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An unabridged audio collection of the best-of-the-best science fiction stories published in 2015 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents.

Aiden Lake adopted his institutionalized sister's two daughters, and he's a good dad. He works nights on websites and gets in his adult time twice a week at the Roasty Bean, where he meets with other single gay parents. Devon Smithson wants to be a good dad now that his 16-year-old sister asked him to babysit her newborn...three months ago. But he's overwhelmed with the colicky baby. An invitation to the daddy-and-kid gatherings at the café is a godsend. The pot is sweetened when his friendship with Aiden develops into more - maybe even something that can last.

Warrior crews in rusted ships hunt mutated whales and battle toxic sharks in the aquatic wasteland the world has become. The crew of the Penny Dreadful have had a good season, and their hold is filled with oil and meat from the mighty leviathans they hunt on the open ocean. They soon discover a trading post under siege by a swarm of sharks and gangs of murderous raiders known as the Panzer Fish. The shark cult has escalated its campaign of terror across the sea, and next on their hit list is the whaleship's home port of Seattle. Captain Drucilla, now filling her father's boots as the ...

Warrior crews in rusted ships hunt mutated whales and battle toxic sharks in the aquatic wasteland the world has become. It has been eighty years since The Melt, and now the world is a place ruled by nothing but the crashing waves of the sea and the survival instincts of folk made hard by the deadly waters. The scraps of dry land that remain are ruins inhabited by cannibalistic raiders and desperate scavengers, forcing most survivors and their kin to make a life upon a treacherous open ocean teeming with scavengers, marauders, a deadly fish cult, and savage sea monsters. Bard, a harpooner ...

The most wanted salvage marine in the universe thought he was done fighting. For Samuel Hyst the nightmare was over, left behind upon dead worlds and within the derelict ships drifting through space, he and his family having fled to the edges of the frontier to begin a new life of peace. In the aftermath of a violent raid by slave traders, the long-suffering marine discovers that a relic of the ancient machine civilization has been left at the doorstep of his pristine forest homestead. He feels the menace radiating from it, and knows that the various powers and factions that rule necrospace will soon come for all of them.

The stars are right. They are coming. From the rain drenched metropolis of New Seattle to the vibrant urban sprawl of Bangkok, datarunners burn each other out in digital war zones even as enhanced cyborgs shoot and slash each other into oblivion on the mean streets. In this frenzied future of neon and chrome, the data cold war pits corporations and cults against each other, allowing something much darker to fester in secret. Hex is a brilliant datarunner, and when a routine hack turns violent, she and her lover, a beautiful and deadly razor girl named Brida, must go on the run from the ...

Heroic pilots must rely on their psychic gifts, archaic swordsmanship, and advanced combat training to survive deep space dogfights and bloody close quarters melee. They step up to defend the universe, and then come back to a harem of beautiful women, if they survive. Pretty good deal for a couple of top gun starfighter jocks. Corwin and Tank have earned some much deserved rest and relaxation after, but they soon find their victory over the Roka short lived, as they must engage in deep space dogfights against a highly organized criminal cartel that is selling the disturbing new drug Black ...

With four girls, single dad Ryan Withers has his hands too full to look for romance. He’s not complaining - he loves his daughter and the three nieces he adopted when their parents died, and he would do anything for them. He's caught off guard when his mother and daughter decide to play matchmaker. Alex Bernot works in disaster relief, his job taking him all over the world, helping others, for extended periods of time. He’s staying with his aunt while he’s home, and she sets him up on a blind date.

• NOW AN EXCITING TV SERIES FROM CRACKLE • Welcome to Nemesis Legion convict, where six battles beneath the banner will earn you a full pardon for your crimes, if you survive. Samuel Hyst, now a captive of Grotto, finds himself locked up after giving up the location of the ancient relic he'd attempted to hide in exchange for the corporation leaving his family alone. Nemesis is a notorious prison planet where citizens who cannot pay their debts to the corporations are incarcerated along with the hardest criminals in necrospace. He is soon reunited with his old comrade Harold Marr, a ...

They are bold, daring, reliable...and doomed. The salvage marines of Tango Platoon have gone up against everything from space pirates and resistance fighters to savage mutants and the heavily armed elite troopers of Helion Corporation. By all accounts they are some of the most battle-hardened veterans in the fleet and experts at hostile salvage operations.

