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Lightspeed Year One: From the Hugo Award Nominated Magazine

• ABRIDGED (13 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, and others
• Narrated By Paul Boehmer, Emily Card, Gabrielle De Cuir, and others

Lightspeed is the critically acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by best-selling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Each month at lightspeedmagazine.com, top authors and brilliant new voices alike span the genre’s full spectrum, from near-future sociological science fiction, to star-spanning hard science fiction, and everything in between. This audiobook contains all the podcasts from Lightspeed's first Hugo-nominated year, performed by a host of star narrators.

Pathfinder: Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg’s strange talent for seeing the paths of people’s pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him - secrets about Rigg’s own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.

The Gate Thief: Mithermages, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Rankin
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of 13 centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can’t control him - and they can’t control him; he is far too powerful. On Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless - he lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he must still somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North, for when Danny took that power from Loki, he also took responsibility for the Great Gates.

Earth Unaware

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt.

Invasive Procedures

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane. He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but also to "improve" people - make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly...and make them compliant to his will.

Ender's Shadow

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, a Full Cast
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters.

A Discovery of Witches

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Deborah Harkness
• Narrated By Jennifer Ikeda
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library.

Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold!: Magic Kingdom of Landover, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Terry Brooks
• Narrated By Dick Hill

Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement promised. But after he purchased it, Ben Holiday learned that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention.

The kingdom was in ruin. The Barons refused to recognize the king, and the peasants were without hope.

Divine Misfortune

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By A. Lee Martinez
• Narrated By Fred Berman

Teri and Phil had never needed their own personal god. But when Phil is passed up for a promotion - again - it's time to take matters into their own hands. And look online. Choosing a god isn't as simple as you would think. There are too many choices; and they often have very hefty prices for their eternal devotion: blood, money, sacrifices, and vows of chastity. But then they find Luka, raccoon god of prosperity. All he wants is a small cut of their good fortune. Oh - and to crash on their couch for a few days.

The Red Pyramid: The Kane Chronicles, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Rick Riordan
• Narrated By Kevin R. Free, Katherine Kellgren
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Since his mother’s death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter’s been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants — school friends and a chance at a “normal” life.