The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact

Written by Neil Clarke (Editor)

Narrated by Tim Campbell, James Anderson Foster, Mary Robinette Kowal and 2 more

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Jul 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543680416

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 for The Final Frontier

[Sean Bigard · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fantastic collection with a lot of great stories from prolific authors. More please!

[Shannon Rheinlander · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed every story in this anthology, which is unusual for me. Many stories explore alien worlds and life, or just the feelings of the explorers as they make first contact.

[rivkat_2 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Space exploration stories of the semi-realist vein, which means lots of generation ships or otherwise very long journeys. Tobias S. Buckell, Ken Liu, Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Bear, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Genevieve Valentine, Peter Watts, and others, but I can’t say any made a huge impression.