Get Most Popular Full Audiobooks in Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Hören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://hotaudiobook.com

Titel: Die Lange Erde (Die Lange Erde 1)

Autor:: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

Erzähler: Jens Wawrczeck

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 12 hrs and 49 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-14-13

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

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

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein kleiner Plastikkasten, ein paar Drähte, ein Schalter, eine Kartoffel...

Als Polizistin Monica Jansson im Jahr 2015 in den Ruinen eines Hauses auf diese Apparatur stößt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie den Prototyp einer bahnbrechenden Erfindung in Händen hält. Der kleine Kasten ist ein Wechsler, mit dem es von nun an jedem möglich ist, mit einem kleinen Schritt in die "Lange Erde" hinauszutreten: eine Abfolge von Parallelwelten, der unseren mehr oder weniger ähnlich und von Menschen unbewohnt. Schnell setzt auf der alten Erde ein Goldrausch ein. Denn die Lange Erde birgt unendliche Möglichkeiten - und unendliche Gefahren.

Ein Aufbruch zu neuen Welten: Die große neue Serie!

©2012, 2013 Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, Goldmann Verlag (P)2013 Der Hörverlag

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Defect

Subtitle: Assassins Universe

Author: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kris DeLake

Narrator: Flora Plumb

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-13

Publisher: WMG Publishing Incorporated

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Assassin Halina Layla Orlinskaya no longer kills for her country. She has fled to a space station in the Nether Realm. And now a space yacht has arrived, a space yacht filled with corpses, including her husband's. Only her twelve-year-old son Misha has survived. And he has a message for her.

Members Reviews:

This is a good read as far as it goes

This is a good read as far as it goes. When I finished I didn't feel like I had read a complete story - not even a short story. It reads more like sample chapters than a complete story. That's why I gave it 3 starts.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Zombies: Grim Reaper and Cure the New World

Subtitle: Books 3 and 4

Author: John Taylor

Narrator: Sean Wybrant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: IMT, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Zombies: Grim Reaper and Cure the New World has now been combined in this two audiobook collection. It is the last two tales in The New World Series and has to be the best of the series.

The Boyds and their friends are excited that they may possibly come up with a zombie cure from the help of their super smart scientist friend, Jason. Then it happens... the Grim Reaper comes calling for one of the team.

An unexpected, untimely death puts a lot of stress on the group as they deal with the Grim Reaper's decision. Rolla is overrun with zombies and the Boyds face some tough decisions.

While dealing with the loss of a close team member, the group presses forward as the clock is ticking. Can they reproduce the antidote or cure before it's too late and society as they know it all die?

Jason the scientist is hard at work in his new laboratory they built on the farm. The team will have to carry out the dangerous mission of catching zombies and bringing them back to the farm for Jason's scientific experiments.

Will the team figure out the cure before they are over run by the zombie epidemic or will the group all perish? You won't want to miss this action packed, zombie thriller.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Survivors

Author: Sean Eads

Narrator: Sergei Burbank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-13

Publisher: Lethe Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The aliens have landed, and this time they're not hostile. They're just rude. Coming in waves of rocket ships, the aliens not only refuse to acknowledge the existence of Earth's cultures. They refuse to acknowledge the existence of humanity itself. The aliens by means of their bulk block entry into cars, grocery stores, even elevatorswithout malice or even purpose.

No one knows what it's like to be ignored by the aliens more than Craig Mencken, an amateur journalist who writes inane copy for a magazine tycoon. A pair of aliens have invaded his home, abused his furniture, and disrupted his life. Who thought first contact could be such a nuisance? But when Mencken's employer demands the story of the century, a fictional interview with an alien, the sinister truth about the invasion is accidentally revealed.

Soon Mencken's ex-boyfriend is dropping hints about a mysterious cabal that promises to rid the aliens from neighborhoods like exterminators do with vermin. Then a narcissistic federal agent wants Mencken to spy on the cabal for the sake of his country. As if life weren't already hard enough, the ''dozers'' - cubic machines capable of demolishing skyscrapers in minutes - start landing across the globe, and it does not seem likely the aliens will ignore mankind for much longer.

Members Reviews:

Decent story with some annoying aspects

This is a well told story, with a main character we come to care about, and a plot that progresses well and is well paced, and a unique idea. My small issue is the role of women, which is practically non-existent, except to be disparaged as in some way dispicable. Granted there are plenty of stories with heterosexual protagonists that seem to focus exclusively on one gender... I can think of several brilliant novels that do so. But there is something off putting about having one gender there only to be kind of spat upon as repulsive, presumably because the main character is has some issue, or perhaps the author. This is not the worst - I had to return a book called. 18% gray, which featured Homosexual protagonists in a future dystopia. Ok, fine... But it was SO vicious and hateful toward women, literally mocking them and their bodies as dispicable. Books like that do no favors to the gay community, and are not, in my opinion, representative of most gay people. This book is not nearly as bad as that, but has some of the same flaws. SO the world is ending, but women seem to have dropped off the planet, have almost no role at all... Except one character described as repulsive and not worthy of her hot husband... aside from that women are barely there, and our "hero" talks about "holding his nose" at the idea of touching one sexually.... Ok, fine.. What if someone said that about a gay man? That would be totally unacceptable, I am sure, to this author.

