The Final Frontier

Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact

By: Neil Clarke - editor

Narrated by: Tim Campbell, James Anderson Foster, Mary Robinette Kowal, Karen Cass, James Langton

The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).

The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them.

Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. With galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, from generations ships to warp drives, exploring new worlds to first contacts, science fiction writers have given readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe.

The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.

©2018 Neil Clarke (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Sci Fi lives!

As with even the best anthologies, not every single story did it for me, but about 2/3 of them were excellent and unlike other stories I had read/heard, and really created a new world in my little head. Neil Clarke, great job.

some uncut gems in a few with sparkles

collection of short stories is okay does not stand out but it's definitely newer audience newer author focused I enjoyed some of the stories others were tedious is definitely sci-fi philosophy overall not bad

nothing

seened to jump mid episode leaving one story going to the next. without any break.

Gems in a sea of mediocrity

There are a lot of stories to skip through halfway through to find a few worth listening to.

Some hits and some misses but read it for one.

There are some big misses in here, but who cares, it has "Gypsy" by Carter Scholz, the best sci-fi novella ever written. Buy it for that.