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Title: The Rage of Asmodai

Subtitle: Warhammer 40,000

Author: C Z Dunn

Narrator: John Banks, Steve Conlin, Jonathan Keeble, Toby Longworth, Saul Reichlin

Format: Original Recording

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-18

Publisher: Black Library

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Vidarna of the Relictors leads a squad of his brothers in pursuit of a dark artefact on a world riven by heresy. But the appearance of Chaplain Asmodai of the Dark Angels changes his mission. The Dark Angel claims to have the relic they seek - but to claim it, the Relictors need to aid him in capturing the leader of the rebellion, a mysterious black-armoured Space Marine whose armour bears symbols similar to that of the Dark Angels themselves....

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Title: After Atlas

Subtitle: Planetfall, Book 2

Author: Emma Newman

Narrator: Andrew Kingston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-17

Publisher: Orion

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

Publisher's Summary:

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems....

Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos' entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away, what made his father lose hope, and what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Atlas' departure, it's got something to do with why Casales was found dead in his hotel room - and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation.

To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realises that escaping the past is not so easy. There's more to Casales' death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realises....

Read by Andrew Kingston.

Members Reviews:

Very nicely done!

I haven't read Planetfall and it didn't matter; in fact this novel may be the best advertisement to go back and read the original. At first, I felt a bit lost as there were references to the original story. That feeling did not last as the mystery at the heart of the story took over. Even more impressive, the information shared in this novel about the original story doesn't seem to have compromised any of the secrets of the original.

The detective solving the mystery brought to life A fully realized dystopian earth. The IT of the future, 3-D printing run amok as most food comes from printers; the Star Trek replicator never seemed as alien as these devices, and a scary new version of indentured servitude all fit together perfectly and provide a complete background to a great detective story.

I have just added Planetfall to my Kindle and look forward to enjoying the original story by a most accomplished author.

Great futuristic sci-fi murder mystery, but also so much more

Really 4.5 stars.

After Atlas is a sort of sequel to Planetfall, though set back on Earth some years after the Atlas left on its mission. It's basically a futuristic sci-fi murder mystery and a pretty damn good one with colorful characters, conspiracy theories, and bureaucratic obstructions.

Some distance into the future when governments and corporations have become one thing, people eat 3-D printed food, and most everyone is chipped in a technology driven world, Carl must solve a murder case that takes place in a retro, turn of the century hotel that caters to rich people, where doors still unlock with good ol' fashion keys, the food is real, and actual humans still do the housekeeping. That mix of old and new is a fun way to navigate through a murder mystery.

Oooooh, but there is so much more going on than meets the eye. The world has become a dire place for most people, with natural resources scarce, populations of people in extreme poverty, and the class wars as bad as they have ever been.

I won't say much more than that for fear of spoiling the fun. If you read Planetfall, this is a continuation of that story, though it's really a trip backwards to tell the story of the people still left on Earth. There will absolutely must be another book in the series, which is great.

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Title: Program 13

Subtitle: The Emile Reed Chronicles, Book 1

Author: Nicole Sobon

Narrator: Anna Christine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-17

Publisher: NICOLE LYNN SOBON

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

Publisher's Summary:

Two identities. One body.

Seventeen-year-old Emile Reed may have died, but she isn't dead. Her body now belongs to Program Thirteen, where her every thought, every movement, is controlled. Until Emile begins to find her way back inside of Thirteen's core, where she manages to fend off Thirteen's programming to reclaim the life that she lost. But Charles McVeigh, the owner of Vesta Corp, isn't willing to let Thirteen go. And he will stop at nothing to reclaim control of Thirteen's programming. Because without her, McVeigh has nothing.

What makes you human?

Members Reviews:

Review for Program 13 by Nicole Sobon

***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***

Program 13 by Nicole Sobon

Book One of the Emily Reed Chronicles

Publication Date: August 15, 2012

Rating: 4 stars

Source: Bought from Amazon

***Old review; original review posted HERE on November 4, 2012***

Summary:

Two identities. One Body.

