Empty Space: A Haunting

The Heart of Matter: Odyssey One, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Evan Currie
• Narrated By Benjamin L. Darcie

On her epic maiden voyage, the NAC spacecraft Odyssey introduced Earth to the wonders of an untouched universe - and the unimagined horrors lurking in the black. Now the Odyssey’s second voyage will carry Captain Eric Weston and his crew back to a familiar battlefield, to face an enemy unlike any they have ever known. For on war-torn Ranquil, homeworld of Earth’s newest ally, the Priminae, the invading Drasin are but foot soldiers for a powerful unseen force. Unmasking the mysterious puppet masters means defying orders and venturing into deep space.

Stealing Light: Shoal, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Gary Gibson
• Narrated By Charlie Norfolk

In the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries, establishing a dozen human colony worlds scattered along Shoal trade routes. Dakota Merrick, while serving as a military pilot, has witnessed atrocities for which this alien race is responsible.

Light

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By M. John Harrison
• Narrated By Julian Elfer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn' t yet exist - a quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself.

Use of Weapons

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Iain M. Banks
• Narrated By Peter Kenny
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks, and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him toward his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause.

The Citadel of the Autarch: The Book of the New Sun, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Gene Wolfe
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis

The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth.

Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.