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Title: The Third Humanity [Russian Edition]

Author: Bernard Werber

Narrator: Dimitriy Pisarenko

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-15

Publisher: Interactive Media

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

A new sensational discovery at the subglacial lake of Antarctica reveals 17-meter-long human skeletons, but as the expedition members take photos and collect samples, the glacier cracks, covering the site with massive chunks of ice. This event prompts the creation of a new secret project to save humanity. The project aims to make a new humanity to survive in the hostile environment of high radiation and extinction.

Part of the Third Humanity Cycle, this audiobook is narrated in Russian, unabridged.

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Title: Breaking Sky

Author: Cori McCarthy

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 39 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

In this high-flying, adrenaline-fueled thriller, America's best hope is the elite teen fighter pilots of the United Star Academy.

Fly to the last drop of fuel. Fight to the last drop of blood.

Showoff, reckless maverick Chase Harcourt, call sign Nyx, isn't one to play it safe. In the year 2048, America is locked in a cold war, and the country's best hope is the elite teen fighter pilots of the United Star Academy. Chase is one of only two daredevil pilots chosen to fly an experimental Streaker jet. But few know the pain and loneliness of her past. All anyone cares about is that Chase aces the upcoming Streaker trials, proving the prototype jet can knock the enemy out of the sky.

But as the world tilts toward war, Chase cracks open a military secret. There's a third Streaker, whose young hotshot pilot, Tristan, can match her on the ground and in the clouds. And Chase doesn't play well with others. But to save her country, she just may have to put her life in the hands of the competition.

Cori McCarthy's taut, romantic action-adventure will shoot your pulse straight into overdrive with her brilliantly imagined and frighteningly possible future.

Members Reviews:

Twilight with airplanes

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

if the friend were a teenage girl, yes. Else no.

Would you recommend Breaking Sky to your friends? Why or why not?

if the friend were a teenage girl, yes. Else no.

Have you listened to any of Caitlin Daviess other performances before? How does this one compare?

Caitlin's performance was great, it was the story that was lacking. I liked the idea, but it was too heart throby (yes, i know that's not a word).

Was Breaking Sky worth the listening time?

i was bored, so yes, but no.

Amazing! Treat yourself to this.

This is a killer, fast pace story of love and war and death and family. Cori takes you in the ride in the air you've been waiting for.

Not my cup of tea.

Too much teenage angst and not enough action. Nice enough but I'm just the wrong audience for this kind of book.

Dystopian YA Top Gun

It loses points with me for blatantly lifting the plot from a Tom Cruise movie. Granted, it was a good one, and this author pulls it off well enough that I cried for "Goose", but I don't know that I can forgive the whole Top Gun thing. Great execution of the stolen plot, great world building, awesome Starbuck-swap. But no top less, sweaty volleyball game.

Teenage Girls Only

What would have made Breaking Sky better?

This story idsgreat for a 13 or 14 year old girl.

What was most disappointing about Cori McCarthys story?

Just give me an age warning before I make this mistake again

What didnt you like about Caitlin Daviess performance?

She did OK with what she had to work with.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

disappointment

Any additional comments?

Let us know when something is written for children.

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Title: Into the Maelstrom

Subtitle: Citizen, Book 2

Author: David Drake, John Lambshead

Narrator: Brian Holsopple

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Entry number two in the Citizen series, sequel to Into the Hinterlands. Science fiction adventure on the frontier realms of an empire written by biological scientist Dr. John Lambshead and nationally best-selling author David Drake.

The right man for a very bad job

The Cutter Stream colonies were at peace. If everybody behaved reasonably, that peace could last a thousand years.

Allen Allenson had known war; it had made him peaceful and reasonable. He was far too experienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists, however, let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight.

War was coming, a war the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more than prison camps and a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen. The experience that had caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead the colonial army.

Allenson knew he wasn't really a general, but he understood his fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could. He would free the Cutter Stream, or he would die trying.

What Allen Allenson would not do, what he would never do, was quit.

