{"product_id":"2940173632173","title":"The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of a new best-of-the-year science fiction short story anthology edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-seven of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123698352368,"sku":"2940173632173","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940173632173_p0.jpg?v=1772495870","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940173632173","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}