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Title: Shadows in Flight

Series: #5 of The Shadow Series

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Emily Janice Card, Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Release date: January 17, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 32

Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 13

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel... At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten--a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come. For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it, they will find both death and wonders--the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship's colony. Shadows in Flight is the fifth novel in Orson Scott Card's Shadow Series.

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Title: Prelude to Foundation

Series: #6 of Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 39

Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.  Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire . . . the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.

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Title: Foundation's Edge

Series: #4 of Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.51 of Total 59

Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 11

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The fourth novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious, and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all—and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation—a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian—set out in search of the mythical planet Earth . . . and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone—or something—outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe.

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Title: Forward the Foundation

Series: #7 of Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 27

Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The second of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory—and with it the future of the Galaxy. Among those seeking to turn psychohistory into the greatest weapon known to man are a populist political demagogue, the weak-willed Emperor Cleon I, and a ruthless militaristic general. In his last act of service to humankind, Hari Seldon must somehow save his life’s work from their grasp as he searches for its true heirs—a search that begins with his own granddaughter and the dream of a new Foundation.

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Title: Foundation and Earth

Series: #5 of Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 45 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 40

Ratings of Narrator: 2.09 of Total 11

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The fifth novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all—and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know. Trevize believes the answer lies at the site of humanity’s roots: fabled Earth . . . if it still exists. For no one is sure where the planet of Gaia’s first settlers is to be found in the immense wilderness of the Galaxy. Nor can anyone explain why no record of Earth has been preserved, no mention of it made anywhere in Gaia’s vast world-memory. It is an enigma Trevize is determined to resolve, and a quest he is determined to undertake, at any cost.

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Title: Consider Phlebas

Author: Iain M. Banks

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.65 of Total 17

Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 9

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

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Title: The Player of Games

Series: #2 of Culture

Author: Iain M. Banks

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 13

Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . .a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life -- and very possibly his death.

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Title: Leviathans of Jupiter

Series: #13 of The Grand Tour Series

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir, Cassandra Campbell, Samantha Eggar, Rosalyn Landor, A Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

What secrets lurk in the depths of Jupiter’s oceans? In Ben Bova’s novel Jupiter, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter’s planet-wide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant’s team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet’s depths. However, one of Jupiter’s native creatures—a city-sized leviathan—saved the doomed ship. This creature’s act convinced Grant that they were intelligent, but he lacked scientific proof. Now, several years later, Grant prepares a new expedition to prove it once and for all. The new team faces dangers from both the hostile environment and from humans who will do anything to make sure the mission is a failure—even if it means murdering the entire crew.

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Title: Venus

Series: #17 of The Grand Tour Series

Author: Ben Bova

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Release date: January 13, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system, its ground hot enough to melt aluminum, its air pressure high enough to crush spacecraft landers like tin cans, its atmosphere a choking mix of poisonous gases. This is where the frail young Van Humphries must go—or die trying. Years before, Van’s older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus. Van’s father has always hated him for being the one to survive. Now, his father is offering a ten-billion-dollar prize to the first person who lands on Venus and returns his oldest son’s remains. To everyone’s surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything—our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.

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Title: Cryoburn

Series: #2010 of The Miles Vorkosigan Adventures

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove—he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp—an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future—attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter, Miles, to check it out. On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of “generation” past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to rewrite her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning “Don’t mess with the secretary.” Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping—something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle—of trouble.