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Title: Pennsylvania

Author: Michael Bunker

Narrator: Andrew McFerrin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-15

Publisher: Michael Bunker

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Young Amishman Jedidiah Troyer is now a traveler. He's signed up for an emigration program that is colonizing the planet of New Pennsylvania. He just wants to start a farm and homestead on affordable land in a new Amish community. Space pioneering isn't as easy as it sounds when you're "plain." Jedidiah and his new friend Dawn arrive on New Pennsylvania in the middle of a rebel uprising, and Trace, the resistance group that is rising up against Transport, has taken on the mission of getting Jed from the City to the Amish Zone. Being a stranger in the old world doesn't even compare to being a stranger in a new world... a world that is at war and where nothing is what it seems.

Members Reviews:

a++

time travelling Amish soldiers. head spinning wild ride. Andrew McFerrin could read the phone book and make it exciting

Very interesting and entertaining

I loved the story. It was not at all what I thought I was going to be getting and was very pleasantly surprised. I have heard that this may be made into a movie or TV show, and can't wait to see it!! I hope there is going to be more written in this world.

I loved the Book but...

Forgot just how good it was in till I listened to the Audio Book. Absolutely Top of the Hay loft and just in "Time" with Heros!

Can't wait for the Movie or mini series-!!

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Title: Mindclone

Subtitle: When You're a Brain Without a Body, Can You Still Be Called Human?

Author: David T. Wolf

Narrator: Clifton Satterfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-14

Publisher: david t wolf

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Mindclone asks the question, What if you had your brain scanned and all your memories and your entire persona were uploaded to a digital version of yourself? How would you and your Mindclone get along? How would your Mindclone feel about the fact that he has all your memories and desires - including a desire for the girl you just met - but no physical body to act on them? For him, that's a serious bummer. Mindclone shows what might happen when you upload minds to computers: it's a novel of ideas about what it means to be human whether or not you have a body. It explores the science behind the uploading concept, the implications of mindcloning and the digital Singularity that's been famously predicted by futurist Ray Kurzweil. Plus there's a carbon-carbon-silicon love triangle, a redeemed ad-man, adventure, humor, frustrated romance, human and digital foibles, and as an extra added bonus, the defeat of death itself.

Members Reviews:

a wonderful story about AI

Marc awakens to realize that he cannot feel anything, or move, or even speak. He begins to freak out. He feels different and hes not sure why. Later on we find out that this is not Marc, but a mindclone of Marcs entire memory up until the brain scan. The story follows Marc and Adam as they figure out what being human actually entails.

The narration, done by Clifton Satterfield was the first Ive ever listened to any audiobooks narrated by him. His narration style is really nice. Slow enough for a first time read, and clear enough if you choose to speed it up you can with no issues. Satterfield is clear and concise and I would have no qualms listening to another audiobook narrated by him.

The story felt done before, but really only because Ive read some really excellent AI fiction before. If I hadnt I probably would have loved this. Dont get me wrong, I still liked it a lot. The main character Marc can be annoying at times, and so can his AI counterpart Adam. I think this was done on purpose, just to never let the reader get settled with what was going on. Also, I didnt like the lack of explanation of just why they let Adam do as many things as they did. Maybe they didnt know it would achieve what it could in the first minutes of life, but man maybe start with an Oracle AI. Definitely do not let it use the Internet unwatched.

But, without giving much away, I think that is exactly what the author was going for in this book. What would happen if a newly created AI were to just be released without any watch, oversight, or anything like that? Crazy stuff for sure, this book does not let up from start to finish.

My only other issue was sometimes I had a hard time figuring out if Marc or Adam was talking, I know this is hard to do, and I think this may have just been an issue with the audiobook the characters are switching during conversation so quickly that I wasnt exactly sure if I was listening to one or the other.

Overall, a wonderful story from David T. Wolfe about AI and what could happen in a world where a clone of someones mind were to run free.

Audiobook provided for review by the author.

