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Title: Normandy 1

Subtitle: Stellar, Book 2

Author: Justin Hobbs

Narrator: Mina Rose

Format: Unabridged

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-18

Publisher: Justin Hobbs

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

Publisher's Summary:

Hannah finds herself aboard the Normandy 1, with new horrors coming from every corner.

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Title: This Crowded Earth

Author: Robert Bloch

Narrator: Frank Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

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

Publisher's Summary:

"This Crowded Earth" (1958) is a science fiction novel by Robert Bloch.

Excerpt:

The telescreen lit up promptly at eight a.m. Smiling Brad came on with his usual greeting. "Good morning - it's a beautiful day in Chicagee!" Harry Collins rolled over and twitched off the receiver. "This I doubt," he muttered. He sat up and reached into the closet for his clothing. Visitors - particularly feminine ones - were always exclaiming over the advantages of Harry's apartment. "So convenient," they would say. "Everything handy, right within reach. And think of all the extra steps you save!" Of course most of them were just being polite and trying to cheer Harry up. They knew damned well that he wasn't living in one room through any choice of his own. The Housing Act was something you just couldn't get around; not in Chicagee these days. What was the population in New Philly now? Something like 63,000,000, wasn't it? Chicagee was much smaller-only 38,000,000, this year.

Artist Bio Author: Robert Bloch (1917-1994) was an American fiction writer of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of "Psycho", the basis for the film by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Members Reviews:

A lesser work by a better writer.

This review originally published in www.lookingforagoodbook.com. Rated 2.0 of 5

In 1958, when this was written, the idea of over-crowding and population explosion were still only just being considered, but were not hot topics. But like many science fiction authors, Robert Bloch was ahead of the curve on this one.

The story is about Harry Collins and we start in that distant future, 1997. Harry, like a number of others, can't stand the over-crowding and spartan conditions in which he is forced to lived. He could upgrade to a larger space, but he would have to marry to do so, and moving up would also necessitate a much longer (five-hour) commute.

His desire to see change becomes an obsession and drives him over the edge (literally?) and he is sent to a hospital in the country. There he has an affair with a nurse. Except the nurse is not a nurse, but another patient who's been ordered to have the affair with Harry. In fact, the entire hospital is an experiment that the doctor is carrying out.

The story (novelette? novella?) covers most of Harry's lifetime, as man's reasoning and attempts to correct some of the problems created by mankind, backfire or point out just how ridiculous our decisions can be if we don't address the issue (the attempt to solve the problem of over-crowding was to midget-ize the human race ... to create smaller humans who don't take up so much space).

Given my tastes in fiction, my preference for sci-fi, and the fact that I have typically really liked Robert Bloch books and stories, I really expected to like this story. Unfortunately, I didn't.

I thought that the characters were dull and the solutions comical. Because Harry Collins did nothing for me, following him over the course of 60+ years felt more like torture than a pleasant read. What got me through it was Bloch's writing style. The characters and the plot didn't get me, but his story-telling does.

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Title: Valerius

Subtitle: The Horus Heresy

Author: Gav Thorpe

Narrator: Gareth Armstrong, John Banks, Ian Brooker, Cliff Chapman, Steve Conlin, Saul Reichlin, Toby Longworth, Luis Soto

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-17

Publisher: Black Library

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

Publisher's Summary:

Though he knows such beliefs are forbidden, Vice-Caesari Marcus Valerius of the Therion Cohort is willing to lay down his life in service to the immortal God-Emperor, for the good of all mankind.

Sent by Corax to the great slaughter at Beta-Garmon, every last one of the Imperial Army soldiers under his command knows that the end is nigh - but can Valerius' holy visions guide them to one final victory over the hordes of the hated Arch-traitor?

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Title: The Line War

Author: Neal Asher

Narrator: Ric Jerrom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

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

Publisher's Summary:

The Line War is the fifth audiobook in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.

The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus' wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess...and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.

Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue but serve only to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine, sets out for vengeance while Orlandine, a vastly augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war.

Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber.

But Erebus' attacks are not so indiscriminate after all and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself....

Members Reviews:

Action packed, but still a let-down

When you pick up a Neal Asher novel, you expect a lot of action, violence, gore, and mayhem. All of those things are available in abundance in his fifth Ian Cormac novel, LINE WAR. The war in question was joined at the climax of the previous novel, POLITY AGENT, when the forces of the Polity attacked the anti-human artificial intelligence (AI) Erebus. Erebus, it turns out, was responsible for delivering dangerous Jain technology to the mad scientist Skellor and the knowledge-hungry engineer haiman Orlandine, among others. Jain technology, the fruit of a society extinct for millions of years, offers great power to those who touch it, but it also has a hidden purpose--the total annihilation of all beings who utilize it. Erebus, which has itself harnessed Jain technology, hopes to destroy humanity through the propagation of the technology, and, if necessary, through military conquest ... of the sneakiest sort. When it begins its offensive with an attack on an obscure Polity world, Earth Central Security (ECS) Agent Ian Cormac is dispatched to find out what Erebus' game is. The more Cormac investigates, however, the more convinced he is that ECS and its allied AIs are not doing all they can to stop Erebus, and the more suspicious he is that preserving human life is not as high on their agenda as it should be.

