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Author: Larry Niven
Format: Online
Author Larry Niven
Narrator Paul Michael Garcia
SeriesRingworld, Book 3
Duration 13h 48m
Come back to the Ringworld-the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written. The human Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings...
View BookAuthor: Larry Niven
Format: Online
Author Larry Niven
Narrator Barrett Whitener
SeriesRingworld, Book 4
Duration 9h 20m
The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface of the Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe. Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the f...
View BookThe Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1
Author: Philip K. Dick
Format: Online
Author Philip K. Dick
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 48m
A visionary whose writing broke through the boundaries of the science-fiction genre, Philip K. Dick is regarded as a major figure of twentieth-century fiction. In 2007, he became the first science-fiction writer to be included in the Library of America Series. This collection of nine of his outstanding shorter works includes such classics as Autofa...
View BookAuthor: Arthur C. Clarke
Format: Online
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Stephen Baxter
SeriesTime Odyssey, Book 2
Duration 10h 29m
Book 2 of the Time Odyssey series. Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why...
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
Format: Online
Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 3h 55m
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700-and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings-unearth their secret and then retum to his own time...
View BookAuthor: Arthur C. Clarke
Format: Online
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator John Lee
SeriesTime Odyssey, Book 1
Duration 11h 37m
The first book in the Time Odyssey Series. For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind-until they act. In an instant, Earth's timeline is carved up and reassembled into a patchwork of different eras, from prehistory to the year 2037, each with its o...
View BookAuthor: Kurt Vonnegut
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Author Kurt Vonnegut
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 26m
Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as a "true artist" (NY Times) with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers." W...
View BookAuthor: Larry Niven
Format: Online
Author Larry Niven
Narrator Grover Gardner
SeriesRingworld, Book 1
Duration 11h 15m
The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson's puppeteers-strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens-discovered this "Ringworld" in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set about...
View BookRevelation Space Book 2: Chasm City
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Format: Online
Author Alastair Reynolds
Narrator John Lee
SeriesRevelation Space, Book 2
Duration 23h 4m
Named one of the best novels of the year by both Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle, Alastair Reynolds's debut Revelation Space redefined the space opera. With Chasm City, Reynolds invites you to reenter the bizarre universe of his imagination as he redefines Hell...The once-utopian Chasm City---a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitabl...
View BookAuthor: Ray Bradbury
Format: Online
Author Ray Bradbury
Narrator Stephen Hoye
Duration 5h 37m
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames,...
View BookAuthor: Orson Scott Card
Format: Online
Author Orson Scott Card
Narrator Stefan Rudnicki
SeriesMithermages, Book 3
Duration 11h 8m
The much-anticipated third installment in Card's New York Times bestselling Mithermages series. Danny North is the first Gate Mage to be born on Earth in nearly two thousand years, or at least the first to survive and claim his power, for families of Westil in exile on Earth have a treaty that requires the death of any suspected Gate Mage. The wars...
View BookAuthor: Joe Schreiber
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Author Joe Schreiber
Narrator Jonathan Davis
Duration 12h 20m
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Set before the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, this new novel is a thrilling follow-up to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis. It's kill or be killed in the space penitentiary that houses the galaxy's worst criminals, where convicts face off in gladiatorial combat while an underworld gambling empire reaps the pr...
View BookRevelation Space Series Book 1: Revelation Space
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Format: Online
Author Alastair Reynolds
Narrator John Lee
SeriesRevelation Space, Book 1
Duration 22h 12m
Alastair Reynolds's critically acclaimed Revelation Space redefines the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself.
View BookAuthor: Sjon
Format: Online
Author Sjon
Narrator Daniel Pirrie
Duration 2h 40m
The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge, Abba, who suffers from Down's syndrome, and who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster....
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 10h 23m
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . .
View BookAuthor: James Patterson
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Author James Patterson
Narrator Matthew Bomer
Duration 6h 31m
In the future, humans will no longer rule the world. Elites have taken control of civilised society; humans exist merely to serve. Elites are genetically modified, technologically enhanced versions of humankind. Originally designed and created by man, they were intended to save humanity. Instead, they have slowly usurped humans from leadership and...
View BookAuthor: William R. Forstchen
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Author William R. Forstchen
Narrator Newt Gingrich
SeriesJohn Matherson, Book 1
Duration 13h 18m
In a small North Carolina town, one man struggles to save his family after America loses a war that will send it back to the Dark Ages. Already cited on the floor of Congress and discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a book all Americans should read, One Second After is the story of a war scenario that could become all too terrifyingly real...
View BookAuthor: Alan Dean Foster
Format: Online
Author Alan Dean Foster
Narrator Marc Thompson
Duration 10h 5m
More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the next adventures in this blockbuster saga are poised to captivate old and new fans alike-beginning with the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And alongside the cinematic debut comes the thrilling novel adaptation by New York Times...
View BookAuthor: Nnedi Okorafor
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Author Nnedi Okorafor
Narrator Robin Miles
SeriesBinti, Book 1
Duration 2h 30m
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 co...
View BookThe Last Survivors Book 2: The Dead and Gone
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Format: Online
Author Susan Beth Pfeffer
Narrator Robertson Dean
SeriesThe Last Survivors, Book 2
Duration 8h 51m
Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated listeners with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event-an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-yea...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 39: Snuff
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 39
Duration 11h 29m
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an anci...
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