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By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 22 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with... Read more
View audiobookFlowers for Algernon
By: Daniel Keyes
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and... Read more
View audiobookStories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Todd McLaren & Abby Craden
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers listeners the dual... Read more
View audiobookThe City in the Middle of the Night
By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell & Laura Knight Keating
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But... Read more
View audiobookThe Stars My Destination
By: Alfred Bester
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.
When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913โ1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the... Read more
Aristotle's Poetics
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definitions and analyses of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed poetry is more philosophical and more... Read more
View audiobookNow and Forever
By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . . The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . . Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose... Read more
View audiobookMockingbird
By: Walter Tevis
Narrated by: Nicole Poole & Robert Fass
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is forbidden. And a strange love triangle: Spofforth, who... Read more
View audiobookI Am Legend, and Other Stories
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean & Yuri Rasovsky
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Mathesonโs vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, hungry for Nevilleโs blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead... Read more
View audiobookBlood Music
By: Greg Bear
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream. Read more
View audiobookThe Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: Victoria Morgan
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
" I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by. My limbs became glassy, the bones... Read more
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