17-year-old Emile Reed, may have died, but she isn't dead. Her body now belongs to Program Thirteen, where her every thought, every movement, is controlled. Until Emile begins to find her way back inside of Thirteen's core, where she manages to fend off Thirteen's programming to reclaim the life that she lost. But Charles McVeigh, the owner of Vesta Corp, isn't willing to let Thirteen go. And he will stop at nothing to reclaim control of Thirteen's programming. Because without her, McVeigh has nothing.

What makes you human?

What I Liked:

You already know I love science fiction. Well, I loved the concept of this book. A robot made to look like a human is not something new to fiction, but it is not something that is extremely popular in Young Adult literature. Science fiction in general is not very popular in the Young Adult age level. I think Ms. Sobon took a risk with Program 13 being science fiction, but this risk was completely justified by the execution of this book. Ms. Sobon's writing style is excellent - with a consistent tone and voice of the main character. This book was written in first person (Emile's), which was interesting to read, because Emile is a human, but Program 13 is a machine.

I usually have a problem with first person point of view, but this book would be so different and probably not as understandable if it were written in third person. I liked the characters of this book. Emile was a strong protagonist, and has conflicts, about whether she should go back to Vesta Corps to save other people, whether she should run away from those she cares about, and so on. I did not connect with her as easily as I have with other heroines, but this was not a deterrent from finishing the book.

There was a little character development present with Emile, but not as much as I expected. The secondary characters, such as Colton and Hayden, did not have much character development. I liked Colton well enough. He was introduced rather abruptly, and I do not understand some decisions that he made, but he was a good secondary, static character. I am not sure if I liked Hayden. I hope to see more of his character (or some sort of resolution) in future books. Also, I truly felt as if the villains of the story were villains, but at the same time, I felt for them, because they believed they were creating machines for the betterment of society.

The world of this book felt real to me.

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Title: Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Frank Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

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

Publisher's Summary:

"Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven" (1909) is a science fiction short story by Mark Twain.

Excerpt:

Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there wasn't any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. An ordinary comet don't make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one of that sort - like Encke's and Halley's comets, for instance - it wasnt anything but just a flash and a vanish, you see. But after I got outside of our astronomical system, I used to flush a comet occasionally.

Artist Bio Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature

Members Reviews:

Great content, but atrocious formatting.

The writing is great as one would expect. The book construction / format is very disappointing. It is not annotated in any sense. It is in a tiny font (the smallest I have ever seen in a book, making it difficult to read. There are no page numbers - make sure you have a book mark handy or you will never find where you paused. The story is clever and imaginative. I managed to enjoy reading it in spite of the poor format with lierally no background information or commentary.

Five Stars

everything by Mark Twain is good

One chuckle after another.

A must read for all who believe in an after-life. Twain's vision of heaven is both humorous and thought provoking. It might be a different view of things had Stormfield learned more than one song to sing in his lifetime.

It's more like ranting than a story

I've read a lot of Mr Clements (Mark Twain) works . Unfortunately he wrote this when he was extremely angry over personal losses. It's more like ranting than a story. I finished reading it glad that it was not the first of his works I read or it would have been the last

Five Stars

Twain was SO far ahead of his time it's scary.....

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Title: Stacja bojowa (Star Force 5)

Author: B. V. Larson

Narrator: Roch Siemianowski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-17

Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Sily Gwiezdne i Kyle Riggs staja przed nowymi wyzwaniami, mierza sie z kolejnymi flotami, odkrywaja sekrety wojny, która tocza od lat.

Ludzie zdobywaja system Eden, ale czy uda sie go utrzymac? Sily Gwiezdne sa oslabione po dlugiej walce, wielu Zolnierzy chce wrócic do domu. Wiedzac, Ze maszyny pojawia sie znowu, z kolejna armada, Riggs szuka rozwiazania, które mogloby na stale przywrócic pokój na Ziemi.

