29 Best Hard Science Fiction, Fiction Books
Hard Science Fiction, Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Hard Science Fiction, Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Hard Science Fiction, Fiction audiobooks below.
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Wild Lands
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.61(173 ratings)
4.61(173 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWar is coming to the Wild Lands … One month after the defeat of a rogue group of terrorists, the United States struggles to maintain control over the New Frontier. The untamed sector of America simmers as opportunists, criminals, andWar is coming to the Wild Lands …
One month after the defeat of a rogue group of terrorists, the United States struggles to maintain control over the New Frontier. The untamed sector of America simmers as opportunists, criminals, and marauders wait to fill the void
left behind. An extremist faction of the Navajo Nation called the Rattlesnakes have waited years for this moment. Their leader launches their first, brutal attack on a water treatment and power facility in Colorado.The message is clear to Colorado Sheriff Lindsey Plymouth and her foreign allies working to keep peace: a new enemy has risen up. Lindsey enlists Raven Spears to track the Rattlesnakes and bring their leader to justice before they can strike
again. As the trail gets hot, Raven realizes this is just one of many assaults the Rattlesnakes have planned to conquer the New Frontier.With violence spilling over the borders, America’s foreign allies begin to question the cost to their own forces and start to withdraw. Lindsey and the Colorado Rangers scramble to find new allies, but it will take more than a few friends to
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hold back the growing Rattlesnake army. If they fail to defeat this new evil, it will devour the New Frontier. -
Wild Fire
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.5(431 ratings)
4.5(431 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFrom the embers of a burned America rises new hope … and a new threat. Two years after an attack brought down the electrical grid across the United States, the recovery effort is well underway. A new network of armored trains carry suppliesFrom the embers of a burned America rises new hope … and a new threat.
Two years after an attack brought down the electrical grid across the United States, the recovery effort is well underway. A new network of armored trains carry supplies and industrial equipment crucial to rebuilding the country.
But along the rails, one area of America is still mired in darkness, violence, and danger. Some call it the Badlands. Others the Wild West. The government simply refers to it as the New Frontier.
Retired Marine Sergeant Sam “Raven” Spears makes a living tracking down people and treasures in this lawless void. When raiders target a supply train in the New Frontier, Colorado Sheriff Lindsey Plymouth asks Raven to work with ex-Navy SEAL
Calvin Jackson to secure the train’s vital cargo. All is going to plan until one fateful disaster changes everything.As the trail heats up to find those responsible, a mysterious virus starts spreading across the New Frontier. Raven soon realizes the two events might be connected.
If he doesn’t find the insidious forces behind this conspiracy, the entire country will go up in flames.
Listener Note: New Frontier is a brand-new series set in the bestselling Trackers universe by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. For listeners of Trackers, this spin-off written with Anthony J. Melchiorri takes place two years after the end of Trackers
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4. While Trackers was an EMP/war story about the destruction of the power grid in America and the chaos that followed, New Frontier is a story about the aftermath. For new listeners, you can dive into New Frontier without reading the four Trackers books. -
The Ocean in the Sky
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.49(36 ratings)
4.49(36 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe mystery deepens … In the heart of the authoritarian country of Wivvol, astronaut Xto Djbbit is about to embark on his first mission off-planet when the exiled High Hat of Chnta comes to him with an unusual request: help smuggle a SeptalThe mystery deepens …
In the heart of the authoritarian country of Wivvol, astronaut Xto Djbbit is about to embark on his first mission off-planet when the exiled High Hat of Chnta comes to him with an unusual request: help smuggle a Septal artifact out of Wivvol. It’s an impossible favor to ask of Xto, but it’s also impossible to refuse; the High Hat of Chnta is also his uncle.
Meanwhile, waiting for Xto in space? His estranged father–who has his own impossible favors–and a mysterious anomaly whose secrets Xto is uniquely positioned to unlock.
On Lys, the space station for the super-wealthy, former Septal Other Dorn Jimbal struggles to understand what Professor Orno Linus learned before his untimely murder. Did Orno truly figure out how to stop the Outcast?
To get to the heart of Linus’s research, Dorn is going to have to work with the one person they absolutely cannot trust: Viselle Daska.
Xto and Dorn will both make discoveries that change the course of all life on the planet. Both will wish they hadn’t.