As always, Asher skillfully portrays a not-so distant future in which humanity has mastered space travel and other advanced technologies, such as instant interstellar transport through "runcibles"; has spread to many, many solar systems; and lives alongside, interfaces with, in some cases aspires to be like, and is ruled by artificial intelligences. (While he doesn't explore many of the implications of humans being ruled by a benign dictatorship of the AIs, in LINE WAR he at least explores what the limits of that dictatorship ought to be.) He gives his work a convincing "hard" edge by being attentive to, e.g., the dynamics of temperature on a moon covered in methane oceans. He also gives his stories a visceral charge by, well, shooting, hacking and stabbing peoples' guts.

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Title: The Rebel

Author: Gerald Brandt

Narrator: James Colby, Ali Ahn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The Rebel is the third and final installment in Gerald Brandt's near-future science fiction San Angeles series.

Kris Merrill is a member of a small insurgent group operating within a multi-level metropolis that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border. Her attempt at rescuing Ian Miller failed, leaving her alone and her unborn son without a father. The insurgents don't trust her, Kai has disappeared completely, and Pat is trying to control how Kris should mourn the loss of Ian.

Without the trust of the insurgents, Kris is relegated to low-level assignments for them, and trying desperately to keep her pregnancy a secret. She is alone.

War has started between the corporations. The people living in the lower levels of San Angeles have become the victims, starving and being rounded up to be soldiers in the war. Torn between working with the insurgents as they become more like the corporations they are fighting, and helping the people of the lower levels, Kris doesn't know what to do. Facing the return of an enemy who will stop at nothing to have revenge, Kris struggles with loss and discovering who she really is.

Members Reviews:

An Ending Abruptus

The Rebel is the third and final installment in author Gerald Brandt's San Angeles trilogy. Set in the year 2141, The Rebel is a cyberpunk, science fiction, action adventure novel with plenty of unexpected twists. Brandt has created a world where large corporations (SoCal, Kadokawa, and IBC) control most of the world's resources and production. Kris Merrill is a residentÂof the sprawling West Coast megapolis known as San Angeles. She's former motorcycle courier who found herselfÂunexpectedly entangled in a deadly web of corporate politics, assassins, and underground rebellions.

It has been 2 weeks since the ending of The Operative and Kris's life hasn't exactly changed for the better. The boy she loved is dead, she's 8 weeks pregnant, two of the corporations are on the brink of a full-scale war, and the insurgents she chose to join, don't fully trust her because she attempted to save someone who was captured by the evil corporations. They've also become rather like those they are fighting against. Instead of helping the lower level citizens who are struggling to feed themselves thanks to the higher levels keeping the best food and water, they're fighting amongst themselves.

I've been calling Kris the protagonist of this series because the story really does revolve around her life as both a courier and now a insurgent intent on taking the large corporations down that control every aspect of life.ÂLet me say this. Kris is a mess. But, she's notÂa Mary Sue character who runs away from trouble at every turn. Thanks to the training she was given at boot camp, she can handle her own against most any challenge that comes to her. However, she spends a whole of time feeling sorry for her situation.ÂShe has no real purpose in this story, until she finally finds one in an Aunt who she ran away from years before, and a mission that is so dangerous, there is no guaranteeÂshe or her baby will survive.Â

One could say that the synopsis does a decent job of explaining the story without fully diving into any spoiler issues.ÂThere are several other secondary characters worth mentioning. The first is Dr.

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Title: Promethean Sun

Subtitle: The Horus Heresy

Author: Nick Kyme

Narrator: Saul Reichlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-17

Publisher: Black Library

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

As the Great Crusade sweeps across the galaxy, the forces of the Imperium encounter a world held in thrall by the alien eldar.

While the Iron Hands of Ferrus Manus and Mortarion's Death Guard battle against the hated xenos, it is the Salamanders who brave the deepest and most deadly jungles, encountering monstrous reptilian beasts and foul witchery along the way.

Ultimately, it falls to their primarch Vulkan himself to thwart the sinister designs of the eldar, if the Legions are to liberate this world and bring illumination to its inhabitants.

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Title: Serpent

Subtitle: The Horus Heresy

Author: John French

Narrator: Ian Brooker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-17

Publisher: Black Library

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Stranger things than xenos and mutants dwell in the dark places between the stars - things known only too well to the inhabitants of Davin.

Cult priest Thoros calls upon the favour of his patron gods to aid him in casting out the pretenders and non-believers, for only the true disciples of Chaos can be allowed to rule the galaxy....

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Title: Undying

Author: Corina Bishop

Narrator: Laura Jennings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-17

Publisher: Corina Bishop

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

To awaken and not know who you are is a crushing feeling. Panic and hysteria override all other senses. Strangers approach and terror builds within your chest. You hope these strangers, with their white lab coats, will bring an ounce of reason back to your jumbled thoughts. Instead they bring needles and knives that puncture your skin, introducing new horrors for your brain to try to comprehend.

