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©2013 Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ian R. MacLeod, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Allen M. Steele and Michael Swanwick (P)2014 AudioText

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One of the narrators was so irritating as to make the story unlistenable. Others were fine.