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Title: Unwise Child

Author: Randall Garrett

Narrator: Arthur Vincet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

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

Publisher's Summary:

A super-robot called Snookums discovers how to build his very own superbombs in this thrilling sci-fi tale by Randall Garrett! Now Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be, to say the least. Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist serving as Snookums' nursemaid, therefore agree to set up Operation Brainchild, a plan to transport Snookums to a very distant planet. Only one big problem: Snookums is none too keen on this idea.

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Members Reviews:

âIt is as difficult to jolt the nerves of a robot as it is to blind an oyster.â

This early novel of long-time sf writer Randall Garrett starts off running as M. R. Gabriel, a. k. a.: Mike the Angel, goes to his favorite hangout for obscure and antique electronics, the "Ye Quainte Olde Elecktronicks Shoppe". When he gets there he find that the shop that is run by his friend Harry MacDougal is in the process of being robbed by a pair of punks. Only Mike is an inventor, and he has an invention that stops the burglary, only, Mikeâs intervention catches the interest of the gang behind the attempted heist, and there will be an attempted murder, and a death will ensue.

All of this happens within the first fifty, and in those fifty pages we are also thrust into a future as seedy as anything in the yet to develop cyberpunk genre, including such things as pocket (cell) phones, computer programs imbedded in people's clothing, gaudy punk make-up, futuristic hand weapons, etc. Mike has also been contracted, and then later intellectually seduced, into building a spaceship, the William Branschell around Project Brainchild, the largest, to date, cybernetic brain. Of course, to do this he has to officially rejoin the Space Service under his old commanding officer, the gruff Captain Sir Henry "Black Bart" Quill.

But to build this ship, Mike has to travel to the Antarctica, a place he does not want to go. And when he arrives he sees that the security has been beefed up, that he will meet the robotic stand-in for Snookums, the cybernetic brain, and the beautiful, and red-haired, Leda Crannon, a child psychologist and teacher for Snookums, and the cyberbrainâs designer Dr. Morris Fitshugh. And Mike will soon find out the reason why Snookums must leave on the newly built, and untested, "William Branchell". Snookums has found a way to create and manufacture a new superweapon, a devastating superweapon that anybody would be able to build and detonate.

And as the "William Branchell" is on its way to its new destination, and Snookumâs new home, things start to go wrong. First the ship, then Snookums, starts acting weird, then there is an attempted homicide, then things start failing on the ship again. And meanwhile, several crewmembers are hot for the teacher, and want to follow the Leda.

And then the crap truly hits the fan as somebody sabotages the "William Branchell" which will result in a death.

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Title: The Q

Author: Coby Fletcher

Narrator: Tony Oliva

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-17

Publisher: Coby Fletcher

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 2105, and a violent attack on a bounty hunter in the war-torn ruins of Old Fort Worth draws the attention of Dr. Carson Ballister, the foremost scientific mind to rise from the ashes of post-Global Conflict society and the celebrated inventor of immucites, nanobots designed to repair damaged genes.

When Dr. Ballister is killed before he can complete his investigation into the attack, the unlikely team of Anton Leroux and Alex McCarthy is assigned to catch his assassin. But bringing a murderer to justice may be only the beginning. As the two detectives untangle a web of corporate intrigue, radical religion, and violent crime syndicates, a newer, far more dangerous threat emerges in the form of the Q, an out of control immucite evolving to produce horrific mutations in the human population.

Leroux and McCarthy must now work against time to catch a killer and find a way to stop a man-made catastrophe before it shatters what remains of a still fragile civilization.

Members Reviews:

Great read

Enjoyed this book very much. Action started quickly in the beginning and kept me interested all the way through. Great job to the author.

Five Stars

Destined to be a movie!!!!

Gene modification futuristic science thriller!

As a scientist myself, educated in the 'potential' of gene therapies, and an avid mystery and sci-fi reader, I loved this fast-paced story.

Couldn't put it down, and I think that's the highest compliment you can pay any writer!

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Title: Ascending Descent

Author: Johnnie Ruffin

Narrator: Grace Sylvan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-17

Publisher: Johnnie Ruffin

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Tyla is a host for an alien entity that has been reborn for generations. In her quest to live her life without being dominated by the alien entity, she must also face the challenges of a constantly changing universe.

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Title: Creophagus

Subtitle: The Alien Agenda

Author: R. L. McCallum

Narrator: Daniel Dorse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: R. L. McCallum

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

Publisher's Summary:

After several strange balls of light invade the night sky over the small mountain town of Fulton, Montana, a series of missing person reports follow. As Kenneth Marshall, a lieutenant with the Montana State patrol, begins investigation into the matter, the US Army and several government agencies arrive and demand that he ceases all inquiries.