It is sad that this writer, who is clearly talented, can't write women, has no interest in writing women, feels they deserve no place in such a story, and has to be kind of nasty. Unfortunate as it could have been a really well done book - but it was SO glaring. I could have gotten over the lack of women in the book, but for the peppering with hate that comes now and again... Of course the main alien is a woman... But we are lead to hate them and her. A lot. For good reason. I hope the author gets over his issues.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Smoke on the Water

Subtitle: Gammalaw, Book 1

Author: Brian Daley

Narrator: Tom Taylorson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-13

Publisher: Books in Motion

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

Publisher's Summary:

Though they contemplated a final suicide mission of blood, guts, and glory, the Exts knew their warrior super skills were no match for the LAW - Legal Annexation of Worlds - who were sent into space by the mighty Periapt potentates to colonize new populations against the evil, alien Roke.

Among the Ext draftees bound for Periapt were Allgrave Burning, his techno-wizard cousin Lod, and beautiful, death-scarred Ghost, all sworn to a greater purpose, destined to fight in a star-torn war like none other. For a mysterious, danger-shrouded planet beckoned them - along with a disgraced starship captain and a powerful high priestess - for the greatest battles of their lives.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Brian Daley is an awesome writer! Love this series.

GammaLAW!

I went into this book feeling a sadness, knowing that with Mr. Daley passing away, this would probably be the last new material I would ever read from him.

Although GammaLAW was broken down into 4 seperate parts, it was written as one book and was [probably] intended to be read as one book. I kept this in mind, and I think it gave me a deeper appreciation for it. GammaLAW is also a harder read than any of his other works, and so it might seem to some people who like other books of Daley's as not so enjoyable. I understand completely, but there are too many 2- and 3-star ratings for it.

Brief synopsis: a force of Exts from the planet Concordance under Allgrave Burning are recruited to join LAW (the Legal Annexation of Worlds) and participate in a GammaLAW mission (Gamma is low priority, Alpha is high, and Beta is somewhere in between) under the command of Commissioner Dextra Haven, who believes that she can find an end to the interstellar war between Humanity and the alien Roke on the planet of Aquamarine. Murphy's Law strikes almost from the beginning, and they spend the rest of the time trying just to survive.

A word of warning: it follows around 4 main groups of characters and is a harder read than any of his other books, but I believe that if you can see past these shortcomings and just read the book, you'll probably like it. If you like Brian Daley, but have a hard time with hard reads, it's probably for the best that you look elsewhere.

In style, it's closer to his Coramonde books than Alactiry Fitzhugh and Hobart Floyt. It's more graphic and more serious in its tone, whereas Fitzhugh/Floyt, Solo & Company, and A Tapestry of Magics have a more playful, sarcastic tint to them. There are very few, if any, funny or light-hearted parts in GammaLAW. It's all about hi-tech military warfare, and the outcomes and repercussions of it. Don't be expecting anything close to his other works.

Although this doesn't rank near the top of my favorite books, the story is solid and believable. Mr. Daley was very good about researching his topics and getting the facts and physics straight. I found only one problem, if it is a problem and not just me, but it's a minor one: he describes the sling guns several times as having a noticeable recoil (if I read it right). This would be accurate if you're talking about firearms, in which the bulllet has its own propellant that pushes backward to send the round out the barrel. However, the sling gun works much like a slingshot, pushing the round forward through the barrel with an elastical force, not backward.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Invasion

Subtitle: Ambler's Travels Series, Volume 1

Author: George Wallace

Narrator: Linda Velwest

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-13

Publisher: Ka'u Choices Publishing

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Your world is invaded. Within weeks, your home, your job, and your ability to care for your family have disappeared. The economy and your government collapses. Power shifts. Strong men emerge. Huge populations are suddenly homeless, short of food, and forced to migrate. How do families caught up in the whirlwind of cataclysm cope? Steve Ambler was swept into service, rose through the ranks and profoundly influenced tumultuous events. This series chronicles the struggles of Ambler and the pivotal McCandless family to survive and thrive.

Members Reviews:

Show Us, Don't Tell Us.

Would you try another book from George B. Wallace and/or Linda Velwest?

Isn't that supposed to be some kind of writer's motto: Show them, don't tell them? Maybe George Wallace didn't get the memo because he spends the first 8 minutes (of the audiobook) on an introduction telling us what's going to happen, including that the events in this story lead into the next book. Yeah, we read. We know about sequels and series of books. That's a little condescending. The introduction is also filled with things that are about to be revealed in the story. Really, Mr. Wallace, why would I want to read this book at all now? I can just skip to the next one. Except I won't.

