L. RON HUBBARD PRESENTS WRITERS OF THE FUTURE VOLUME 41 The Best New SF & Fantasy of the Year

Narrator Kirby Heyborne joins the Meskimen family--Jim, Tamra, and daughter Taylor--in energetically giving voice to a dozen new stories by the winners of the Writers of the Future contest. In this year's crop, AI features strongly with Heyborne creating a tone of schoolboy innocence in "The Boy from Elsewhen" by Barlow Crassmont. Taylor Meskimen finds a deceptively naturalistic voice for a self-driving car in Randyn C.J. Bartholomew's "Ascii." Also included are pieces by established authors. Tamra Meskimen has fun mimicking alien voices in Sean Williams's sailing ship/astrophysics mash-up, "Under False Colours." And Jim Meskimen captures L. Ron Hubbard's classic sci-fi pulp rhythms in "Tough Old Man" (1950). A fine sampling of some of the best new voices in today's science fiction and fantasy. B.P. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2025]