©2017 B. V. Larson (P)2017 Storybox

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Titre: Causalité paradoxale

Auteur: Caroline Plouffe

Narrateur: Atriana Reeves

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 5 hrs and 30 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-15-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

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

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Un voyage dans le temps qui pourrait être lourd de conséquences...pour plus d'un univers parallèle.

Jusqu'où iriez-vous afin de sauver l'être le plus important de votre vie? Josiane Cinq-Mars était, pour sa part, déterminée à réparer les erreurs du passé et à racheter sa lâcheté. L'ambitieux et inusité projet VO.TE.SU, instauré dans le but de mettre la main sur un traitement révolutionnaire, lui offre providentiellement cette chance sur un plateau d'argent. Elle n'est cependant pas la seule à avoir un objectif secret et à être prête à tout pour avoir gain de cause. Dans des réalités alternatives, on a également eu cette invraisemblable idée de voyager à travers le multivers, et ce qui devait être une mission toute simple se transforme rapidement en cauchemar, tandis que les événements se succèdent de façon catastrophique. Josiane devra malgré elle faire alliance avec une mercenaire afin de non seulement tenter de modifier le triste destin de sa mère, mais de sauver sa peau ainsi que la civilisation tout entière. Dans cette course contre la montre, elle apprendra que ses actions peuvent avoir des répercussions désastreuses, dans les univers parallèles comme dans sa propre réalité. Tout choix a sa conséquence....

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Please note: This audiobook is in French.

Avis des membres:

Pour vivre une expérience intense

Il y s'est passé tellement de temps depuis ma dernière lecture d'une histoire de fiction... Je ne pense pas avoir lu un autre livre sans me perdre dans les langes pour relire les dernières pages en revenant à moi ou voir le texte se croiser devant mes yeux. Si vous n'avez pas Page Turner parmi vos amies, il vous faut lire Causalité paradoxale d'un trait, vous deviendrez alors presque intimes avec le concept. Tout en ayant une me bien particulière, l'histoire se déroule au rythme de la série 24 dans un style fantaisie à la Fringe dont les auteurs ont d voyager dans le future ou tomber sur un o.p.c. égaré pour se procurer cette oeuvre

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Title: Podbój (Star Force 4)

Author: B. V. Larson

Narrator: Roch Siemianowski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-17

Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Kolejny tom bestsellerowej serii B.V. Larsona, króla Amazona. Wielka miedzygwiezdna wojna miedzy robotami a istotami zywymi trwa. Sily Gwiezdne ponownie musza powstrzymac maszynowych najezdzców - ale jak?

Kyle'owiRiggsowi udalo sie uwolnic Ziemie od makrosów, jednak za ogromna cene. Wielkie maszyny juz mu dluzej nie ufaja. Jak wsciekly pies, musi zostac wyeliminowany, a razem z nim Sily Gwiezdne. Jesli ten plan sie powiedzie, ludzkosc czeka zaglada.

©2017 B. V. Larson (P)2017 Storybox

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Title: Reptilian

Author: John J. Rust

Narrator: Jim Rush

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-17

Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The South Carolina Lizard Man had always been considered a local legend, a way to draw tourists to rural Lee County. Until a local man shoots and kills the beast.

Jack Rastun, Karen Thatcher, and their team from the Foundation for Undocumented Biological Investigation (FUBI) are called in to collect the Lizard Mans corpse. When they arrive, they find the man who shot it torn apart, and the creatures body gone.

This is only the beginning. More lizard men emerge from the swamps, stalking and killing townspeople. Rastun, Thatcher, and the FUBI wage a desperate battle to try and end the bloody attacks.

But deadly reptilians are not the only threat. A former Marine is convinced the lizard men are part of a vast global conspiracy, and has a plan to deal with them, one that could mean disaster for the entire county.

