Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition

Ender's Shadow

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, a Full Cast
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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.

The Martian

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Andy Weir
• Narrated By R. C. Bray
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plainold "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.

Ready Player One

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Ernest Cline
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Earth Unaware

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

The Swarm

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 1 min)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Stephen Hoye, and others
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The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the solar system's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system.

Dune

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Frank Herbert
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

Armada: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Ernest Cline
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom - if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer.

Off to Be the Wizard

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Scott Meyer
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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It's a simple story. Boy finds proof that reality is a computer program. Boy uses program to manipulate time and space. Boy gets in trouble. Boy flees back in time to Medieval England to live as a wizard while he tries to think of a way to fix things. Boy gets in more trouble. Oh, and boy meets girl at some point.

Starship Troopers

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By Lloyd James
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Join the Army and See the Universe. That is the motto of The Third Space War, also known as The First Interstellar War, but most commonly as The Bug War. In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial best sellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe - and into battle with the Terrain Mobile Infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy.

The Hobbit

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
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Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard’s band of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, savage wolves, and other dangers. Bilbo quickly tires of the quest for adventure and longs for the security of his familiar home. But before he can return to his life of comfort, he must face the greatest threat of all.

American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production)

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Neil Gaiman
• Narrated By Dennis Boutsikaris, Daniel Oreskes, Ron McLarty, and others
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First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic, an intellectual and artistic benchmark from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. Now discover the mystery and magic of American Gods in this 10th anniversary edition. Newly updated and expanded with the author's preferred text, this commemorative volume is a true celebration of a modern masterpiece by the one, the only, Neil Gaiman.

Dark Matter: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Blake Crouch
• Narrated By Jon Lindstrom
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"Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend."

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 33 mins)
• By J.K. Rowling
• Narrated By Jim Dale

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

Jurassic Park: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Michael Crichton
• Narrated By Scott Brick

Audie Award, Science Fiction, 2016. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind's most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

Foundation

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Isaac Asimov
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future, to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last 30,000 years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire, both scientists and scholars, and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations.

Snow Crash

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Neal Stephenson
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.

The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book 4; Origin)

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 2 mins)
• By James Dashner
• Narrated By Mark Deakins
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The prequel to the New York Times best-selling Maze Runner series. Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the Earth, and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there's something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it's mutating, and all evidence suggests that it will bring humanity to its knees.