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Legacy: A Prequel to Eon

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Greg Bear
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

In this prequel to Eon, Greg Bear continues to explore the possibilities presented by the asteroid Thistledown, a remnant of a lost human civilization. The Way is a tunnel through space and time that leads to other worlds, some more like planet Earth than Earth itself. It is perhaps the most formidable discovery in Thistledown and with it come disputes as to the nature of the Way and how it should be used. The Way can be reached only through Axis City, the only space station of Thistledown.

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.

A Heritage of Stars

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Clifford Simak
• Narrated By Chris Sorensen
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More than a thousand years have passed since humankind intentionally destroyed its treacherous technology, choosing to revert back to a primitive tribal state. In this society the rusting brain cases of long-inert robots are considered trophies, and the scant knowledge that has survived is doled out to an inquisitive few in monasterylike "universities". It is at one such center of learning that young Tom Cushing first reads of the legendary "Place of Going to the Stars".

United States of Japan

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Peter Tieryas
• Narrated By Adam Sims
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United States of Japan is set in a gripping alternate history where the Japanese Empire rules over America with huge robots. Is resistance possible in the form of subversive video games? Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons, a group of rebels fighting for freedom.

Martian Time-Slip

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Philip K. Dick
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings
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On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the Un develops it and its value skyrockets. Martian Union leader Arnie Kott has an ace up his sleeve, though: an autistic boy named Manfred who seems to have the ability to see the future. In the hopes of gaining an advantage on a Martian real estate deal, powerful people force Manfred to send them into the future, where they can learn about development plans.

Sixth Cycle

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Darren Wearmouth, Carl Sinclair
• Narrated By R. C. Bray
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Captain Jake Phillips wakes in his crash-landed craft and finds Earth transformed into a frightening new world. He faces two immediate threats that will test his survival skills to the limit. Mutated beings prowl the landscape, hunting humans and searching for the remaining resources. Without a plan in place, the battle will be lost, and humanity as Jake knows it will be destroyed. Sixth Cycle is a gritty post-apocalyptic story of survival and adventure.

Plague Year

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Jeff Carlson
• Narrated By Jeffrey Kafer
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The nanotechnology was designed to fight cancer. Instead, it evolved into the machine plague, killing nearly five billion people and changing life on Earth forever.

The Arrival: The Evaran Chronicles Prequel

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Adair Hart
• Narrated By Michael Pauley
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Jake Melkins is a few months away from turning 21. By the Seceltor Empire's laws, he will have to go to a breeding camp, or directly into slavery. Neither choice appeals to him. All this changes with the arrival of a space-and-time-traveling being known as Evaran at the space-station-turned-rest-stop that Jake lives on.

Exigency

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Michael Siemsen
• Narrated By Julia Whelan
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Nine brilliant scientists travel light-years on a one-way trip to an Earthlike planet. Their mission is to study from orbit the two species of intelligent lifeforms on the surface. The first: an isolated people embarking on civilization and building their world's first city. The second: a brutal race of massive predators, spread thick and still growing across the dominant landmass - destined to breed and eat their way to extinction within a few centuries.

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.

The Complete Exodus Trilogy: Books 1-3

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Andreas Christensen
• Narrated By Jeffrey Kafer
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When an object threatens human civilization, it becomes clear that we need to venture to the stars. With just a few years' warning, this will be a race against time, and only a small number of colonists can be saved. In an America turned authoritarian, a small group of people draws up their plans to change not this world but the next. The confrontation seems inevitable, but who will prevail and at what cost?

Timescape

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Gregory Benford
• Narrated By Simon Prebble, Pete Bradbury
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In a future wracked by environmental catastrophe and social instability, physicist John Renfrew devises a longshot plan to use tachyons - strange, time-traveling particles - to send a warning to the past. In 1962, Gordon Bernstein, a California researcher, gets Renfrew's message as a strange pattern of interference in an experiment he's conducting.

Neptune Crossing: Chaos Chronicles, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Jeffrey A. Carver
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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When John Bandicut sets out across the surface of Triton, he's hardly ready for the storm of chaos that's about to blow through his life. The alien Quarx that soon inhabits his mind is humanity's first contact with an alien life. The Quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent a cometary collision that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the Quarx, he must break all the rules - indeed, sacrifice his own life.

Cadicle: An Epic Space Opera Series, Volumes 1-3

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Amy DuBoff
• Narrated By Josh Bloomberg
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When Cris leaves Tararia to pursue his telekinetic abilities, he thinks he's started a new life. Years later, he learns that freedom was always an illusion - he and his family are at the center of an elaborate galactic conspiracy. Written in the style of classic sci-fi from the Golden Age, the Cadicle series follows three generations of the Sietinen Dynasty as they discover their roles in a secret war. Torn by duty and morality, their decisions will change the course of the Taran civilization.

Nexus: Nexus, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Ramez Naam
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage, with far more at stake than anyone realizes.

The Amber Project: The Variant Saga Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 41 mins)
• By JN Chaney
• Narrated By Alexander Edward Trefethen
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In 2157, a mysterious gas known as Variant spreads across the globe, killing or mutating most organic life. The surviving humans take refuge in an underground city, determined to return home. But after generations of failures and botched attempts, hope is beginning to dwindle. That is, until a young scientist makes a unique discovery, and everything changes. Suddenly, there's reason to hope again, and it rests within a group of genetically engineered children that are both human and Variant.

Archangel Down: Archangel Project, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 32 mins)
• By C. Gockel
• Narrated By Emily Woo Zeller
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Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet, Luddeccea, but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about. Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past 24 hours or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he's never met.

Duel in the Dark: Blood on the Stars, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Jay Allan
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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The Confederation has fought three wars against the forces of the totalitarian Union. Three generations of its warriors have gone off to war, held the line against the larger, more powerful enemy. Now the fourth conflict is imminent, and the Confederation's navy is on alert, positioned behind the frontier, waiting for the attack it knows is coming.

Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 43 mins)
• By William Hertling
• Narrated By Rob Granniss

David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence. David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers.

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.

Legacy: Fractured Era Legacy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Autumn Kalquist
• Narrated By Suzy Jackson
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Three hundred years ago, Earth suffered a mass extinction event. The last humans fled to the stars in search of a new home. In the darkness, they fought to survive. Now the fleet decays, and their hope of finding a better world is fading. Era Corinth works to preserve the archives, but viewing them herself would be treason. When she's faced with the possibility that her unborn child may be aborted due to a genetic defect, her fascination with ancient secrets escalates to obsession.

The Left Hand of Darkness

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Ursula K. Le Guin
• Narrated By George Guidall

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement.

Vick's Vultures

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Scott Warren
• Narrated By Steven Barnett
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Victoria Marin, captain of the U.E. Condor, and her crew of Vultures have been running dry for months. In danger of losing her command and her credibility if she can't locate fresh salvage, she locks onto the distress signal of an alien ship in hopes of valuable cargo. What she finds instead is First Prince Tavram, the heir apparent to one of the largest empires in known space. Tavram's ship has been crippled after narrowly escaping an ambush and his would-be assassin is coming to finish the job.

The Frozen Sky: The Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Jeff Carlson
• Narrated By Darrin Revitz
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Something is alive inside Jupiter's ice moon Europa. Robot probes find an ancient tunnel beneath the surface, its walls carved with strange hieroglyphics. Led by elite engineer Alexis Vonderach, a team of scientists descends into the dark... where they confront a savage race older than mankind...