This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Schouk-tai have bioengineered themselves into a corner and are now looking for a way to save themselves from extinction.Having come up empty at every turn, as their last hope, they have decided to attempt the unthinkable; make direct contact with a few known sentient alien species in hopes of recruiting help in their search for answers.Two human scientists, Dr. Zhang Wei and Dr. Miles Stephens, are among those target...

Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent.This collection of essays presents Boccaccio's life and creative output in its encyclopedic diversity. Expl...