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Failed potential

Possibly writen, if a little slow.

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Title: Life Among the Dead 3: A Bittersweet Victory

Author: Daniel Cotton

Narrator: Scott Parkinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Life is a winding road full of twists and turns, one can never be truly prepared for all the unexpected bumps and bends that loom ahead, or the pitfalls that derail us from our path. Vida Calavera is about to learn this first hand when an evening out with her friends turns into a waking nightmare. All of her plans and aspirations for the future will be dashed in an instant, her world will crumble down around her as the dead rise up. Unable to get home she is lost, vulnerable to whatever may lurk around the next turn, Vida is heading straight into danger with death on her heels but she may soon find it's who she chooses to trust with her life that takes it.

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Title: Proxima

Author: Stephen Baxter

Narrator: Kyle McCarley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-14

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light...

The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun - and (in this fiction), the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. The 'substellar point', with the star forever overhead, is a blasted desert, and the 'antistellar point' on the far side is under an ice cap in perpetual darkness. How would it be to live on such a world?

Yuri Jones, with 1,000 others, is about to find out... Proxima tells the amazing tale of how we colonise a harsh new eden, and the secret we find there that will change our role in the Universe for ever.

Members Reviews:

Good narrating.

It's an ok story, kind of run-of-the-mill sci-fi characters and a lazy ending. I was expecting more from Baxter.

the first half isn't bad. the second is.

The first half of the book is very nice. Combining several story arcs that are interesting to follow, and seem like a nice build up, even if a bit heavy on the descriptive side.

Then the book finished the story lines quite abruptly, and just goes on with the descriptions. They are very detailed descriptions but they seem to lead nowhere.

The story lines don't combine with each other. They are replaced with new stories that don't make much sense - except that they give the author more opportunities to describe stuff.

I counted 3 episodes where the narrator describes what is seen outside the window of a moving car.

I kept on listening hoping for the stories to come together. They don't. Maybe in the sequel they will, but I won't bother finding out.

Compelling story, odd accent

I found the story gripping, and had no problem ploughing through this audiobook to find out what happened next.

However, what added an element of strangeness to this was the narrator, Kyle McCarley. Another reviewer here suggests that he may have a "speech impediment". I'm afraid it's much worse than that: he's an American attempting to do an English accent.

Unfortunately, I've been able to work out which English accent he's trying to do. He is at least consistent: "hot" sounds like "hawt"; "water" sounds like "wotta"; "marrow" sounds like "merrow"; and "calm" and "phantom" just sound strange; but at least it was like this all the way through.

The closest accent I could think of is Received Pronunciation, but this strikes me as an odd choice nowadays, as even the BBC abandoned RP decades ago.

A couple of the characters have northern accents, though I found find these neither consistent nor convincing.

I feel it would have been better for the narrator to have used his native accent, or if an English accent was required, then for an English narrator to have been used.

That said, his narration was very clear.

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Title: Harvest

Subtitle: Harvest Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Michele E. Gwynn

Narrator: Ron Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-14

Publisher: Michele E. Gwynn

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Human greed and gluttony can exist only so long before consequences catch up to actions. For Dave Forrester, the actions of every human living were about to be addressed in his home town of Farley, Oklahoma. A haunting memory from the past becomes a real-life nightmare after a curious car accident in the middle of the night. Stranger yet, the people of Farley have disappeared without a trace leaving only bloody clothing behind, and glimpses of terrifying creatures cloaked in sulfuric wisps of smoke! It's up to Dave to figure out why, and how to save the few that survive....the harvest.

Members Reviews:

Harvest

Which scene was your favorite?

Harvest" by Michele Gwynn is a sci-fi short story that begins with an account of a UFO sighting . When Dave was in school, the Future Farmers of America went on a field trip to a Black Angus cattle farm to see how the cattle were put on the truck to be taken to the slaughterhouse. The students witnessed cattle being prodded with cattle prods and one had a broken leg and wasn't treated very well. Some of the students didn't care, but others found it sickening and vowed never to treat their own cattle that way.

