A VIEW FROM THE STARS Stories and Essays

Brian Nishii narrates this science fiction collection, which contains compelling short stories, articles, and interviews by and with the author. Nishii draws listeners into the various fictional stories with his emotional range. In one story, he delivers the evil laugh of a drug lord who is smuggling drugs with the assistance of a whale; in another, he embodies a child who plaintively begs her father, a scientist, not to choose finding an answer to a universal question over staying alive for his family. In the articles and interviews, Nishii perfectly conveys the author's joy and feelings of isolation at discovering science fiction as a child, the exhilaration of world-building as a science fiction writer, and the imaginative process of predicting our world in 50 years. L.M.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2024]