Members Reviews:

Not Drakes best

This is not a HAMMER'S SLAMMERS type of book which is information not criticism. Drake bases many of his books on historical events which are usually very old, obscure or both. This time the story is loosely based on the American War of Independence & the main character on George Washington. The outcomes of the siege of Oxford & the battles of Port Trent & Teneyk are therefore somewhat predictable even if the details are not. The story of the fighting at Oxford is one of the problems. DO NOT READ FURTHER if you do not want story details. At Oxford General Allenson uses the peculiar mist of a swamp to protect his battle winning position from Brasilian lasers. The enemy sally against this position is conducted with knives, fists & clubs as lasers will not penetrate the mist. A great point is made of the danger of igniting the unstable mist. Why didn't the Brasilians simply eliminate the position using this characteristic? More troubling is the lack of projectile weapons, the implication being that neither side has access to any weapon of this type. Yet projectile mortars are available. At Port Trent there is reference to a weapon firing bullets. Later in that battle, the Brasilians deploy flame throwers which if used at Oxford would have been catastrophic for Allenson's position in the volatile mist. In addition lasers are "worse than useless within a continuum field" so vehicles carry spring guns which shoot ceramic bolts. These would have been quite useful in the swamp mist. Had the Brasilians stood off in their boats with a supply of rocks, Allenson's men would have had a serious problem. The rock suggestion reminds me that both sides use handgrenades. The entire premise of the key fighting at Oxford is badly flawed. This is so atypical of Drakes' writing that I am at a loss to understand it. This book, if judged against Drakes' other work, is a one or two star at best. Judged against all other scifi, I am giving it a three.

The American Revolution Begins - in Outer Space

This is the sequel to Into the Hinterland.

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Title: The Mutatus Nullification

Author: John David Krygelski

Narrator: John David Krygelski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-15

Publisher: Starsys Publishing Company

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The Mutatus Nullification is the riveting conclusion to one of the most critically-acclaimed stories from the fervid imagination of John David Krygelski; The Mutatus Procedure. Judtson, Kelsey, and their eclectic group of formerly mind-altered misfits, believing they had defeated the devious plot to seize control of the global power structure, are stunned to discover how horribly wrong they were.

Thrust together once again, they are plunged into a tangled web of deceit, intrigue, subterfuge, and betrayal, uncovering clues leading them to an answer they never dreamed possible: an answer to a question thousands of years old, linking the seemingly unrelated Roswell crash, the Masons, monoatomic gold, the Illuminati, the Knights Templar, and the ancient civilization of Sumer.

Hold on to your seat. This story will take you where your mind has never been before!

Members Reviews:

An excellent twist on a contemporary topic

Where does The Mutatus Nullification rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Among the top 10 (and that is saying alot!) I'm an avid reader and audiobooks are a great way for me to get my story fix while driving or riding my bicycle.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Mutatus Nullification?

The story is so full of memorable moments, that it would be hard to choose just one, and might also be a bit of a spoiler for those who haven't read the book yet!

What does John David Krygelski bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

John's reading of the book gives a bit of an insight into how he envisioned the characters, their attitudes and personalities.

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

Again... to quote River Song from the Dr Who series... "Spoilers!"

Any additional comments?

This book, and the Mutatus Procedure are both excellent books which explore issues from so called "fringe" beliefs (in other words, ones that aren't popular because they aren't accepted by the masses... but then again look at Gallileo...) to mind control, and the reasons behind many of our current events and issues. I highly recommend both books to anyone who enjoys a good mystery and thriller!

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Title: Sharecropping the Apocalypse: A Prepper Is Cast Adrift

Author: Ron Foster

Narrator: Duane Sharp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-15

Publisher: Ronald Foster

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

After a cyber attack and wide spread sabotage by terrorists took out the United States' electrical grid, one group of survivors found themselves far worse off than the rest of the populace. This group found themselves stranded on an island with no way to cross the flooded river and soggy lands surrounding them as starvation and desperation began. The one thing they had going for them, though, to get themselves through this ordeal, was that they were preppers - people who prepare for disasters as a lifestyle or hobby.