Upon meeting a well-informed professor from Missoula, Ken discovers that aliens have been involved with the disappearances of visitors from state parks for years and are currently responsible for the abductions in Fulton. Determined to destroy the aliens, Ken ends up hiding from the government, the army, and the aliens. Teaming up with two of his friends, and the professor, they begin searching for a way to destroy the creatures, who are using humans for food.

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Title: Sand Fleas & Sorrows

Subtitle: Surviving Coastal Conundrums (Aftermath Survival)

Author: Ron Foster

Narrator: James P. Henley Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-17

Publisher: Ron Foster

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

A fun quirky read that will change your attitude about money and the apocalypse forever. Have you ever wondered how it would be possible for an economy to continue after a major electrical grid down disaster? Well look no more, here is a plausible short story to educate and entertain you. Watch the confusion start when a Dirt Road Scholar, a Master of Disaster and a Maker of Mischief band together to play economist. A compelling idea by a trading post proprietor to use sand dollars to make change in his establishment starts a good natured currency war to be the best and richest trader. Combining fact and fiction the journey to setting up an economy on the shores of a former Florida tourist town is sure to educate, entertain, excite, and inform the reader as the characters experience societal and monetary collapse.

Members Reviews:

Ron is a Prepper's writer. He cuts a realistic ...

Ron is a Prepper's writer. He cuts a realistic tale of a future we may not be prepared for. Working man's fiction writer.

Four Stars

Nice read

This was a great read!

This was a great read!! Dealing with realistic scenarios and good characters to handle them!! Read it in one sitting!!

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Titel: Pyramiden (Scheibenwelt 7)

Autor:: Terry Pratchett

Erzähler: Volker Niederfahrenhorst

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 12 hrs and 54 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 06-16-17

Herausgeber: SchallundWahn

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

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der junge Teppic wird neuer Pharao eines kleinen, armen Königreichs. Zu Ehren seines Vaters will er die größte Pyramide errichten, die die Welt je gesehen hat. doch Teppic hat nicht damit gerechnet, dass er dadurch seine sämtlichen Vorfahren wiedererweckt und die Götter der Scheibenwelt auf den Plan ruft. Nun kann ihm nur noch ein Kamel helfen - und zwar eines, das mathematisch begabt ist und auf den Namen "Du Mistvieh" hört.

©2017 Schall & Wahn GmbH (P)2017 Schall & Wahn GmbH

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Title: Expansion: History of the Galaxy. Mercenary I. [Russian Edition]

Author: Andrey Livadny

Narrator: Edios

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: IDDK

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

Publisher's Summary:

"Naemnik" - fantasticheskij roman Andreja Livadnogo, pervaja kniga trilogii "Naemnik" cikl "Istorii Galaktiki", zhanr boevaja fantastika, kosmicheskaja fantastika. Roug... Jeta vyzhzhennaja Galakticheskoj vojnoj planeta taila v sebe glavnuju zagadku smertel'nogo protivostojanija prarodiny chelovechestva i kolonij. Kapitan Zemnogo Al'jansa Gleb Dymov ne mog i predpolozhit', chto imenno emu pridetsja razgadat' ee. Predatel'stvo admirala Voroncova sdelalo vozmozhnym sozdanie soobshhestva kiborgov, postavivshih sebe cel'ju unichtozhenie prognivshej chelovecheskoj civilizacii. Maniakal'nyj strah bol'shinstva ljudej pered mysljashhimi mashinami okazalsja prorocheskim predvideniem. Nad planetami obitaemogo Kosmosa navisla chudovishhnaja ugroza.

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Titel: Das Arkonadia-Rätsel: Ein Roman aus dem Omniversum

Autor:: Andreas Brandhorst

Erzähler: Richard Barenberg

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 16 hrs and 15 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-04-17

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

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

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein Bund von mächtigen Völkern, Omni genannt, wacht in der Milchstraße über die Entwicklung von Leben und Zivilisationen. Jasper und seine Tochter Jasmin gehören zu den wenigen Auserwählten, die in den Diensten Omnis stehen. Ihr Auftrag führt sie zu dem fernen Planeten Arkonadia. Seit Jahrtausenden stranden dort immer wieder Raumschiffe unter dem Einfluss einer unerklärlichen Raumzeit-Anomalie. Zudem bewirkt das geheimnisvolle Nerox, das alle 453 Jahre auftritt, technologischen Stillstand und stürzt den ganzen Planeten ins Chaos. Niemand kennt den Ursprung des Phänomens. Jasper und Jasmin sollen das Rätsel von Arkonadia lösen und stoßen dabei auf ein Geheimnis, das eine Milliarde Jahre alt ist und auch Omni betrifft...

