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Title: Dark Is the Sun

Author: Philip José Farmer

Narrator: Rebecca Rogers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Release date: December 8, 2009

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies and its molten core long cooled. The sunless planet is nearing the day of final gravitational collapse in the surrounding galaxy. Mutations and evolution have led to a great disparity of life-forms, while civilization has resorted to the primitive. Young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived only to track down the wretched Yawtl who had stolen his precious Soul Egg. Joined by other victims of the same thief—the feisty Vana and the plant-man Sloosh—he sets off across a nightmare landscape of monster-haunted jungle and wetland. Their search leads them ultimately to the jeweled wasteland of the Shemibob, an ageless being from another star who knows Earth's end is near and holds the only key to escape.

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Title: Destroyer of Worlds

Series: #3 of The Ringworld Prequels

Author: Edward M. Lerner, Larry Niven

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 0 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

This book is a prequel to the Ringworld series, which is considered a classic of the science fiction genre. Two hundred years before the discovery of Ringworld The newly liberated humans of the Fleet of Worlds now face a new threat besides the sly Puppeteers: the Pak, a very smart and utterly ruthless species who are fleeing the exploding galactic core in an armada of ships at near light speed. The Pak are headed toward the Fleet of Worlds, having destroyed entire planets in their wake. Sigmund Ausfaller, who had been transported by the Puppeteers from Earth to the Fleet, is now sent with his human allies to reconnoiter and divert the Pak. A Pak is captured, but even a well-guarded Pak prisoner can be lethal. Sigmund and the human colonists must cope with many unpleasant surprises between the manipulative Puppeteers, the brilliant, violent Pak, and a new species called the Gw’oth, who seem to be allies but have their own agenda.

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Title: Galactic North

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Release date: September 28, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence beyond its natural limits has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down. The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space...because who's to say that humanity won't be next? Set in the Revelation Space universe, this is the first short story collection by the author who has been called 'one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists.' The eight stories included in Galactic North are 'Great Wall of Mars,' 'Glacial,' 'A Spy in Europa,' 'Weather,' 'Dilation Sleep,' 'Grafenwalder's Bestiary,' 'Nightingale,' and 'Galactic North.'

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Title: Transition

Author: Iain M. Banks

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Release date: September 23, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers? Among those operatives are Temudjin Oh, of mysterious Mongolian origins, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice under snow; Adrian Cubbish, a restlessly greedy City trader; and a nameless, faceless state-sponsored torturer known only as the Philosopher, who moves between time zones with sinister ease. Then there are those who question the Concern: the bandit queen Mrs. Mulverhill, roaming the worlds recruiting rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, under sedation and feigning madness in a forgotten hospital ward, in hiding from a dirty past. There is a world that needs help; but whether it needs the Concern is a different matter.

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Title: Falling Free

Series: #1988 of The Miles Vorkosigan Adventures

Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Release date: September 15, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong, and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. Safety Regs weren’t just the rule book he swore by; he’d helped write them. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was to teach welding to a secretly produced batch of humanoid workers genetically engineered with two additional arms instead of legs to be ideally suited to working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo hadn’t anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe nor in the rules. Leo adopted a thousand quaddies. Now all he had to do was teach them to be free.

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Title: House of Suns

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 14, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 17

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their thirty-second reunion but they have also brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibility of traitors in their midst. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them and why—before their ancient line is wiped out of existence forever.

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Title: The Sunless Countries: Book Four of Virga

Series: #4 of Virga

Author: Karl Schroeder

Narrator: Joyce Irvine, David Thorn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2009

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The Sunless Countries is the fourth novel in the Virga series of hard science fiction space opera adventures In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Pacquaea glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Pacquaea eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking. As its cold words reach from space to the city walls—and as outlying towns and travelers' ships start to mysteriously disappear—only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance. Even the city's most famous and exotic visitor, the sun lighter and hero named Hayden Griffin, refuses to turn aside from his commission to build a new sun for a foreign nation. He will not become the hero that Leal knows the city needs; so it is up to her to listen, and ultimately reply, to the voice of the worldwasp—because an astonishing disaster threatens Virga.

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Title: Absolution Gap

Series: #3 of Revelation Space

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 27 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 29, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence—and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety—or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse.

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Title: Star Trek Movie Tie-In

Author: Alan Dean Foster

Narrator: Zachary Quinto

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Release date: May 12, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 23

Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times bestselling novelization of J.J. Abrams' blockbuster Star Trek movie explores the origins of James T. Kirk, Spock, and the crew of the USS Enterprise from the original Star Trek series and how these iconic characters came together. One grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting for his independence, for a way out of a life that promised only indifference, aimlessness, and obscurity. The other grew up on the jagged cliffs of the harsh Vulcan desert, fighting for acceptance, for a way to reconcile the logic he was taught with the emotions he felt. In the far reaches of the galaxy, a machine of war bursts into existence in a place and time it was never meant to be. On a mission of retribution for the destruction of his planet, its half-mad captain seeks the death of every intelligent being, and the annihilation of every civilized world. Kirk and Spock, two completely different and unyielding personalities, must find a way to lead the only crew, aboard the only ship, that can stop him.

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Title: Shards of Honor

Series: #1 of The Cordelia Naismith Series

Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Release date: April 20, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 13

Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 7

Genres: Space Opera

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force was on a routine mission to study the life forms on an uninhabited, neutral planet. Little did she know that the enemy Barrayarans had chosen this place as their secret base for an as-yet undeclared war. Separated from her team, Cordelia is captured by Lord Aral Vorkosigan, the leader in charge of the Barrayaran mission. Aral himself is caught in a web of political intrigue that has led to a recent attempt on his life. As the two strangers struggle together across the unfriendly terrain of the foreign planet toward Aral’s ship, they discover that their greatest danger may be the romance inconveniently developing between them, on the brink of a war that will divide their peoples more strongly than ever. Recognized as the current exemplar of character-based science fiction, Bujold debuts her beloved Vorkosigan saga with this tale about the future parents of Miles Vorkosigan.