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Title: Vala Staffwielder

Author: Michael Angel, Devlin Church

Narrator: Bill Royal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-12

Publisher: Banty Hen Publishing

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

The three sister-moons rose from their sleeping place and into the clear winter sky.

A rustling came from the bracken near me. If I hesitated, I would fail my test. I would disgrace my family.

That was not the way of a Lupine. I drew my knife. Two feet of serrated steel slid silently from its leather sheath. My ears flattened.

From the shadows crept the ebony-furred, low-slung shape of the panthorr. Fearsome eyes gleamed in the dark.

My test.

Mawla, the young Lupine warrior of the Ett of the Grays, takes her tribe's test to ascend to the role of High Priestess. But a completely new surprise awaits her this night.

For her destiny lies not with the defeat of a deadly predator. Instead, it involves the rescue of a pair of aliens. Aliens who travel among the stars, ones whose offspring will forever change Mawla's future.

"Vala Staffwielder" is a short-story prequel to the sci-fi western novel The Adventures of Amanda Love.

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Title: Predators and Prey

Subtitle: A Three Story Collection

Author: J. D. Cutler, Michael Angel

Narrator: Katrina Carmony, Joe Matic

Format: Unabridged

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-12

Publisher: Banty Hen Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Michael Angel and J.D. Cutler present three stories about predators... and whether their quarry survives.

Join the hunt as a professional assassin tries desperately to escape the consequences of his hit, while trapped in the men's restroom in the Vatican.

Meet a wildland firefighter who must use his mysterious powers to save his crew from a roaring inferno.

And see if a mercenary game hunter can collect his final prize - a woman with the most powerful psychic ability ever seen.

Included in this three-story collection: "An Assassin in the Vatican", "The Most Wanted Woman", and "A Talent for Fire".

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Title: The First

Author: Scott Nicholson

Narrator: Amy Gramour

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-12

Publisher: Haunted Computer Books

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of 11 dark fantasy, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and science fiction stories from award-winning author Scott Nicholson. These stories visit undiscovered countries and shadowy avenues of the heart, lands and times where night never ends and matter doesn't matter. Features the six-story Aeropagan cycle where time is literally money.

Nicholson, a 1999 Writers of the Future award winner and Stoker Award finalist, has published 12 novels, including the best-selling thrillers Liquid Fear, Disintegration, and The Red Church and the comic books Grave Conditions, Dirt, and Little Shivers. He's sold more than 350,000 books worldwide.

Critic Reviews:

"A literary shadow land between Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman." (Sharyn McCrumb, the Ballad books)

"Always surprises and always entertains." (Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero)

"A fresh and true voice that will affect you, disturb you, enrage you, or make you laugh." (Kevin J. Anderson, Dune series)

Members Reviews:

Fifteen Short Stories - Sure to Delight

If you're searching for Nicholson books and reading reviews, you'll no doubt run across my name. I'm making it my mission to read everything this author writes, and in appreciation for the hours of enjoyment received, I always try to leave a review.

This collection of short stories is different in that the variety is astounding. Many authors write in one genre, and that's that. But there seems to be no end to the variety of genres Scott can and does write, and write well. This collection is perfect as an introduction, or for times when you don't want to get embroiled in one of his longer books (those you simply can't put down). Even in his short stories, the prose continues to delight:

"Her bones rattled like a cage of sticks, her flesh a leathery prison, her body as light as the birds that picked over the battlegrounds at sunset. Ibeja accepted the mating the same way she accepted the dying moon, the gray emptiness of the fields, and the dust-choked riverbeds that stretched bleakly beyond the village." (The Way of All Flesh)

Seriously? And that's just in the first chapter of the first story, and 14 more to go. The stories are separated into categories, with a linked table of contents for easy navigation. Phantasmia - 7 stores and Dystopia - 6 stories; with an Afterword and a Bonus Story. If "The First" is your first Nicholson, it surely won't be the last.

