“Urbane, assured, and at ease, narrator Bronson Pinchot sounds like he’s sitting on a white leather couch reading this collection of smart short stories and essays in a postmodern penthouse overlooking—well, the universe. With its finely honed eye and ear for scientific realism and thoughtful detail, this collection of ahead-of-their-time gems covers some of Larry Niven’s favorite topics…At eighty years old, Niven remains one of the true grand masters of science fiction, and with Pinchot’s nuanced reading we also find that there’s a very human side to all that hard science, as well. A fine and fun listening experience. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
Description
Madness from the Inconstant Moon is a collection of early short science fiction works by Larry Niven, the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series.
“All the Myriad Ways” (1968)
“Passerby” (1969)
“For a Foggy Night” (1968)
“Wait It Out” (1968)
“The Jigsaw Man” (1967)
“Not Long before the End” (1969)
“Unfinished Story No. 1” (1970)
“Unfinished Story No. 2” (1971)
“Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” (essay, 1969)
“Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation” (essay, 1969)
“The Theory and Practice of Time Travel” (essay, 1971)
“Inconstant Moon” (1971)
“What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?” (1971)
“Becalmed in Hell” (1965)
Praise
“Urbane, assured, and at ease, narrator Bronson Pinchot sounds like he’s sitting on a white leather couch reading this collection of smart short stories and essays in a postmodern penthouse overlooking—well, the universe. With its finely honed eye and ear for scientific realism and thoughtful detail, this collection of ahead-of-their-time gems covers some of Larry Niven’s favorite topics…At eighty years old, Niven remains one of the true grand masters of science fiction, and with Pinchot’s nuanced reading we also find that there’s a very human side to all that hard science, as well. A fine and fun listening experience. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
“Niven…lifts readers far from the conventional world—and does it with dash.” Los Angeles Times, praise for the author
“Niven is a galaxy-class storyteller.” Time, praise for the author
Details
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Release Day | Sep 18, 2017 |
| Release Date | September 19, 2017 |
| Release Date Machine | 1505779200 |
| Imprint | Blackstone Publishing |
| Provider | Blackstone Publishing |
| Categories | Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Anthologies & Short Stories, Science Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Fiction - All, Fiction - Adult |
Author Bio
Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Footfall, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller.
Narrator Bio
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
Overview
Madness from the Inconstant Moon is a collection of early short science fiction works by Larry Niven, the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series.
“All the Myriad Ways” (1968)
“Passerby” (1969)
“For a Foggy Night” (1968)
“Wait It Out” (1968)
“The Jigsaw Man” (1967)
“Not Long before the End” (1969)
“Unfinished Story No. 1” (1970)
“Unfinished Story No. 2” (1971)
“Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” (essay, 1969)
“Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation” (essay, 1969)
“The Theory and Practice of Time Travel” (essay, 1971)
“Inconstant Moon” (1971)
“What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?” (1971)
“Becalmed in Hell” (1965)
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