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Range of Ghosts: The Eternal Sky, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Elizabeth Bear
• Narrated By Celeste Ciulla

Multiple Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear enthralls fans with this compelling first book in the Eternal Sky series. In a world where wizards are unable to procreate, Temur, heir to his empire’s throne, flees to avoid assassination. Once-Princess Samarkar, formerly heir to her own empire’s throne, gives up everything to seek the wizards’ magical power. Drawn together by fate, Temur and the Once-Princess must stand against a cult inciting strife and civil war in all the empires.

The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Jack Campbell
• Narrated By Marc Vietor
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The authority of the Syndicate Worlds’ government is crumbling. Civil war and rebellion are breaking out in many star systems, despite the Syndic government’s brutal attempts to suppress disorder. Midway is one of those star systems, and leaders there must decide whether to remain loyal to the old order or fight for something new.

The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 2003

• HIGHLIGHTS (6 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Paul Di Filippo, Al Michaud, Benjamin Rosenbaum, and others
• Narrated By Arte Johnson, Stefan Rudnicki, Jason Cole, and others

The seven stories that represent Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine's July and August 2003 issues exhibit an unusual diversity of almost familiar worlds.

Raising Stony Mayhall

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Daryl Gregory
• Narrated By David Marantz
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In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman's arms is a baby - stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda, and he begins to move.The family hides the child - whom they name Stony - rather than turn him over to authorities who would destroy him. Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow....

Wildlife

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By James Patrick Kelly
• Narrated By Scott Aiello, Ismenia Mendes, Stephen Bel Davies

Rebelling against her fashion-drug designer father, freelance journalist and troubled clone Wynne Cage covers a data-heist that places her in the rank of a thief. To make matters more complicated, Wynne must also confront the forces of a world with unlimited bio-technological advantages.

Shades of Milk and Honey

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Mary Robinette Kowal
• Narrated By Mary Robinette Kowal
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The fantasy novel you’ve always wished Jane Austen had written. When Jane realizes that one of Melody’s suitors is set on taking advantage of her sister for the sake of her dowry, she pushes her skills to the limit of what her body can withstand in order to set things right—and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own.

Beggars in Spain

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Nancy Kress
• Narrated By Theo Moffett
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This coming of age tale follows Leisha Camden. She is the first person genetically altered before birth so that she does not need to sleep. Her rich industrialist father pays for the procedure so that his daughter will have a competitive edge over others. It's soon discovered that Leisha's mother is also carrying a "normal" child. As Leisha grows older she finds others who've had the non-sleep genetic alteration.

Beggars in Spain

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Nancy Kress
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent, and one of a growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts, victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society and, ultimately, from Earth itself.

Starship: Mutiny

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Mike Resnick
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis, Mike Resnick
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The date is 1966 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race - but not yet dominated by it - finds itself in an all-out war. They stand against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power. The main battles are taking place in the Spiral Arm and toward the Core. But far out on the Rim, the Theodore Roosevelt is one of three ships charged with protecting the Phoenix Cluster.

Fuzzy Nation

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi
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In John Scalzi's re-imagining of H. Beam Piper's 1962 sci-fi classic Little Fuzzy, written with the full cooperation of the Piper Estate, Jack Holloway works alone for reasons he doesnt care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorps headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporations headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, thats not up for discussion.

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 41 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.

The Days Between

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 10 mins)
• By Allen M. Steele
• Narrated By Tom Dheere

Three months after leaving Earth, the URSS Alabama had just achieved cruise velocity when the accident occurred: Leslie Gillis woke up. His first lucid thought was, Thank God, I made it. His next thought was, Something's wrong. Everyone was still asleep. Everyone except himself.

Osama

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Lavie Tidhar
• Narrated By Jeff Harding
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In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...Joe’s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction?

The Dirty Streets of Heaven: Bobby Dollar, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Tad Williams
• Narrated By George Newbern
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Bobby Dollar is an angel - a real one. He knows a lot about sin, and not just in his professional capacity as an advocate for souls caught between Heaven and Hell. Bobby’s wrestling with a few deadly sins of his own - pride, anger, even lust. But his problems aren’t all his fault. Bobby can’t entirely trust his heavenly superiors, and he’s not too sure about any of his fellow earthbound angels either, especially the new kid that Heaven has dropped into their midst, a trainee angel who asks too many questions.

Spin

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Robert Charles Wilson
• Narrated By Scott Brick

One night when he was 10, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They flared into brilliance, then disappeared, replaced by an empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.

Axis

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Robert Charles Wilson
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance 10 years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed - as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.

Vortex

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Robert Charles Wilson
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported 10,000 years into the future by the mysterious entities called “the Hypotheticals”. In this future, humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined. Turk and his young friend, Isaac Dvali, are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Elizabeth Bear, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, and others
• Narrated By Tom Dheere, Vanessa Hart, J. P. Linton
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Here is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Erosion",l by Ian Creasey, a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying earth. In "As Women Fight", by Sara Genge, a hunter has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife's body in a society of body-switchers....

The Lost Fleet: Dauntless

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Jack Campbell
• Narrated By Christian Rummel, Jack Campbell
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Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.

Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic "Black Jack" legend.