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Morning Star
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrator: Pierce Brown
- Length: 21 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 09, 2016
- Language: English
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4.49(124716 ratings)
4.49(124716 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDRed Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star. -
The Madness of Kings
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.32(71 ratings)
4.32(71 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDWelcome to The Middle Kingdom! In the nine Middle Kingdoms it is believed that the royal families are the direct decedents of the gods of Dib: Honus, Javilon, Ho Nita, and Pal. The gifts of the gods are not passed to every member of the royalWelcome to The Middle Kingdom!
In the nine Middle Kingdoms it is believed that the royal families are the direct decedents of the gods of Dib: Honus, Javilon, Ho Nita, and Pal. The gifts of the gods are not passed to every member of the royal families, however, and none of these “unblessed” children can ever become king or queen and, due to the displeasure of the gods, they cannot have children of their own.
Unlike the rest of the planet, the middle kingdoms have adhered more closely to the early teachings of the House in both their beliefs and their feudal way of life. In fact, the Septal Houses’ High Hats throughout the rest of Dib have always formally denounced the beliefs and practices of the Houses in the Middle Kingdom.
Back in Velon, after being tasked with the infamous Linus murder case and House vault robbery, Detective Makk Stidgeon is back, and this time he has county attorney Pillick Quibb asking him questions.
Meanwhile in Totus, Battine Alconnot, an unblessed descendent of Ho, Lady Delphina, and her sister Queen Porra find themselves tied up in the mystery …
The Outcast Cycle takes listeners across–and above–the planet Dib. Nestled in the individual stories is the gradual discovery that the House has a big secret … and the Outcast may be more literal than anyone realized.
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Into the Fire
- By: Craig A. Falconer
- Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 20, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(194 ratings)
4.29(194 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDSurviving in space was the easy part … I’m not alone anymore. I’ve made it down from the solitude of the station, all the way to an incredible underground bunker complex. Thousands of humanity’s best minds are by my side.Surviving in space was the easy part …
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I’m not alone anymore.
I’ve made it down from the solitude of the station, all the way to an incredible underground bunker complex.
Thousands of humanity’s best minds are by my side.
I’m surrounded by secret cutting-edge technologies that almost defy belief.
Too bad none of that is a match for what I’m up against now.
Because in just three days, the final stage of Ignacio Zola’s demented plan to reach a new world will eliminate all life on Earth–unless I can pull off a miracle.
The stakes couldn’t be any higher. The odds couldn’t be any longer.
I’m the man who uncovered Zola’s plan. And now, I’m the only man who can stop him.
This fight started in space and brought me deep below Earth’s surface.
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Meet Your Maker
- By: Matthew Mather
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.17(38 ratings)
4.17(38 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn the Czar’s Suite of Kiev’s five-star Persian Palace, police discover a body jammed impossibly deep in a narrow ventilation duct. Security cameras reveal that no one else entered the supersecure room. An ocean away, Interpol rookieIn the Czar’s Suite of Kiev’s five-star Persian Palace, police discover a body jammed impossibly deep in a narrow ventilation duct. Security cameras reveal that no one else entered the supersecure room.
An ocean away, Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart. Investigations reveal that ex-KGB operator Yuri Korshunov smuggled a 3D-printed plastic gun into the UN Building.
As her father falls into a mysterious coma, Devlin tracks down infamous tech wunderkind Lenny Bondar at the Maker Faire, a global gathering of hackers. Desperate, she follows Korshunov and Bondar into the underworld of Eastern Europe. There, her worst nightmares materialize from the darkness. Something is coming for her, and it may not even be alive.
With Russian troops massed on the borders, and her father on the brink of death, Del follows a trail of bizarre murders ever deeper into no-man’s-land. But can she uncover the truth and save her father before a new kind of war forever alters the world?
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Last Man Standing
- By: Craig A. Falconer
- Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 25, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(615 ratings)
4.17(615 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA pulsating sci-fi thriller from the author of the global blockbuster Not Alone — perfect for fans of Andy Weir and A.G. Riddle. I wasn’t supposed to survive. The station has been hit. Everyone around me is dead. I have 11 hours ofA pulsating sci-fi thriller from the author of the global blockbuster Not Alone — perfect for fans of Andy Weir and A.G. Riddle.
I wasn’t supposed to survive.
The station has been hit. Everyone around me is dead.
I have 11 hours of life support left and no way of contacting Earth.