Disappearance and Reckoning.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, I would recommend it to those who like sci-fi, supernatural thrillers, or horror. It is a solid story with a good ending.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Dave's father is my favorite character, because he is hilarious. The playful banter between his parents are some my favorite scenes.

Have you listened to any of Ron Phillipss other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, this is the first. He gave a sterling performance. His steady voice lends credibility to this sci-fi tale.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Dave sees the little boy hiding in the cattle lot, it is incredibly moving. That moment captures the terror of the whole book.

Any additional comments?

This is a good story for this time of year (Halloween is around the corner). It is genuinely eerie. The author does a good job capturing the terror this scenario would create. She builds suspense well. She ends well. The scenes (sex and violence/gore) are not graphic, but definitely adult. This is a solid story with a good performance by the narrator. I enjoyed it.

Harvest

This is a fun short sci-fi story on how a few survivors come together to figure out what is going on.It does leave lots of questions in your mind though!

Holy Geez

I can't explain how intensely amazing this was. The characters were easy to fall for and the story was easy to get lost in. The narrator also did a fantastic job. I just wish it was longer. I fully recommend!

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Title: Mount Misery: A Novel

Author: Angelo Peluso

Narrator: Angela Starling

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

There are new residents in the Long Island Sound and they have a taste for flesh. The first time the creatures tasted human blood, their savagery went undetected. Thus begins Mount Misery, a terrific horror tale by writer Angelo Peluso. Located on the Long Island Sound, random attacks by unknown creatures are terrorizing local residents. The question: Who is going to do something about it? Marine biologist Katie DiNardo and ichthyologist Nick Tanner have seen the damage caused by their mystery creatures, but are at a complete loss as to the attacking species. All they know is that they need to get to the bottom of this - and fast. While they continue to do their research, people are dropping like flies, and if they dont figure out whats going on, theres no saying what this destructive species will do next.

In a similar style to Jaws, Mount Misery is a spectacular suspense novel that grips you from the first page and doesnt let its teeth out! Fans of horror will rejoice with Mount Misery, and listeners will enjoy the throwback style that made this genre what it is today.

Members Reviews:

Mount Misery

The story itself was great. I didn't like the way the story line would stop just to overloaded me with the science of it all. This was fiction. Too much info that was not needed to tell the story. I had to skip over those pages because I didn't necessarily want to be bogged down with it. I just wanted to follow the characters. Otherwise I loved the ending. Nature takes care of itself.

Quick but enjoyable read

Some "Jaws" ,some cheese,some romance,some sex ,some pretty interesting characters - all in all a fast fun & even occasionally suspenseful & scary read.

Five Stars

Very interesting read. Lots of fishing and local reference points.

Five Stars

Nice plot - might make a good movie.

Very good, congratulations

Very good,congratulations. Regards, Dick

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Title: Vatican Assassin

Subtitle: Vatican Assassin Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Mike Luoma

Narrator: Mike Luoma

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-14

Publisher: Michael Luoma

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

It's 2109. BC - Bernard Campion - poses as a priest, but he's really an assassin for the New catholic Church. His assignment: Assassinate Meredith McEntyre, Governor of Lunar Prime, the non-aligned city-state on the Moon! BC is trying to take care of his "business" during an out of control interplanetary War between the west and Islam, between The Universal Trade Zone, the commercial power of Earth, and the UIN, the Universal Islamic Nation, based on Mars.

BC's bosses in the Office of Papal Operations - the OPO - tell him Luna Prime Governor McEntyre has been sympathizing with the enemy, the UIN. They can't let her give the Moon to the UIN. That's where he comes in. BC works for the Pope, "officially" assigned as PR man to the Cardinal and the Vatican Mission on Luna Prime. Just a mild mannered, young, twenty-something priest working for the New catholic Church on public relations. But under his cover he's a weapon pointed at the UIN by the NcC and their Earth based allies, the UTZ. As he goes off, the repercussions will be cosmic...

