Darwin's Radio

The Forge of God

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By Stephen Bel Davies

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

Eon

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but the arrival of the 300-kilometer long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and scientists are unable to decide how to use this knowledge.

Blood Music

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream.

New York 2140

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Kim Stanley Robinson
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim, and others
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The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted, and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building, Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides. And how we, too, will change.

The Collapsing Empire: The Interdependency, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

Way Station

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Clifford D. Simak
• Narrated By Eric Michael Summerer
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In this Hugo Award-winning classic, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Dennis E. Taylor
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.

Not Alone

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Craig A. Falconer
• Narrated By James Patrick Cronin
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When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies - a top-level alien cover-up - he leaks the files without a second thought. The incredible truth revealed by Dan's leak immediately captures the public's imagination, but Dan's relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places.

Void Star

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Zachary Mason
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell, Tristan Morris, Sean Pratt, and others
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Not far in the future, the seas have risen, and the central latitudes are emptying. But it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor.

War Dogs

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By Jay Snyder
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They made their presence on Earth known thirteen years ago. Providing technology and scientific insights far beyond what mankind was capable of. They became indispensable advisors and promised even more gifts that we just couldn't pass up. We called them Gurus. It took them a while to drop the other shoe. You can see why, looking back.

Camouflage

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Joe Haldeman
• Narrated By Eric Michael Summerer
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The artifact is found seven miles below the surface of the sea and beneath 40 more feet of sand. The Navy's efforts to raise a wrecked submarine uncover it - and set in motion a scientific race to retrieve it, to discover just what it is and where it came from. Denser than any substance known to man, it has broken every drill bit they've tried on it and will not budge an inch. It resists every effort to breach it - or communicate with it.

Revenger

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Alastair Reynolds
• Narrated By Clare Corbett

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Among the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them.... Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds that have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded by layers of protection - and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely remembered technologies inside.

The Speed of Dark

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Elizabeth Moon
• Narrated By Jay Snyder
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In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be taught to get along in the world despite their differences. They will be made active and contributing members of society. But they will never be normal.

Sundiver: The Uplift Saga, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 33 mins)
• By David Brin
• Narrated By George Wilson
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For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?

Queen of Angels

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, murdered eight people, then disappeared. Three people want to find him: an aspiring writer, an embittered scientist who wants to use him, and a policewoman who needs to put him in custody before the Selectors, a vigilante organization, get to him first.

Aurora

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Kim Stanley Robinson
• Narrated By Ali Ahn
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A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, Aurora tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.

Spin

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Robert Charles Wilson
• Narrated By Scott Brick

One night when he was 10, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They flared into brilliance, then disappeared, replaced by an empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.

The Terminal Experiment

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Robert J. Sawyer
• Narrated By Paul Hecht
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An experiment has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. One will test life after death; another, immortality. The third one is the control unit. But now all three have escaped from Hobson's computer into the worldwide electronic matrix. And one of them is a killer.

Columbus Day: Expeditionary Force, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Craig Alanson
• Narrated By R.C. Bray
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The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.

Red Mars

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Kim Stanley Robinson
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts.

For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars. Leaving Earth forever, these 100 people have traveled nine months to reach their new home. This is the remarkable story of the world they create - and the hidden power struggles of those who want to control it.

Hull Zero Three

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By Dan John Miller
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A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination — unknown. Its purpose — a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home — a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms — he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger.

The Fold

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Peter Clines
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn't much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he's content with his quiet and peaceful existence. That is, until an old friend presents him with an irresistible mystery, one that Mike is uniquely qualified to solve.

The Spaceship Next Door

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Gene Doucette
• Narrated By Steve Carlson
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When a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, everyone realized humankind was not alone in the universe. With that realization everyone freaked out for a little while. Or almost everyone. The residents of Sorrow Falls took the news pretty well. This could have been due to a certain local quality of unflappability, or it could have been that in three years the ship did exactly nothing other than sit quietly in that field, and nobody understood the full extent of this nothing the ship was doing better than the people who lived right next door.

The Mote in God's Eye

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
• Narrated By L J Ganser
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The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre. No lesser an authority than Robert A. Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read".