Good Author. Have most of his Books

Good Author. Have most of his Books!!! Can't wait to read more!!!

FIRST, dont miss this.

My new life on Facebook and the meeting of so many talents has led me to the writing of Scott Nicholson, a man who's writings I admire for the handicraft placed into the writing. His collection of short stories raised me to a new level and a new appreciation of his talents. These stories seduce, entwine, and lead you into the possible future of the human race. Divided into two sections of Phantasmia & Dystopia, they give you a diary of doomsday and a world falling apart, a beautiful and inspiring cathedral song dripping with blood, a sculpturer offering his highest bid to human art, a stained glass picture of Mother Mary and those she loves, tellers who measure your life with no possibility of overdraft, & those lost "on the wire" preferring that which could be.

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Title: A Thousand Ways to Love

Author: Tami Sue Snow

Narrator: Amber Grayson Vayle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-12

Publisher: Lyrical Lip Service, LLC.

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

A Thousand Ways to Love: A Vampire Romance Story

She can't escape the stare of the poison-eyed boy, and she's not sure she wants to. The intensity of his gaze calls to her, consumes her. Why is she drawn to his stare, compelled to give herself to him? And how, when he finally moves to take her to himself, is she somehow powerless to resist him, even knowing that to give in to his advances is to lay her soul bare before him, to expose her every secret?

Warning: This audiobook contains horrific imagery and unsettling and graphic situations that make it appropriate only for mature audiences.

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Title: Hotter Than Hell

Author: Kim Harrison (editor)

Narrator: Teresa Willis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-12

Publisher: Christy Mirabal

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 90 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Beyond the boundaries of the everyday is an unseen realm where anything you imagine is possible. Your demon lover is waiting for you in the shadows, ready to fulfill your secret wishes and most dangerous fantasies. Here passion has a face and form both titillating and terrifying - and love has teeth and claws. Get ready to give in to your craving for something exquisitely dark...and different.

Hotter Than Hell gathers together a baker's dozen of today's boldest and best authors of supernatural fiction and paranormal romance in a breathtaking anthology that blends black magic with red-hot desire. From the tantalizing tale of a conflicted psychic vampire driven by a powerful, savage love to the strange saga of a Greek warrior woman battling to save the world, these are stories outside the limits, as hypnotic as the full moon...and hotter than the sun.

Members Reviews:

Romance not paranormal

What would have made Hotter Than Hell better?

For me, more story line less sex.

Has Hotter Than Hell turned you off from other books in this genre?

I think this book belongs in romance section not paranormal

What about Teresa Williss performance did you like?

Performance very good.The reason I finished book.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

When not in a long drawn out sex passage stories were ok.

Any additional comments?

My fault. Purchased collection because I really like author Kim Harrison. Figured this would be like charlaine Harris collections. Harris collections have Introduced me to a great many of the authors I follow today.

I Preordered kim harrisons next story, but Very disappointed with this collection.

give it 2 stars ......

I am rarely so harsh on a book, but this one greatly disappointed me. The narration was terrible, not that she didn't have a pleasant enough voice, but the characterizations and the flow of the dialoge were so lacking. There was no difference between character's voices, male or female, young or old, etc.....just reading, not storytelling, and very irritating reading at that. The stories are rushed, more in an effort to squeeze a plot, mostly very thin and lacking plots, inbetween what was sad to mediocre sex scenes. Worth my credit, No, worth the cash, No.... Enough said

Believe the reviews.

I read the reviews prior to ordering this complications of authors. I am currently reading Kim Harrison's 'The Hollows' series. It is listed as book 4.5. This book has nothing to do with the series except that it has a super natural being in it. It's an irritating story that is a standalone with none of the characters in our books. it does show what happened to the wish Ivy got a few books prior. ivy should have used the wish because it was wasted on this girl. I'm gonna ask for my credit back.

