Simply The Best Audiobooks in Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary Popular Titles

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Título: Lenny

Autor: Tony Jimenez

Narrador: Marcos Chacon, Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 27 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-09-13

Editor: Sonolibro

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 1 votos

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

Resumen del editor:

Este sonolibro es parte de la colección Sonolibro-Z, una selección de los mejores relatos zombie. Llenos de acción, suspense, terror, zombis y vísceras, harán pasar un rato más que aterradora quien se atreva con ellos.

Ralph había criado a Lenny desde que era un cachorro y se había producido una comunión entre el hombre y el animal, mucho más profunda que muchas relaciones humanas, pero a veces parece como si a la vida le molestara que alguien pueda ser feliz: el destino y tres salvajes van a hacer que las vidas de Ralph y Lenny cambien radicalmente.

Pero tambien parece que existe en el éter vital un cierto sentido de justicia poética que al menos hace que no nos sintamos tan mal. Lenny es una bonita historia de amor y fidelidad que va más allá de la vida...y la justicia corre de cargo de los...Zombies.

Lejos de ser un audiolibro convencional este sonolibro está dramatizado con distintas voces para cada personaje, música y efectos sonoros, proporcionando al oyente una increible experiencia inmersiva.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Título: Dead Circus

Autor: Miguel Angel Naharro

Narrador: Emilio Villa, Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 22 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-09-13

Editor: Sonolibro

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 1 votos

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

Resumen del editor:

Este sonolibro es parte de la colección Sonolibro-Z, una selección de los mejores relatos zombie. Llenos de acción, suspense, terror, zombies y vísceras, harán pasar un rato más que aterrador. a quien se atreva con ellos.

En Dead Circus, al principio de la historia, al novio de Katie le encantaban los cines antiguos, que nada tenían que ver con esos multicines que hoy en día hay por todos los sitios. Por eso para celebrar su cumpleaños ella le preparó una sesión en el cine Tolliver.

A él le encantó la idea, y además tenían en el cine para ellos solos, no había nadie más...pero de repente los personajes en la pantalla empezaron a hacerse cada vez más reales hasta el punto...que parecía que te pudieran tocar y lo peor no era esosino que parecíanzombies.

Lo que está claro es que ni Katie ni Jess olvidarían nunca aquella tarde en el cine Tolliver....

Lejos de ser un audiolibro convencional este sonolibro está dramatizado con distintas voces para cada personaje, música y efectos sonoros, proporcionando al oyente una increible experiencia inmersiva.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Título: Luz de luna en Mayombe [Moonlight in Mayombe]

Autor: Carolina C. Palacios

Narrador: Marcos Chacón, Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 42 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-09-13

Editor: Sonolibro

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

Resumen del editor:

Este sonolibro es parte de la colección Sonolibro-Z, una selección de los mejores relatos zombie. Llenos de acción, suspense, terror, zombis y vísceras, harán pasar un rato más que aterradora quien se atreva con ellos.

El periodismo de aventuras a veces hace replantearse a los que lo practican, si no estarían mejor en una oficinita tranquilos y sin problemas. Pero lo que está claro es que hay que saber donde está el límite, porque a veces esa aventura se puede convertir en la mayor pesadilla de tu vida,...o de lo que los zombies dejen de ella...

Judith tuvo que soportar demasiado tiempo los abusos sexuales y de todo tipo de los salvajes del tugurio conocido como "Luna Roja" , pero en su fuero interno había algo que le decía que un día se vengaría de todos ellos...y...una zombi sedienta de venganza iba a ayudarla.

Lejos de ser un audiolibro convencional este sonolibro está dramatizado con distintas voces para cada personaje, música y efectos sonoros, proporcionando al oyente una increible experiencia inmersiva.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Hurricane Regina

Author: Jason Z. Christie

Narrator: Kenneth Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-12

Publisher: Jason Z. Christie

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

Publisher's Summary:

President Robert Lazarus Long's only daughter Regina has been kidnapped on Captain Dan Nolan's watch, leaving him no choice but to try and save her. Her captor, a mysterious figure who claims to rule the world, has offered her an apprenticeship.

