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Title: The Last Lunacy

Author: Lester Del Rey

Narrator: Dave Courvoisier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

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

Publisher's Summary:

Postwar Earth is not only crumbling, but it's inhabited by "The Blues"...working class poor who didn't belong to the elite who escaped to the moon. And...they're all men. A female ruling class runs the moon, but every once in a while they have to descend to maintain the equipment...and this time, one gets captured, only to find she unwittingly aids the wave of ships being prepared to invade the moon.

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Title: The Rainbow Gate

Author: Freda Warrington

Narrator: Jan Cramer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Which of the worlds was real? And where were the boundaries? As a child, Helen and her friend Rianna had wandered freely through Charnwood Forest into an enchanted otherworld of brightly-coloured creatures and strangely beautiful, charismatic people. Then Rianna moved away and the enchantment vanished. Now, 15 years later, she has returned suddenly, secretive and haunted. And soon Helen finds herself drawn back across those half-forgotten, ever-shifting boundaries between reality and fable. Drawn back into the twin lands of Tevera: the sun-bright, singing lands of the Chalcenians and the chill, sad underworld of the Domendrans.

Very different but connected worlds, their pull is growing stronger. An age-old conflict between the realms of light and darkness is breaking through into Helen's everyday world, dragging in her loved ones too. Wonder gives way to bewilderment and fright. As they come to understand the enigmatic people of Tevera, they realise that they must play their part in the conflict that will save or destroy our own world.

Critic Reviews:

"She is emerging as a formidable novelist, already in command of dark romance and blighted love." (Vector)

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Title: Fugue: The Cure

Subtitle: Fugue Colonies, Volume 1

Author: Steve DeWinter, S. D. Stuart

Narrator: Meghan Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-14

Publisher: Ramblin' Prose Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Elizabeth had everything. She was the head researcher at the largest hospital in the largest city on the colony world, Voltaire, and was constantly rebuffing marriage proposals from the wealthiest men in town.

In one instant, everything changed.

Caught between her bright future as a research scientist for the Empire, and the stigma of her past as the daughter of an outspoken protestor against the Empire, Elizabeth is forced to help a known terrorist escape from Voltaire, putting her life and her future in jeopardy.

Fugue: The Cure is a short science-fiction novel from the inventive mind of Steve DeWinter (writing as S.D. Stuart), bringing his action-packed storytelling format to the short-story science-fiction genre.

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Title: The Crescent Strikes

Subtitle: The Pacification of Earth, Volume 2

Author: Dean Warren

Narrator: David Dietz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-14

Publisher: Dean Warren

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Part II, The Crescent Strikes: As 2100 dawns, revolutionary America is governed by a triumvirate of "welfies". The military member of the trio is a young ex-Marine, Ben Bjorn. While China demands food relief and threatens war, Europe pleads for military help against the Turkish-led Moslems. As if those two perils weren't enough, rebellion simmers below the feet of the Welfie government.

Copying Eisenhower's example in the Cold War, Bjorn leads an American army to Europe's defense. In early spring, the Moslems cross the Bosphorus into Europe and throw back part of Bjorn's army. He fights a series of battles, including one involving an Achiever-led insurrection.

Betrayals and attempted assassinations deepen the fog of war.

Members Reviews:

A Narrator Who Doesn't Try Too Much

Where does The Crescent Strikes rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

The title represents one of my pet peeves. Mr. Dietz stayed within himself. Not too dramatic, not to monotone. Good Job. The story seems a a bit of a stretch in reality, but NOT impossible. The characters are interesting and there are some fun story twists. I will follow this series.

The crescent strikes

Any additional comments?

A great follow up audiobook This audiobook describes technology and events that are completely believable. Good writing, lots of suspense, and human weakness. The narration added excitement .