With thousands of lives at risk, Rastun and Thatcher are faced with a difficult question. Who is more dangerous, monster or man?

Members Reviews:

Huh?

Concept for the plot is decent. Started out okay, but it seemed the writer was aiming at two separate stories that he failed to blend together well. Not to mention the addition of characters at the last minute to make them the guilty party. Sort of played like the old who dun-its that got lost and made up a path to make the story credible.

My overall concern is how you can have a mysterious creature that survives out in the woods that everyone has seen or know some one who died by their hand. Yet, all the locals in charge know nothing about. Even by the end of the story - who are the reptilians and why are they there?

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Title: The Glorious Tomb

Subtitle: Warhammer 40,000

Author: Guy Haley

Narrator: Gareth Armstrong, Ian Brooker, Jonathan Keeble, Toby Longworth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-17

Publisher: Black Library

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

In the skies above Armageddon, the Black Templars prepare for war, and the Ancients are awakened. Brother Adelard, interred in the Dreadnought Invictus Potens, leads his brothers to war, facing the prospect of a second death in service to the God-Emperor.

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Title: Gridlinked

Author: Neal Asher

Narrator: Ric Jerrom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

In outer space you can never feel sure that your adversary is altogether human.

The runcible buffers on Samarkand have been mysteriously sabotaged, killing many thousands and destroying a terraforming project. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin an investigation. But Cormac has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Pelter, who is prepared to follow him across the galaxy with a terrifying android in tow.

Despite the sub-zero temperature of Samarkand, Cormac discovers signs of life: they are two 'dracomen', alien beasts contrived by an extra-galactic entity calling itself 'Dragon', which is a huge creature consisting of four conjoined spheres of flesh each a kilometre in diameter. Caught between the byzantine wiles of the Dragon and the lethal fury of Pelter, Cormac needs to skip very nimbly indeed to rescue the Samarkand project and protect his own life.

Gridlinked is the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series.

Members Reviews:

Slower early work, horrible narrator, good grit

I can tell this is one of Asher's earlier attempts at writing a novel. A lot of boring inbetween stuff and filler material that feels like it could just as well have been left out of the book. Not much of the compact, action packed, to the point writing his later work is full of.

Still,at chapter 7 or so the story picks up momentum and I got sucked in anyway. All in all, well worth my time.

The true horror of this audio incarnation of a cyberpunk classic is the narrator. Oh, my, god!! Total amateur.

Not only does he not know how to use proper intonation, his voices are unbearable. He reads sentences in completely alien ways. Invents pauses and emphasizes words in a way that rips their meaning completely out of context. The result is that I keep reconstructing half the sentences in my head the way Asher must have meant them so I can understand what is actually meant. Is that horrible narration or what?! Besides that he lays on the voices in such an exaggerated way that characters just seem rediculous. Does he not understand that he is not the writer? Use voices to serve the story ffs, don't give them so much of your own influence that they can not possibly fit in anymore..

This man truly does not belong in this lone of work.

Asher why?

Thanks for writing some of my favorite science fiction though ;).

What did this novel want to be?

In other reviews I've seen the author being favourably compared to Gibson or Stephenson. I wish I had read the reviews first, I wouldn't have wasted the credit. As it was I listened to the preview and was grabbed by the start. I thought I was in for a seriously interesting sci-fi/mystery.

What I got was badly structured prose trying to describe a future where all of humanity is ruled by AIs. Agent Cormac -- our "hero" -- is part of the ruling polity until he's un-linked because eh's forgotten how to be human. Sadly the more I read about Cormac the less I cared about him. The villains, at least the human ones, were more interesting.

Great book, great author, great universe

Lover's of space opera will love this book. I can't recommend it highly enough. Great read.

Excellent!

Wonderful adventure and great ideas as usual. Asher's books are brimming with detail so much so that I like to listen to them several times to soak it all up.