Members Reviews:

Wow! What a fun journey!

Vatican Assassin begins a six book romp into a future you will absolutely love! Mike Luoma is one of the best new story tellers in a looooong time

I had no idea I would enjoy this excursion into this unexpected future so much. Luoma has concocted a brilliant story and narrated it just as brilliantly, imparting a unique and realistic personality perfectly tuned to each character. The series is by far my favorite in many years.

Vatican is a total sleeper. It starts as an innocent detective murder mystery set in the future and rapidly grows into a uniquely plausible but completely original intergalactic space Opera in which an unexpected part of humanity rises to free the universe from an original dilemma... To say more would reveal one of the most original plots which Luoma weaves brilliantly.

I have now listened to the two beginning novels in this series more than once as they are sooooo much fun and am eagerly awaiting the next in the series. Indeed, I've been kinda spoiled and just returned a new audible book by a couple famous sci fi authors as it is a grind to get into their universe. I'm challenged now, after the easily captivating romp Luoma took me on.

This is not a simple plot by any means. Indeed it evolves into an amazingly deep future universe that keeps unfolding in unpredictable but very believable ways. It is the genius of the author that he does this smoothly and gradually, sucking you in, without requiring a lot of brainpower, until you look back and realize, WOW!

The birth of an interesting series

What made the experience of listening to Vatican Assassin the most enjoyable?

The first in an awesome Trilogy, Mike Luoma gives me hope that he will be remembered several decades from now as a popular science fiction author of our time.

Vatican Assasin stars Bernard Campion, an assasin for the New Catholic Church a century in the future. This book gets us going with some interplanetary war and an assasination order. This book sets the stage for an interesting literary world that develops nicely in the following 2 books of this trilogy then picks up later with BC's son in another series that can be found as e-books and comics.

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Title: Nostradamus Ate My Hamster

Author: Robert Rankin

Narrator: Robert Rankin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Robert wants to be a star in the movies.He has invented a system with his computer that could put the old stars back on the screen, alongside him. He has the script and the money, but Hollywood isn't keen. Could the perfect partnership lie with Ernest Fudgepacker of Fudgepacker's Emporium?

Members Reviews:

time travel and more

a real roller coaster of a story with time travel and beautiful women. did not want to take a break.

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Title: The Scout

Author: Eric Tozzi

Narrator: Stephen J. Holowid

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-14

Publisher: Eric Tozzi

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Change is inevitable. It's heading for Earth at 12,000 miles per hour...and it will land virtually undetected. For Jack McAllister, a young writer who has finally launched a career for himself, it begins tragically: his estranged father, a former NASA engineer, dies suddenly at his home in Merriweather, Indiana, leaving Jack's Alzheimer's-stricken mother a widow. But in the wake of personal heartbreak, he's confronted by an even more astonishing event - the covert landing of an alien machine in the forest just a few miles outside of town.

Now Jack must unmask the true purpose of the otherworldly device that has begun a detailed environmental survey of the woods. Aided by the town's young and resilient female deputy sheriff, he soon discovers that the alien scout is only one small part of a much larger operation, and the countdown to a terrifying global catastrophe is about to take place. Drawing deeply from his father's scientific influence, all while attempting to avoid the snares of a sexy, seductive, and scheming local TV reporter, Jack uncovers-and ultimately finds himself an unwilling component of-an alien plan set to terminate life on Earth as we know it.

Members Reviews:

An unexpected treat!

Would you listen to The Scout again? Why?

No, not because not worthwhile buy because I don't do that as a rule.

What did you like best about this story?

The performance was sparkling, the character had some depth to them, and the story moved intelligently.

Which character as performed by Stephen J. Holowid was your favorite?

The deputy sherriff was cool, but the female TV reporter rocked alot.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The relationship between the hero and his aging mother was very real and I did react to it.