Trapped in Rapture, his undersea lair, she encounters wonders beyond compare and faces a terrible decision. She will gain unlimited power. All she has to do is kill him. Follow Captain Dan as his rescue attempt takes him to Iceland, Oak Island and beyond. In a race against time and the very forces of nature themselves, he must face the cataclysm that is Hurricane Regina.

Members Reviews:

Exciting!

I went for a ride with this book.....AND DIDN'T WANY TO GET OFF! Loved it. Very exciting and I couldn't put it down!

Hurricane Regina

Definitely a strange read. Almost like Alice in Wonderland. I. Wonder if all his books are like this. It was a fast read.

So much here

No spoilers here...

To be blunt, I have to compare this book to sex. It was pleasurable, unique, something different than anything I've ever had before , but man, there were times when I would have preferred to slow down and really get everything out the moment I was in before I moved on to the next part. But in the end, I enjoyed the experience so much. Yeah, it was really good for me :)

I would have loved this story to slow down, give more details, let the characters develop more. It was all there, the characters, the events, the start, middle, end... but it lacked a true depth.

In truth, that is a little thing overall with this incredibly unique story.

What did I like best about Hurricane Regina? Well, I had NO IDEA what in the world could be coming next. Not one single idea what was to come. There wasn't a part where I knew what was about to happen. Most of the time, that's great in a book, to a degree, you want to know that you understand the characters and the situation enough to have a rough idea of what they are going to do. Here, however, it makes sense to not be able to figure it out.

It's hard to know what Regina's going to do, given... wait, I said no spoilers. Well, we'll say that there's no way for us to be able to know what she's going to do next, so we'll excuse the total unpredictability here, it fits perfectly.

And the ending was WAY out of left field, to boot.

So in short, this was a shorter read that may have benefited from being expanded on, the characters developed more, and the events detailed a bit more. But overall, way forgivable.

Would I recommend this book to anyone that wants a strange, twist on tradition, almost sci-fi almost philosophical type read.

Seriously?

Hurricane Regina reads like an over-long middle school writing assignment. Lots of imagination, little insight into how real people think and act. The characters have no character, and the plot moves from one random and improbable event to the next. If this was written by a 13 year old, it's first rate. Otherwise it's not worth the bother.

More of a philosophical book than a fantasy

I didn't really like this book much because I found the main characters to be too manipulative and the "heroine" was anything but. But it does beg the question- what would happen to you if you suddenly had the power of God in your hands? Could you fix things, destroy them, or go crazy in the process. Strange book....

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Title: The Silicon Dagger

Author: Jack Williamson

Narrator: Michael Sutherland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

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

Publisher's Summary:

In a novel that marks his eighth decade of publication, Grand Master Jack Williamson projects today's headlines into the near future to tell a tale of murder, conspiracy, and revolution.

When his investigative reporter brother is murdered while researching a story, Clay Barstow follows his trail into Kentucky and begins an investigation of his own. Behind the idyllic landscape and quiet houses of McAdam County, he finds an undercurrent of paranoia and secrecy swirling around something hinted at in his brother's notes, a new technology of astonishing power called "the silicon dagger".

As Clay delves further into the secrets of McAdam County and the ruling family that is its namesake, he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the conspiracy - as its target. Framed for murder and on the run from the bloodthirsty local militia, Clay desperately seeks his brother's killers and the secrets of the silicon dagger. Because if he can't reveal them in time, they just might enable the people of McAdam County to do what no one has dared in a century and a half - declare independence from the United States of America.

Members Reviews:

Setting up for the unsatisfying ending

Gentle warning: tiny spoilers

Boy, this book had me hooked right away. Williamson's interesting and promising premise is enhanced by his excellent writing style and flair for drama. I didn't get enough sleep for a couple of nights; I couldn't keep from reading on.