Someone needs to research contraception

This book picks up a littler over a year after Book 1 ended. Benjamin Bjorn is still a man of power and still married to an Achiever (Jenny) who got pregnant and had his child. While North America has settled somewhat into the new regime, rumblings are occurring across Europe their Welfies want the same things. Also, the Middle East and Asian countries are wanting to expand their territories into Europe, needing more resources for their large populations. War is imminent.

Honestly, I was lukewarm on Book 1 and I am the same with Book 2. Theres still a good pacing, the story line having a nice mix of politics, action, some quiet contemplation, and sexytimes. I enjoyed the various betrayals as that mixed things up a little. Bjorn is no longer the underdog but he still champions them.

Again, the plot lines were pretty predictable. I never worried that our heroes would be killed or that the bad guys would get away unscathed in some manner. We did have several more cultures involved in this book (which I liked) but their portrayals in the book relied heavily on dated cultural stereotypes (which made things predictable and a little boring).

There were some additional ladies in this book and we even had a female Prime Minister for the UK. However, nearly all the plot decisions were made by men and most of the women were incompetent. Contraception, or rather, the lack of it, came up several times throughout the book. The responsibility to hold off on reproducing was always laid at the womans feet. This struck me as an oddity for this story: The world as a whole is over populated; there are several types of contraception available to both men and women today; this is set in the near future where there would be more types of contraception available if anything. So I didnt get why our hero Bjorn was putting all the blame on Jenny and none of the responsibility on his own shoulders.

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Title: Knighthawke

Subtitle: Knighthawke Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Jerry Minchew

Narrator: George Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-14

Publisher: Knighthawke Productions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Knighthawke is the story of a family in crises. The son, Michael, kidnapped as an infant, grew up in the Deep South believing that he was the son of Jake and Lisa Webber. From childhood, Michael has frequent dreams of a girl that he does not know is his twin sister. Because of the link that she has with her brother, Michelle Walker bolsters her family's hopes that Michael will yet be found. Michael learns as a young airman in the USAF that Lisa, the woman he believed to be his mother, had been unable to bear children. His search for his past becomes complicated when an alien organism that enhances his natural abilities infects him. Scientists want to study him; the Air Force wants to use him as a secret weapon in the Vietnam and Cold wars; and the Soviets want his blood. Michael simply wants to learn his real identity.

Members Reviews:

Who you goin' to call

Great Alton book for young abuts and adults alike...no questionable language, plenty of mystery for everyone. Teaches the value of relationships, and the meaning of good, trusted friendships.

The story introduces alien properties that. make Nighthawke into a super power, while maintains a quality personality...

I am off to part II of Mighthawke

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Title: The Sword and The Staff

Author: Bret Wellman

Narrator: Steve Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-14

Publisher: Bret Wellman

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

A nuclear holocaust disrupts the flow of time, sending past, present, and future on a crash course to the same point in time. In the midst of the confusion the devil has made his move for the earth, raising a demon army that destroys everything in its path. Now Mason Blake and his friends have to gather famous armies from history to defend the innocent from the slaughter.

Members Reviews:

Author couldn't decide on his Sci-Fi style/genre

I like the blurb and reviews about this book but they fell way short of reality. I did manage to make it to Chapter 10 before giving up.

I think this author wanted to write in every style of Sci-Fi that is on the market today! So the story starts with a boy who lost his parents and has a horrible military instructor uncle (kind of Cinderella like). He ends up in a dream telling him he is the Chosen One and is marked with a tattooâand of course now he ends up in foster care. Flash forward and the story goes to the âterrorist getting a nukeâ then of course âblowing the world upâ with said nuke(s). So a quick switch to the military evacuating the civilians to save them resulting in an underground âprisonâ keeping the civilian population safeâ..so three months pass and the civilians wonât take military rule any longer. So a military mission discovers the above ground world is now a jungle with dinosaurs and dragons (think time travel and Land of the Lost). In the mean time flash to Manhattan where the fallout has made the water poisonous and turned the population into zombies (Zombie Apocalypse & also I am Legend rip-off). Flash back to boy rescued by military and now topside in jungleâ..he is known as the Choosen One and with an Oracleâs direction starts on a âquestâ to find the other two âHorsemenâ with two other teenage side-kicks (think Hunger Games or another teenage Disutopia storyline). This is where I stopped because the teenage bratty boy and the âteenage angstâ that was just implied to come next was something I was not going to be able to handle.

