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Title: Debt Collector, Episodes 4-6

Author: Susan Kaye Quinn

Narrator: Max Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-13

Publisher: Susan Kaye Quinn

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Episodes 4-6 of the Debt Collector serial.

A chilling premise about a future world where, when your debts exceed your future potential earnings, a debt collector is called in to collect your life energy and transfer it to someone who can put it to better use.

Lirium is the debt collector, and this story is about his struggle with who he is and the world he lives in - finding a way out of the near - madness of being someone who is the personification of the Grim Reaper.

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Title: Mortality Mechanic's Manual

Author: Lawrence R. Spencer

Narrator: Ralph C. Witt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-13

Publisher: Lawrence R. Spencer

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Imagine that you are an Immortal, Omniscient, Omnipotent spiritual being. You have existed through all eternity, and cannot do otherwise. You are Eternally responsible for the existence of everything you can perceive in your Universe. Your every thought and whim materialize instantly, and disappear as soon as you stop. You know the outcome of every action you take before you make a move. Imagine how boring it might become? What price would you pay to be amused by someone other than yourself? What would you be willing to do to solve the problem of perpetual boredom?

For an Immortal Being, mortality might be a coveted and convenient relief from eternal loneliness: no sensation, no surprises, no fun. What if a "Mortality Mechanic" could make your existence more exciting and less boring? Are you interested? After billions of years of testing and experimentation solutions to Immortality have been codified in the Mortality Mechanic's Manual. You are the living proof that their job is done.

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Title: 2 B R 0 2 B

Author: Basil Sands

Narrator: Basil Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-13

Publisher: Sandman Studio Productions of Alaska

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

In a future where sickness and disease are a forgotten memory, and death itself has been cured, population control requires special consideration, and the concept of 'Life for Life' has a new definition.

The original short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. on which this remade version of 2BR02B is based, appeared in the January 1962 edition of "Worlds of If."

This version is a complete rewrite based on the original story including significant artistic and textual changes, while retaining the general concept, the bones, of Vonnegut's original story.

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Title: Neena Gathering

Author: Valerie Nieman

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Neena and her aunt, Maura, try to start a new life in a United States devastated by chemical warfare.

Editorial Reviews:

Young actress Cassandra Morris gives a heartrending performance of Neena Gathering, by award-winning writer Valerie Nieman. Her euphonious voice creates a personal atmosphere for this apocalyptic tale, and her skilled delivery underscores Niemans gorgeous prose. America has been destroyed by chemical warfare. In this desolate landscape, Neena and her aunt attempt to start anew on an isolated West Virginia farm, but they face the threat of scavengers. One day her uncle returns, and in the midst of violence, Neena is forced to choose her destiny.

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Title: The Tower

Author: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Narrator: Terry Hayman, Jane Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-13

Publisher: WMG Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

So many mysteries in the past. So many opportunities as well. As Portals, Inc. uses historians to test its time travel devices, historians use Portals to test their theories. Neyla believes the 17th century discovery of the dead Princes near the Bloody Tower will tell her who murdered the boys centuries before. Thomas Ayliffe believes he can pull off the crime of the century - any century. All three agendas collide in a story about crimes and criminals, past, present, and future.

International bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won two Hugo awards, a World Fantasy Award, and six Asimov's Readers Choice Awards. She writes mystery as Kris Nelscott, romance as Kristine Grayson, Kristine Dexter, and Kris DeLake, and of course, sf and fantasy as Kristine Kathryn Rusch. For more information about her work, please go to kristinekathrynrusch.com.

Critic Reviews:

"A masterful writer is at work." (Orson Scott Card)

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Title: A Gentlewoman's Chronicles

Subtitle: Galvanic Century

Author: Michael Coorlim

Narrator: Dawn Hyde

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-13

Publisher: Michael Coorlim

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Chronicles of a Gentlewoman is an action-packed thriller series following Aldora Fiske's adventures in an alternate history Victorian steampunk world. This collection of three novelletes takes her all the way from London, to the jungles of Mexico, to the Ottoman Empire.

