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Title: Extinction

Subtitle: Star Force, Book 2

Author: B. V. Larson

Narrator: Mark Boyett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4138 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Earth's Star Force Marines invade an alien world!

In the second book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs has another bad year. The Nano ships have a new mission - one that sentences their pilots to death. Meanwhile, the governments of Earth want to steal Star Force's Nano technology for their own. Worst of all, Earth has made a promise to the Macros, and the machines are coming to collect.

Extinction is the story of Earth's entry into an interstellar war between living creatures and machines. And to buy the peace, we've signed up with the machines.

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Title: Reamde

Author: Neal Stephenson

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7001 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. As the years passed, Richard went straight and returned to the States after the U.S. government granted amnesty to draft dodgers. He parlayed his wealth into an empire and developed a remote resort in which he lives. He also created TRain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with millions of fans around the world.

But TRains success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a virus that encrypts all of a players electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the games virtual universe - and Richard is at ground zero.

Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in between, Reamde is a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the 21st century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists. Above all, Reamde is an enthralling human story - an entertaining and epic pause-resister from the extraordinary Neal Stephenson.

Critic Reviews:

Stephenson...delivers a sprawling thriller that shows him in complete control of his story. (Publishers Weekly)

Noir futurist Stephenson returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller...Wholl prevail? We dont know till the very end, thanks to Stephensons knife-sharp skills as a storyteller. An intriguing yarnmost geeky, and full of satisfying mayhem. (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

Sometimes when youre reading Neal Stephenson, he doesnt just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one. (Lev Grossman, Time)

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Title: Consider Phlebas

Author: Iain M. Banks

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-11

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1888 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

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

Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

Critic Reviews:

"Dazzlingly original." (

Daily Mail)

"Gripping, touching and funny." (

TLS)

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Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Author: Douglas Adams

Narrator: Douglas Adams

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 937 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

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Title: A Deepness in the Sky

Author: Vernor Vinge

Narrator: Peter Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-09

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1021 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Vernor Vinge established himself as one of our greatest living science-fiction writers with his critically acclaimed, best-selling, Hugo Award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep. Now he returns to the captivating universe of that book, transporting us back 30,000 years.

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. There are two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every 250 years

Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.

More than just a great science-fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love.

Critic Reviews:

"This prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep demonstrates Vinge's capacity for meticulously detailed culture-building and grand-scale sf drama." (Library Journal)

"Major revelations, ironies, and payoffs.... A powerful story in the grandest SF tradition." (Amazon.com review)

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Title: House of Suns

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1973 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their 30-second reunion but they have also brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibility of traitors in their midst. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them and why---before their ancient line is wiped out of existence forever.

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Title: On Basilisk Station

Subtitle: Honor Harrington, Book 1

Author: David Weber

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4034 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Having made a superior look a fool, Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin.

Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is up to something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad.

A Note from Author David Weber

There's been some confusionnot to say, um, energetic debate, readers and fans being readers and fansabout the correct pronunciation of "Manticoran." The truth, alas, is that a stitch was dropped. An error occurred. A mistake was made and it wasn't Audible's fault. It was mine. Before Audible recorded the very first Honor Harrington book, narrator Allyson Johnson and I not only corresponded by e-mail but actually spoke to one another by phone. She wanted to make absolutely certain she had the correct pronunciations for names, places, star nations, etc., and I tried to make certain all of her questions were answered. And so they were. Unfortunately, at some point in the process, I replied to one of her e-mails by telling her that "Man-ti-core-ahn" was pronounced "Man-tik-er-ahn." Exactly how this happened is more than I can say at this point, except to blushingly disclose that the original e-mail remains intact, confirming to all the world that it was, indeed, my fault. I can ascribe it only to a temporary mental hiccup on my part and crave your forgiveness. If, however, you must blame someone for the mix-up, that someone should be me and not Audible, who have done everything they could to get it right.

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Title: The Rise of Endymion

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3685 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

©1996 Dan Simmons; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

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Title: Endymion

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3809 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science-fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel (Song of Kali) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort. Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science-fiction pantheon of new classics.

Here, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear. Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - an instant candidate for the field's highest honors.

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Title: The Fall of Hyperion

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6525 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

Critic Reviews:

"Dan Simmons was a star from the outset. It was the Hyperion books that made him a superstar. The man, quite simply, is what we in the trade call a writer's writer." (Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author)

"State of the art science fiction...A landmark novel." (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)

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