AI. Audio brings you a selection of the best science fiction short stories. In this channel you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft science fiction, to far-future, star-spanning hard science fiction. Narrated by our exclusive artificial intelligence that uses advanced deep learning technology to synthesize speech, making it virtually indistinguishable from a human voice.

By Degrees and Dilatory Time

BY SL HUANG

We meet a man as he faces down terrifying news: he has a rare, aggressive cancer, in his eyes. They must go, much like a ruined knee had to go back when he was a skater, replaced by something better (but removed him from being allowed to compete professionally).

Welcome to the channel with the best science fiction short stories. Narrated by our exclusive Artificial Intelligence (A.I).

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Sarah Pinsker is a science fiction and fantasy short fiction author whose stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lightspeed, along with multiple "year's best" collections. A four-time finalist for the Nebula Award, Pinsker won the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.[1] Her fiction has also won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and been on the shortlist for the Tiptree Award.

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut duology and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers. She's a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Nebula, and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov's, several Year's Best anthologies and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. Her novel Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in a single year.

Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for Binti, Who Fears Death, Zahrah the Windseeker, Akata Witch, and Lagoon. In 2015, Brittle Paper named her the African Literary Person of the Year. You can read this story for free at lightspeedmagazine.com

Amber Sparks is the author of the short story collection May We Shed These Human Bodies, and the co-author (with Robert Kloss and illustrator Matt Kish) of the hybrid novel The Desert Places. You can find her most days @ambernoelle and some days at ambernoellesparks.com.

The characters in this story lived in a world where it was possible to transfer pain from one person to another. While Penny and Noah couldn't fix the underlying health problems that caused their adult daughter so much suffering, they were able to take turns feeling it for her in order to give her some relief.

Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Her novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award. Her novel Among Others won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel[2] and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel;[3]Among Others is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.