No one, however, had foreseen this event and circumstances, and at the forefront of everyone's minds was when they did eventually get off this Castaway Island, what then? The world was an apocalyptic nightmare of raging fires, famine disease, and violence as societal breakdown took its course. New optimal labor arrangements must be made; new solutions to old problems like raising enough food to feed themselves must be sought. Through a crazy, mixed up and often humorous turn of events the survivors find themselves trying to revitalize an old run down southern plantation. Can they do it? Could You?

This audiobook contains all three books of the A Prepper Is Cast Adrift series. The book teaches you survival tips and tricks as it entertains.

Members Reviews:

So much free knowledge. Thank You.

Ron, yet another great story and packed with so much free information. I have learned so much from your writings. I would like to meet you one day and shake your hand.

Loaded with great info

Any additional comments?

A must read for the prepper. Loaded with handy facts and ideas even if the excrement never hits the rotating blades.

What fun!

What made the experience of listening to Sharecropping the Apocalypse: A Prepper Is Cast Adrift the most enjoyable?

Hillbillies Clem and Bertha were so enjoyable I wanted a whole book just about them. I laughed more at these two wonderful characters than anyone in my last 125 books.

What did you like best about this story?

When the story switched to the fantastic adventure on Clem's plantation.

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

Absolutely...might listen again to this one

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This is one long product placement. I like to hear which brand or style of equipment is chosen and why but I find it jarring when the narrator stops to say, "Use discount code PrepperOne". This is not educational it is merely a sales vehicle.

I have nothing against sales but I should not have to pay to listen to it. This should have been offered as a free audiobook for new preppers.

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Title: Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories

Author: Alex Shvartsman

Narrator: Tina Connolly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-15

Publisher: UFO Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction. Narrated by Tina Connolly, host of the Parsec-winning podcast Toasted Cake.

Critic Reviews:

"Wit, sentiment, imagination - Alex Shvartsman's got them all." (Mike Resnick, Hugo award winner)

"Fantastic variety and scope.... Prepare to be entertained, delighted and amazed." (Esther Friesner, Nebula award winner)

"His stories feature tightly constructed, intricate, puzzle-like plots with clever banter and plenty of fresh, twisted pop culture references." (Ken Liu, Hugo and Nebula award winner)

Members Reviews:

Delightful

Great variety of premises and perspectives, with just the right amount of humor. An entirely enjoyable listen.

An Excellent Collection of SF & Fantasy Stories

Alex Shvartsman is an expert at writing science fiction and fantasy. If you appreciate humour and like these genres, you will love this book. There may be the odd story that just doesn't work for you but with 40 stories in this book there is always something coming that you will love.

My favourite stories in this collection are two stories featuring something called 'The Watch' and two stories featuring a magical pawnshop, which includes the title story 'Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma'.

Tina Connolly did an excellent job reading the stories in this collection. The different inflections her voice really helped to differentiate between characters and it was always easy to follow who was speaking during the stories.

If you are still on the fence about purchasing this book, let me assure you that this book has everything. This book even has cats. And by cats, what I really mean is SPACE CATS. How amazing is that?

The time has come. Scroll your screen up to the top of this page and click on the button to buy this book. You will not be disappointed.

PS. You may think that some of the words in this review are spelled incorrectly. You and the spell checker for this website are wrong. As a Canadian I am proud to spell words like humour and favourite with a 'u' after the 'o'. If you don't like my spelling please imagine that I spelled the words the way you think they should be spelled.

A wonderful find, a thoughtful and intelligent collection of stories

I was looking for a Cthulhu book and seeing the title I dove in...a bit too eagerly! Luckily it worked out.

It starts with a fawning foreword which put me in A bad frame of mind because I don't Want the authors friend tell me how good they are as an author. That's for me to decide. That didn't bode well.

