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Title: The Fringe

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

In a postapocalyptic America, Timothy Carpenter is a teacher in a farming community. When he discovers the farm foreman and other men are stealing food, he reports them to the authorities - an action that could cost him his life.

This story is included in Orson Scott Card's collection The Folk of the Fringe.

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Title: Cyberabad Days

Author: Ian McDonald

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

The world: 'Cyberabad' is the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water-wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity and a population where males out-number females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas.

Cyberabad is a collection of 7 stories:

"The Little Goddess". Hugo nominee Best Novella 2006. In near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood.

"The Djinn's Wife". Hugo nominee and BSFA short fiction winner 2007A minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence but is it a marriage of heaven and hell?

"The Dust Assassin". Feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process.

"Jasbir and Sujay go Shaadi". Love and marriage should be plain-sailing when your matchmaker is a soap-star artificial intelligence.

"Sanjeev and Robotwallah". What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over?

"Kyle meets the River". A young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of 'nation building' in the early days of a new country.

"Vishnu at the Cat Circus". A genetically improved 'Brahmin' child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.

Members Reviews:

Brilliant performance

A wonderful followup for this series, and absolutely brilliantly performed. Consists of some short stories and novellas connecting to the story in the first book of the series.

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Title: The Howling Tower

Subtitle: A Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Adventure

Author: Fritz Leiber

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

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Title: Jokester

Author: Isaac Asimov

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Where do jokes come from? Using a mighty computer called "Multivavac", Noel Meyerhof, a Grand Master, asks two questions of Multivac after feeding it all the jokes he knows to find where they came from. Would you believe extraterresterials?

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Title: Water to Wine

Subtitle: A METAtropolis Story

Author: Mary Robinette Kowal

Narrator: Kate Mulgrew

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Emma Chavet and her father are winemakers who stubbornly cling to the old ways. But when an unwelcome offer comes to buy their business, they must face the new realities of a Green society.

This story was originally published in the Audie Award-winning METAtropolis: Cascadia.

Members Reviews:

Nice story, love Kate!

I could listen to Kate Mulgrew recite the alphabet and it would be amazing. The added bonus is that this is a good story. And I'm enjoying a glass of wine as a result of it.

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Title: Tensegrity

Subtitle: A METAtropolis Story

Author: Tobias S. Buckell

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Deep in his past, Reg helped create the orbiting environment of Skyholme. Now, he spends his days talking to his dead wife, his genetic alterations extending his weary existence. Until one day when he's asked to investigate a murder like any other because the victim is Skyholme itself.

This story was first published in METAtropolis: Green Space, the third entry in Audible's original series.

Members Reviews:

3 stars for ideas

The writing was good - ideas and characters briefly but believably introduced. But I hate getting into a book and have it end when the real plot starts. Not sure I'm going to be reading others. Too frustrating

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Title: Green and Dying

Subtitle: A METAtropolis Story

Author: Elizabeth Bear

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Jack, Kirii, and Fade are industrial spies hired to steal a genome. But when they board the Seastead Long, even these experienced operatives aren't prepared for what they find.

This story was first published in METAtropolis: Green Space, the third entry in Audible's original series.

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Title: Silly Asses

Author: Isaac Asimov

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

As the people of Earth develop atomic power, they are recorded as having achieved maturity by the Galactic keeper of records. But when the keeper learns that they have not yet penetrated space, and that they test their atomic weapons on the planetary surface, he strikes them from the record, commenting that Earth people are 'Silly Asses'.

Members Reviews:

Nice commentary

Good commentary on the stupid things we do w/ tech. Well worth the read. recomended.

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Title: Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand

Author: Vonda N. McIntyre

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

In a post-apocalyptic world, the young healer Snake ventures into unknown lands during her proving year. Her genetically engineered rattlesnake and cobra provide vaccines and medicines, while the rare alien dreamsnake eases pain and suffering.

Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand won SFWA's Nebula Award. It is the first chapter of Dreamsnake, which won the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.

Editorial Reviews:

"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" constitutes the first chapter of Vonda N. McIntyre's out-of-print science fiction classic and Hugo Award-winning novel Dreamsnake (1978). The story introduces the novel's heroine, a gifted female healer named Snake, whose medicine is aided by genetically engineered serpents. McIntyre is known for her strong female leads, especially because she wrote during a time when sci-fi was dominated by male authors. Only two Hugo Award-winning books before Dreamsnake had featured female protagonists. Performer Dina Pearlman honors the legacy of the story with her proud, strong, and commanding delivery that easily convinces a reader that Snake can surmount any obstacle in her path.

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Title: Clockwork Fairy Tales

Subtitle: A Collection of Steampunk Fairy Tales

Author: Stephen L. Antczak, James C. Bassett

Narrator: Anne Flosnik, Kaleo Griffith, Robertson Dean, John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-13

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 42 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes", New York Times best-selling author K. W. Jeter's "La Valse" forges a fable about love, the decadence of technology, and a gala dance that becomes the obsession of a young engineer - and the doom of those who partake in it. In "You Will Attend Until Beauty Awakens", national best-selling author and John W. Campbell Award winner Jay Lake tells the story of Sleeping Beauty - and how the princess was conceived in deception, raised in danger, and rescued by a prince who may be less than valiant. The tale of "The Tinderbox" takes a turn into the surreal when a damaged young soldier comes into possession of an intricate, treacherous treasure and is drawn into a mission of mercy in national best-selling author Kat Richardson's "The Hollow Hounds". In "The Kings of Mount Golden", Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Paul Di Filippo tells the story of a young man's search for his heritage and a mechanical marvel that lies at the heart of a sinister pact in this fascinating take on "The King of the Golden Mountain".

Members Reviews:

Magical

This is a selection of some of the greatest fairy tales of the world, with steampunk elements added in for good measure. It never feels intrusive toward the spirit of the story, and in fact sometimes adds a much needed boost to its atmospheric buildup.

YAS!

If you could sum up Clockwork Fairy Tales in three words, what would they be?

Steampunk meets Grimm

Which scene was your favorite?

retellings .. all of them

Any additional comments?

The baba Yaga story especially was my favorite.

Enjoyed the creative science

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It was a fun listen. If you like Victorian age technology with cogs and animatrons, you'll love this book.

An aquired taste I'm sure but I had fun

The tales and the take on them were a thrill. The acting wasn't too bad either but at times they hurt the mood of the stories. Still, an excellent collection of excellent tales.