I’m alone. I’m stranded. I’m desperate.
But I’m alive.
The more of the station I explore, the surer I get that this was no accident. Someone did this, and I don’t think they’re finished yet.
Making it home feels like an impossible task, but I’m not just fighting for my own life.
I have to protect my family — whatever it takes.
And as long as I’m breathing, this isn’t over.
Because whoever did this almost pulled it off… but they made one big mistake:
They left the wrong man standing…
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The Dreaming Tree
- By: Matthew Mather
- Narrator: Robin Eller
- Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.12(119 ratings)
4.12(119 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA serial killer is loose on the streets of New York,chased by a detective whose mutated eyessee things only she can … Shutter Island meets Jacob’s Ladder in the new near-future crime thriller from million-copy bestseller Matthew Mather,A serial killer is loose on the streets of New York,chased by a detective whose mutated eyessee things only she can …
Shutter Island meets Jacob’s Ladder in the new near-future crime thriller from million-copy bestseller Matthew Mather, with books translated in over twenty languages worldwide.
“Relentless pacing, well-developed main characters, and plethora of bombshell plot twists.”–Publishers Weekly
After a near-fatal car crash, Royce wakes up to find he’s one of the first patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can, visions created by a mutation to her eyes.
Royce becomes Devlin’s prime suspect in a string of grisly murders. Desperate for answers, he tracks down the grieving widow of the man whose body he now inhabits. Out of time, and perhaps his mind, he tumbles through a hallucinogenic underworld of black-market body parts and billionaires where nothing can stand in the way of living forever–not even death itself.
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A Galaxy Trilogy, Vol. 3
- By: Manly Wade Wellman
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.12(7 ratings)
4.12(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDBefore Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas, the science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s were writing some of the hippest genre literature of the era. Here are three imaginative novellas from some of these pioneers of pulp scienceBefore Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas, the science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s were writing some of the hippest genre literature of the era. Here are three imaginative novellas from some of these pioneers of pulp science fiction.
Giants from Eternity by Manly Wade Wellman
Young scientists Oliver Norfleet and his college buddy, Spencer DuPogue, are called by the Board of Science to investigate a mysteriously expanding red blight that is growing around the site of a meteor crash in Kansas. It swallows all in its path and has already caused many deaths and the disappearance of whole towns. Norfleet and DuPogue, with the help of the daughter of a famous scientist, soon discover that the blight is not only alive but almost indestructible. When their own abilities prove inadequate, the three are forced to turn to the greatest scientific minds of history for help, including Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, and other giants from eternity—in the flesh! Norfleet and DuPogue and the giants from eternity must try to stop the blight before the entire earth is consumed.
Lords of Atlantis by Wallace West
Once, when Atlantis was ruled by the Titans, they were replaced by the red-skinned, red-haired Martians, Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, and others. Teraf, prince of Hellas, was particularly struck by the changes Earth had wrought in Martians during the period of their rule. The rays of the earthly sun had burned their sensitive skin almost as black as those of Nubians, and to meet the stress of Terran gravitation, they had developed enormous muscles that sat poorly on their slender frames and gave them the deceitful appearance of strong men in a circus. The Afhas, those of mixed Martian and early parentage, apparently had absorbed the best traits of both. Like Teraf himself, all had blazing red hair and the slim grace of their Martian forebears, plus a better adaptation to their earthly conditions. But the Titans chafed under the so-called benevolent progress of their rulers, and they plotted rebellion.
City on the Moon by Murray Leinster
Life on the moon, under anything less than optimal conditions, had always been a nightmare, and as Joe Kenmore and his colleague Moreau drove back to the City on the Moon, on the day the Earth shuttle was due to land, the nearby mountain supporting critical elements of the shuttle’s landing mechanisms crumbled, causing an avalanche and chaos. Optimal conditions were nowhere in sight that day as Kenmore and Moreau’s investigations lead to their conclusion that explosions had been responsible for the avalanche. They realized that they were in a race against the clock to restore the landing beam before the shuttle had reached the “point of no return” prior to landing. Kenmore had more than strictly humanitarian reasons for wanting to prevent a mishap aboard the shuttle that day because on this particular mission, Arlene Gray was aboard. Kenmore had been anxiously awaiting her arrival, and amidst everything, Kenmore’s love life also might hang in the balance.
