Morning Motivation Series: The Best Fantasy and Sci Fi Short Stories for Your Daily Commute

By: James Livingood

Narrated by: Multiple

This audiobook contains eight fantasy and sci-fi short stories perfect for your morning commute. Each story is self contained and lasts for about 1 hr of listening.

Pale Rider - Two worlds collide in this action short story. Zombie destruction has leveled humanity. Gasoline fuel is no longer an option, but humanity must find a way to survive. In response to trying to restore our way of life, we engineer franken-monsters. Enter a world of dinosaur riders and zombie apocalypse.

Magic Factory - In a factory full of magic, some magic is bound to slip out and cause havoc. Magical industry knowledge is precious and hard to find. Even the most minor of spells require an enormous non-disclosure waiver. Magic factories are known to be high risk because of the stigma of sharing information. Unfortunately for the workers at this factory, that includes information on how to be safe.

Summer Sword - An otherworldly friendship is forged under stress and fear. Wyatt, a recently unemployed camper, is looking for an escape from responsibilities. Thunder Born is a wind esper looking to escape from those who want to murder him. Together they start something surpassing both of them.

Floating Ink - The world was cookie cutter ready for an alien invasion. Xenophen leveraged humanity’s growing into a knowledge economy. To control us, they simply needed to offer a better education.

Vampire Caving - Join a risk taking vampire as he explores why vampires exist.

Swamp Monster Voodoo - A voodoo swamp creature battles for his way of life. An explorer battles for the swamp creature's treasure.

Frankenstein IT Support - Frankenstein's monster is retrained to provide IT support. After all, if you can't find good help, why not build it?

Moonlight Motor - A fair fight doesn’t start with hunger. That will to live drives a desperate, hungry man to find solace on a train. The only problem is that blending in with the passengers may be worse than getting caught.

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Mixed Reviews

I got this story via audiobook boom and this is my voluntary review. There were several stories in this book. There were several stories that I would give 5 stars and some would get 3 stars. The narration was pretty good on all of the stories but some of them were disjointed. Some were good short stories with a great beginning, middle, and ending. I liked all of them but I enjoyed several. You know up front that they will be a suspend your reality and join the stories reality but at least two of them were suspend the reality that you just suspended and do another level of suspension.

Good Listen

There are some very good stories in this collection, enjoyed this book. Narration is spot on.

“I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.”

Great stories

There are some really good stories here I really enjoyed them all. The cunningness of the swamp monster. His take on the Vampires and how they evolved gave me something to ponder. It intrigued me enough to buy the next Vampire books to continue with the story. I enjoyed all of the stories but the story that I enjoyed the most was Frankenstein the IT support guy. Even the music between takes added to the fun. If you listen to nothing else in this book the Frankenstein IT Support is worth the getting this audiobook.

Morning Motivation Series

This is an interesting mix of stories that will entertain listeners with the different worlds and characters in them. Each story gives you a new world to explore. Some I enjoyed more than others but as a whole this collection was a nice collection. Sci-Fi and fantasy are the main genre in these stories, and some gave you things to think about. Having the different narrators throughout this collection made for an engaging read. All narrators did a good job of keeping the narrative flowing and kept the listener engaged.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Anytime Motivation

Out of the eight stories I liked about 6 of them, the other two I could do without, I am fairly new to this author and I have read 3 or 4 of his books so far, and I really liked his Sea Fleas and the Janus books, so give Mr. Livingood a look, I think you will be pleasantly surprised