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Title: The Dervish House

Author: Ian McDonald

Narrator: Jonathan David

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone, it seems, is after a piece of Turkey. But the shock waves from this random act of 21st century pandemic terrorism will ripple farther and resonate louder than just Enginsoy Square. Welcome to the world of The Dervish House: the great, ancient, paradoxical city of Istanbul, divided like a human brain, in the great, ancient, equally paradoxical nation of Turkey.

The year is 2027 and Turkey is about to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its accession to the European Union; a Europe that now runs from the Arran Islands to Ararat. Population pushing one hundred million, Istanbul swollen to fifteen million; Turkey is the largest, most populous and most diverse nation in the EU, but also one of the poorest and most socially divided. It's a boom economy, the sweatshop of Europe, the bazaar of central Asia, the key to the immense gas wealth of Russia and Central Asia.

Gas is power. But it's power at a price, and that price is emissions permits. This is the age of carbon consciousness: Every individual in the EU has a card stipulating individual carbon allowance that must be produced at every CO2 generating transaction.

For those who can master the game, who can make the trades between gas price and carbon trading permits, who can play the power factions against each other, there are fortunes to be made. The old Byzantine politics are back. They never went away. The ancient power struggle between Sunni and Shia threatens like a storm: Ankara has watched the Middle East emerge from 25 years of sectarian conflict. So far it has stayed aloof.

A populist prime minister has called a referendum on EU membership. Tensions run high. The army watches, hand on holster. And a Galatasary Champions' League football game against Arsenal stokes passions even higher.

The Dervish House is seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one central common core - the eponymous dervish house, a character in itself - that pins all these players together in a weave of intrigue, conflict, drama and a ticking clock of a thriller.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a brilliant, jewelled machine of a novel in which lives triggers events in other lives, in a sequence that skirts chaos and disaster, but ends with gorgeous order." (Roz Kaveney The Independent )

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Title: Personal Recognizance

Subtitle: Sime-Gen, Book 9

Author: Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Vret McClintock, a young channel in training at the world-famous Rialite First Year Camp, sees a dreary life before him until the instant he overhears the voice of Ilin Sumz saying the words he's been thinking - Certainly don't intend to stay a QN-3 for the rest of my life. His ambition awakened by that magical sentence, he sets out to qualify as a QN-2 before he graduates, and to meet the owner of that sexy voice!

In love with her and with her illicit historical fantasies posted on a secret board run on the brand-new campus mainframe computer, Vret risks his future career to extricate Ilin from her web of secrets before they can ruin the careers of others.

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Titre: Prime de vie [Prime of Life]

Auteur: Romuald Reber

Narrateur: Yvan Piantella

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 2 hrs and 32 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 01-17-12

Éditeur: Editionsrodarima.ch

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

Résumé de l'éditeur:

En l'an 2020, la société humaine, confrontée à la montée de la violence urbaine, civique et économique, à la dégradation de son environnement et à la déshumanisation comportementale de sa population, a accepté pour survivre, une nouvelle justice. Cette nouvelle justice devra lui garantir un avenir et un nouvel espoir. Dorénavant, chaque être humain devra s'acquitter d'une prime de vie. Quel en sera le prix ?À tort ou à raison, la question de la sécurité depuis quelque temps est largement abordée dans nos sociétés. Partant de ce fait, cette nouvelle est construite sur le compost de l'insécurité. Prime de vie trace un portrait linaire sur une question redondante de l'humanité qu'est le libre arbitre. Dans une ambiance technologique de ce que pourrait être la société en 2020, d'autres questions intéressantes surgissent également de cette histoire. Prime de vie exprime la souffrance d'Yves Walden, qui ne supporte plus la déshumanisation qu'il constate dans sa commune de Borgon en Suisse et ailleurs dans le monde. Sa révolte va lui permettre de trouver une solution au problème de l'insécurité. Il va la trouver à travers un voyage qui l'emmènera de sa commune en Suisse à Hong Kong, Singapour, puis, à San Diego et finalement à New York. La société entière va adhérer en 2020, au concept de cet architecte. Le succès est total, ou presque....

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Titel: Solarstation

Autor:: Andreas Eschbach

Erzähler: Sascha Rotermund

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 1 min

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-08-11

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

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

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

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Eine höchst ungewöhnliche Mischung aus Thriller und SF.

-- Brigitte

Eschbach nehmen und lesen!

