29 Best Hard Science Fiction Books
Hard Science Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Hard Science Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Hard Science Fiction audiobooks below.
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The Dark Forest
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrator: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 22 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 11, 2015
- Language: English
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4.72(76 ratings)
4.72(76 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0044.99 USDSoon to be a Netflix Original Series! “Wildly imaginative.” –President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience thisSoon to be a Netflix Original Series!
“Wildly imaginative.” –President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy
This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China’s most beloved science fiction author.
In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries’ time. The aliens’ human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth’s defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he’s the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death’s EndOther Books
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The Infinite
- By: Ada Hoffmann
- Length: 11 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 24, 2023
- Language: English
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4.52(18 ratings)
4.52(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFinal instalment from Philip K Dick Award-nominated series from Ada Hoffmann Time is running out for the planet Jai. The artificially intelligent Gods who rule the galaxy have withdrawn their protection from the chaos-ravaged world, just as theirFinal instalment from Philip K Dick Award-nominated series from Ada Hoffmann
Time is running out for the planet Jai. The artificially intelligent Gods who rule the galaxy have withdrawn their protection from the chaos-ravaged world, just as their most ancient enemy closes in. For Yasira Shien, who has devoted herself to
the fragile planet’s nascent rebellion, it’s time to do or die–and the odds are overwhelming.Enter Dr. Evianna Talirr.
Talirr, the visionary who decimated the planet and began its rebellion, is not a woman to be trusted. But she’s returned with an unsettling prophecy: the only way to save Jai is for Yasira to die.
Yasira knows it can’t be that simple. But as she frantically searches for other options, what she finds will upend everything she knew about the Gods, the galaxy she lives in, and herself.
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Nebulus
- By: Suzanne Hagelin
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.46(41 ratings)
4.46(41 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDOut of the frying pan into the fire … Silvariah Frandelle, the famed “Miner Girl” who escaped certain death on Mars, wants nothing more than a stable life on Earth, free from the trauma of the past. Lazarus Penn stands in her way.Out of the frying pan into the fire …
Silvariah Frandelle, the famed “Miner Girl” who escaped certain death on Mars, wants nothing more than a stable life on Earth, free from the trauma of the past. Lazarus Penn stands in her way. No device or tactic is beneath him as he fights to take possession of her and everything that belongs to her. From the courts of Guam City, the tourist haven floating in space, to the depths of the sea, to the streets of Old Seattle, he sets forces in pursuit, both human and otherwise, to regain his power over her and take possession of her as is–he believes–his right.
Meanwhile on Mars, old friends fight to survive against harsh realities, and a bitter enemy simmers and plots revenge.
Sil must learn to rely on the friends who have stood with her all along to overcome the forces coming against her. Her life, freedom … and all that she values most depend on it.
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The Denser Plane
- By: Suzanne Hagelin
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.44(16 ratings)
4.44(16 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDKidnapped in space … Silvariah and Walter’s little girl is in danger, and facing the tyrant, Penn, is the only recourse left. In a brazen act of desperation, they travel to the Moon, convinced it holds the secret to his nefariousKidnapped in space …
Silvariah and Walter’s little girl is in danger, and facing the tyrant, Penn, is the only recourse left. In a brazen act of desperation, they travel to the Moon, convinced it holds the secret to his nefarious empire.
They know Penn is baiting them.
They go anyway.
When Scarlet disappears, they face off against their enemy with all their wits and strength, hoping it will be enough. Penn is confident he can’t lose–but there are factors no one could have anticipated.
Things like an independent little girl, a mercurial android … and the alien forces of the Denser Plane.
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Death’s End
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrator: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 28 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 20, 2016
- Language: English
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4.43(59070 ratings)
4.43(59070 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0044.99 USDSoon to be a Netflix Original Series! “The War of the Worlds for the 21st century… packed with a sense of wonder.” – Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventureSoon to be a Netflix Original Series!
“The War of the Worlds for the 21st century… packed with a sense of wonder.” – Wall Street Journal
The New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China’s bestselling and beloved science fiction writer.
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to read China’s most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award.
Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death’s End. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
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Abaddon’s Gate
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrator: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 19 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 28, 2018
- Language: English
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4.26(82766 ratings)
4.26(82766 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.98 USDThe third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon’s Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets.HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIESForThe third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon’s Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets.
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HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
For generations, the solar system — Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt — was humanity’s great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus’s orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark.
Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.