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Degrees of Freedom
- By: Simon Morden
- Narrator: Simon Morden
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 25, 2011
- Language: English
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4.11(1005 ratings)
4.11(1005 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDSimon Morden scored hits with the first two volumes of his acclaimed Samuil Petrovitch series. The final book in the trilogy, Degrees of Freedom finds Petrovitch still trying to make his way in the post-apocalyptic nightmare world he calls home. HisSimon Morden scored hits with the first two volumes of his acclaimed Samuil Petrovitch series. The final book in the trilogy, Degrees of Freedom finds Petrovitch still trying to make his way in the post-apocalyptic nightmare world he calls home. His girl has left him-though he’s sure she still loves him. The New Machine Jihad is calling out to him-even though he destroyed it once already. And the Armageddonists are hell-bent on blowing the world up-again. It seems everyone wants something from Petrovitch, but all he wants is his freedom.
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Armor
- By: John Steakley
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.11(16574 ratings)
4.11(16574 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDThe planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he isThe planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.
Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected not only by his custom-fitted body armor, the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft, but also by an odd being which seems to live with him, a cold killing machine he calls “the Engine.”
This bestselling science fiction classic is a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat and also of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
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Aeon Rising
- By: Matthew Mather
- Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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4.09(1021 ratings)
4.09(1021 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAn apocalyptic supernova flashes over the South Pole. A mysterious mission sent deep into the Amazon. The story of one family’s struggle to reunite … Max Carver, a down-on-his-luck truck driver and Army vet, joins a rescue mission intoAn apocalyptic supernova flashes over the South Pole. A mysterious mission sent deep into the Amazon. The story of one family’s struggle to reunite …
Max Carver, a down-on-his-luck truck driver and Army vet, joins a rescue mission into Brazil. The target is a utopian tech village, the Colony, hidden in the rainforest and run by a charismatic genius. Max’s pregnant wife, Talisha Carver, is the NSA
analyst who intercepted encrypted Colony messages signaling a mysterious impending event.Dr. Xin Rou is a Chinese researcher working at the IceCube neutrino experiment at the South Pole. On lucky days a single flash might signal the passage of a ghostly interstellar particle. Suddenly, IceCube’s entire array lights up. A million detectors
at once. Which is impossible. The Antarctic sky is clear and calm–but she is already running for the door.Because the world is about to end. But the mystery just begins …
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Time Shelter
- By: Georgi Gospodinov
- Narrator: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 31, 2022
- Language: English
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4.08(341 ratings)
4.08(341 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who goes unnamed. “In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated“At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who goes unnamed. “In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ.” But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a “vagrant in time” who has distanced his life from contemporary reality by reading old news, wearing tattered old clothes, and haunting the lost avenues of the twentieth century.
In an apricot-colored building in Zurich, surrounded by curiously planted forget-me-nots, Gaustine has opened the first “clinic for the past,” an institution that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to transport themselves back in time to unlock what is left of their fading memories. Serving as Gaustine’s assistant, the narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to nostalgic scents and even wisps of afternoon light. But as the charade becomes more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic to escape from the dead-end of their daily lives–a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present. Through sharply satirical, labyrinth-like vignettes reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Franz Kafka, the narrator recounts in breathtaking prose just how he became entrenched in a plot to stop time itself.
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Deep Time
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 26, 2015
- Language: English
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4.08(717 ratings)
4.08(717 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe clock is ticking in the struggle for galactic independence Once rebels themselves facing off against the Earth Confederation, the United States of North America is now the dominant force in negotiations with the interstellar Sh’daarThe clock is ticking in the struggle for galactic independence
Once rebels themselves facing off against the Earth Confederation, the United States of North America is now the dominant force in negotiations with the interstellar Sh’daar Collective. But just as the Marines root out the last violent dissenters, an alien ship of unknown origin suddenly flees Earth’s orbit. Is it mere coincidence . . . or a terrifying omen?
President Alexander Koenig watches with great interest as USNA forces chase the runaways down. But upon first contact, it’s not apparent where–or when–the crew is headed. For this bizarre species has somehow mastered the power to manipulate time itself. Now Koenig must decide whether he’s dealing with angels of astonishing technological prowess . . . or the agents of humanity’s destruction.
