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Title: Anniversary Day

Subtitle: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 1 (Retrieval Artist Universe)

Author: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Narrator: Jay Snyder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 369 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Four years ago, a bomb destroyed part of the dome protecting Armstrong, the largest city on the Moon. Now, as the city celebrates its survival with an event it calls Anniversary Day, a larger threat looms - one that begins with the murder of the mayor, and spreads across the moon itself.

Even with every new technological device at her disposal, Moon Security Chief Noelle DiRicci can't stay ahead of the unfolding disaster. As the situation gets worse, Retrieval Artist Miles Flint hurries to his daughter's school to protect her. And Detective Bartholomew Nyquist finds himself in the middle of everything, from that first bombing to the Anniversary Day crisis itself.

Fan-favorite series narrator Jay Snyder is back to lend his voice to this thriller with several mysteries at its core. Anniversary Day is Kristine Kathryn Rusch's most exciting Retrieval Artist novel yet and available exclusively through Audible for the first two months of its release.

Critic Reviews:

Some of the best science fiction ever written. (Orson Scott Card)

[One of] the top ten greatest science fiction detectives of all time. (io9.com)

"Rusch mounts hard-boiled noir on an expansive sf background with great panache." (Booklist)

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Title: In the Garden of Iden

Subtitle: A Novel of the Company, Book 1

Author: Kage Baker

Narrator: Janan Raouf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 175 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The first novel of Kage Bakers critically acclaimed, much-loved series, the Company, introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past.

In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus, Inc. One of these is Mendoza, the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden. But while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. And that love sounds great bells of change which will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of the Company.

Breathtakingly detailed and written with great aplomb, In the Garden of Iden is a contemporary classic of the science-fiction genre.

Critic Reviews:

Fasten your seat beltyoure in for a wild ride. (Gardner Dozois, editor of The Years Best Science Fiction)

Easily on a level with Le Guins or Resnicks first novels. (New York Review of Science Fiction)

Clever[with] a generous dollop of antic wit. (San Francisco Chronicle)

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Title: Omnitopia Dawn

Subtitle: Omnitopia #1

Author: Diane Duane

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 140 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In an increasingly wired and computer-friendly world, massive multiplayer online games have become the ultimate form of entertainment. And the most popular gaming universe of all is Omnitopia, created by genius programmer Dev Logan. For millions of people around the world, Omnitopia is an obsession, a passionate pastime, almost a way of life. But there's a secret to Omnitopia, one that Dev would give his life to protect: the game isn't just a program or a piece of code. It's become sentient - alive. And it's Dev's job to keep it that way.

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Title: The War That Came Early: West and East

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 127 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In 1938, two men held history in their hands. One was Adolf Hitler. The other was British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who, determined to avoid war at any cost, came to be known as "the great appeaser". But Harry Turtledove, the unrivaled master of alternate history, has launched a gripping saga that springboards from a different fateful act: What if Chamberlain had stood up to Hitler? What would the Nazis' next move have been? And how would the war---which Hitler had always regretted waiting 11 months to start---have unfolded and changed our world?

Here, Turtledove takes us across a panorama of conflict fueled by ideology and demagoguery. Nations are pitted against nations, alliances are forged between old enemies, ordinary men and women are hurled into extraordinary life-and-death situations.

In Japanese-controlled Singapore, an American marine falls in love with a Russian dance-hall hostess, while around him are heard the first explosions of Chinese guerilla resistance. On the frontlines of war-ravaged rural France, a weary soldier perfects the art of using an enormous anti-tank gun as a sniper's tool---while from Germany a killer is sent to hunt him down. And in the icy North Atlantic, a U-boat bearing an experimental device wreaks havoc on British shipping, setting the stage for a Nazi ground invasion of Denmark.

From an American woman trapped in Germany who receives safe passage from Hitler himself to a Jewish family steeped in German culture and facing the hatred rising around them, from Japanese soldiers on the remote edge of Siberia to American volunteers in Spain, The War That Came Early: West and East is the story of a world held hostage by tyrants - Stalin, Hitler, Sanjuro - each holding on to power through lies and terror, even in the face of treacherous plots from within.

