The Final Frontier, Neil Clarke Editor
The Final Frontier, Neil Clarke Editor
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The Final Frontier
Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact

Author: Neil Clarke (Editor)

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

Unabridged: 27 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/10/2018

Synopsis

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.

About Neil Clarke (Editor)

Neil Clarke is the award-winning publisher and editor in chief of Clarkesworld magazine, winner of three Hugo Awards for Best Semiprozine, and the editor of many anthologies, including the annual Best Science Fiction of the Year series for Night Shade Books, as well as the standalone collections Galactic Empires and More Human than Human.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Justine on July 18, 2019

It's hard to rate this overall...maybe 3.5 stars if I average them out? As is always the case with anthologies there were some great stories and some I didn't like at all. Favourites in this collection included: A Jar of Goodwill; Mono No Aware (the best story in this collection); Diving Into the Wre......more

Goodreads review by Alan on August 20, 2018

Editor Neil Clarke subverts our expectations from the very first story in his massive themed anthology The Final Frontier—and that's an excellent thing to do. Tobias S. Buckell's "A Jar of Goodwill" does include space exploration and first contact, but it's the farthest thing from a triumphalist nar......more

Goodreads review by Terence on November 01, 2018

"A Jar of Goodwill," Tobias Buckell - Decent story about a future where humanity struggles against aliens who've claimed "patent rights" on much of human technology, though it's not a simple, us vs. them story. I'd be interested in reading more stories set in this universe. "Mono no Aware," Ken Liu -......more

Goodreads review by Greg on September 26, 2018

Some stories did it for me, while others did not. To me, some stories were struggling with making use of the setting. Instead some authors buried their story of a character under technical details that had no bearing to the plot. If you like the science parts of science fiction and don't feel that i......more

Goodreads review by Art on May 12, 2024

This is a collection of short (and some not-so-short) stories, twenty-one in all. Final Frontier is 579 pages in a large thick trade paperback. The theme of the collection is tales of exploring outer space, space colonization, and first contact. Many of the authors are recognizable to me, so I antic......more

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