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Theories of Flight
- By: Simon Morden
- Narrator: Simon Morden
- Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 12, 2011
- Language: English
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4.06(1140 ratings)
4.06(1140 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDBest-selling author Simon Morden draws upon his expertise as a bona fide rocket scientist to deliver mindbending science fiction. In Theories of Flight, Petrovich is the guardian of several secrets. For starters, he knows how to make anti-gravity.Best-selling author Simon Morden draws upon his expertise as a bona fide rocket scientist to deliver mindbending science fiction. In Theories of Flight, Petrovich is the guardian of several secrets. For starters, he knows how to make anti-gravity. And if that’s not impressive enough, he also knows which secret server farm hides a sentient computer program-the same one that nearly wiped out the Metrozone. Now someone wants to kill Petrovich-and doesn’t seem to care what is destroyed in the process.
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Chimera
- By: T. C. McCarthy
- Narrator: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.06(202 ratings)
4.06(202 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDEscaped Germline soldiers need to be cleaned up, and Stan Resnick is the best man for the job—a job that takes him to every dark spot and every rat hole he can find. Operatives from China and Unified Korea are gathering escaped or stolenEscaped Germline soldiers need to be cleaned up, and Stan Resnick is the best man for the job—a job that takes him to every dark spot and every rat hole he can find. Operatives from China and Unified Korea are gathering escaped or stolen Russian and American genetics, and there are reports of new biological nightmares: half-human things bred to live their entire lives encased in powered armor suits. Stan fights to keep himself alive and out of prison while he attempts to capture a genetic—one who will be able to tell them everything they need to know about this new threat, the one called Project Sunshine. Chimera is the third and final volume of the Subterrene War trilogy, which tells the story of a single war from the perspective of three different combatants.
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Women Destroy Science Fiction!
- By: Christie Yant
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.05(588 ratings)
4.05(588 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDGuest-edited by longtime Lightspeed assistant editor Christie Yant, Women Destroy Science Fiction! contains eleven original science fiction short stories, four short-story reprints, a novella reprint, and for the first time ever, an array of flashGuest-edited by longtime Lightspeed assistant editor Christie Yant, Women Destroy Science Fiction! contains eleven original science fiction short stories, four short-story reprints, a novella reprint, and for the first time ever, an array of flash fiction stories.
This special issue includes
Original science fiction by Seanan McGuire, N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, Kris Millering, Heather Clitheroe, Rhonda Eikamp, Gabriella Stalker, Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, and K. C. Norton;Reprints by Alice Sheldon (a.k.a. James Tiptree Jr.), Eleanor Arnason, Maria Romasco Moore, Tananarive Due, and Maureen F. McHugh; andOriginal flash fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Denham, Samantha Murray, Holly Schofield, Cathy Humble, Emily Fox, Tina Connolly, Effie Seiberg, Marina J. Lostetter, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Sarah Pinsker, Kim Winternheimer, Anaid Perez, Katherine Crighton, and Vanessa Torline.
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Two Suns at Sunset
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.05(132 ratings)
4.05(132 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWelcome to Dib! Dib is an Earthlike planet, only slightly smaller, with shorter days and longer years, in orbit around twin suns. On the continent of Geo, in the city of Velon in the nation of Inimata, a man lies dead in his study. The MurderedWelcome to Dib!
Dib is an Earthlike planet, only slightly smaller, with shorter days and longer years, in orbit around twin suns.
On the continent of Geo, in the city of Velon in the nation of Inimata, a man lies dead in his study.
The Murdered Monk
In life, Professor Orno Linus was a world-class scholar: an astrophysicist, a dead-language linguist, and an expert in (and apparent true believer of) the religious concept of the Cull, i.e., the end of the world. Widely respected, nothing about Linus’s expertise suggests somebody might want him dead.
Professor Linus is also Brother Linus, a high-ranking member of an ancient, powerful religious organization known as the House. This makes his murder much more complicated, but no more explicable, because murder on House grounds just doesn’t happen. Not even when one of the last things the victim did was steal something important from the House vault.
Finally, Orno is also the younger brother of Calcut Linus, one of the most powerful and criminally dangerous people on the planet. Killing any Linus means incurring the wrath of a man for whom laws very rarely apply.
In short, Professor Orno Linus is a highly unlikely murder victim.
And yet, somebody killed him.