©2017 Piper Verlag GmbH, München (P)2017 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

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Title: A Princess of Mars (Barsoom 1)

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: Arthur Vincet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

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

Publisher's Summary:

John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its lesser gravity. Carter soon falls in among the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of the planet's warlike, four-armed, green inhabitants.

Thanks to his strength and combat abilities he rises in position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs. The Tharks subsequently capture Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, a member of the humanoid red Martian race. The red Martians inhabit a loose network of city states and control the desert planet's canals, along which its agriculture is concentrated. Carter rescues her from the green men to return her to her people.

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Members Reviews:

I really liked this book

Did you know the movie John Carter is based on this series? I did not, which makes my reading of this book that much cooler for some reason. So this is my second book in the Decades of Sci-Fi challenge that I have finished. I am officially two books behind. ::shrugs shoulders:: Whatever, I do what I want.

This book was fantastic!! It was fast paced and explained simply. Okay, so there was a LOT of telling but, it was done so well. I was quite happily able to overlook it. I loved how easily he was able to incorporate himself in to each civilization he encountered.

I loved the mystery of it too. How did he come to be on Mars? Itâs left up to the readerâs imagination to fill in the blanks. This is a risky endeavor for any author to partake in but he pulls it off quite nicely. The writing was extremely easy to follow considering the book was written almost 100 years ago.

Compared to the last book I read in this challenge, it was a cakewalk. Iâm not much for ââclassic literatureâ but if the rest are like this, I will definitely have no problems finishing this challenge.

One of Burroughs' best novels

In this first volume in the John Carter of Mars series, one of America's (and the world's) best adventure writers turned to science fiction and produced one of his most enduring and copied works. Ok, it postulates intelligent life on Mars. Remember that Burroughs began his Martian adventures before WW1, when the possibility of such life on Mars was still taken seriously. If it bothers you, just imagine that the setting is a distant galaxy or an alternate universe. Don't let it keep you from reading one of the great sci-fi fantasy novels.

A clever and entertaining book by the author of the Tarzan books

Because of the expiration of their copyrights many excellent books are available in various formats for a very low fee, or even free from amazon, as it does for this book. Amazon also offers the entire set of all Edgar Rice Burroughsâ seven Jack Carter books about his experiences on Mars for only ninety-nine cents. Burroughs is famous for writing the Tarzan books. This book is totally unlike the movie that was made about it in virtually every way, as I show in my review of the film on amazon. The following is some highlights about the book, but I am careful not to include a host of details that make the book interesting, clever, and suspenseful.

Jack Carter of Virginia was a captain in the Confederate Army.

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Title: The Steam Man of the Prairies

Author: Edward S. Ellis

Narrator: Arthur Vincet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

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

Publisher's Summary:

"The Steam Man of the Prairies" by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S science fiction dime novel and an archetype of the "Frank Reade" series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called "Edisonade" genre. The novel starts with Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle-a "Yankee" and an "Irishman"-encountering a colossal, steam-powered man in the American prairies. This steam-man was constructed by Johnny Brainerd, a teenage boy, who uses the steam-man to carry him in a carriage on various adventures.

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Members Reviews:

Interesting and fun vintage science fiction.

Young Johnny Brainerd started being a tinker almost as a toddler. Once bored with standard inventions, he jumps upon his motherâs suggestion to create a mechanical man. He hides it in his garage until one day a strange looking man gets a glimpse. Tracker, frontiersman, Baldy Bicknell, is immediately fascinated by the steam man. He assures Johnny that they can test it out on the prairies where it can be very useful to help another project that he is involved with. Baldy is working with two rough miners seeking gold! But the men have been under constant threat from Indian attacks. Perhaps the appearance of a huge steam man could scare the Indians.

This story was written in 1868 which I think makes it remarkable fun. The steampunk elements are presented with good, reliable detail. The author uses rough accents to convey personalities to the characters. They are not deeply developed but there is enough portrayal to make them interesting and real to the time period. The story is creative and has action with the running steam man and dangerous confrontations with the Indians. The writing is not precise and could have benefited from a good editing. Still this is a quick, fun read. I recommend it to steampunk fans and to those interested in sci fi literature history.

Awkward distant ancestor of steampunk

I only read the beginning and the ending. I couldn't make my finish the book. I may have missed some literary genius buried in the middle, but I doubt it.

This book is interesting historically as a distant ancestor of steampunk. It has a mechanical man, which is little more than a steam locomotive, doesn't require rails, and is shaped like a man. It includes stereotypes and bad dialogue that offend our current cultural and literary sensibilities.