Hit and Miss; Many more misses than hits

Would you try another book from Neil Clarke - editor and/or Amy Tallmadge and Jeremy Arthur ?

I think not. I know it's a matter of taste, but 90% of these stories were not to my liking. Not enough hard SF. And with all respect to the writers, who work so darned hard, I found their prose weak. The last two stories, however, were excellent, with muscular writing.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Amy Tallmadge and Jeremy Arthur ?

Anyone, I think. Either I know nothing about word pronunciation, or the narrators/producers were lazy in not determining pronunciations before recording . See: arboreal, archipelago, etc.

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unconcluded stories in vogue

I don't know if it was just the editor's taste that has the anthology loaded so heavily with this brand sometimes frustrating sometimes imaginative unrealized conclusions, or that this style is in court. But I hope it played no part in story selection. What bothers me most about the hanging conclusions in many of these cases is that the authors felt it necessary to drone on about emotional quandaries faced by characters. When, if left unspoken, the reader could be left free to imagine these conflicts given the context. I don't understand why they choose to make such excessive explanations of obvious character dilemmas when they felt no need to fully flesh the finish. It is not that I dislike hanging conclusions, it is just that I don't like hearing/reading them repeatedly and with no clear device to make the conclusion exceptionally suspect. It just seems lazy.

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Annoying biographies before the stories

What did you like best about The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One? What did you like least?

It's difficult enough to trust Amazon and Audible reviews to be written by actual customers. Now I'm restricted to answering specific pre-package questions. So the question for me is why bother? Maybe you will like this book and maybe you won't. Audible reviews will not help you answer that question. So spend your money and buy this product. That's the business model.

What does Amy Tallmadge and Jeremy Arthur bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Voices.

Was The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One worth the listening time?

All but the biographies. They did not port gracefully.

Any additional comments?

Maybe this is more the case with science fiction than other writing, but I did notice that the "tell" to "show" ratio was was wildly out of balance.

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Patchy

My enjoyment was patchy from story to story and narrator to narrator.

I found some stories dealing with interesting concepts.

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Don't waste your time

Volume of SJW social politics and crit race theory along the theme of "YOUR white priviledge". And "if you're reading this you're a white racist". This is garbage. The entertainment medias "I'm a bleeding minority victim" "me too" mentalify has hijacked even sciencecfiction.
I give up.

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Great and Bad

The first half of the collection is disappointing. Very poor story telling. But, there are two or three phenomenal stories in the collection.

The narrators are generally poor. One younger female narrator is very poor and hard to listen to.

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An Enjoyable Collection

A decent mix of stories here, including a handful of standouts and (as in any anthology) one or two duds. Ignore the reviews whining about "SJWs" and "cancel culture", as anyone afraid of the least bit of diversity has missed the point of science fiction entirely.

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Too Many Emotional Softwares

To me, who has done some amateur programming, all the stories of software have emotional difficulties are difficult to read. Someone had to program in emotional matrixes and sensory selectivity or just type in the words the software says under whatever sensory load. I am afraid that the smart readers already know that any writer who does the "HAL" thing is hacking the science out of science fiction and giving in to generalized stupidity.

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Dull and dreary

In the introduction, Meil Clarke mewed on and on about the difficulty in finding paying readers. But he never touches on the obvious reason for the problem.

The stories are dull. Page after page of tales from Women Studies Writing Seminars.

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Good selection of different stories

I enjoyed the different timelines and stories compiled by this collection of short science fiction. would recommend.