The Cursed Detective
Detective Makk Stidgeon already knows he’s unlucky. He’s a cholem: an outcast. A bad-luck charm. He was born this way, and has the brand on his wrist to prove it.
But in terms of bad luck, the gods have really gone overboard by sticking him with the Linus case.
Between a House leadership that seems more interested in retrieving their stolen artifact than in solving the murder of one of their own, the demands of the murderous Calcut Linus, a new partner who seems to know more than she’s telling, and an omnipresent news media constantly looking for an angle on the biggest story of the year, Makk barely has time to just follow the clues.
And that’s before an impossible video surfaces that purports to reveal the killer’s identity. What makes it impossible? The person in the video couldn’t have possibly done it.
To get to the bottom of the Orno’s murder, Makk will have to navigate between the House and the Linus family, find the source of the video, and figure out what’s missing from the House vault. Even if he can pull all that off, he may discover he’s not at the end of a mystery at all, but at the beginning of a much larger one.
Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle. The journey begins here.
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Three Laws Lethal
- By: David Walton
- Narrator: Shawn Compton
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.02(353 ratings)
4.02(353 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA science fiction thriller in which fleets of self-driving cars make life-and-death choices In a near-future New York City, where self-driving cars roam the city streets, rival entrepreneurs Brandon and Tyler compete to produce the smartest AIs,A science fiction thriller in which fleets of self-driving cars make life-and-death choices
In a near-future New York City, where self-driving cars roam the city streets, rival entrepreneurs Brandon and Tyler compete to produce the smartest AIs, training them in a virtual game world to anticipate traffic and potential customers better than the competition. As the two rivals struggle to dominate the market, their personal enmity pushes them to attack each other’s reputations, hack each other’s cars, and develop ever more sophisticated algorithms to keep their customers safe. The result? Intelligent computers that excel at using all available data to determine which humans should live, and which should die.
Only Naomi, inventor of the virtual world in which the AIs train, recognizes that they are developing goals of their own–goals for which they are willing to kill. But will she stop them, or will she help her creations achieve their full potential?
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Ancillary Justice
- By: Ann Leckie
- Narrator: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 13, 2018
- Language: English
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3.98(77959 ratings)
3.98(77959 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDAncillary Justice is Ann Leckie’s stunning debut — the only novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards — about a ship’s AI who becomes trapped in a human body and her quest for revenge. A must read forAncillary Justice is Ann Leckie’s stunning debut — the only novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards — about a ship’s AI who becomes trapped in a human body and her quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.
“There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could.” — John Scalzi
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Once, she was the Justice of Toren — a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.
Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.
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Center of Gravity
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 17, 2011
- Language: English
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3.97(3673 ratings)
3.97(3673 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDCenter of Gravity is the second book in the explosive Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas–and a breathtaking new high in military sf, the strongest of the science fiction subgenres. Battlestar Galactica fans will adore this saga of ultimate warCenter of Gravity is the second book in the explosive Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas–and a breathtaking new high in military sf, the strongest of the science fiction subgenres. Battlestar Galactica fans will adore this saga of ultimate war in deep space, as humankind risks its very future, battling a vast alien evil empire in order to achieve transcendence and become a major power in the universe. Douglas’s Center of Gravity belongs on every action-lover’s sf bookshelf–right between Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War and Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.
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Dark Matter
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 27, 2014
- Language: English
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3.96(1093 ratings)
3.96(1093 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAn enemy might just have to become an ally . . . in order to save humankind The United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh’daar, limit humanAn enemy might just have to become an ally . . . in order to save humankind
The United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh’daar, limit human technology, and become a part of the Sh’daar Galactic Collective. USNA President Koenig believes that surrendering to the Sh’daar will ultimately doom humankind.
But when highly advanced, seemingly godlike aliens appear through an artificial wormhole in the Omega Centauri Cluster 16,000 light years from Earth, President Koenig is faced with a tremendous choice: continue fighting the Sh’daar . . . or ally with them against the newcomers in a final war that will settle the fate of more than one universe.
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The Freeze-Frame Revolution
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.95(3441 ratings)
3.95(3441 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDHow do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes andHow do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what’s best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code–and unavoidable casualties.
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Raptor Red
- By: Robert T. Bakker
- Narrator: Megan Gallagher
- Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1995
- Language: English
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3.95(8304 ratings)
3.95(8304 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.95 USDA stunning debut in the blockbuster tradition of Jurassic Park — enhanced with dramatic sound effects.A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. The eyes follow every movement in the great herd ofA stunning debut in the blockbuster tradition of Jurassic Park — enhanced with dramatic sound effects.