However, though I won't explain the plot of the book, I must say that the ending is rushed to its [semi-] conclusion. With a Perry Mason-style unbelievable admission in a kangaroo courtroom, a lot of good reasoning and plotting is essentially thrown away.

Furthermore, a good portion of the latter half of the book involves the main character watching television and browsing content on the "infonet" (while in jail). Although the infonet and TV stories further the plot for the reader, there is a reason that there aren't a lot of books, movies, or TV shows about watching TV and web surfing. It's boring to "watch" people watching.

Ultimately, Williamson has opened so many doors by the end of the story that he can't close them all, despite his rush to the end. It's obvious that he left some of them open to pique the imagination of the reader. I can't imagine, however, why he leaves a romantic entanglement floating in the wind as the story closes. It's just symptomatic of the novel as a whole.

Engaging story but has been done too many times.

The main thing that irritated me about this story is it was too real. What this means is that it is not good fiction. You have a main character that sits in jail for a good portion of the latter half of the book and does nothing to clear his name. I would have preferred that he do what he was sent there to do and that is "investigate". All that happens here is he lets the events unfold around them and the major players do the unraveling for him. I guess I am jaded by all of these "one man against the world - to save the world" stories but it would have been nice to have the main character get more involved in the unraveling instead of just sitting there. I also found it unreasonable that the main rival to Clay had a hand in exonerating him.

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Title: Cyber Son

Author: Devlin Church, Michael Angel

Narrator: Bill Royal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-12

Publisher: Banty Hen Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

Space frontiersman Jonathan Love is newly married, in desperate need of a new crew, and he's on the run from the hit men hired by his former best friend, Malco Trent.

A stop at the wildest space station in Fringe Space brings the eccentric genius Fergus MacKenzie on board as the new ship's engineer. All seems well, until Fergus reveals an astounding plan to carry on the family name after his impending death....

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Title: Come Back

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Sky Gilbert

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

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

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 2050 and contrary to popular belief, Judy Garland did not die in 1969, but rather, after several liver transplants, she has lived to the grand old age of 138. Re-embracing her real name, Frances Gumm, she becomes a feminist scholar working on her PhD and writing her thesis on a little-known gay Canadian playwright Dash King, whose career ended in drugs and promiscuous sex. Frances is obsessed with Kings antiquated notion of gay politics, and his tragic story triggers her own meditations on what it means to be an addict.

This is the intense communication between Frances and her PhD advisor in a dystopian future that holds more than a few surprises. Included in these digital missives are musings on everything from the merits of post-structuralism, the future of queer theory, and a passionate monologue about the past and the future by one of the premiere divas of our time.

Members Reviews:

This should be a fun read if you are a true Judy Garland fan ...

This should be a fun read if you are a true Judy Garland fan (know about her life, are familiar with her temperant and so on) and enjoy academia and are willing to go along with the plot.

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Title: Starship & Haiku

Author: S. P. Somtow

Narrator: Lisa Cordileone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

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

Publisher's Summary:

The Millennial War left a sullen void where civilization once stood. But then the whales began their song - a mysterious song that resounded throughout the polluted seas and told an ancient heartbreaking tale that moved the survivors to revive and honored ritual....

Members Reviews:

Almost

What do you get when a burned-out, English-educated, Thai composer, who sometimes resides in the United States, and has read too much Mishima, starts to write science fiction?

Well, damn. You get something bizarre and almost beautiful. I say "almost" because S.P. Somtow tried to structure his 1981 novel Starship and Haiku like haiku--or at least, to make the experience of reading it recall the experience of reading haiku in macro. But it's a novel, which is sort of the anti-haiku form. So neither form--haiku, novel--quite succeeds, and neither quite fails, either. And there's a large admixture of pulpy prose in here, making the proceedings occasionally awkward.

