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Title details for Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley - Available

Meet Me in the Future

Stories

by Kameron Hurley
Eric Michael Summerer
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When renegade author Kameron Hurley (The Light Brigade; The Stars Are Legion) takes you to the future, be prepared for the unexpected. Yes, it will be dangerous, frequently brutal, and often devastating. But it's also savagely funny, deliriously strange, and absolutely brimming with adventure. In these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping mercenary avenges his pet elephant, and an orphan falls in love with a sentient starship. Fighters ally to power a reality-bending engine, and a swamp-dwelling introvert tries to save the world-from her plague-casting former wife. So come meet Kameron Hurley in the future. The version she's created here is weirder-and far more hopeful-than you could ever imagine.

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  • Release date

    August 20, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781684574186
      • File size: 312077 KB
      • Duration: 10:50:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Traci Odom and Eric Michael Summerer narrate different stories in this collection, but they have something in common. They both are engaging storytellers. These 16 previously published stories gathered together in this audiobook form a disparate vision of the future. Each narrator adopts an easy conversational tone until the stories call for intensity, suspense, or some other form of conflict or tension. Each is faced with depicting a motley assortment of characters such as a body mercenary (whose special talent is switching bodies just before he dies) and a disabled woman who is striving to save a distant settlement. Each is versatile and skilled at portraying memorable characters and making them believable. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 27, 2019
      With snapshots of futures that haunt, obsess, or tantalize, this collection from Hugo-winner Hurley (The Light Brigade) offers 16 hard-edged pieces that gleam like gems in a mosaic. Undermining the admiration for military adventure that pervades much science fiction, “The Red Secretary” presents a world that indulges in war and then purges all its practitioners, cyclically. In “The War of Heroes,” underdogs who rise up to defeat the oppressor discover that “ Hero is one who not only slays monsters, but creates monsters to slay.” The stories that celebrate fighting monsters acknowledge that losing is no shame (in “Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!”, a callback to the work of SF legend James Tiptree Jr.) and that identity is a matter of choice more than genetics (in “The Fisherman and the Pig”). Hurley works at the edges of genres, mixing SF with detective noir (“The Sinners and the Sea,” “Garda”), military adventure (“The Light Brigade,” “The Improbable War”), and fantasy quest (“The Plague Givers”) in ways that refresh the motifs of the mixed fictions. In “Tumbledown,” the benefit of making hard choices is getting to tell the stories “about the world we’ll make together,” and readers will eagerly follow Hurley into these possible worlds and many more. Agent: Hannah Bowman, Liza Dawson Assoc.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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