Bellwether - Audio Cassette - Unabridged Author:Connie Willis, Kate Reading (Narrator) The story of two scientists using the chaos theory to predict fads in our society. They are Sandra and Bennet, working on the premise that a tiny action like the flap of a butterfly's wings in Arizona has an impact on the whole world, perhaps resulting in a hurricane in China. The couple's work on fad-diffusion produces comic as well as ... more »tragic results.
Audio Review:
Kate Reading delivers this novella, which features a sociologist and a chaos theorist. A man and woman who work for a scientific research company are paired together on a new project involving farm animals. Reading, an experienced science fiction narrator, has a knack for making even the most otherworldly and bizarre stories sound entirely plausible and real. Reading's delivery is smooth and unwavering yet weighted with a certain uneasiness that abounds in the central character of Sandra Foster. As Flip, the annoying yet helpful sidekick, Reading becomes a distracted, disorganized individual, yet one with underplayed redeeming qualities that inadvertently save the day. -- AudioFile