The story: In the third decade of the 21st century, after a devastating nuclear war has left the Earth utterly moribund, politically-neutral Japan is the only country on Earth not left as a post-apocalyptic landscape. Two aging rivals--Ishida and Takahashi--form the powerful arms of a triumvirate that has taken over Japan. The faithless Ishida is the Minister of Survival and the superficial Takahashi is the Minister of Ending, charged with assisting the people to achieve perfect suicides to expiate humanity's crime of destroying the Earth.

Ishida has a secret project. Before the millenial war, the Russians (the book was written around 1980, remember) had completed a starship and left it orbiting the Earth. Ishida has a team of mostly western scientists building a rocket that will take a group of colonists to the Russian generational ship, which they will then aim at Tau Ceti, a four-thousand-year journey. The broader point is to ensure the survival of the human race in the face of its extinction through a devastating virus and debilitating mutations. The more specific point is to ensure the survival of Ishida's own daughter, Ryoko.

Knowing that Ryoko is particularly Japanese (I know, just go with it for a minute) and likely to wish for a beautiful death, Ishida sends her on a trip to Hawai'i to view the devastation firsthand. While there, she meets Josh Nakamura, a Japanese American man, and his younger brother Didi, a "strange" or mutant. Didi's mutation keeps him physically childlike and enables him to read minds and perform a certain amount of telekinesis. He keeps this secret from Josh, for some reason, and Josh thinks Didi is a cretin. Didi is all about joy and beauty and Josh doesn't get the whole Japanese thing.

There's a bit of back and forth and stuff happens. Upshot is that Ryoko develops a relationship with a whale, who (here comes the really bizarre part) reveals to the ministers that (mild spoiler) whales are the parents of the Japanese, a human sub-species that is human-shaped and whale-minded. That's where the Japanese obsession with beauty and death comes from (I know, bear with me a moment.) The whale also outs Ishida's anti-suicide starship plan. This revelation causes the rivals Ishida and Takahashi to kick into high gear. Takahashi becomes a deathgod, hounding people into suicide to expiate their patricidal sin (killing whales) and Ishida sends Ryoko off to make the starship thing happen.

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Title: Sentinels of Tzurac: Terra Major Under Threat

Author: James Raven

Narrator: Peter Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-12

Publisher: Media Arts Institute LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

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

Publisher's Summary:

The Sentinels of Tzurac is an action sci- fi story, written in the spirit of George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry productions, which stimulates the imagination and brings back the emotional excitement experienced by those of all ages who followed the Star Wars and Star Trek sagas.

The year is 2055. Earth's natural resources have been ravaged and the planet is slowly dying. MERIC, the mining company owned by Samuel Jensen that employs new recruit engineer Kyron, is now mining a newly discovered planet known as Terra Iota when an explosion rocks their operations and brings them to a screeching halt. A strangely powerful blue crystal they will come to know as Xytrinium is cause of the explosion and Kyron is sent to Terra Iota to investigate.

Saying goodbye to his love, Torri, Kyron embarks on a journey to the distant planet, unaware that evil forces lurking within his own company don't want him to arrive on Terra Iota alive. Someone is moving behind the scenes to control all of this valuable volatile substance and his motive is as simple as it is diabolical: He is determined to exert complete power over the entire world. Caught in the middle, Kyron now finds himself in a war with a man who seems to hold all the cards; and when a murder, an ancient gold ring, and his father's hidden past reveal startling truths, Kyron will risk everything to save Earth - and the life of the woman he loves.

Members Reviews:

I found this book great for multitasking

Would you try another book from James Raven and/or Peter Baker?

James Raven: Perhaps, if he has something that is not so predictable, without the heavy foreshadowing.

Peter Baker: Probably, especially if the lead character is male as his voice is better suited to the masculine voices.

If youve listened to books by James Raven before, how does this one compare?

This was my first James Raven book.

Have you listened to any of Peter Bakers other performances before? How does this one compare?

