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Title: Your Shadow Half Remains

Author: Sunny Moraine

Narrator: Sunny Moraine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Release date: February 6, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

This program is read by the author. The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage. ONE LOOK CAN KILL. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive. But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Riley’s overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind. Somehow, in this world where other people can mean a gruesome, bloody death, Ellis makes her feel safe. As they grow closer, Riley’s grip on reality begins to slip and she can no longer fight her deepest desires. All Riley wants to do is look. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

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Title: First of His Kind

Series: #1 of Sidus

Author: Dan Sugralinov

Narrator: Brian Wiggins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Carter Riley's last stand on Mars was meant to be his end. Instead, it sparked a new beginning. In the 22nd century, Riley's life is upended by an alien attack that leaves him with a missing arm, a wiped memory, and a cryptic message imprinted on his subconscious. A decade of loss and desperation later, the unraveling of this message catapults him to Sidus—a galactic station where the universe's eclectic denizens trade, compete, and vie for power. In Sidus, notoriety comes with danger, and every enhancement is a double-edged sword. Betrayed by his species, his family dissolved, Carter Riley is the quintessential underdog turned unwilling pioneer. As the first human to interface with the legacy of an ancient race, he is thrust into the heart of the Sidus system—a game-like reality where his every move is monitored, and every level gained draws him deeper into a labyrinth of intrigue. Carter has the power to level humanity up by deciphering the legacy of an ancient civilization. Each level is more complex than the next and his very own life it's at risk, so will he want to go on for a race that betrayed him? The stakes couldn't be higher: decipher the past or be doomed to repeat it. Prepare for a journey where the line between player and legend blurs, in a universe where making contact has consequences beyond imagination.

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Title: The 14th Storm

Author: Daniel J. Mooney

Narrator: Simone Kirby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

The planet is ravaged by violent storms and failing crops and much of the world is now uninhabitable. Amidst a world of hungry and desperate people, the Department of Environmental Justice have been tasked with finding and executing those who have denied climate change. On the eve of the 14th storm, Broderick and Malley are asked to hunt the leader of a stirring rebellion, but something feels wrong. Broderick is shut off and interested only in exacting revenge. Malley is sceptical, and thinks their latest target is more politically-motivated than their employer is letting on. Their journey is upended by Fionnuala, a young and idealistic runaway who is hopeful for the future and desperate to save the target. Together, the three of them must learn to adapt to the climate and the polarised groups if they are to survive.

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Title: Rain: Rise of the Living Dead

Series: #1 of Undead Rain

Author: Shaun Harbinger

Narrator: John Keating

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Release date: January 23, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

The closest Alex Harley has ever been to a zombie is on his game console. Trapped in a dead end job and spending his weekends gaming, Alex is coasting through life at his own pace. But one fateful weekend, he agrees to go hiking with his pal Mike. Mike's girlfriend, Elena, is bringing her friend Lucy along and that is good enough reason for Alex to endure grueling hikes along a mountain range in Wales. The day the four friends hit the mountains, the outbreak begins. Day Z has arrived. Alex's radio receives mysterious reports of savage attacks in London before switching to the Emergency Broadcast System. The dead are rising, and the living must fight for survival. Fighting hordes of zombies and avoiding army patrols, Alex and his friends must reach the coast, and the safety of the sea. But then their problems will just begin . . .

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Title: The Future

Author: Catherine Leroux

Narrator: Karie Richards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023 • One of Tor.com’s Can’t Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews’ Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses • A Kirkus Review Work of Translated Fiction To Read Now • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own kingdom in the trees. In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance. When a strange intuition sends Gloria into the woods of Parc Rouge, where the city’s orphaned and abandoned children are rumored to have created their own society, she can’t imagine the strength she will find. A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain future, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love—together.

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Title: Green Shadow: Mackenzie Green Book Three

Series: #3 of Mackenzie Green

Author: Js Kennedy

Narrator: Charles Lawrence, Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Two paths, one fate. Lucan now knows who—and what—Mackenzie truly is. She is Terra, the supernatural boogieman whose tales of carnage are used by parents to bring wayward children in line. But she's captive, and the longer it takes to free her, the less choice he has—break the bond, or die. Mackenzie—thrust back into the nightmare of her childhood—learns the awful truth. Her captors have no mercy . . . and now they know how to force her to do their bidding. Her Achilles' heel. And they'll use that knowledge against her in the worst possible way. But as her hopes for rescue dwindle, she must use every bit of her wits and skills just to survive. Because even in darkness, light can be found. Mackenzie must hold out long enough for those she loves to free her, but every passing second brings her closer to crumbling under the weight of a past she can't outrun.

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Title: [German] - Der Prozess