Critic Reviews:

"And so it whirls on, the suspense building inexorably, thanks to two of Turtledoves gifts, in particular. One is for portraying so much of the action from the viewpoint of the grunts, or even civilians, who know little of what the Great Ones are up to until the consequences are all over them. The other proceeds from the first and is for envisioning WWII unraveling like an endless ball of yarn in the paws of an intelligent kitten. Keep reading or miss something exceedingly fine." (Booklist)

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Title: Colonization: Down to Earth

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 179 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In 1942, Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined World War saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved.

A spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom, destruction and hope, the Colonization series takes us into the tumultuous 1960s, as the reptilian Race ponders its uneasy future. But now a new, even deadlier war threatens. Though the clamoring tribes of Earth play dangerous games of diplomacy, the ultimate power broker will be the Race itself. For the colonists have one option no human can ignore. With a vast, ancient empire already in place, the Race has the power to annihilate every living being on planet Earth.

Critic Reviews:

Turtledove demonstrates his talent for crafting drama on a global scale by concentrating on the individual stories that make up the big picture. (Library Journal)

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Title: Heavens Reach

Subtitle: The Uplift Trilogy, Book 3

Author: David Brin

Narrator: George Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 215 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The final volume of the Uplift trilogy by Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Brin, Heavens Reach brings readers back to the planet Jijo one last time. The starship Streaker is still on the run with its dangerous cargo of ancient artifacts when the prophesied Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. As each race battles for control and chaos reigns, the truth about the Five Galaxies and The Progenitors finally comes to light.

Critic Reviews:

"The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre." (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)

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Title: Helliconia Spring

Subtitle: The Helliconia Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Brian Aldiss

Narrator: Christopher Slade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 104 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Set on the Earth-like planet Helliconia, this is an epic chronicling the rise and fall of a civilization over more than a thousand years.

The great drama of life on Helliconia is shaped by its cosmic limitations. In fierce contrasts of climate, whole seasons last for centuries and civilizations rise and fall as the planet orbits the giant sun Freyr every 3000 years.

Brian Wilson Aldiss is one of the most important voices in science-fiction writing today. He wrote his first novel while working as a bookseller in Oxford. Shortly afterwards he wrote his first work of science fiction and soon gained international recognition. Adored for his innovative literary techniques, evocative plots and irresistible characters, he became a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1999. Brian Aldiss recently celebrated his 80th birthday and is still writing, to ardent applause.

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Title: The Sheriff of Yrnameer

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Michael Rubens

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 219 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Reluctantly compelled to deliver these defenseless, fluidless children to safety, Cole gathers a misfit crew for a desperate journey to the far reaches of the galaxy. Their destination: the mysterious world of Yrnameer, the very last of the your-name-heres---planets without corporate sponsors. But little does Cole know that this legendary utopia is home to a murderous band of outlaws bent on destroying the planet's tiny, peaceful community.

Follow Cole's adventures through a delightfully absurd science-fiction universe, where the artificial intelligence is stupid, dust motes carry branding messages, and middle-management zombies have overrun a corporate training satellite.

In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is sci-fi comedy at its best---mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling must-listen.

Critic Reviews:

"A science fiction book your grandmother will love - if she's a lustful, violent lady." (Stephen Colbert)

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Title: Audacious

Subtitle: Kris Longknife, Book 5

Author: Mike Shepherd

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 734 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Once again, Kris finds herself caught in the crosshairs of unknown enemies who want her dead. Factions, both legitimate and underground, vie for control of the planet New Eden. And someone is taking advantage of the chaos to unleash a personal vendetta against Kris.

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Title: The Unincorporated Man

Author: Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 316 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Justin Cord is the only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land. Justin survived because he is tough and smart. He cannot accept only part ownership of himself, even if that places him in conflict with a civilization that extends outside the solar system to the Oort Cloud. People will be arguing about this novel and this world for decades.

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