, various narrators

Unabridged: 9 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 12/15/2015


Synopsis

The Long List Anthology is designed to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but did not make it into the top five short list for the final ballot. Thus, voted into the Hugo Award’s long list of works—the top fifteen works nominated for each category—were these nine short stories and three novelettes, now made available to a wider audience by award-winning narrators. The short stories included in this collection are: “The Breath of War” by Aliette de Bodard“When It Ends, He Catches Her” by Eugie Foster“Toad Words” by T. Kingfisher“Makeisha in Time” by Rachael K. Jones“Covenant” by Elizabeth Bear“The Truth about Owls” by Amal El-Mohtar“A Kiss with Teeth” by Max Gladstone“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik“This Chance Planet” by Elizabeth BearThe novelettes in this collection are:We Are the Cloud by Sam J. MillerThe Magician and Laplace’s Demon by Tom CrosshillSpring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu

About David Steffen

David Steffen writes fiction and code. He is the cofounder of the Submission Grinder and the editor of Diabolical Plots. His fiction has been published in many great venues including Escape Pod and Daily Science Fiction.

About Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear, also known as Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky, is an American author known for her speculative fiction. Among her many awards, she is one of only five writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She also won a Sturgeon Award and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series. Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins.

About Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone went to Yale, where he wrote a short story that became a finalist in the Writers of the Future competition. He has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2013 and 2014.

About Vikas Adam

Vikas Adam is a classically trained actor with numerous credits in stage, film, commercials, and television, in addition to his over two hundred recorded audiobooks. His narrations have garnered numerous awards and nominations, including AudioFile Earphones Awards, various Best of the Year lists, and the prestigious Audie Award. He was an inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award. She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices. A longtime fan of Weird fiction, and of Robert W. Chambers in particular, Stefan’s dramatic adaptation of The King in Yellow received the Madolin Cervantes Award from the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers and was staged by him at the Donnell Library Center in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

All dancers knew their springtime was short. A dancer's fate was to break or fade away, a short season of glory, if they were lucky. And Aisa had been lucky, very lucky. Until all the luck went away, for everyone. this is just your typical zombie/ballet mashup tale. no but srsly, it's an unexpectedly......more

Who knew that poignant and zombiepocalypse could go together so well? "When It Ends, He Catches Her," nominated for the 2014 short story Nebula, is about two ballet dancers, still loving their art and trying to maintain it when everything around them has fallen to pieces.When the last stages and the......more

I was going to give this three stars instead of four until I got to the ending. Very nice. Read it here.......more