Bestsellers
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
By: Andy Weir
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
- By Josh P on 12-07-14
By: Cixin Liu
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The Dark Forest
- By: Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
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This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author....
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A New Favorite
- By averageconsumer on 08-14-15
By: Cixin Liu, and others
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Death's End
- By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 28 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity....
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one of the best trilogies I have ever listened to
- By Patrick on 10-17-16
By: Cixin Liu, and others
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The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Stranded on the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney’s only hope for survival is science, a sense of humor, and maybe some potatoes.
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I love Wil Wheaton but why not R. C. Bray?
- By L. Newman on 01-11-20
By: Andy Weir
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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When retired millionaire Bob Johansson chose cryogenic preservation, the last thing he expected was to be reanimated as a space probe that can clone itself. Meet the Bobs.
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Ignore the Publisher's Summary! This is Amazing!
- By PW on 04-12-17
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
By: Andy Weir
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
- By Josh P on 12-07-14
By: Cixin Liu
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The Dark Forest
- By: Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author....
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A New Favorite
- By averageconsumer on 08-14-15
By: Cixin Liu, and others
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Death's End
- By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 28 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity....
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one of the best trilogies I have ever listened to
- By Patrick on 10-17-16
By: Cixin Liu, and others
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The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Stranded on the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney’s only hope for survival is science, a sense of humor, and maybe some potatoes.
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I love Wil Wheaton but why not R. C. Bray?
- By L. Newman on 01-11-20
By: Andy Weir
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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When retired millionaire Bob Johansson chose cryogenic preservation, the last thing he expected was to be reanimated as a space probe that can clone itself. Meet the Bobs.
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Ignore the Publisher's Summary! This is Amazing!
- By PW on 04-12-17
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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On the Moon, crime pays, but small-time crook Jazz Bashara may have just uncovered a conspiracy of lunar proportions. Welcome to Artemis.
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A ferrari with no motor
- By will on 11-18-17
By: Andy Weir
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Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days....
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I’m sorry I waited so long to read this book.
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-27-14
By: Ernest Cline
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrated by: Rosalind Chao
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking audiences to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
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Why Rosalamd Chao?
- By Erin on 02-29-24
By: Cixin Liu, and others
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Leviathan Wakes
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
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From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl....
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Started a love affair with hard sci fi
- By NH on 07-30-17
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For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe....
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THE FECAL MATTER HAS HIT THE ATMOSPHERIC PROJECTOR
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-03-17
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Heaven's River
- Bobiverse, Book 4
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
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Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again....
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BOB-tastic!!! 🛸
- By C. White on 09-24-20
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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The Redemption of Time
- A Three-Body Problem Novel
- By: Baoshu, Ken Liu - Translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited....
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This is a tough one.
- By A. on 07-19-19
By: Baoshu, and others
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Dust
- The Silo Saga, Book 3
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white—everything is shades of gray....
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All Killer, No Filler! 6 Stars!!!
- By KD on 05-28-23
By: Hugh Howey
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Abaddon's Gate
- The Expanse, Book 3
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
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For generations, the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt—was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark....
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Did you read the first two?
- By Donald B. Fields, Jr. on 10-20-18
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Neuromancer
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down....
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Story? Classic. Narrator? Ugh.
- By Sage on 11-11-14
By: William Gibson
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Cibola Burn
- The Expanse, Book 4
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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The fourth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Enter a new frontier....
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Book has been renarrated by Jefferson Mays-Thanks!
- By fandel69 on 03-16-17
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Nemesis Games
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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The fifth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan. A thousand worlds have opened....
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Terrifically fun, though increasingly predictable
- By A reader on 07-14-15
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Children of Ruin
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time....
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Not ideal for audiobook format
- By bogmonkey on 01-08-20
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Snow Crash
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...
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A solid sci-fi novel
- By Brent on 02-05-03
By: Neal Stephenson
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Foundation (Apple Series Tie-in Edition)
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years....
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An unabridged classic but "Psychologist?!!"
- By Roger Lee on 04-07-13
By: Isaac Asimov
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Dune: The Battle of Corrin
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
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Fifty-six hard years after the events of The Machine Crusade, after the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place....
