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Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Mike Resnick
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis, Mike Resnick

Thousands of years after mankind has become extinct, a party of alien archaeologists try to learn the mysteries of mankind as they excavate in a gorge on Earth. This Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella by Mike Resnick is a gripping exploration of human origins and motivations.

Pandora's Star

• UNABRIDGED (37 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Peter F. Hamilton
• Narrated By John Lee
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The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some 400 light-years in diameter, contains more than 600 worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over 1,000 light-years away, a star...vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears.

Threat Vector

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Narrated By Lou Diamond Phillips
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Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China’s ambitions, but the stakes are dangerously high as a new breed of powerful Chinese anti-ship missiles endanger the US Navy's plans to protect the island.

Swarm: Star Force, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By B. V. Larson
• Narrated By Mark Boyett
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Kyle Riggs is snatched by an alien spacecraft sometime after midnight. The ship is testing everyone it catches and murdering the weak. The good news is that Kyle keeps passing tests and staying alive. The bad news is the aliens who sent this ship are the nicest ones out there.

Agent to the Stars

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.

Time for the Stars

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By Barrett Whitener
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Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. There’s a problem though—because the spaceships are slower than light, any communication between the exploring ships and Earth would take years.

Tom and Pat are identical twin teenagers. As twins they’ve always been close, so close that it seemed like they could read each other’s minds.

Locked On

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Narrated By Lou Diamond Phillips
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Although his father had been reluctant to become a field operative, Jack Ryan Jr. wants nothing more. Privately training with a seasoned Special Forces drill instructor, he’s honing his skills to transition his work within The Campus from intelligence analysis to hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns for re-election as President of the United States. But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and the personal have just become equally dangerous.

Galactic Corps: The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Ian Douglas
• Narrated By Marc Vietor
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War is forever. The people on Earth no longer remember how the human race was nearly obliterated centuries earlier during the terror visited upon them by the merciless Xul. But the Star Marines, 30,000 light years from home, know all too well the horror that still lives.

Live Free or Die: Troy Rising, Book One

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 35 mins)
• By John Ringo
• Narrated By Mark Boyett
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When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief.

Friday

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By Hillary Huber

Friday, a secret courier, is thrown into an assignment under the command of her employer, a man she knows only as "Boss." She operates from and over a near-future Earth in North America, a vulgar and chaotic land comprised of dozens of independent states. In America's disunion, Friday keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions as she conquers one calamity and scrape after another.