However it got into the first story which was whimsical and amusing and thankfully was the beginning of a rollercoaster of intelligent, sensitive and thoughtful short stories. A wonderful variety of fantasy and sci-fi all flavoured with the character of the author. There is a little commentary after each story and the problem With audio books you can't really just skip past them. I don't want to know where EVERY story was first published.

So, wonderful stories but the book was let down By the inclusion of too much unnecessary commentary. Don't let that put you off however. If you're looking for an intelligent and sensitively written anthology, this is for you.

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Title: Cluster

Author: Piers Anthony

Narrator: Basil Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

As Cluster opens, the alien envoy Pnotl of Sphere Knyfh seeks help from Sphere Sol in a shared galactic-level crisis: Galaxy Andromeda has discovered the secret of energy transfer and intends to use it to steal the basic energy of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Knyfh offers the secret of aura transfer on the understanding that Sphere Sol will spread the technology to help create a galactic coalition to find and defeat agents of Andromeda. Sol's highest-Kirlian individual is Flint, a green-skinned native of Outworld, who has a Kirlian aura of 200, an eidetic memory (useful for memorizing the complex equations of Kirlian transfer that he will need to communicate to other spheres). He has extraordinary intelligence and is highly adaptable. His mission is complicated, however, by the fact that he is pursued everywhere by a very high Kirlian female Andromedan agent, and somehow the Andromedans are able to detect and trace Kirlian transfers.

Flint embarks upon several missions to bring transfer technology to neighboring spheres, inhabiting various alien forms. His efforts are successful despite attacks and sabotage by the Andromedan agent. Through the conflict, however, the mutual attraction of their two vastly superior auras begins to undermine their individual loyalty to their own spheres. Flint and a group of other entities recover the information that will allow them to detect and trace transfers, and a member of the group is revealed as the Andromedan agent. One result is the catastrophic destruction of the local habitat.

Flint and his nemesis are transferred into alien Mintakan bodies to survive. Choosing to leave things with parity between their two galaxies, Flint and the Andromedan mate and remain together until their auras fade (which happens rapidly, since their physical bodies have been destroyed).

Members Reviews:

What a reader!

What would have made Cluster better?

A different reader

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Basil Sands?

Anyone. A corpse. Someone who doesn't speak English. Anyone would have been better

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I remember reading it and liking the story.

Any additional comments?

If you have trouble sleeping the narrator can take care of it immediately

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Title: Phoenix Project

Author: Robert Blanchard

Narrator: Markham Anderson, Suzanne Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-15

Publisher: Robert Blanchard

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

When Lt. Commander Max DuMonde, a US Navy test pilot recovering from injuries on a hospital ship, receives a strange parcel addressed to him from Paris, he doesn't know what to think. Inside are an unmarked set of keys, a photo album, and, strangest of all, news that his father--previously thought KIA (killed in action) in Vietnam--has just died.

With the package in hand and a lifetime's worth of questions in need of answering, Max travels to Europe. But the closer he gets to unraveling the mystery of his family history, the more he becomes entangled in the endgame of an international plot known simply as Phoenix Project--a secret World War II experiment designed to bring back the purest evil known to man...the Third Reich.

Reminiscent of the novels of Matthew Reilly, Phoenix Project is a high-octane action-adventure/sci-fi story that will keep the bodies piling and your blood pumping.

Members Reviews:

Goofy , messy and odd.

What did you like best about Phoenix Project? What did you like least?

The author clearly has done extensive research into Nazi scientific history, and this was interesting. That said, the format and execution of this mess left alot to be desired.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Much better editing, updated continuity, and a clearer, more consistent performance.

How could the performance have been better?

Lose the French woman's ongoing insertion into the story. Goofy.

Was Phoenix Project worth the listening time?

No

Any additional comments?

Don't waste your credit. I did, and it wasn't worth it.

Historical roller-coaster ride!

Very intertaining, had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, could not stop listening!