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You know you'll read it anyway
- By Amazon Customer on 09-19-04
By: Brian Herbert, and others
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Children of Memory
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence....
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Read it and weep.
- By Marc on 02-03-23
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I, Robot
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two....
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Thank you
- By Fredrik on 06-11-04
By: Isaac Asimov
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Sphere
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs
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A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action....
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Sphere
- By BookReader on 06-01-16
By: Michael Crichton
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Ashes of Man
- Sun Eater, Book 5
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
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With the Cielcin united under one banner, the Sollan Empire stands alone after the betrayal of the Commonwealth. The Prophet-King of the Cielcin has sent its armies to burn the worlds of men, and worse, there are rumors … whispers that Hadrian Marlowe is dead, killed in the fighting....
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Good and very bad
- By Anonymous User on 09-18-23
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The Ministry for the Future
- A Novel
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
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The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us....
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Great ideas, uneven narration
- By depthpsychologist on 12-09-20
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Colony Mars: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Gerald M. Kilby
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself? All contact is lost with the first privately funded colony on Mars during a long and destructive sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility....
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Misses the mark
- By Kevin Spudic on 08-11-19
By: Gerald M. Kilby
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Prelude to Foundation
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor....
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Trantor, capital of a galactic empire!
- By Svenghali on 11-09-12
By: Isaac Asimov
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Ancillary Justice
- By: Ann Leckie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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Once, the soldier known as Breq was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away....
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Has some redeeming value, but is deeply flawed
- By Matthew J. Mimnaugh on 08-07-19
By: Ann Leckie
New releases
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Preconceptions
- By: Scott Rhine
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Film noir meets Jurassic Park. Petra is a medical engineer for zoologists and fertility clinics. Why is she getting death threats, and what did she do to merit an ankle monitor? As the science advisor to a major contender for the presidency, she needs a PR boost. Hendrix is on his fourth career, having failed as a rock guitarist and a war journalist. His last chance is to write a book that makes the country support this abrasive scientist. He’s always been a sucker for a woman in trouble. Warning: this novel talks about the science and ethics of how babies are made.
By: Scott Rhine
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Schrödinger's Dog
- i-Vector Series, Book 1
- By: Allan Brewer
- Narrated by: Allan Brewer
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A spell at GCHQ sounded like a refreshing change for academic historian George. But his life is thrown upside down when he gets put in a team with a gifted physicist, Alex, and multi-talented prankster mathematician, Betty, who have covertly broken through the accepted rules of physics to produce an extraordinary novel technology.
By: Allan Brewer
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The Latest Flake of Eternity
- i-Vector Series, Book 3
- By: Allan Brewer
- Narrated by: Allan Brewer
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The use of an i-Vector zap to thwart Betty's kidnap has caused unforeseen and unimagined changes to the future. An eccentric old-fashioned vicar arrives, delivering a chilling message, and Betty finds her safety in jeopardy again from a completely unanticipated direction.
By: Allan Brewer
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The Rayburn Bequest
- By: Kathryn Hoff
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestseller in Hard Sci Fi and Genetic Engineering Sci Fi! An eccentric scientist has left widowed philosophy professor Nora Binford an unexpected bequest: eight cages of lab rats and a shiny flash drive containing secret research into extending human life. The research could help cure her son’s life-threatening genetic disorder and ease the ills of old age for millions … or it might trigger catastrophic changes to the human genome. A teacher at a beach-town community college, Nora is more comfortable running seminars than making life-altering decisions about potentially dangerous ...
By: Kathryn Hoff
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Tales From the War
- By: Gina Marie Wylie
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a series of stories set in the same universe and at the same time as Hannah Sawyer and Starfarers Dream. They range from the flight of the Nihon, and its subsequent adventures to the story about Donna Merriweather's origins and then to the life of a war correspondent sent to cover the war.
By: Gina Marie Wylie
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The Black Ewe
- By: Fritz Leiber Jr.
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Say hello to Lavina Simes, a wholesome appearing midwestern girl, always dressed in black. Lavina has a gift, or curse, that allows her to see into the future. Tragedy has befallen every suitor who pursued her charms. She travels the world with her father, a lifetime Foreign Service officer, and misfortune seems to follow them.