Author: Franz Kafka

Narrator: Moritz Brendel

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Release date: January 15, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Der Prozess Ein Roman von Franz Kafka, gesprochen von Moritz Brendel. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Bankangestellte Josef K., gegen den ein Prozess anhängig ist. Das Gericht agiert im Geheimen, und bis zu seiner Hinrichtung erfährt K. nicht einmal den Grund der Anklage. Ort der Handlung ist eine fiktive deutsche Großstadt. Die Zeit der Handlung stimmt mit ihrer Entstehungszeit überein. Dennoch, die Welt, die er erschaffen hat, scheint weniger als andere literarische Welten an Zeit und Raum gebunden, obwohl sie fest in realistischer Schilderung fundiert ist und von dort immer wieder ins scheinbar Phantastische schweift. Das gilt für kein Werk Kafkas mehr als für den Roman 'Der Prozess', eines der meistinterpretierten Bücher der Weltliteratur. 'Der Process' (so die ursprüngliche Schreibweise) gehört zu denjenigen Werken Kafkas, bei denen sich ein unmittelbarer biografischer Anlass nachweisen lässt: die Auflösung der Verlobung mit Felice Bauer. Kafka hat diese Trennung vor allem deshalb als traumatisch erlebt, weil sie sich in Anwesenheit zweier Zeuginnen abspielte, die ihm im Hotel ›Askanischer Hof‹ in Berlin wie Geschworene gegenüber saßen. Dass sich hier dem Juristen Kafka die Metaphorik des Gerichts aufdrängte, ist naheliegend. Anfang August 1914, etwa vier Wochen nach dem »Gerichtshof« in Berlin und eine Woche nach Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs, begann Kafka mit der Niederschrift des Romans. Es war nach eineinhalb Jahren Pause der zweite große kreative Schub, den Kafka trotz der kriegsbedingt widrigen Umstände bis an die Grenzen seiner physischen Kraft auszunutzen suchte…Ende Januar 1915 riss die Konzentration jedoch ab, und Kafka gelang es trotz mehrerer Anläufe nicht mehr, den Roman zu vollenden. (Zitiert nach S. Fischer Verlag GmbH) Populär wurde sein Roman 'Der Prozess', nicht zuletzt auch durch die Verfilmung von Orson Welles (1962), mit Anthony Perkins in der Rolle des Angeklagten. Die Reihe words&music/audiolab verbindet ausgewählte literarische Texte aus aller Welt mit emotionaler Musik. Es entstehen vielleicht bisher ungeahnte Zugänge zum Textverständnis oder eröffnen im Zusammenspiel zwischen Inhalt, Klang und Form ganz neue Möglichkeiten des eigenen genussvollen Hörerlebens. Covergestaltung: U.O.R.G. Lutz Eberle, Stuttgart, unter Verwendung eines Fotos von Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-B2- 2726-1]. Musik & Sounds: freesound.com. Schlussmusik: Sonata Pathetique op.13. Adagio Cantabile, von Ludwig van Beethoven, gespielt von Carlos Carty. Über den Sprecher: Moritz Brendel lebt mit seiner Familie in Stuttgart und arbeitet auch als Hörbuchsprecher und für TV Dokus. 2001 absolvierte er eine Schauspielausbildung an der HfMdK Frankfurt am Main, war etwa 10 Jahre an mehreren Theatern u.a. am Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater der Altstadt, Hamburger Kammerspiele und Studio Theater Stuttgart. Als Dialogbuchautor und Synchronregisseur konnte er sich mittlerweile u.a. mit internationalen Filmen wie 'Inside' mit Willem Dafoe auch einen Namen machen. Mit den beiden Erzählungen 'Die Versuchung der stillen Veronika' und 'Die Vollendung der Liebe' und des Vortrags 'Über die Dummheit' von Robert Musil ist Moritz Brendel bereits mehrfach als Sprecher bei der hoerbuchedition words and music zu hören.

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Title: [German] - Verlust - Die Letzten, Band 2 (ungekürzt)

Author: Oliver Pätzold

Narrator: Philipp Engelhardt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Release date: January 12, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Ein Jahr nach dem Ausbruch einer verheerenden Pandemie finden Robert, seine Kinder Hanna und Alexander sowie Sarah Zuflucht in einer Burggemeinschaft. Doch das Schicksal ist unbarmherzig: Wasser wird zur Mangelware und eine feindliche Gruppe belagert die Festung. Um dem drohenden Tod zu entgehen, müssen die Bewohner fliehen. Während sich Hanna, Alexander und Robert auf ihrer Flucht gemeinsam durch eine sterbende Welt kämpfen, muss Sarah auf sich allein gestellt ihre größten Ängste besiegen. Denn sie ist nicht die Einzige, die überleben will. Und sie alle werden von einem neuen, unsichtbaren Feind bedroht ...

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Title: [German] - Der Vampir, Die komplette zweite Staffel

Author: Oliver Döring

Narrator: Esra Meral, Amelie Plaas-Link, Rieke Werner, Reinhart Kuhnert, Wolfgang Pampel, Melanie Isakowitz, Thomas Nero Wolff, Tim Knauer, Douglas Welbat, Claudia Urbschat-Mingues, Michael Pan, Bernd Vollbrecht

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Release date: January 12, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Der Vampir - Die komplette zweite Staffel: Seit Wochen jagt Scotland Yard die 'Bestie von London', aber der wahnsinnige Frauenmörder ist einfach nicht zu fassen. Bis jetzt! Ein kleiner Fehler bringt D.I. Malicia Bennet auf seine Spur. Doch anstatt, dass der Horror mit einem Showdown endet, beginnt für Bennet nun eine Odyssee des Grauens. Ist der Mörder nur Teil eines viel größeren, schrecklichen Komplotts? Und wofür hat er das ganze Blut aufbewahrt? Fortan entwickelt sich für D.I. Bennet nichts, wie sie es erwartet hätte. Und schon bald muss sie sich fragen, ob all das Grauen, das ihr widerfährt, Zufall ist - oder Vorherbestimmung.

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Title: We

Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Narrator: Trevor O'hare

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Release date: January 10, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921.  The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It is believed that the novel had a huge influence on the works of Orwell and Huxley, as well as on the emergence of the genre of dystopia.   A few hundred years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a journal that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship. Like all other citizens of One State, D-503 lives in a glass apartment building and is carefully watched by the secret police, or Bureau of Guardians. D-503's lover, O-90, has been assigned by One State to visit him on certain nights. She is considered too short to bear children and is deeply grieved by her state in life. O-90's other lover and D-503's best friend is R-13, a State poet who reads his verse at public executions...