Glass Houses: Avatars Dance, Book 1

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Frederik Pohl
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman

Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award-finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever. The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth....

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.

Up Against It

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 44 mins)
• By M. J. Locke
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.

Wildside

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Steven Gould
• Narrated By Paul Boehmer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Forget the lottery. Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No pollution. No laws. A fantastic world filled with unimaginable riches in which everything - everything - was yours just for the taking?

Charlie has found that world. And he plans to use it to make him and his friends rich.There is a problem: How do you keep something this big a secret?

Proxies: Avatars Dance, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 11 mins)
• By M. J. Locke
• Narrated By Dina Pearlman

In the parched twenty-first century Southwest, Carli D'Auber has made the most important discovery of the century. She has pioneered a new form of communications: It is now possible to send your consciousness across hundreds of thousands of miles, to be present in another country or in another world, through a remote device. But powerful forces have seized control of her invention. A globe-spanning corporation has taken the credit for its discovery.