Free-spirited computer programmer Kent McMann loves life, candy, his family, and his job designing apps. With his go-getter attitude, he succeeds at anything he tackles. So having a child with a surrogate mother is the perfect start to the family he's always wanted, even though he still hasn't found his longed-for Mr. Right.

Call of Duty meets LitRPG The mission... Shoot anything that moves... The prize... Ten million dollars. Kurt Silva was a rising star in the immersive first person shooter phenomenon Team Deathmatch, an elite level gamer who became a working class hero by fighting his way to the top of the leaderboards. Then fame and fortune got the better of him, he burned out, and Kurt lost it all. He now spends his days training other players, doing his best to help newbies from getting fragged, caring for his aging parents, and barely earning enough to make ends meet. So when he gets tapped by the ...

Heroic pilots must rely on their psychic gifts, archaic swordsmanship, and advanced combat training to survive deep space dogfights and bloody close quarters melee. They step up to defend the universe, and then come back to a harem of beautiful women, if they survive. Pretty good deal for a couple of top gun starfighter jocks. Corwin and Tank are fighter pilots who serve the United Democracies Federation aboard the battleship Hard Rain. They are among the few pilots in the UDF who possess the physical stamina and psychic talent required to fly missions in the deadly three hundred and sixty ...

Heroic pilots must rely on their psychic gifts, archaic swordsmanship, and advanced combat training to survive deep space dogfights and bloody close quarters melee. They step up to defend the universe, and then come back to a harem of beautiful women, if they survive. Pretty good deal for a couple of top gun starfighter jocks. They've put down terrorist insurgents, gone kill for kill with mercenaries, and taken out drug dealing cartels. They even captured one of history's most notorious all female space pirate crews and added them to the harem on board Hard Rain. All of which means nothing ...

Lance Packet just got a contract to shoot an erotic BDSM deck of cards; the only problem is finding models. So far everyone he's interviewed thinks he's looking for sex for hire. Then in walk three perfect examples of men: Tide and his friends, Tyrone and Bran. Tide Germaine is a model and a dom. He and his best friend Tyrone opened The Iron Eagle Gym as a place for gay men in the lifestyle to work out, do scenes, and congregate with like-minded men.

The Narrows are the most shark infested waters of the Caribbean, a three kilometer wide strait steeped in folklore that exists between the islands of St Kitts and Nevis, upon which ships full of people risk passage every day. In 1970 the Christena ferry disaster claims the lives of over 233 passengers, and a young man named Marcus is part of the daring rescue operation, battling abnormally aggressive sharks and stormy seas to rescue victims.

Enlil is one of the most fierce and successful warrior-gamers in the full immersion MMORPG known as Raid Online, developed by the government of a post-apocalyptic bunker society to keep the population entertained as they hide away from the polluted surface world. With his warhammer and his wolf he has earned himself fame and fortune in this grim dystopia, all to help his invalid sister fight off a crippling disease. Enlil must lead his adventure party into a new game expansion that promises glory and rewards enough for the group to buy their way out of the slums and into the higher levels ...

Lord Indron is no stranger to war, but the mission before him is unlike any other. On the desolate, forsaken moon of Sakaratul Maut, buried beneath corporate failure and scavenger desperation, a nightmare of cybernetic horror waits to be unearthed. With his elite Echo Squad and hardened Salvage Marines, Indron must retrieve a classified Gedra Cyborg—a telepathic horror capable of controlling the dead, a weapon beyond human comprehension. But they are not alone. The desperate Red Listers who call this wasteland home will fight to the last breath, fanatics with nothing left to lose. And ...

How will you survive the zombie apocalypse? Do you run for the wilderness or hide in your basement? Would you form a group to survive or strike out on your own? Do you avoid the military or seek their aide? Are you more of a "shotgun & machete" person or is the "pistol and hatchet" approach more suitable? This book is part zombie novel and part survival guide which explores themes of social collapse, epidemiology, natural disaster response, wilderness survival, interpersonal dynamics, sustainable living, and modern combat tactics.

When his three-year-old daughter is kidnapped, Eric Wilson doesn't have many options, and time is running out. With nowhere else to turn, he reaches out to his ex, influential businessman Brock Vencenza, whose money and contacts might be able to save Josie. Brock never got over Eric's loss, and he's more than willing to help when Eric needs him most. Together with law enforcement and private security, they embark on a twisting investigation to find the little girl - and who wants to hurt her and destroy both men in the process.