Forward Series - Blake Crouch (...)

Sci-Fi/Horror

Rating: 8/10

How does it feel to change the world?  How does it feel when the world changes? Speculative fiction explores these types of questions and plays with perception in unimaginable ways.  

This curated collection of mind-bending stories takes place in both the near and far future.  Each story probes what happens next within a different facet of developing technology. 

From best to least best!

Summer Frost

       A video game developer obsessed with a willful character in her project discovers perspective on what it means to be human.

Author – Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion)

Narrator – Rosa Salazar (Actor, Alita Battle Angel) 

You Have Arrived At Your Destination

       Nature or nurture?  Or neither.  Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettlingly story.

Author – Amor Towles (A Gentleman In Moscow)

Narrator – David Harbour (Actor, Stranger Things)

Randomize

       If Vegas games are ingeniously scam proof, then the heists have to be too!

Author – Andy Weir (The Martian)

Narrator – Janina Gauankar (Actor, True Blood)

Ark

       On the eve of the Earth’s destruction a scientist discovers something to precious to lose.

Author – Veronica Roth (Divergent)

Narrator – Evan Rachel Wood (Actor, Westworld)

The Last Conversation

       What’s more frightening?  Not knowing who you are?  Or finding out?

Author – Paul Tremblay (Head Full Of Ghosts)

Narrator – Steven Strait (Actor, The Expanse)

Emergency Skin

       What will become of our self-destructed planet?

Author – N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth Series)

Narrator – Jason Issacs (Actor, Harry Potter)