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Title: The Antaran Codex

Author: Stephen Renneberg

Narrator: Neil Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 44 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

As mankind nears its goal of galactic citizenship, Sirius Kade, trader and Earth Intelligence Service deep cover agent, learns that wealthy and powerful leaders from across Mapped Space are vying for control of an alien relic they believe is the key to untold riches - unaware that they are being deceived. Sirius soon finds himself entangled in an interstellar plot to make humanity a cosmic outcast, denying it its place as the newest member of the vast and ancient community that has governed the galaxy for eons.

Sirius must now overcome ruthless alien adversaries and deadly human rivals as he seeks to discover the secret of the Antaran Codex and safeguard man's future among the stars.

Members Reviews:

Probation is Sirius business

Stephen Renneberg's the Antaran Codex is a solid sci-fi thriller with enough plot twists to maintain the tension through to the very end. Sirius Kade is a merchant captain with a secret intelligence operative background. Along with his crew, a drunken oaf and an alien outcast, as well as a sometime girlfriend who can't decide whether to swindle or bed him, Sirius goes undercover and finds himself in the middle of a plan to keep Earth from joining the galactic club of recognized sentients.

The sci-fi elements are largely physics with faster than light drives along with various unremarkable alien species. The science is not the focal point, rather an elaborate mystery that Sirius must unravel is the main draw. The pacing is excellent with a good mixture of action scenes and detective sleuthing.

The narration was quite respectable with a good range of voices and interesting renditions of the various alien races. While clearly a self contained storyline, the characters and this universe, make for intriguing follow-on installment potential.

Terrific Science Fiction

I love this book and this reading! I only had a problem with the voice choice for Mace, which is why I gave the performance 4/5. Other than that I can't wait for the second book to show up on audible!

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Title: My Other Car is a Spaceship

Author: Mark Terence Chapman

Narrator: Mark Westfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-14

Publisher: Mark Terence Chapman

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

When space pirates threaten to take over the shipping lanes, retired air force fighter pilot Hal Nellis is recruited to fight them. It all comes down to a final battle for the spaceways. Win, and the pirate threat is crushed forever. Lose, and the people of Earth and countless other backwater worlds are doomed to enslavement and death.

Reached #1 bestseller on the Amazon list of Military Sci-Fi, #2 First Contact, and #4 Space Opera.

Members Reviews:

An ok book and an ok performance

I think this is a book more suited for readers who are new to space operas. The reader sounded very neutral and all the characters sounded alike. Overall this was an ok book but isn't on the same level as books like the lost fleet series or odyssey one series.

Ruined by lackluster narrition and bad science.

I have listened to dozens of recorded books mostly in the Sci Fi or Fantasy genre. I was sorely disappointed by this novel. The narrator did not seem to be suited well to this kind of book. He spoke with a monotone for most of the novel. And made it difficult to tell the difference between descriptive narrition and conversation. Words were even replaced by cheesy sound effects in some scenes. The novel looked like fun at first. What's not to like about huge space battles. But half way through the story it takes a left turn and leaves space combat behind. My greatest beef is how the author seems to have forgone even basic physics or even the slimmest reasearch into his use of 'nukes'. I am willing and even enjoy suspending disbelief when reading this kind of book. However the horrible science and lack of convincing descriptions were to much to overcome. Frankly the only reason I continued to listen was to see how bad it could get.

Horrible

This is by far one of the worst books I have listened too. There is no military experience or thought put into this book.

Mediocre

Would you try another book from Mark Terence Chapman and/or Mark Westfield?

Mark Terence Chapman = yesMark Westfield = NO

What was one of the most memorable moments of My Other Car is a Spaceship?

None come to mind.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

AtonalGave me a migraine

Do you think My Other Car is a Spaceship needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

Still havent finished listening to the book so I couldnt say atm. Gonna down a painkiller and spend a few hours in bed/or any other soundlessand dark place conducent to aleviating said condition.

I would classify this as a "sheep" book.

Any additional comments?

Not worth the credit I spent on it so far 1/3 thru.