I figured I would give the book a chance anyway but in the first chapter he fills his description of about 5 different things with long strings of adjectives.

"As Steve arrived, a large Douglass fir tree, the original invasion site was undergoing serious, rapid, multiple attacks."

"He was making notes when his ear caught an explosive sound. It was the sharp, popping, crack, creaking, shrieking, staccato sound of a breaking, falling forest giant."

This is just an annoying, irritating, distracting, lazy way of writing. I quit after this sentence, only 12:31 into the book.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Maybe Ben Bova. I'm in the mood for some good old-fashioned sci-fi.

Have you listened to any of Linda Velwests other performances before? How does this one compare?

Not sure but I don't think so. I think she did the best with what she had.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Irritation.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Learn English with Short Stories

Subtitle: Science Fiction, Section 11

Author: Zhanna Hamilton

Narrator: Larry Anderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: InspiredByEnglish.com

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The Learn English with Short Stories series does not need to be listened to in order, as all of the stories are independent from one another. This eleventh section includes two thrilling science fiction stories. Each unique science fiction story comes with vocabulary and definitions before and during the tale. This guide also offers two multiple-choice vocabulary exercises after each story, allowing you to practice your newly learned terms and idioms.

"Resisting the Blue Chip"

John thought his days of belonging to the government would be over as soon as his enlistment ended. When he receives a job proposition from the CIA, he ignores it. He soon finds out the proposition is not an offer - it is a sentence. He has been chosen for the Blue Chip Program - and they won't take no for an answer.

"Unofficial Space Captain"

What would you do if an alien race killed your best friend? Young cadet, Xandra, is struck with the reality that her trusted colleague has fallen victim to yet another attack from a ruthless alien race. In her struggle to deal with his loss, she finds a bold, yet risky way to avenge her friend.

Hören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://hotaudiobook.com

Titel: Der Stern der Pandora (Die Commonwealth-Saga 1)

Autor:: Peter F. Hamilton

Erzähler: Oliver Siebeck

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 23 hrs and 5 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-15-13

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

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

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Am äußeren Rand des Commonwealth beobachtet ein Astronom das Unmögliche: Ein Stern verschwindet einfach - vom einen Moment auf den anderen. Da er zu weit vom nächsten Wurmloch entfernt liegt, wird eigens ein überlichtschnelles Schiff gebaut. Seine Mission: herauszufinden, ob das Phänomen eine Bedrohung darstellt. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass es nie eine größere Bedrohung für die Menschheit gab...

>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung wird Ihnen exklusiv von Audible präsentiert und ist ausschließlich im Download erhältlich.

Kritik Bewertungen:

Eine Space Opera, die alles hat!

-- Phantastik-Couch.de

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Zombie Battle 5

Subtitle: Survive

Author: Jacqueline Druga

Narrator: Andrew B. Wehrlen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-13

Publisher: Jacqueline Druga

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

A mysterious virus emerges after a meteor lands near a remote village in Peru. Authorities brought in to investigate discover that the horrific virus not only kills, but reanimates its victims, turning them into the walking dead.

Believing they have contained the outbreak, samples of the contagion are brought to the United States via infected military and other victims. The virus breaks boundaries and the infection spreads.

Across America the war rages as the number of undead mount and humans are not the only things infected. Nowhere is safe.

Jack Edwards searches for his wife in a world strewn with undead, while trying to help Dr. Saul Klein escape Cleveland. Both men possess a powerful element that can help ensure the continuity of the human race. But will Jack or Saul be able to implement a plan to save mankind before time runs out? The undead outnumber the living and the clock is ticking.

Members Reviews:

Finished with a Bang

Good ending, wrapped all lose ends up. I like a good pulp fiction book that grabs and doesn't let go. I bought book 5, think you can by all five in one book. Go ahead and give it a read, you won't be disappointed.

A good ending

I've read all of the Zombie Battle books, and I'm happy with the ending of this series...highly recommended to fans of apocalypse/dystopian fiction.

Best

The best zombie saga ever. Better than WWZ! Genius with creating fear and tension. I absolutely love reading your books.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Buck Johnson

Subtitle: Dragon Wrangler, Collection I

Author: Wyatt McLaren

Narrator: Joe Roark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-13

Publisher: Spring Lake Books

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

In Dragon Wrangler, Collection I, you'll encounter all sorts of Western/cowboy adventures, albeit on another planet, including dragon-breaking, a dragon drive, and a dragon roundup. A wild mix of fantasy, action/adventure, Western, and science fiction, this audiobook is a new twist on the space Western and a rollicking ride across the vagaries and lives of a dragon wrangler and his sidekicks on Planet Terul.

Follow Buck Johnson, Skeeter Evans, and Snort Jones as they attempt to earn enough money to get off Terul, and get to some place where the money comes easier and is a lot more fun. But, as you'll soon see, breaking, roping, herding, and rounding up dragons - especially when there are more than a few green-broke korths and churlish native Terullians involved - doesn't always turn out quite as expected.