Abaddon’s Gate is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the critically acclaimed Caliban’s War.
The Expanse
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban’s War
Abaddon’s Gate
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
Babylon’s Ashes
Persepolis Rising
Tiamat’s Wrath
Leviathan Falls
Memory’s Legion
The Expanse Short Fiction
Drive
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Strange Dogs
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Surface Detail
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrator: Peter Kenny
- Length: 20 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 28, 2010
- Language: English
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4.25(22424 ratings)
4.25(22424 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDIt begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y’breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to aIt begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.
Lededje Y’breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.
Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful — and arguably deranged — warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war — brutal, far-reaching — is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it’s about to erupt into reality.
It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.
Surface Detail is Iain M. Banks’ new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.
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Cibola Burn
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrator: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 17, 2014
- Language: English
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4.21(66164 ratings)
4.21(66164 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.98 USDThe fourth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Now a Prime OriginalThe fourth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Now a Prime Original series.
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HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
Enter a new frontier.
“An empty apartment, a missing family, that’s creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave.”
The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity’s home planets. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire.
Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth.
James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the midst of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.
And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed it.
The Expanse
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban’s War
Abaddon’s Gate
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
Babylon’s Ashes
Persepolis Rising
Tiamat’s Wrath
Leviathan Falls
Memory’s Legion
The Expanse Short Fiction
Drive
The Butcher of Anderson Station
Gods of Risk
The Churn
The Vital Abyss
Strange Dogs
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The Wandering Earth
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrator: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 26, 2021
- Language: English
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4.2(1597 ratings)
4.2(1597 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USD“Narrators Feodor Chin and Greg Chun deftly narrate this collection of short stories from one of the most evocative science fiction writers in the business.” – AudioFile Magazine From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu,“Narrators Feodor Chin and Greg Chun deftly narrate this collection of short stories from one of the most evocative science fiction writers in the business.” – AudioFile Magazine
From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale–the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.
These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu’s fiction takes the listener to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined.
With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu’s stories show humanity’s attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
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Ancillary Mercy
- By: Ann Leckie
- Narrator: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 06, 2015
- Language: English
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4.2(29107 ratings)
4.2(29107 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDBreq and her crew must stand against an old and powerful enemy, the Lord of the Radch, and fight for the right to determine their own destinies in the stunning conclusion to the NYT bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy A must read for fans of UrsulaBreq and her crew must stand against an old and powerful enemy, the Lord of the Radch, and fight for the right to determine their own destinies in the stunning conclusion to the NYT bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station’s slums turns up someone who shouldn’t exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq’s enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai — ruler of an empire at war with itself.
Breq refuses to flee with her ship and crew, because that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. The odds aren’t good, but that’s never stopped her before.
“There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could.” — John Scalzi
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrator: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 09, 2012
- Language: English
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4.19(17220 ratings)
4.19(17220 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThe New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . . The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the GziltThe New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . .
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.
An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they’ve made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.
Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted — dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.
It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.
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Shattered Spear
- By: Jack Campbell
- Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.19(1494 ratings)
4.19(1494 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet series returns to the epic space saga of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime, and the determination of two people to create a better future in the farthest reaches of the colonized galaxyThe New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet series returns to the epic space saga of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime, and the determination of two people to create a better future in the farthest reaches of the colonized galaxy …
The Syndicate Worlds continues to splinter as more star systems pledge allegiance to President Gwen Iceni’s and General Artur Drakon’s new government at Midway. But the rebels fleeing the toxic legacy of Syndicate rule have difficulty trusting one another and believing their new leaders’ promises of freedom from tyranny.
Before Iceni and Drakon can put their house in order, they must deal with another threat. An enigma warship has appeared and vanished near a Syndic colony. If the aliens are capable of jumping into other human-occupied star systems, then billions of people could be vulnerable to a hostile invasion fleet anywhere it chooses to strike.
But an even greater liability lies with Iceni and Drakon as a once-trusted adviser turned saboteur plans revenge …
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Imperfect Sword
- By: Jack Campbell
- Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.15(2140 ratings)
4.15(2140 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe stellar spin-off to the New York Times bestselling The Lost Fleet series continues as the Syndicate’s civil war threatens to spread even farther into the final frontier … President Gwen Iceni and General Artur Drakon haveThe stellar spin-off to the New York Times bestselling The Lost Fleet series continues as the Syndicate’s civil war threatens to spread even farther into the final frontier …
President Gwen Iceni and General Artur Drakon have successfully liberated the Midway Star System–but the dictatorial former rulers of the Syndicate Worlds won’t surrender the region without a fight.
