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The Forge of God

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By Stephen Bel Davies
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On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago.

Something is happening to planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to contemplate

Tower of Glass

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Robert Silverberg
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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Simeon Krug has a vision - and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect androids building it view Krug as their god. But Krug is only flesh-and-blood, and when his androids discover the truth, their anger knows no bounds... and it threatens much more than the tower.

The Zap Gun

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Philip K. Dick
• Narrated By Mel Foster
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In this biting satire, the Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western governments never told their citizens. Instead they created an elaborate ruse wherein each side comes up with increasingly outlandish doomsday weapons - weapons that don’t work. But when aliens invade, the top designers of both sides have to come together to make a real doomsday device - if they don’t kill each other first. With its combination of romance, espionage, and alien invasion, The Zap Gun skewers the military-industrial complex in a way that’s as relevant today as it was at the height of the Cold War.

Dying Inside

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Robert Silverberg
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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In 1972, Robert Silverberg, even then an acknowledged leader in the science fiction field, published a book that was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. More than three decades later, Dying Inside has stood the test of time and has been recognized as one of the finest novels the field has ever produced.

The Black Cloud

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Fred Hoyle
• Narrated By Jack Klaff, Richard Dawkins

As an immense cloud of gas enters the solar system, it blocks the sun, threatening to wipe out most of life on Earth. In Britain, a team of scientists gathers at a secret location to deal with the crisis. But as the months pass, what they learn will challenge everything they believe about the nature of life and the universe.