Dawn: Xenogenesis, Book 1

Kindred

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Octavia E. Butler
• Narrated By Kim Staunton

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

The Fifth Season: The Broken Stone, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 27 mins)
• By N. K. Jemisin
• Narrated By Robin Miles

This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet, small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilisation's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance.

Provenance

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Ann Leckie
• Narrated By Adjoa Andoh
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A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family and her world before they are lost to her for good.

Wild Seed

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Octavia E. Butler
• Narrated By Dion Graham

Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflexor design. He fears no one...until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. Together they weave a pattern of destiny unimaginable to mortals.

Gray: The Complete Collection

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Lou Cadle
• Narrated By Lauren Fortgang
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Pre-med student Coral is on vacation in Idaho when something terrible happens. The black cloud is followed by a wildfire and searing heat that lasts for days. She survives deep in a cave but emerges days later to find the world transformed, with blackened trees, an ash-filled sky, and no living creatures stirring - except for her. So begins her desperate journey to find water and food and other survivors...and the answer to the mystery of what happened.

Cast Under an Alien Sun: Destiny's Crucible, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Olan Thorensen
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis
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Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again. On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul.

The Left Hand of Darkness

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Ursula K. Le Guin
• Narrated By George Guidall

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement.

Bloodchild and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Octavia E. Butler
• Narrated By Janina Edwards

Six remarkable stories from a master of modern science fiction. Octavia E. Butler's classic "Bloodchild," winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, anchors this collection of incomparable stories and essays. "Bloodchild" is set on a distant planet where human children spend their lives preparing to become hosts for the offspring of the alien Tlic. Sometimes the procedure is harmless, but often it is not. Also included is the Hugo Award - winning "Speech Sounds," about a near future in which humans must adapt after an apocalyptic event robs them of their ability to speak.

After It Happened: Publisher's Pack, Books 1 & 2

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Devon C. Ford
• Narrated By R. C. Bray
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This omnibus edition contains Survival (book 1) and Humanity (book 2) of the After It Happened series.

Children of Time

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Narrated By Mel Hudson
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Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

Solitude: Dimension Space, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Dean M. Cole
• Narrated By R.C. Bray, Julia Whelan
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Separated by the gulf of space, the last man and woman of the human race struggle against astronomical odds to survive and unite. Army Aviator Vaughn Singleton is a highly intelligent, lazy man. After a last-ditch effort to reignite his failing military career ends horribly, Vaughn becomes the only human left on Earth. Stranded alone on the International Space Station, Commander Angela Brown watches an odd wave of light sweep across the planet.

Koban, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Stephen W. Bennett
• Narrated By Patrick Freeman
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We colonized 700 planets. Humankind enjoyed the benefits of expansion room and the end of wars. We even disbanded our military. Then the Krall found us. The Krall have used thousands of years of combat to select the genes of the strongest and fastest warriors. They are a species determined to dominate the entire galaxy, through destruction and annihilation of every opponent.

Koban is an uninhabited high-gravity planet with impossibly fast savage animals, which employ organic superconducting nerves. This deadly world is where the Krall tested humans for war capability.

Annihilation: Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Jeff VanderMeer
• Narrated By Carolyn McCormick
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Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: An anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Dennis E. Taylor
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.

The Power

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Naomi Alderman
• Narrated By Naomi Alderman, Adjoa Andoh, Thomas Judd, and others
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'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death.

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

• UNABRIDGED (34 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ursula K. Le Guin
• Narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan, Jefferson Mays

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades, from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud awards. She has had her work collected over the years but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works.

Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 26 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Pamela Bedore

Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dystopian fiction asks a few seemingly simple questions aimed at doing just that. Who are we as a society? Who do we want to be? Who are we afraid we might become? When these questions are framed in the speculative versions of Heaven and Hell on earth, you won't find easy answers, but you will find tremendously insightful and often entertaining perspectives.

The Last Dog on Earth

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 1 min)
• By Adrian J Walker
• Narrated By Jonathan Aris, David John
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Every dog has its day. And for Lineker, a happy-go-lucky mongrel from Peckham, the day the world ends is his: finally a chance to prove to his owner just how loyal he can be. Reg, an agoraphobic writer with an obsession for 90s football, plans to wait out the impending doom in his second-floor flat, hiding himself away from the riots outside. But when an abandoned orphan shows up in the stairwell of their building, Reg and Lineker must brave the outside in order to save not only the child, but themselves....

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 37 mins)
• By China Mieville
• Narrated By John Banks
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The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution, and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions?

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife: The Road to Nowhere, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Meg Elison
• Narrated By Angela Dawe
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When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population - killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant - the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power - and the strong who possess it.

Pandemic: The Extinction Files, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 52 mins)
• By A. G. Riddle
• Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini
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In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

The Peripheral

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 5 mins)
• By William Gibson
• Narrated By Lorelei King
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The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer. Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's keen to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Association, in compensation for neurological damage suffered in a Marines elite unit.

Lunar Discovery: Discovery Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Salvador Mercer
• Narrated By Mark Boyett
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What lies on the dark side of the moon could change the course of humanity forever. When a Chinese rover discovers an alien technology on the dark side of the moon, it is up to Richard "Rock" Crandon and his NASA team of scientists and engineers to devise a way to return before the Chinese and Russians. Forced to deal with bureaucratic oversight and a complex team of personalities, Rock Crandon pushes his team to their limits.

Too Like the Lightning: Terra Ignota, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Ada Palmer
• Narrated By Jefferson Mays

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.