This collection includes:

"SKY PIRATES OVER LONDON"

London has been besieged by strange powerful airships targeting the city's shipping. The poor starve and the rich must ration their luxuries, while the blockaders have made no demands. Parliament and the Home Office have done nothing to rectify the situation, and though it's hardly proper, sometimes a gentlewoman must act while the men debate.

"THE TOWER OF BABBAGE"

A motion-picture crew has gone missing in the mysterious jungles of Southern Mexico while filming ancient Mayan ruins. Desperate to learn the fate of an old friend, gentlewoman Aldora Fiske sponsors an expedition into the heart of the rain forest. Little does she realize that the filmmakers were not the only ones interested in the clockwork secrets that Charles Babbage left behind.

"FINE YOUNG TURKS"

Her loveless wedding of convenience approaching, gentlewoman Aldora Fiske is among the influential Europeans to accept a handsome nobleman's invitation to show off the Ottoman Empire and its secularist reforms. After she alone escapes the devious plot to kidnap the foreign guests, she's confronted with an Empire where women are given all the rights of men, and a man who treats her like an equal.

Who Is Aldora Fiske?

Aldora Fiske is nothing if not proper, but the further she gets from London's social season the more daring she gets. Ever the gentlewoman, she takes pride in her ability to set things right.

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Title: Before the Storm

Subtitle: Xavier, Book 2

Author: John A. Ashley

Narrator: Matt Weight

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-13

Publisher: John A Ashley

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Three years have passed since the Sirujians were defeated and at last, the planet Xavier is at peace. A few light years away, however, lies a world that is not so fortunate. Earth - a planet ravaged by countless wars and totalitarian governments is on the brink of collapse, but even in these darkest days a slim hope shines.

In a few short weeks, a lucky group of individuals will be chosen to colonize the promising world of Xavier997. Clay Morton and his fiancee Charity Collins are two of these hopefuls. Yet as the day of the Xavier Drawing swiftly approaches, an old enemy rises from the ashes, and this time in terrifying force. Separated during the chaos, Clay and Charity soon find themselves thrown into the ultimate battle for survival. Should they lose, so will all humanity.

For beneath the sands of a forgotten desert lies a force known only by them, a force that even the Sirujians fear and that has the power to be either mankind's salvation or their final destruction...

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Title: Union

Subtitle: Spirian Saga, Book 2

Author: Rowena Portch

Narrator: Molly Elston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-13

Publisher: Aeon Enterprises

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Skye is willing to give Khalen all the time he needs to make up his mind about their inevitable union. What she doesn't count on is his rash decision to give her away to his closest friend. Khalen knows he cannot protect her. His gift to Aidan, however, is not well received and Skye decides to leave the clan. This is something Khalen never considered. What started out as a sacrifice to save the female he loves, ends at the gateway of hell from which he may never escape. Will Khalen earn her trust again, or has he lost her forever to the cunning ways of the Shadows?

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Title: Day of the Snake

Subtitle: Time Warrior, Book 3

Author: Matthew J. Costello

Narrator: Casey Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

When the Iron Men alter the course of history, upsetting history's delicate equilibrium, Jim Tiber is pulled through a dangerous rip in time, and he must set the past right and stay alive.

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Title: The Tower of Babbage

Subtitle: Galvanic Century

Author: Michael Coorlim

Narrator: Dawn Hyde

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-13

Publisher: Michael Coorlim

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Chronicles of a Gentlewoman is an action-packed thriller series set in an alternate history Victorian steampunk world. The Tower of Babbage brings readers to the ruins of Central America. A motion-picture crew has gone missing in the mysterious jungles of Southern Mexico while filming ancient Mayan ruins. Desperate to learn the fate of an old friend, gentlewoman Aldora Fiske sponsors an expedition into the heart of the rainforest.

Little does she realize that the filmmakers were not the only ones interested in the clockwork secrets that Charles Babbage left behind. Can she rescue the crew, or is she already too late to save the man she once loved?

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