I believe this is my first Peter Baker book.

Do you think Sentinels of Tzurac: Terra Major Under Threat needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

It works fine as a stand alone, but a follow up would explain some things. From Kyron's alien guardian, I had the impression something bigger was looming on the horizon, so I would like that explained.

Any additional comments?

This space opera is very fast-paced, definitely action driven. With the ease of plot and readily identifiable bad guys, this story felt like an old friend. While predictable, it was easy to fall into and simply enjoy the tale. Kyron is an honorable man, a hard worker, a considerate fellow so of course I wanted things to turn out well for him.

Of course, the other side of the coin is that there wasnt really anything that wowed me. You can spot all the good guys because they are polite, well spoken, physically fit, and usually blonde or redheads. You can spot all the bad guys because they are rude, uncouth, smell funny, look funny, and are usually bearded and dark haired. Additionally, with the exception of a very minor character that has a tiny part, all the women are mothers or lovers. They have no real role in the story. While Torri, the main love interest, is a brilliant engineer we are never shown her brilliance in her chosen field; however, she does look smashing in her lab coat.

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Title: A Peaceful War

Author: Richard Hanna, Winston Hodge

Narrator: Dick London

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-12

Publisher: CB Hanna Productions

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

Publisher's Summary:

Religious Leaders...Power World Leaders...3rd World Countries...The Child...The Unknown Individual, and more can all control the world. The realistic fear is one person can have this power. The power to change your emotions. Change your thoughts. Change your ideology. Conform all of mankind with a click. It's realistic and it may happen sooner than you think. Than again, you may never know. Listen to the book A Peaceful War.

The discovery of their computerized brain chip was much more than what Dr. Ben and Grandpa had realized. It was soon complicated by demonic foreign agents' violent efforts to steal the chip. What followed generated extreme suspense, tyranny, foreign intrigue, kidnapping, murder, and failure. After all, this exceptional technology would not only cure Alzheimer's disease, but it would permit anyone with an implanted computerized chip to communicate mentally with computers worldwide.

The U.S. government soon realized the intricacies of this technology, in the wrong hands, would be devastating to mankind. As a consequence, the U.S. was forced to take action to prevent the extraordinary.

The balance of this book is written depicting a future time frame beginning sometime after 2020 AD. But, our world's current events and fighting in the Middle East makes this book a must listen. This book is about available technology and world political and religious affairs at that time. However, it does attempt to reference history as accurately as possible, including suitable validating references wherever possible. The future technologies described in this book are exciting and are believed, by the authors, to be viable technologies in 2020 AD with numerous actual and referenced examples to bear this out.

There are approximately 14 major characters in this book played on a worldwide stage, from various points in the USA, Canada, France, England, Rome, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan and they include: Dr. Ben, Mom, Dad, Grampa, Momo, the four Island Sisters, Dr. Smith (AKA Dr. Hijazi), Tom Watson, Bob Evans, the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Amahadan, The Pope, and Grampas old friend Dick, etc.

Ben (who grows up as a technologically curious kid, an early high school and university graduate with degrees in medicine and engineering), together with his Dad and Grandfather, forms a new, somewhat underfunded, high-technology company, whose charter is to build computerized brain implants to extend human awareness and capability. They obtain initial funding from a government study contract, develop an appropriate business plan and start their business.

The product this company will produce is quickly recognized by certain extremist religious figures as a tool they can use to advance their worldwide pursuit of their Middle Eastern religion. They complete a strategy to utilize this technology for the advancement of their religion, but their misdeeds in acquiring the devices backfires.

Through twist and turn of the plot, our heroes become enveloped in the dark intrigue and disaster of political and religious tyranny and monocratic power from which they may be finally saved, only to find their prospering company is about to become the target of a hostile takeover with potentially equal despotic consequences.

The first few pages of our book reflect the current period in the life of the main character, Benjamin, later known as Dr.