Outnumbered and led by junior officers hastily promoted in the wake of the uprising, Midway’s warships are no match for the fleet massing and preparing to strike. But the Syndicate isn’t the only threat facing Iceni and Drakon. Another
former CEO has taken control of the Ulindi Star System, the first calculated move toward establishing his own little empire.With Drakon’s ground forces dispatched to Ulindi, Midway erupts in violence as Syndicate agents and other, unknown enemies stoke a renewed revolt against Iceni’s power–leaving both her and Drakon vulnerable to trusted officers just waiting for an opportune moment to betray them …
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Children of Memory
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrator: Mel Hudson
- Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 31, 2023
- Language: English
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4.14(1778 ratings)
4.14(1778 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDThe modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and itsThe modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
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Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.
Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology – and they’ve arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers’ help may be the colony itself.
Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies. -
Body Suit
- By: Suzanne Hagelin
- Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.12(359 ratings)
4.12(359 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDExiled to the mines of Mars … Silvariah Frandelle, a brilliant and beautiful business woman, falls from wealth and success into exile and poverty, indentured–barely one step above slavery–as an off-world laborer to escape prison.Exiled to the mines of Mars …
Silvariah Frandelle, a brilliant and beautiful business woman, falls from wealth and success into exile and poverty, indentured–barely one step above slavery–as an off-world laborer to escape prison. Her last calculated risk as a free woman, paid for with years of service, becomes the key to surviving hostile environments.
Space, gravity, and Mars wastelands were expected. Intrusive AIs, obscure experiments, and shadowy foes were not.
Escaping with her life will require more than intuition, wits, or nerve, as the intrigue unravels from both ends, and she’s forced to decide who to believe, and who to trust.
Body Suit explores the development of personality and the shaping of character–human or otherwise–external pressures, competing ideals, and battles for control. A well-paced drama that builds tension to the last page and concludes with a harrowing climax.
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Victorious
- By: Jack Campbell
- Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.1(13141 ratings)
4.1(13141 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDCaptain John “Black Jack” Geary has come home after a century of cryogenic sleep to find the war between the Alliance and the Syndicate Worlds still raging. A legendary hero, he is promoted to fleet admiral–even though the rulingCaptain John “Black Jack” Geary has come home after a century of cryogenic sleep to find the war between the Alliance and the Syndicate Worlds still raging.
A legendary hero, he is promoted to fleet admiral–even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup.
Geary has never fought for the sake of glory. His new rank means only that he has the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. With grim determination, Geary leads
the fleet back out into Syndic space.This seasoned commander knows surrender never comes easy. But even as he steels himself to confront the immediate enemy, he is all too aware that a greater alien threat lurks on the far side of Syndic-occupied space …
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Carlucci’s Heart
- By: Richard Paul Russo
- Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.09(126 ratings)
4.09(126 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe third cyberthriller featuring Lt. Frank Carlucci from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Richard Paul Russo In a future, gritty San Francisco, Lieutenant Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of hisThe third cyberthriller featuring Lt. Frank Carlucci from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Richard Paul Russo
In a future, gritty San Francisco, Lieutenant Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter’s friend. As Carlucci digs deeper, the corruption and decay he finds is nothing compared to a final horror that could have devastating implications: a secret known only as Cancer Cell.
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrator: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 11, 2014
- Language: English
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4.08(185029 ratings)
4.08(185029 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDSoon to be a Netflix Original Series! “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” – Wall Street JournalThe Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon fromSoon to be a Netflix Original Series!
“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” – Wall Street Journal
The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China’s most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
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Death’s EndOther Books
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Relentless
- By: Jack Campbell
- Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.08(14023 ratings)
4.08(14023 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThawed out after a century of cryogenic sleep, Captain John “Black Jack” Geary has led the Alliance fleet through Syndicate Worlds space, thwarting the enemy at every turn–even within his own ranks–during the long journeyThawed out after a century of cryogenic sleep, Captain John “Black Jack” Geary has led the Alliance fleet through Syndicate Worlds space, thwarting the enemy at every turn–even within his own ranks–during the long journey home.