By: Fritz Leiber Jr.
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Preconceptions
- By: Scott Rhine
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Film noir meets Jurassic Park. Petra is a medical engineer for zoologists and fertility clinics. Why is she getting death threats, and what did she do to merit an ankle monitor? As the science advisor to a major contender for the presidency, she needs a PR boost. Hendrix is on his fourth career, having failed as a rock guitarist and a war journalist. His last chance is to write a book that makes the country support this abrasive scientist. He’s always been a sucker for a woman in trouble. Warning: this novel talks about the science and ethics of how babies are made.
By: Scott Rhine
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Schrödinger's Dog
- i-Vector Series, Book 1
- By: Allan Brewer
- Narrated by: Allan Brewer
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A spell at GCHQ sounded like a refreshing change for academic historian George. But his life is thrown upside down when he gets put in a team with a gifted physicist, Alex, and multi-talented prankster mathematician, Betty, who have covertly broken through the accepted rules of physics to produce an extraordinary novel technology.
By: Allan Brewer
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The Latest Flake of Eternity
- i-Vector Series, Book 3
- By: Allan Brewer
- Narrated by: Allan Brewer
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The use of an i-Vector zap to thwart Betty's kidnap has caused unforeseen and unimagined changes to the future. An eccentric old-fashioned vicar arrives, delivering a chilling message, and Betty finds her safety in jeopardy again from a completely unanticipated direction.
By: Allan Brewer
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The Rayburn Bequest
- By: Kathryn Hoff
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestseller in Hard Sci Fi and Genetic Engineering Sci Fi! An eccentric scientist has left widowed philosophy professor Nora Binford an unexpected bequest: eight cages of lab rats and a shiny flash drive containing secret research into extending human life. The research could help cure her son’s life-threatening genetic disorder and ease the ills of old age for millions … or it might trigger catastrophic changes to the human genome. A teacher at a beach-town community college, Nora is more comfortable running seminars than making life-altering decisions about potentially dangerous ...
By: Kathryn Hoff
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Tales From the War
- By: Gina Marie Wylie
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a series of stories set in the same universe and at the same time as Hannah Sawyer and Starfarers Dream. They range from the flight of the Nihon, and its subsequent adventures to the story about Donna Merriweather's origins and then to the life of a war correspondent sent to cover the war.
By: Gina Marie Wylie
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The Black Ewe
- By: Fritz Leiber Jr.
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Say hello to Lavina Simes, a wholesome appearing midwestern girl, always dressed in black. Lavina has a gift, or curse, that allows her to see into the future. Tragedy has befallen every suitor who pursued her charms. She travels the world with her father, a lifetime Foreign Service officer, and misfortune seems to follow them.
By: Fritz Leiber Jr.
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The Dark Conscious: Conclusion to The Seagu11 Project
- By: T. Lee Baumann
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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The Dark Conscious: Conclusion to The Seagu11 Project by T. Lee Baumann, (www.google.com/profiles/tleebaumann), concludes the challenging journey of the spaceship Schwartzschild, en route from its 26,000 light-year passage to the Milky Way’s central black hole. Having completed the goal of the original mission, the Schwartzschild crew is now forced to unlock the ultimate secrets of the conscious universe. At the end of The Seagu11 Project (Volume 1), an alien race had abducted fellow crewmember Lyle Turk. In this second and final volume of the Seagu11 series, the aliens have isolated ...
By: T. Lee Baumann
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I Came Home from Saving the Rainforest
- Halfway to Better, Book 6
- By: Susan Kaye Quinn
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 13 mins
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SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree. I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.
By: Susan Kaye Quinn
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Biosplice
- By: Jean-Jacques Reibel
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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In the not-so-distant future, society is transformed by groundbreaking advances in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. In this world, Tina, a savvy young blogger with partial feline augmentations, navigates the complexities of life where human capabilities can be expanded in unimaginable ways. As she uncovers a secretive group known as the Locusts, who are creating genetically spliced creatures for insurrection, Tina finds herself at the heart of a moral and ethical storm. Balancing her personal enhancements with her human instincts, she delves deeper into a society divided by ...
