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Earth was a planet of incompetents, but Simmons was the greatest loser of all. It seemed as if the powers of the Universe were concentrated on grinding his small soul into ultimate insignificance, until the aliens came. To them, Simmons was the most important human on the planet—for only through his mind could they overcome this world.
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“Malzberg makes persuasively clear that the best of science
fiction should be valued as literature and nothing else.”
—
Washington Post Book World, praise for the author
About Barry N. Malzberg
Barry N. Malzberg is a writer and editor of
numerous science fiction anthologies and magazines. The author of more than 50
books and more than 250 short stories, he won the first John W. Campbell
Memorial Award for the Year’s Best Science Fiction, has won two Locus Awards
for essay collections, and has been a finalist for Hugo and Nebula awards.
About Stefan Rudnicki
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.