Alliance prisoners of war are being held at a labor camp in the Heradao Star System, which also happens to be the location of the majority of the surviving Syndic warships. Determined not to leave any of his people behind, Black Jack
Geary orders the fleet to strike hard and fast to rescue the POWs with minimal Alliance losses.The raid is successful, but victory is short-lived. Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all–but he doesn’t know where the enemy is located.
And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos …
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The Many-Colored Land
- By: Julian May
- Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 16 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4.07(575 ratings)
4.07(575 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.95 USDThis is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and myth—with a liberal dash of hard science fiction. When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million BC, was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu,This is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and myth—with a liberal dash of hard science fiction.
When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million BC, was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years.
In the early twenty-second century, many humans are being born with psychic powers and are linked in a single galactic mind. Those without these psychic powers—the misfits, undesirables, criminals, and radicals—have a choice: mental reprogramming or exile. Exile, voluntary or otherwise, takes them back six million years, to a time between the extinction of dinosaurs and the rise of Homo sapiens, and to a time of exotic surprises and unknown dangers.
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Strange Dogs
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrator: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 2 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 18, 2017
- Language: English
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4.05(8988 ratings)
4.05(8988 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.98 USDA novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Strange Dogs follows a family of colonists on Laconia where a new generation of humanity struggles with the profound changes that come with makingA novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Strange Dogs follows a family of colonists on Laconia where a new generation of humanity struggles with the profound changes that come with making a home on an alien world. Now a Prime Original series.
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HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers, driven to carve out a new life and uncover the endless possibilities of the unexplored alien worlds now within reach.
But soon the soldiers followed and under this new order Cara makes a discovery that will change everything.
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Valiant
- By: Jack Campbell
- Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4(13107 ratings)
4(13107 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDDeep within Syndicate World space, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous journey home under the command of Captain John “Black Jack” Geary–revived after a century spent in suspended animation. Geary’s victories over theDeep within Syndicate World space, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous journey home under the command of Captain John “Black Jack” Geary–revived after a century spent in suspended animation. Geary’s victories over the enemy
have earned him both the respect–and the envy–of his fellow officers …“Black Jack” Geary has made many risky decisions as commander, but ordering the Alliance fleet back to the Lakota Star System where it had nearly been destroyed by the Syndics has his officers questioning his sanity. It’s a desperate
gamble that may buy Geary just enough time to prepare for the Syndics’ inevitable return–and give the fleet a fighting chance of survival.But even as he struggles to stay one step ahead of the enemy, Geary must face conspirators within his own fleet–an unknown number of officers who want a change of command. And Geary knows that his fleet must stand together or the Syndic forces will tear them apart …
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Terraform
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrator: Graham Halstead
- Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.99(87 ratings)
3.99(87 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDAn anthology of near future science fiction from VICE’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform–in print for the first time. Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid,An anthology of near future science fiction from VICE’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform–in print for the first time.
Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we’re hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we’ll end up next.
Section by section–Watch/Worlds/Burn–the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. With a potent roster of established names and rising talents–from Bruce Sterling, Ellen Ullman, Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, and Omar El Akkad, to E. Lily Yu, Elvia Wilk, Fernando Flores, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Gus Moreno–it confronts the issues that orbit our everyday existence, and takes them to unsettling dimensions.
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Fearless
- By: Jack Campbell
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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3.99(17536 ratings)
3.99(17536 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDOutnumbered by the superior forces and firepower of the Syndicate Worlds, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous retreat across the enemy star system. Led by the legendary Captain John “Black Jack” Geary, who returned to the fleetOutnumbered by the superior forces and firepower of the Syndicate Worlds, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous retreat across the enemy star system. Led by the legendary Captain John “Black Jack” Geary, who returned to the fleet
after a hundred-year suspended animation, the Alliance is desperately trying to return home with its captured prize: the key to the Syndic hypernet, and the key to victory …Geary is convinced that the Syndics are planning to ambush the fleet and finish it off once and for all. Realizing the fleet’s best (and only) chance is to do the unexpected, Geary takes the offensive and orders the fleet to the Sancere System.
There, a multitude of possible routes home give the Alliance fleet a better chance of avoiding their pursuers–and an attack on the Sancere shipbuilding facilities could decimate the Syndic war effort.Weary from endless combat, the officers and crew of the Alliance fleet can’t see the sense in charging deeper into enemy territory–prompting a mutiny that divides them and leaves Geary with higher odds against him than ever before …
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More Beautiful Than Death
- By: David Mack
- Narrator: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.98(184 ratings)
3.98(184 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAn original novel based on the thrilling new Star Trek movies!Based on the “Kelvin Universe” movie saga! Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock’s father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planetAn original novel based on the thrilling new Star Trek movies!