Any additional comments?

I have recently started using Audiofile.com as a resource for finding new audio books. They certainly didn't let me down in this instance. Highly recommended to any listener.

So down to earth

Would you listen to The Scout again? Why?

Yes I would after a year or so. Because it was so good and I am sure there are things I missed the first time around.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Would have loved to but is way to long although there were times I sat in my driveway waiting for a good place to stop for the evening. The reader was awesome and kept me into the story.

Any additional comments?

This was a great book, very down to earth (the characters, the places, everything) it made it so realistic, and that in turn gave it a bigger creep factor. but it was cool to think this could happen in my small town for a change not in some huge city to some celebrity.

Very Enjoyable SciFi

What made the experience of listening to The Scout the most enjoyable?

I love Sci Fi, especially stories that are about first contact. This one was very enjoyable because it had a bit of a different twist from others that I've read and unfolded in a way the kept my attention throughout. Interesting characters, too.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I liked the main character because he was just a regular guy, dealing with the everyday issues that come up in a person's life. When he is thrust into a situation that was absolutely foreign to him he uses his wits and common sense to bring him through.

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Title: Psychosis

Subtitle: Wildfire Chronicles, Vol. 3

Author: K. R. Griffiths

Narrator: Craig Beck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-14

Publisher: K.R. Griffiths

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Michael Evans, crippled survivor of the massacre at St. Davids, has only one goal left: to find his young daughter. And that means journeying north and discovering that during the five days he spent comatose in an underground bunker the world has changed dramatically.

And worse, it's still changing.

Struggling to come to terms with a world steeped in shocking violence and ever-present danger, Michael must adapt quickly to a new reality: The virus has already infected the population. But it isn't stopping there....

Members Reviews:

Each Wilidfire story adds to the mystery

I am really getting into the Wildfire Chronicles series. This is the 1st volume that I had to pay for, as the first two stories are free. I liked it a lot and will order #4 later today. Each story builds upon the one before it, so I would suggest new readers start off with PANIC to see if they will like this series, which I suspect most readers will. The infected are not exactly zombies, but they are darn close. The whole pulling their own eyes out thing is pretty creepy. This was the fifth book I have read written by KR Griffiths and I have enjoyed them all, 4 or 5 stars each (The Adrift series is awesome as well). Smart move offering the first two Wildfire books free, because I am now very interested in this storyline. Each story so far keeps adding to the overall story of what is behind the whole "Wildfire" project. Highly recommended by me (if that means anything...ha).

A good "meaty" series!

Don't you just LOVE it when you stumble onto a really interesting series!! This one by K.R. Griffiths, is scratching that itch! I read where one reviewer stated the fact that if he had thought this was a Zombie spoof, he would not have even given it a chance, but he DID give it a chance and was very happy that he did! I could not have put it any better myself. See, the thing is, this isn't a Zombie yarn; the infected are not mindless. They're not out to eat humans, (specifically) and they are far more unique and intelligent than your run of the mill Moaner...They are evolving. They have speech (of a sort) ...and they are JOINING together. They are plotting. The remaining humans are under siege by a physically superior, and intelligent army of altered humans. And they have been waiting on a leader to guide them...someone "special." Someone they have been expecting.**no spoilers!** There are those that are immune to the virus. It changes them. And no two are the same...The complexities keep snowballing. Zombie lover or not, your going to love this series because it's a page BURNER!

Great job Mr. Griffiths. I can see television series in the future.

Griffiths keeps getting better!

As I continue to read this series, K.R. Griffiths writing, story line, and characters get more defined. He is letting you get to know the people in the books, which to me gets you more involved in story.

I first thought with book one that it was just an ok book about zombies, but now it's getting into a twisted government experiment that gets worse by a psycho. They group is trying to survive i

~~The Infected Communicate?~~

What a continuation of this series! Outstanding mix of characters and a masterfully developed plot, this one will have you shaking your head throughout.