The Snow Queen

Downbelow Station

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 12 mins)
• By C. J. Cherryh
• Narrated By Brian Troxell
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Pell's Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between The Company, whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pell's location - - on the outer edge of Earth's defensive perimeter - makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence.

A Deepness in the Sky

• UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Vernor Vinge
• Narrated By Peter Larkin
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After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. There are two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches.

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.

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.

Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Marge Piercy
• Narrated By Tanya Eby
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Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity - and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation.

Cyteen

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 52 mins)
• By C. J. Cherryh
• Narrated By Gabra Zackman, Jonathan Davis

The saga of two young friends trapped in an endless nightmare of suspicion and surveillance, of cyber-programmed servants and a ruling class with century-long lives – and the enigmatic woman who dominates them all.

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

• UNABRIDGED (34 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ursula K. Le Guin
• Narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan, Jefferson Mays
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Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades, from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud awards. She has had her work collected over the years but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works.

Binti

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Nnedi Okorafor
• Narrated By Robin Miles

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares.

Midnight Robber

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Nalo Hopkinson
• Narrated By Robin Miles

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....

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.

Dreamsnake

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Vonda N. McIntyre
• Narrated By Anna Fields

When the healer Snake was summoned, she traveled the blasted landscape with her three serpents. From the venom of two of them, she distilled her medicines. But most valued of all was the alien dreamsnake, whose bite could ease the fear and pain of death.

Man Plus

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Frederik Pohl
• Narrated By Dennis Boutsikaris, Robert J. Sawyer
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Roger Torraway watched in horror as the monster lurched, toppled over and died. Project Man Plus had gone suddenly and drastically wrong. The race to colonize Mars was too important, too costly, and America was already too committed, for plans to be scrapped. They would have to make a new Martian. And Roger Torraway was it, candidate for the endless surgery, operation after painful operation, that would enable him to survive on that faraway planet.

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 31 mins)
• By N. K. Jemisin
• Narrated By Robin Miles
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This is the way the world ends. For the last time. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great, red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal and long-dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

Consider Phlebas: Culture Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Iain M. Banks
• Narrated By Peter Kenny

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction - cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade....

Of Sand and Malice Made: The Song of the Shattered Sands, Book 0.5

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Bradley Beaulieu
• Narrated By Sarah Coomes

Çeda, the heroine of the novel Twelve Kings in Sharakhai, is the youngest pit fighter in the history of the great desert city of Sharakhai. In this prequel, she has already made her name in the arena as the fearsome, undefeated White Wolf; none but her closest friends and allies know her true identity. But this all changes when she crosses the path of Rümayesh, an ehrekh, a sadistic creature forged long ago by the god of chaos.

Nine Princes in Amber: The Chronicles of Amber, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Roger Zelazny
• Narrated By Alessandro Juliani

Amber is the one real world, of which all others including our own Earth are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne.

The Dispossessed: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Ursula K. Le Guin
• Narrated By Don Leslie
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Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

The Shadow of the Torturer: The Book of the New Sun, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Gene Wolfe
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy towards his victim.

Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.

Parable of the Talents

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Octavia E. Butler
• Narrated By Patricia R. Floyd, Peter Jay Fernandez, Sisi Aisha Johnson

Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying depravity. Assault, theft, sexual abuse, slavery, and murder are commonplace. And a zealous, bigoted tyrant has won his way into the White House. Directly opposed is Lauren Olamina, founder of Earthseed - a new faith that teaches "God Is Change". Persecuted for "heathen" beliefs as much as for having a black female leader, Earthseed's followers face a life-and-death struggle to preserve their vision.

Grass 

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Sheri S. Tepper
• Narrated By Dina Pearlman

What could be more commonplace than grass or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again.

Wild Seed

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Octavia E. Butler
• Narrated By Dion Graham
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Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflexor design. He fears no one...until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. Together they weave a pattern of destiny unimaginable to mortals.

Babel-17

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Samuel R. Delany
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

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.

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.