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Based on the “Kelvin Universe” movie saga!
Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock’s father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planet called Akiron. They arrive to find this world under siege by creatures that some of the planet’s denizens believe are demons. Sarek orders Kirk to abandon the mission, but the young captain won’t turn his back on people in danger. After a harrowing encounter with the dark-energy “demons,” Kirk’s belief in a rational universe is challenged by a mystic who insists that it wasn’t coincidence that brought Kirk to Akiron, but the alien equivalent of a Karmic debt.
Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise, Sarek’s young Vulcan aide L’Nel has a sinister agenda–and its chief objective appears to be the cold-blooded murder of Spock! -
Courageous
- By: Jack Campbell
- Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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3.98(14204 ratings)
3.98(14204 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe Alliance has been fighting a losing battle against the Syndicate Worlds for over a century. Now, Captain John “Black Jack” Geary, who returned to the fleet after a hundred-year suspended animation, must keep the Alliance one stepThe Alliance has been fighting a losing battle against the Syndicate Worlds for over a century. Now, Captain John “Black Jack” Geary, who returned to the fleet after a hundred-year suspended animation, must keep the Alliance one step ahead of its merciless foe …
After a series of deadly engagements, the Alliance fleet is severely damaged and its arsenal is running low. Forced to halt in the Baldur Star System to raid the Syndic mines for raw materials, Geary is anxious to get moving again. But what
should the fleet’s next move be? The Syndics are starting to catch on to Geary’s tactics, and as the Alliance ships jump from system to system, it’s getting harder to keep one step ahead.What’s more, Geary has started to piece fragments of intelligence together into a highly disturbing picture: The Syndics have been keeping the existence of another potential player in the war a secret?and this unknown power may have the means to annihilate the human race …
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Time Enough for Love
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 23 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.97(867 ratings)
3.97(867 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDTime Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein’s famous Future History series. Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries, hisTime Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein’s famous Future History series.
Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries, his love for time ultimately causing him to become his own ancestor. Time Enough for Love is his lovingly detailed account of his journey through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Using the voice of Lazarus, Heinlein expounds his own philosophies, including his radical ideas on sexual freedom. His use of slang, technical jargon, sharp wit, and clever understatement lend this story a texture and authority that seems the very tone of things to come.
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Automatic Reload
- By: Ferrett Steinmetz
- Narrator: Tim Campbell
- Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.97(211 ratings)
3.97(211 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDFerrett Steinmetz‘s high-octane cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload about a tortured mercenary and the genetically enginnered assassin he loves. Meet Mat, a tortured mercenary who has become the perfect shot, and Silvia, and idealistic womanFerrett Steinmetz‘s high-octane cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload about a tortured mercenary and the genetically enginnered assassin he loves.
Meet Mat, a tortured mercenary who has become the perfect shot, and Silvia, and idealistic woman geneticall engineered to murder you to death.
Together they run for the shadiest corporation in the world… and realize their messed-up brain chemsitry cannot overpower their very real chemistry.
Automatic Reload is the genre’s most unexpectedly heartfelt romantic comedy with explosions, perfect for fans of both Altered Carbon and Atomic Blonde.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
“Shadowrun with a conscience.”– Hugo Award-winning author Jim. C Hines
“LUXURIATES in the intricate beauty that is technology, exults in the mechanics of cyberpunk. And it does all this while being a ROM-COM with a lot of EXPLOSIONS.” –Cassandra Khaw, finalist for the British Fantasy and Locus Awards for Hammers on Bone
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Interference
- By: Sue Burke
- Narrator: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 22, 2019
- Language: English
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3.96(2042 ratings)
3.96(2042 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Narrators Caitlin Davies and Daniel Thomas May reprise their roles, and between them, they’ve once more captured the essence behind the voices of multiple characters, and even more impressively, this time there are non-humans thrown“Narrators Caitlin Davies and Daniel Thomas May reprise their roles, and between them, they’ve once more captured the essence behind the voices of multiple characters, and even more impressively, this time there are non-humans thrown into the mix.” — Bibliosanctum
Sue Burke’s sweeping, award-finalist, SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence.
Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission.
But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known.
Stevland is not the apex species on Pax.
Semiosis duology
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