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The Atrocity Archives: A Laundry Files Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Charles Stross
• Narrated By Gideon Emery
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Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.

The Family Trade

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Charles Stross
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life as a successful reporter. When she gets iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she's uncovered. Before the day is over, she's received a locket left by the mother she never knew - the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. The knotwork pattern within has a hypnotic effect on her.

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
• Narrated By Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, and others
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From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.

Luna: New Moon

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Ian McDonald
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren, Soneela Nankani, Thom Rivera
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As the leader of the moon's newest "dragon", Adriana has wrested control of the moon's helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie Metal Corporation and fought to earn her family's new status. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana's five children must defend their mother's empire from her many enemies - and each other.

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.

Autonomous: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Annalee Newitz
• Narrated By Jennifer Ikeda
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Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.

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.

Provenance

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Ann Leckie
• Narrated By Adjoa Andoh
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A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world before they are lost to her for good.

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.

Ninefox Gambit

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Yoon Ha Lee
• Narrated By Emily Woo Zeller
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To win an impossible war, Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.

Captain Kel Cheris of the Hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris' career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the Hexarchate itself might be next.

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.

Too Like the Lightning: Terra Ignota, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Ada Palmer
• Narrated By Jefferson Mays

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

Paradox Bound: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Peter Clines
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town's still got a video store, for God's sake. So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave? Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting - waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing just long enough to drop tantalizing clues before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. The one who's a walking anachronism, with her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model A Ford.

Change Agent: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Daniel Suarez
• Narrated By Jeff Gurner
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New York Times best-selling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself. On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle - and his transformation begins....

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 Stars Are Legion

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Kameron Hurley
• Narrated By Nicole Poole, Teri Schnaubelt
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Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution. As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion. Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family.

Renegade: Spiral Wars, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 1 min)
• By Joel Shepherd
• Narrated By John Lee
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One thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy. But during celebrations on humanity’s new homeworld, the legendary Captain Pantillo of the battle carrier Phoenix is court-martialed then killed, and his deputy, Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande, the heir to humanity’s most powerful industrial family, is framed for his murder.

Children of Time

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Narrated By Mel Hudson
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Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

Cast Under an Alien Sun: Destiny's Crucible, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Olan Thorensen
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis
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Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again. On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul.

Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Seanan McGuire
• Narrated By Mary Robinette Kowal

The world of Faerie never disappeared: it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie’s survival—but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born. Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from birth, these second-class children of Faerie spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations.

After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Rob Reid
• Narrated By Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Felicia Day, and others
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Meet Phluttr - a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers - and they don't even know the tenth of it. But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA?

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Becky Chambers
• Narrated By Rachel Dulude
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Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and, most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman, she's never met anyone remotely like the ship's diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot; chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks, who keep the ship running; and Ashby, their noble captain.

Persepolis Rising

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs)
• By James S. A. Corey
• Narrated By Jefferson Mays

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series - now a major television series.

Accelerando

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Charles Stross
• Narrated By George Guidall

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.