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The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Larry Niven
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

It’s been 20 years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and SpeakertoAnimals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.

The Many-Colored Land: Volume 1 of the Saga of Pliocene Exile

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs)
• By Julian May
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne
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This is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and myth - with a liberal dash of hard science fiction. When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years....

Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
• Narrated By Tom Weiner
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For decades, the spacefaring species of known space have battled over the largest artifact - and grandest prize - in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. Now, without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs - everyone knows that they are cowards. But the crises converging upon the trillion puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas.

Century Rain

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Alastair Reynolds
• Narrated By John Lee
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Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber.

Ringworld's Children

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Larry Niven
• Narrated By Barrett Whitener

The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3-million-times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.

The Ringworld Throne: The Ringworld Series, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Larry Niven
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

Come back to the Ringworld - the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written.

The human Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the protectors.

Classic Radio Sci-Fi: The Time Machine (Dramatised)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 40 mins)
• By H.G. Wells
• Narrated By Robert Glenister, William Gaunt

It opens in 1943, when Wells is recording a talk for the Home Service in which he questions mankind's future. After the broadcast, he spends the evening with American journalist Martha, and tells her the astonishing news that his bestselling book The Time Machine was not fantasy but fact. Wells explains that he was actually present at the dinner party in Richmond fifty years earlier, when the Time Traveller returned from his first fateful journey into the future.

The Prefect

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Alastair Reynolds
• Narrated By John Lee
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Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multifaceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that left 900 people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus.

House of Suns

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Alastair Reynolds
• Narrated By John Lee
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Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.