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A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. The eyes follow every movement in the great herd of plant-eating dinosaurs that mills around the open meadows, moving back and forth with the rapid scanning of a hunter who is thinking about everything she sees. She is an intelligent killer…
The time — 120 million years ago. The place — the plains of prehistoric Utah. The eyes belong to one of the most unforgettable heroines you will ever meet. Her name — Raptor Red.
Raptor Red is a female raptor dinosaur, struggling to survive on her own after losing her mate. Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells the story from within Raptor Red’s extraordinary mind, dramatizing his groundbreaking theories in an exciting, one-of-a-kind tale. With keen insight and stunning authenticity, he tracks the raptor on her yearlong odyssey of survival as she braves a devastating storm, migrates toward the ocean to escape powerful predators, and heads north in a desperate attempt to escape the threat of deadly acrocanthosaurs, all while carrying out her natural duty to search for a new mate.
From its tragic opening to its thrilling climax on a snowy mountaintop, Raptor Red is a unique and utterly compelling look at a year in the life of a dinosaur — a revolutionary work of fiction. -
Star Marines
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 26, 2013
- Language: English
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3.94(998 ratings)
3.94(998 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDWith the planet’s fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy–battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity–the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. WithoutWith the planet’s fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy–battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity–the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble–and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.
Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its colonies to an overwhelming enemy. But Brigadier General Garroway of the Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit is unwilling to concede defeat–not as long as there’s a single marine willing to give his or her life in defense of their embattled homeworld. The ultimate battle is about to be waged–with breathtaking new attack technology, an ancient code of courage, and the help of an ally race that once inhabited the Earth–in a war that will alter the universe forever . . .
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Hardwired
- By: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.91(3926 ratings)
3.91(3926 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn Walter Jon Williams’ classic cyberpunk novel, the remnants of a war-ravaged America endure in scattered, heavily armed colonies, while the wealthy Orbital Corporations now control the world. Cowboy, an ex-fighter pilot who has becomeIn Walter Jon Williams’ classic cyberpunk novel, the remnants of a war-ravaged America endure in scattered, heavily armed colonies, while the wealthy Orbital Corporations now control the world. Cowboy, an ex-fighter pilot who has become “hardwired” via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, is now a panzerboy, a hi-tech smuggler riding armored hovertanks through the balkanized countryside. He teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals. Together, they gather an unlikely gang of misfits for a ride that will take them to the edge of the atmosphere.
This action-packed adventure is a must-read for science fiction fans everywhere.
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A Forest of Stars
- By: Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrator: Kevin J. Anderson
- Length: 20 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 02, 2004
- Language: English
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3.91(5251 ratings)
3.91(5251 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDAnderson, author of 27 national best-sellers, unleashes the second book in the fantastic series that began with Hidden Empire. Early in the 25th century, humans set fire to the gas-giant planets and ignited a war of epic proportions. Now they learnAnderson, author of 27 national best-sellers, unleashes the second book in the fantastic series that began with Hidden Empire. Early in the 25th century, humans set fire to the gas-giant planets and ignited a war of epic proportions. Now they learn that they have awakened an ancient, fearsome, and merciless enemy.
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Voice of the Whirlwind
- By: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrator: Don Leslie
- Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.9(1223 ratings)
3.9(1223 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDThis second installment in a classic cyberpunk series is a fast-paced ride through a gritty, well-imagined world. Steward is a clone, a beta. His memories are fifteen years old because his alpha never had a brain-scan update. And in those fifteenThis second installment in a classic cyberpunk series is a fast-paced ride through a gritty, well-imagined world.
Steward is a clone, a beta. His memories are fifteen years old because his alpha never had a brain-scan update. And in those fifteen years, the entire world has changed. An alien race known as the Powers has established relations with humanity. The Policorp that held his allegiance has collapsed. He fought and survived the off-world Artifact War, but dozens of his friends did not. Both his first and second wives have divorced him. And, more importantly, someone has murdered him, causing the activation of the beta backup. Now Steward must probe into the horrors of the war, its politics and betrayals, to find out who wanted him dead—if he doesn’t want to die again.
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