Worst narrator

This narrator is the worst I've ever listened to. The stories were pretty good. A few were just boring, but overall I would have loved listening to this if it wasn't for the narrator. She changes volumes randomly throughout the story so you have to crank it up only to be deafened when she decides to start borderline yelling. And she takes words like "sweater" and says them in the weirdest ways possible. "Swa-teer" She has random pauses, and just overall doesn't get how to narrate.

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Title: Love's Origins

Subtitle: A Five-Story Collection

Author: Devlin Church, Michael Angel

Narrator: Bill Royal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-12

Publisher: Banty Hen Publishing

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Five tales of science fiction set in the wild-west universe of Amanda Love!

Plunge into the rough-and-tumble world of the Galactic Marshals to see how the toughest lawman on the Fringe got his start. Watch how a supernatural vision earned Amanda a lifelong friend and loyal alien bodyguard. And witness the terrible betrayal that sets two best friends into a cycle of murder and bloody revenge.

Welcome to Fringe Space, partner. Keep your blaster handy, 'cause you might need it.

Short Story Contents:

"Cantaloupes and Wild Shoshone"

"Vala Staffwielder"

"Love's Labors and Lies"

"Cyber Son"

"Little Girl Lost"

Please note: this product contains some material also found in the Fringe Space book, A Shovelful of Stars.

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Title: Humanity's Edge

Author: Tamara Wilhite

Narrator: Alexander Masters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-12

Publisher: Wilhite Write

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

What makes one human? This is a question which has been pondered for centuries. Author Tamara Wilhite has assembled a collection of short stories that make the Twilight Zone seem dull in comparison in order to help the listener further ponder this question. Set in mankind's future, Humanity's Edge is a precursor to bigger and better things to come from this talented science-fiction author.

Members Reviews:

Strap on your Seat Belt for an Exhilarating Excursion into the Unknown!

Strap in your seat belt for Humanity's Edge by Tamara Wilhite. Her imagination will take you on many excursions as you read each one of her Sci-Fi short stories...this collection of 13 short stories will spark your imagination. Here they are:

New Beginnings

"You can't repeat the past, even when you have a carbon copy."

An excellent story about a clone that remembers of a time when she was not a clone and the person they called Father trying to solve their new lives together.

Church of the Called

"Crazy cults may be more than they seem."

An investigator encounters a cult upon investigation of a felon's encounter that drove him into the lunatic asylum. This cult controls people's minds through telepathy and mind control. Would you keep your mouth shut if threatened with a lifetime of insanity?

Breathing Room

"A sigh of relief could be your last breath."

Earth now has become a life of gas masks and lung ailments with only a fraction of Earth's population that survives a scientific blunder meant to control earthquakes. Imagine if you will countless activated volcanoes spewing their poisonous gases throughout the Earth making Earth look like Venus.

Survival of the Fittest

"Does survival of the fittest always mean survival of the species?"

In a world where humanoid species have split how far would you go to help someone that is not human?

Banking on Hope

"Don't offer to help unless you know EXACTLY what their asking for."

Kenji, a futuristic lab technician is tricked, drugged and turned into a living non human species that will provide the needed enzymes and bone marrow for the invading species to survive.

Double Trouble

"What if your problems really WERE your father's fault?"

A cloned son is attempting to sue a father for the bad health effects of being chronologically, 17, biologically, 22 and genetically 67 years old.

The Hunter and The Hunted

"Better ability doesn't make for better people."

One telepath serial killer is stopped dead in his tracks by another telepath highly skilled in telekinesis, so a battle of the minds ensues.

The Ghost of Tedjai

"Ghosts come of all forms, and of all worlds."

Could you live on some distant planet battling its inhabitants to share natural resources the planet has to offer?

Moment of Humanity

"Humanity's children will only survive if they can find something in common."

About a battle between humanoids and cyborgs over survival.

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Title: Playing Solitaire and Other Stories

Author: Mark Shainblum

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett, John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-12

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc.

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Three outstanding pieces of short fiction from award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Mark Shainblum, collected for the first time.