See why I had to stop at Chapter 10â..I gave it a good effort and benefit of the doubt bay making it to 30% of the book (per my Kindle). Really good thing I got it free or I would be pissed at the wasted money.

Your world may be coming to the end and you lose all sense of time. You're then have s dream and wake up with a tattoo and all he'll breaks loose. Fantastic interactions and great reading. Please enjoy ad I did...

Its a timeline book.

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It's a little far fetched but hey....;)... We're reading fantasy after all! Lol anyway it's a consistent read not enthralling to the point that I can't put it down but enough of consistent creativity that I wanted to finish. It's worth the read. The writer is good at building his characters & the storyline so that you become invested & want to know what happens. It won't make you pull an all-nighter but let's be honest those awesome writers are few & far between!

A good book

I was impressed that I really liked this book. The story was well written and a good amount of action.

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Title: Hang Wire

Author: Adam Christopher

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-14

Publisher: Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Ted Hall is worried. He's been sleepwalking, and his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders by the notorious Hang Wire Killer. Meanwhile, the circus has come to town, but the Celtic dancers are taking their pagan act a little too seriously, the manager of the Olde Worlde Funfair has started talking to his vintage machines, and the new acrobat's frequent absences are causing tension among the performers.

Out in the city there are other new arrivals - immortals searching for an ancient power - a primal evil which, if unopposed, could destroy the world!

Critic Reviews:

"If you're not careful, Adam Christopher will melt your face offThis is fireball storytelling." (Chuck Wendig, author of The Blue Blazes and Under the Empyrean Sky)

Members Reviews:

Strange, mysterious and unpredictable.

After a slightly weak start, the story takes off and goes places that you wouldn't expect. Things all fit together by the end, and it has a satisfying conclusion. The narration is only okay, but luckily the characterisations comes through - recommended for fans of the Avengers or Seven Wonders.

Enjoyable

I enjoyed listening to this story, Luke Daniels is engaging and has a melodic voice and good character range. The story is fun and has a few twists to make it interesting, my main criticism is that I felt the ending was a bit weak.

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Title: Glorious Plague

Author: Karen Heuler

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Hallie is missing - and so are thousands of others. Everywhere people are singing - climbing to the rooftops, to the bridges, to lamp post and road sign, steeple and water tower, singing gloriously, triumphantly, tirelessly - and dying. Hallie's mother, Dale, goes to Manhattan to search for her. She drives in from rural New Jersey, passing abandoned cars and trucks, to make her way to the jammed George Washington Bridge, rejoicing with hymns and gospel and rock and opera. The plague moves swiftly, and the city's survivors form new communities, dealing with the rotting corpses, trying to re-establish a new infrastructure for the new order. And odd things happen - angels come to earth, Christ drags his crucifix around Rockefeller Center, the Indian god Ganesh runs for mayor - but it doesn't seem remarkable to the survivors. A man falls in love with a mermaid and decides to throw in his fortunes with hers, only to be attacked by an animal liberated from the zoo. Politics begins to assert itself, as do real-estate issues, and it matters what - and who - you believe. It's time to choose sides.

Members Reviews:

I received this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway ...

I received this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway and found it to be an unusual twist on the post-apocalyptic novel. We enter a world about to experience a major change. The majority of the population of the U.S. (we don't know if this is a pandemic as the news media shuts down rapidly) is overcome with a need to climb to the highest point available and sing joyously and continuously -- until they drop dead.