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Silverrock
- By: Kathryn Hoff
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs
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In the deep darkness of an ancient underground city lurk scorpions the size of wolves… Best seller in Hard Science Fiction and Science Fiction Adventure! Scarred ex-soldier Booker takes a job on the gritty frontier world of Silverrock, managing security for an archeological dig. But when the huge scorpions that haunt the caverns attack the dig’s brilliant young linguist, Booker learns that the ruins hide more than broken crockery. For the future of humanity, Booker must protect the site long enough for Lucien to decipher its ancient inscriptions while fending off miners eager to extract...
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Well written and engaging
- By Anonymous User on 05-03-24
By: Kathryn Hoff
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Euclidean
- By: John Triptych
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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A hidden mystery in Jupiter’s second-largest moon holds a power beyond imagining. Beneath the icy surface of Callisto lies an underground sea. Decades ago, a research base was built to study the strange lifeforms inhabiting this silent world before tragedy struck, killing everyone. News of this incident is quickly hushed up, with all access to the Jovian moon restricted. Kirill Sereda was orphaned when his mother never returned from that very outpost. Now an adult, he gathers together a team of misfits for a clandestine mission: head to Callisto and find out what really happened. What ...
By: John Triptych
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Tombs Without Bodies
- Halfway to Better, Book 4
- By: Susan Kaye Quinn
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 33 mins
- Unabridged
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SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the "greenbelt," but a young woman's curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.
By: Susan Kaye Quinn
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Vanishing Bodies
- An Epic Science Fiction Romance
- By: Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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“A twisty, satisfyingly unpredictable SF action tale. Even die-hard SF readers won’t see some of the turns coming”—Kirkus Reviews “[An] engrossing ride … [that’s] a meaningful metaphor for all the people one person becomes throughout life: how everyone grows, reinvents, and regenerates, even without special DNA. Mikheyev presents a narrative as malleable as its protagonist: changing genres from chapter to chapter, but always clinging to its core heartfelt message”—IndieReader He cannot die. He can only vanish. And a nefarious organization wants the powers he has. It's a ...
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Slimy Things Did Crawl
- Halfway to Better, Book 1
- By: Susan Kaye Quinn
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn't be possible. Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
By: Susan Kaye Quinn
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Sanctuary
- By: Scott Rhine
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Mercy Smith leads the team that is building the fastest space shuttle ever. Now her friend Red wants to steal the unstable Tetra-1 because Earth needs the information from an orbiting alien artifact. When Mercy volunteered to ride along to prevent the prototype from exploding, she didn’t count on Chinese and Muslim weapons of mass destruction or corporate spies. After landing on the artifact, she discovers there’s a new world inside, one they name Sanctuary. Although there are vast technological treasures, first the astronauts have to pass a complex test to see whether humanity is fit ...
By: Scott Rhine
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Strange Voyages
- By: Dan Thompson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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An eclectic collection of stories of strange voyages in time and space. •Dragon Fire - The pilot of a Fokker Triplane is transferred through time to fight aerial duels with dragons. •Twilight’s Last Gleaming - An AI interstellar space probe is the last defense for the human race. •Second Chance - The crew of a small base on the Moon discovers the remains of ancient alien visitors. •Prize Crew - Privateers fight a querrila war against the powerful UNE Navy in the Asteroid Belt. •Assassin - Ruthless aliens invade the Solar System and an ancient warship is Earth's last defense. •...
By: Dan Thompson
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Planting the Shell-Bones
- Halfway to Better, Book 3
- By: Susan Kaye Quinn
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 25 mins
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SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected, and unwelcome, visitor, her time in this final refuge might be at an end. Planting the Shell-Bones is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.
By: Susan Kaye Quinn
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The Return of the Manhattan
- By: Lee Ecker
- Narrated by: Glenn
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Lieutenant Commander David Ashton thrives on excitement. As he strolls to the White House, he has the feeling a new adventure awaits and he's not disappointed. President Gardiner offers him the mission of a lifetime, something he's trained for all of his life. Gardiner explains that the United States is running out of oil. In desperation, he is dispatching the Excalibur, the largest starship ever built, to voyage beyond the solar system to a distant planet 103 light years from earth.
By: Lee Ecker