"Playing Solitaire" - Rachel Steinberg was just a nice Jewish girl from suburban Montreal. She was never really Solitaire. She never asked for superhuman powers, nor the relentless, grinding cycle of violence and alienation that came with them. Rachel allowed herself a glimmer of hope when Carl said he loved her, when he swore up and down that her secrets didn't scare him. But that was before he saw her glowing like the north star, before he ran in terror just like everyone before him. Probably not the ideal moment for an omnipotent, 3000-year-old evil slumbering under the Island of Montreal to awaken and wonder what it should do first.

"The Art of Solitude" - Mary-Ann became desperate when her history-player boyfriend took up bartending. Nobody with a scintilla of self-respect drank alcohol anymore, it was just so...so...industrial. Not only was Quent turning their dogs into alcoholics and their apartment into a seedy dive, he was getting in the way of her art. Something had to give, and in this case, it was the laws of physics. Mary-Ann purchased a top-of-the-line Solitude fold-heart, and retreated to her own private universe to paint in peace. What could possibly disturb her there?

"The Break Inspector" - Missouri dirt-farmer John Gray had never regretted a kind act in his life, although truth be told, he would have had little enough to regret in any one of his 55 years. But oh how he wished the milk of human kindness had been completely drained from him that terrible, cursed night. With every fiber of his being, with every drop of blood in his body, John Gray wished he had never found the mysterious stranger on his prairie. "The Break Inspector" is an unofficial sequel to Mark Twain's "A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage", and a top-ten finalist in the International Mark Twain Writing Competition, 2001.

Critic Reviews:

"People have argued that it will be impossible to imagine what life would be like on the other side of a Singularity because humanity will be so fundamentally altered as to not even be human anymore. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Especially if it gives us excellent tales like 'The Art of Solitude'." (James Palmer, Tangent Online)

Members Reviews:

Original approach to an old concept

Playing Solitaire takes an original approach to an old concept (which shall remain unnamed to avoid spoiling the surprise). Shainblum builds tension and interest in his characters, then pops a surprise on everyone. It's a well-written, well thought-out story.

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Title: Changer of Worlds

Subtitle: Worlds of Honor #3

Author: David Weber, Eric Flint

Narrator: Allyson Johnson, Victor Bevine, Lauren Fortgang, L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 293 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Dame Honor Harrington - starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess - has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest... and also from being a national best seller (Ashes of Victory).

But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of lives, not all of them human. And their actions affect her - a lesson "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" learns years before rising to command rank, when a desperate battle against "pirates" who aren't quite what they seem begins her brilliant career. Closer to home, in "Changer of Worlds" a secret that the alien treecats have kept from their human friends for hundreds of years is about to come out... and completely change the relationship between the two species forever.

Meanwhile, Eric Flint weighs in with "From the Highlands". Honor can't be everywhere, so when the People's Republic of Haven tries to stage a political assassination on Earth, Anton Zilwicki - husband of one of the Star Kingdom's most revered military martyrs, and father of a young woman who is clearly a chip off the old block - steps into the breach... and takes the opportunity to settle some old scores along the way. And finally, Esther McQueen and Oscar Saint-Just square off for their final confrontation in Noveau Paris in "Nightfall".

Members Reviews:

Great to learn more about Honor Harrington

This is a collection of short stories that fill in some of the gaps in the Honor Harrington series. You must have read the series or else you will be lost. The first book in the HH series starts with Honor as captain of her own ship. This story tells of Honors "snotty" cruise as a Midshipman. We can see the beginnings of her development into a great naval officer. Glad that they kept Allyson Johnson narrating the story of Midshipman Harrington. Johnson is the voice of Honor Harrington. The short story about the tree cats tells about when Harrington returns to Sphinx and Nimitz takes Samantha to meet his clan and encourage some of them to follow him and his kittens to Grayson. In the series it never explained how they got the other tree cats to come with them.

"From the Highlands" tells the early story of Anton Zilwicki and daughter Helen. In the series we saw the death of Anton's wife Captain Helen Zilwicki who is escorting a convoy of Manticor ships (one carries her husband and child) when the PEEP hit the convoy.