This is the life Sentra is born into at the age of 24. She is surrounded by people who only cause her agony and pay no mind to her mounting questions. Sentra cannot even find solace in her dreams, where she is haunted by memories from a woman who died long ago. If the pain and confusion wasn't enough, Sentra's body doesn't seem to be entirely human and her detainers have far greater plans for her in a war she wants no part of.

All Sentra knows for sure is that she wants out and she will do anything to gain her freedom.

Members Reviews:

Undying

The story was written very well and the pacing was wonderful! I loved the parts at the beginning of each chapter that were cited as "Thoughts of a machine" and that as a reader, I didn't know where this was coming from until somewhere in the last half of the book. Very entertaining scifi.

good world and character building

good world and character building

Undying is a Sci-Fi Drama by Corina Bishop.

Read by Laura Jennings

Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins

HEA (Not to me)

Cliffhanger (I would be upset if this is where it ends)

This is not currently listed as a series, however, the ending leaves it set-up to be such. Some reviewers expressed their feelings to the ending as being able to count it as a good enough to be a standalone, but I am not one of those people.

If you have a tender heart like me, you may want to skip this one.

Story

If you like Dystopian series like The Blaze Runner and Hunger Games then this is the book for you. This has good world and character building but it is not for me. It's the reason why I can't watch Walking Dead with my husband. I hate getting attached to characters only to have them ripped away.

I myself try to avoid having my heart ripped out through my gut. That being said, it takes good writing and narration to be able to evoke those feelings in a reader. I had so much tension inside me listening to this that I wanted to vomit in the midst of my tears. Call me a baby and say I'm too soft, I know that I am!

Author

This is my 1st read/listen by Corina Bishop. This is her only audio title. She writes memorable characters that I don't feel like I got a good enough chance to enjoy. I would be hesitant to listen to any other works as this author likes to make me cry.

Corina Bishop has 01 title listed on Audible.

Narrator(s)

This is my 1st listen by Laura Jennings and she did such a good job she made me cry. She really got the emotions of the scene across to me. I would and want to listen to more by her.

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Title: The McGregor Chronicles

Subtitle: Book 2 - Escape from Eden

Author: Larry K. Collins

Narrator: A. W. Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: 31 Months LLC

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

Publisher's Summary:

Space freighter captain Matt McGregor and his fiancee, Tracy Warren, must rescue her mother, held prisoner by Marinas Christiansen Sorenson, a charismatic faith healer and leader of a religious commune, on a private planet called Eden. They enlist help from Matt's brother Marc, and sister Maddie, along with Jake Stevens, a Federation Detective. Can this unlikely group invade a foreign, possibly hostile planet, defeat Sorenson's army, and bring Tracy's mother to safety?

Members Reviews:

I enjoyed the first book you wrote and enjoyed the second ...

I enjoyed the first book you wrote and enjoyed the second one as much or more than the first, Hope the next book will be coming soon.

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Title: Dark Intelligence

Subtitle: Transformation, Book 1

Author: Neal Asher

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed....

Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he's been brought back from the dead. What's more, he died in a human vs. alien war which ended a whole century ago. But when he relives his traumatic final moments, he finds the spark to keep on living. That spark is vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces, Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving. But instead of providing backup, Penny Royal, the AI within the destroyer, turned rogue. It annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction, and years later it's still free. Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it down.

Isobel Satomi ran a successful crime syndicate. But after competitors attacked, she needed more power. Yet she got more than she bargained for when she negotiated with Penny Royal. She paid it to turn her part AI herself, but the upgrades hid a horrifying secret. The Dark AI had triggered a transformation in Isobel that would turn her into a monster, rapidly evolving into something far from human.

Spear hires Isobel to take him to the Penny Royal AI's last known whereabouts. But he cheats her in the process, and he becomes a target for her vengeance. And as she evolves further into a monstrous predator, rage soon wins over reason. Will Spear finish his hunt before he becomes the hunted?

This is the first volume in a no-holds-barred adventure set in Asher's popular Polity universe.

Members Reviews:

Excellent start to a promising series

Another great novel by Asher. A little less action than in his other novels and you don't really see how the multiple plotlines relate until the end of the novel, but one particular corner of Asher's universe is expanded as a result, which I'm sure will factor majorly in the Polity universe as a whole.

Make sure you've read the other novels in the Polity before you read this one, or you'll be lost as to the significance of what brief background information is present in this novel, and the full implication of the events in this book on future series. For my money, this entire universe is the closest to Iain Bank's Culture novels that I've come across, so if you're missing that universe you won't regret the time invested here.

Never fulfilled a promising start

A lot of the story is spent explaining events that have previously transpired. This became tedious quickly and I was eventually just getting through it. Not awful, which I know is hardly a recommendation but had the potential to be better.

Just ok

The story over all was ok but jumped around a lot and felt fragmented as a result of this.

very good reading.

loved it worth a listen kept me entertained for 3days at work lol a must read/ listen.

Great adventure

A really intriguing read, beautifully crafted. Looking forward to listening to the next one now.