Grave Consequences

Glamorous Illusions

By: Lisa T Bergren
Narrated by: Jaimee Draper
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

Cora is about to discover who she truly is. It’s the summer of 1913, and Cora Kensington’s life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. Not only are the crops failing, but someone dear to Cora is failing as well. One fateful afternoon, a stranger comes to call, and Cora discovers a terrible secret about her past… a secret that will radically... Read more »

Powersat

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And in its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space.

America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an... Read more »

Empire Builders

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world’s loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the political strangle-hold on space exploration and opened the solar system to all mankind—becoming one of... Read more »

Glittering Promises

By: Lisa T Bergren
Narrated by: Jaimee Draper
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Wealth cannot buy peace... or direction.

For Cora Kensington, the Grand Tour was to be the trip of a lifetime. She discovered the family she never knew she had and may have even found the love she longs for in Will. Yet her life has just become infinitely more challenging …

Hounded by the stubborn pursuit of Pierre de Richelieu and journalists... Read more »

Mars

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 18 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

This grand epic adventure from six-time Hugo Award–winning author Ben Bova tells the irresistible story of man’s first mission to that great unconquered frontier, Mars—a planet pocked by meteors, baked by ultraviolet light, and covered by endless deserts the color of dried blood. Technically plausible and compellingly human, Bova’s story... Read more »

Moonrise

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 18 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

There is a future of astonishing possibilities waiting on a lifeless world of surprising contrasts, where sub-frigid darkness abuts the blood-boiling light—a future threatened by greed and jealousy, insanity and murder.

A twenty-first-century US aerospace company has developed the first permanent human settlement on the moon. The settlement is... Read more »

Moonwar

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Ben Bova’s extraordinary Moonbase Saga continues with a breathtaking near-future adventure rich in character and incident. Seven years after the indomitable Doug Stavenger has realized his cherished dream of establishing a colony on the inhospitable lunar surface, Moonbase is a thriving community, a marvel of scientific achievement created and... Read more »

Return to Mars

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 15 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

What Jamie Waterman discovered on Mars was astonishing. What he survived was remarkable—but it was only the beginning.

Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced, this one motivated purely by its profitable potential. Half-Navajo geologist Jamie Waterman, a veteran of the first mission, feels his conflicted... Read more »

Leviathans of Jupiter

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Samantha Eggar, Rosalyn Landor & a full cast
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

What secrets lurk in the depths of Jupiter’s oceans?

In Ben Bova’s novel Jupiter, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter’s planet-wide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant’s team faced certain death as their... Read more »

Mars Life

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Jamie Waterman has made an important discovery on Mars. A cliff dwelling reveals the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. But now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality... Read more »

Venus

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system, its ground hot enough to melt aluminum, its air pressure high enough to crush spacecraft landers like tin cans, its atmosphere a choking mix of poisonous gases. This is where the frail young Van Humphries must go—or die trying.

Years before, Van’s older brother perished in the... Read more »

Farside

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

Farside, the side of the moon that never faces Earth, isthe ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting fora tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.

Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planetcircling a star some thirty light-years away. The race is on to obtainphotographs and... Read more »

New Earth

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

We’ve found another Earthlike planet, but what secrets doesit hold?

The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new,Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of water anda breathable, oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to learn more, an explorationteam is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New... Read more »

Death Wave

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system.In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system, where they discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an... Read more »

Earth

By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Earth is the latest science fiction novel from multiple Hugo Award winner Ben Bova, author of Apes and Angels and Survival

A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system... Read more »

Grave Consequences

By: Lisa T Bergren
Narrated by: Jaimee Draper
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

The epic romance continues. For Cora Kensington, the journey of a lifetime has taken unexpected turns. And her future — her very life — depends on the decisions she’ll make at each crossroad. As the Grand Tour with her newfound family winds through France, Austria, and Italy, an unseen enemy trails close behind. And a forbidden love continues to... Read more »