Helen (daughter) is kidnapped in this story (often referred to in the series) and the Countess or Tor, Anton, Jeremy X and Victor Cachat rescue her. We are introduced to Berry and Lars who was featured in another sub-series.

The last short story is about Admiral McQueen"s over throw of Oscar St Just's PEEP government.

All stories fill in information to the main series and also leave room for lots more stories.

All the narrators did a good job.

The Eric Flint story alone is worth your credit.

This is another anthology in David Weber's Honorverse. If you are unfamiliar with the Honorverse, this is not the place to start. "On Basilisk Station" is the book to start with. I will review the stories individually:

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Title: The Service of the Sword

Subtitle: Worlds of Honor #4

Author: David Weber, Jane Lindskold, Timothy Zahn, John Ringo, Victor Mitchell, Eric Flint

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins, Khristine Hvam, Allyson Johnson, L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 304 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Readers and listeners can't get enough of Honor Harrington and her world, and here David Weber is again, accompanied by some of the top science-fiction writers in the field - including John Ringo, Eric Flint, Timothy Zahn, and Weber himself - with new adventures of the best starship commander in the galaxy, and explorations of previously uncharted corners of her universe. It's a party - and you're invited!

Members Reviews:

Another great Honorverse book

I've enjoyed most of the short story compilation for the Honorverse series including this book.

1) Promised Land by Jane Lindskold. The Story of Michael Winston's snotty cruise reveals how he met Judith. Good back ground for later events in the main series.

2.) With One Stone by Timothy Zahn. This is a story with Honor as Captain of a heavy Cruiser Fearless on escort duty. Rafe Cardones is detached from Fearless to chase down a mystery ship. This is a free standing story but in the main Honor series she does do a lot of convoy escort work.

3) A Ship Named Francis by John Ringo-- I know this was suppose to be funny but I just could not stand it. To me it was a terrible story.

4) Let's Go to Prague by John Ringo. Mullins and Gonzalves are 2 members of covert insertion team working for ONI. This is also a stand alone story but gives back ground to the work of Admiral Patricia Givens spy program.

5) Fanatic by Eric Flint. Introduction into Victor Cachat who is a Peep spy and trouble shooter. Cachat plays big role in the later Honor books and in the sub series Wages of Sin.

6) The Service of the Sword by David Weber. A substantial story about Abigail Hearns' snotty cruise aboard RMS Gauntlet. Abigail is the first female Grayson to graduate for Saganami. She is mentored by Honor. Abigail goes on to star in "Shadow of Saganami". I really enjoyed the background provided by this story. I think I enjoyed this story the most in this book.

Can not get enough of Honor and her world.

I liked every story in this collection.

PROMISED LAND by Jane Lindskold

I read this story when it originally came out, and I recall that I liked it, but it was fairly grim. I wasnt feeling like listening to anything grim this week, so I skipped it. However, it is the story of a girl who is kidnaped and enslaved by Masadans. Queen Elizabeths younger brother Michael gets in on the action here.

WITH ONE STONE by Timothy Zahn

On the Honerverse time line, this takes place between On Basilisk Station and The Honor of the Queen. Honor has been given command of a new starship to replace the one destroyed in On Basilisk Station, and she and her crew are being sent on anti-piracy duty in Silesian space. However, Honor isnt the main character in this story. Rafe Cardones is. The story is well written. My rating: 4 stars

A SHIP NAMED FRANCIS by John Ringo and Victor Mitchell

This story is short. It is also horrifyingly funny. My Rating: 3.5 stars

LETS GO TO PRAGUE by John Ringo

This is what happens when two hotshot secret agents make their vacation plans while under the influence. It is funny and well written. My rating: 3.5 stars

FANATIC by Eric Flint

As I was listening to this today, I kept thinking what a good writer Eric Flint is. I really like this story. It tells the story of Victor Cachat.