Hallie, a real estate agent in New York City, succumbs to the plague. Her mother, Dale, is investigating a related phenomenon in rural areas effecting insects and cows. When she loses touch with Hallie, Dale makes her way to the city to find her daughter. Instead she finds a society trying to recreate itself in the wake of the mass deaths. Survivors are coming together to clean up the bodies and reestablish some sort of order, but the inevitable factions form, vying for control. Elections are called for and only one group can be declared the winner.

People soon notice something unusual, the appearance of some extraordinary creatures. Various gods, demons, angels, and mythological figures appear in the city. At first this causes consternation, but they are soon accepted. After all, they're right there in front of everyone's eyes.

Heuler poses an interesting question: If everyone is seeing the same thing, it must be real, right? Does it even matter? A thought provoking novel, this one will stick with you long after you turn the last page.

Dazzling; enthralling

I read an excerpt from this novel on Tor.com, and you should go read it too! Who could not want more after that dazzling opening? I spent the whole afternoon and most of the evening today reading this; it's absolutely enthralling. In some ways it seemed reminiscent of "Welcome to Night Vale", with the bizarre progression of post-apocalyptical events, which are accepted pretty much as a matter of course by the survivors.

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Title: Dead Things

Author: Matt Darst

Narrator: Michael Riffle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-14

Publisher: Grand Mal Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Nearly two decades have passed since the fall of the United States. And the rise of the church to fill the void. Nearly 20 years since Ian Sumner lost his father. And the dead took to the streets to dine on the living. Now Ian and a lost band of survivors are trapped in the wilderness, miles from safety. Pursued by madmen and monsters, they unravel the secrets of the plague...and walk the line of heresy. Ian and this troop need to do more than just survive. More than ever, they must learn to live.

Members Reviews:

Surprisingly engaging

What did you love best about Dead Things?

The writing is solid and the tempo is balanced and held my attention; I wanted to know what happens to the characters. While this is not my usual genre the story held my interest. The author weaves scientific background into the storyline in a reader friendly manner; the humorous subtleties are engaging and there is good use of suspense without the suspension of disbelief.

What other book might you compare Dead Things to and why?

The style and approach reminds me of Robin Cook's work; exploring a scientific anamoly through a possible extension.

Which character as performed by Michael Riffle was your favorite?

Hard to single one out as he brought color and life to each but I was interested in both Van and Bert. My initial impression of both changed as the story unfolded.

Any additional comments?

It was a good listen. The story engaged me throughout and that surprised me.

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Title: Operation Outer Space

Author: Murray Leinster

Narrator: Harry Shaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Jed Cochrane and his crew are embarking on the first-ever interstellar voyage, thanks to his invention of the faster-than-light drive. His mission: Keep the TV viewers and sponsors happy! FTL meets Reality TV in this classic tale by science fiction master Murray Leinster. What new worlds will they see? What alien creatures will they meet? And most important, what will be the overnight ratings?

Members Reviews:

A Fun romp through 60's style outerspace.

I could almost see James Coburn (In Like Flint; The President's Analyst) as Cochrane. This story is on the borderline of tongue and cheek, but it is a fun romp in a classic style - land on it's own three fins - style of vehicle. These fellows go to the moon, the only out of world place man has colonized at the beggining of this story, to help an insecure adult child of a rich client get the recognition he desires from the world. This is accomplished with this young man's faking the invention of the "Dabney" field, a secret of the galaxy that helps propel these characters hundreds of light years away for the adventure of a lifetime! Now, don't expect any serious introspection here, and it's not quite "Hitchhiker's Guide" either, but it's a good way to get through a few hours. Also, the price is right!

Four Stars

Good read.

Two Stars

Did not like

Three Stars

Not what I was expecting

Fun Science Fiction that is really SCIENCE, in its own way.

Murray Leistner was no Proust, but he wrote in a clear easy style that carried a lot of stories to good reads. This is not his best work, but is is a good example of "inventor saves humanity." I think he really was influenced by Heinlein and needed some thing to write. But It is the right length and has the right mood for a fun time. In my opinion "The Pirates of Zan" is a better story.