Flux: Tales of Human Futures

Product Description [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Paul Boehmer, Arte Johnson, Stefan Rudnicki, and others] This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A Thousand Deaths: In Soviet-occupied America, a man convicted for not reporting a conspiracy is sentenced to be repeatedly put to death and brought back to life until he apologizes convincingly. Clap Hands and Sing: An old man travels back in time to fall in love with a women he let get away. Dogwalker: A man hacks into a government database using a system administrator's password. But getting the code right turns out to be very wrong. But We Try Not to Act Like It: A man whose TV won't turn off is told that he'll only be allowed to do so if he changes his social status by making some friends or developing a sexual relationship. I Put My Blue Genes: Humans revisiting an Earth laid waste by biological warfare find a small band of ''not-quite-human'' beings still fighting an enemy which has long since been annihilated. In the Doghouse: Aliens from a doomed planet, having preserved only their intellectually superior minds, relocate to Earth, choosing the planet's widely beloved dogs as their new vessels. The Originist: In this story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, a brilliant scientist working on a problem is referred to the Galactic Library, an indexing project of astonishing breadth. Review ''The award-winning author of Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and the 'Alvin Maker' series demonstrates his talent for shorter fiction in this collection of forty-six stories that range from fantasy and SF to horror and theological speculation . . . Detailed introductions and afterwords reveal insights into the thought processes of one of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume; for most libraries.'' --Library Journal''Definitive . . . A series of introductions and afterwords offering Card's thoughts on his life and his writing are as absorbing as the stories.'' --Publishers Weekly About the Author ORSON SCOTT CARD, the author of the New York Times bestseller Ender's Game, has won several Hugo and Nebula awards for his works of speculative fiction. His Ender novels are widely read by adults and younger readers and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy, biblical novels, the American frontier fantasy series 'the Tales of Alvin Maker', poetry, and many plays and scripts. He currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his family.