Narration of audiobooks is an art. A high quality narration can make the book so much better. The voice and tone of the narrator can change the feeling of the book. For "I Sing the Body Electric", the narration is grandfatherly. I found it hard to appreciate the stories. They focus on human conditions, occasionally with a science fiction hook. One story is about a highway bypassing a small town. Another (also in an edition of Martian Chronicles) deals with the last man on mars suffering from his own practical telephone jokes from a few decades earlier. There are also depression-era travelers who stay in a hotel with chickens that lay special eggs. There are some interesting explorations of the human condition, but it is hard to maintain interest.
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