-- FAZ

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Titel: Die volle Wahrheit (Scheibenwelt 25)

Autor:: Terry Pratchett

Erzähler: Michael-Che Koch

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-02-11

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

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

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Scheibenwelt dreht sich mit der Geschwindigkeit eines brillanten Comedy-Hörbuchs: Die Scheibenwelt ist wieder da, mit dem nächsten unglaublichen Abenteuer in der Stadt Ankh-Morpork, auf dem Planeten, der so flach ist wie eine Pizza und auf den Rücken von 4 Elefanten ruht. Diesmal geht es um die Erfindung der Presse, um das Thema: Die Wahrheit und nichts als die Wahrheit und die Schwierigkeiten, die man als Zeitungsmacher mit Wahrheitsfindung und -vermittlung haben kann.

©2003 Goldmann Verlag (P)2011 Random House Audio

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Title: Defining Diana

Author: Hayden Trenholm

Narrator: Art Carlson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-11

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

"Found naked and alone in a locked room. The beautiful woman was in perfect health - except she was dead... It's 2043 and much has changed: nuclear war, biotechnology and all-powerful corporations have ruled the world....

Now science is taking DNA manipulation to new, unrestricted levels. Superintendent Frank Steele is an old-fashioned cop. He commands a small, elite police unit that is handed all of the bizarre and baffling cases no one else can solve. He knows the money, the murders, missing persons and gruesome body shops are all connected. He knows it starts with the girl....

Critic Reviews:

"Defining Diana manages to feel true to both its hardboiled and its futuristic roots. The writing presents an interesting mash-up of pulp dialogue and well-researched scientific theory. The novel's characterizations of the SDU's troubled and conflicted officers is also top notch. Trenholm's solid police procedural, set in a cyberpunk Calgary, will appeal to mystery and science fiction fans alike." (Chadwick Ginter)

"Steel Whispers is an edge-of-your seat amalagam of police procedural and razor-sharp science fiction. The streets of Calgary never seemed so mean! Fans of Dashiell Hammett and William Gibson both will love this; a great novel from one of Canada's fastest-rising SF stars." (Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Wake)

"A taut, near-future police procedural with a plot as sinewy as that cyborg snake in Blade Runner. Hayden Trenholm works the mean streets and millionaires mansions of mid-21st century Calgary and comes up with a winner. (Matthew Hughes, Author of the Tales of Henghis Hapthorn)

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Title: Red Serpent: The Elemental King

Author: Delson Armstrong

Narrator: Kyle McCarley, Laura Stahl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: 9ine Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The bloodthirsty General returns to unite with his Earthly forces, ready to strike Humanity must choose its allegiances as it stands at the brink of chaos Rebellious leaders lurk in the shadows and threaten their survival The Falsifier realizes the hidden truths and takes charge And the Elemental King rises up to his call. Anaxagorass forces close in on the human fronts. On Earth, every vampire stands at the border of change in preparation for their monarch. As Alex struggles to gain control over the political upheavals his family faces, he must also find a way to win the War of Vengeance by finding the Elemental King. But Anaxagoras senses the Falsifiers actions and seeks to stop him, jeopardizing humanitys one chance to freedom.

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Titel: Sternenschatten (Sternenspiel 2)

Autor:: Sergej Lukianenko

Erzähler: David Nathan

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 15 hrs and 59 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-24-11

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 3 Stimmen

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

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Pjotr Chrumow ist ein solcher Kosmonaut, der eines Tages in seinem Raumschiff einen blinden Passagier entdeck. Als der Außerirdische ihn vor einer großen Gefahr für die Menschheit warnt, muss Pjotr schnell handeln. Denn eine fremde, außerordentlich mächtig Zivilisation hat das Konklave angegriffen und droht die Erde zu vernichten. Die einzige Hoffnung für die Menschen ist der geheimnisvolle Schatten im Kern der Galaxis. Und so bricht Pjotr Chrumow erneut zu einem Abenteuer jenseits der Grenzen von Raum und Zeit auf...

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-- Stern

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Title: Beautiful Red

Author: M. Darusha Wehm

Narrator: M. Darusha Wehm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-10

Publisher: Podiobooks.com

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The future is boring. Technology has solved the world's most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play. Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn't. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer's computer system has been invaded. Jack enlists the help of her only friends her co-worker, Gilles, and Adrian, an online friend she's never met to help her track down the source of the invasion.

Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude. Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness.

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Title: The Gunsmith

Subtitle: The Gunsmith Series #1

Author: C. K. Crigger

Narrator: Stephanie Brush

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-09

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Boothenay Irons, to her own bewilderment, is the possessor of a mysterious power. By profession a gunsmith, there is something within her that answers to the history held within an antique gun. Not only can she hear its story, she is sometimes able to go back in time and interact with its history.

Blood, as she comes to realize, is the road that carries her between times. Her strange ability began as a teenager while restoring an old gun. She slipped into a trance and witnessed an event in the weapon's history. Later she was drawn closer and found herself back in time where the guns story was unfolding, and she was no longer herself...but instead she became the person holding the gun....

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