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ANYONE CAN GO THERE... COMING BACK IS ANOTHER STORY. The first in a four-audiobook series, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow is a complex suspense novel of the near future, where virtual reality has expanded to encompass all aspects of society -- and national, physical, and mental boundaries are...

Continuing the Deep Space Nine saga—an original novel from New York Times bestselling author David R. George III! At the end of 2385, in a significant shift of its goals from military back to exploratory, Starfleet sent Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of the U.S.S. Robinson on an extended...

Some time after the events of Fiendish Schemes, George Dower finds himself a widower, of sorts. On her deathbed, Miss McThane entrusts Dower with a small, ticking clockwork box. The box is mysteriously linked to her. When she breathes her last, the box stops ticking and Dower is able to open it, to find hundreds of letters - written in an unknown hand, signed only with the initial S. They’re not love letters, but refer instead to the letter-writer’s ongoing search for some other person. The last is a simple note, reading “Found him”...

When George’s father died, he left his son a watchmaker’s shop - and a whole lot more. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, wild music, and sexual intrigue.

Flying Saucers, Nazis and Pirates, oh my! Want to know what really happened in New Mexico in the late ’40s. Why are there so many UFO sightings today? How do the UFOs go faster than our military planes, even underwater? Find the answers to these and many more questions.

On a freezing night in 1778, General George Washington vanishes. Walking away from the Valley Forge encampment, he takes a fall and is knocked unconscious, only to reappear at a dog park on San Francisco Bay - in the summer of 2014. Washington befriends two Berkeley 20-somethings, who help him cope with the astonishing - and often comical - surprises of the 21st century.

Sali Terri and George Shooters - two rookie officers from the Galactic Guild - find themselves in way over their heads with political intrigue, working to ratify a treaty with the cantankerous locals of a small planet called Kili Wanna. Every time an agreement is about to be reached with the current emperor, someone kills him off, nullifying the planet's induction into the Galactic Guild. The madness ramps up when outside influences take the matter into their own hands and flood the podunk planet with junk food in an attempt to corrupt their simple lifestyle and force an alliance.

His Holiness, the Supreme Spiritual Leader of the Galactic Guild, Glup III, an aging podil, is about to be dethroned and podil-napped all in the same day. The MISFITS decide today is a good day to thwart the evil Cardinal Nog’nik’s plans to take over the Galactic Guild and become a living god. The Galactic Guild dispatches their top agents, George Shooters and Sali Terri to restore Glup III to his righteous position and discover how a pair of bumbling pilgrims have obtained the technology necessary to teleport Glup III from the clutches of a deranged despot.

When George d’Clare receives the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, he and his wife. Madison. organize a support group. This noble endeavor eventually leads them to meeting a strange man with an incredible story - a captivating tale about a device that could transport a person into the future and return them safely to the present. His far-fetched account also comes with an equally fantastic offer: to help him in a daring plan to use the device to bring back the cure for the disease. Thinking the man suffers from dementia, George dismisses him as delusional.

Dan Kalendis, who was once a Stellar Immune, the revered guardians of Janusia, is now a shadow of his former self. Haunted by his disastrous first mission, he now spends his days on Earth removing all traces of humans from other worlds. He lives a life of solitude and risks becoming a forgotten man. But when a Terran receives dangerous information, Dan discovers that Janusia’s greatest enemy has defied a long-standing treaty and brought its forces to Earth. Now, as he faces an old adversary, Dan realizes the unimaginable has become inevitable: war is coming, and time is running out.

Captain Alexis (Lexi) Cooper must save the Epsilon Eridani system from the heinous alien race known as Ursuians, but she and her partner, Johno Brunn, have no idea what they’re up against. Without the aid of the United Galaxies Federation, Captain Cooper knows it’s up to her and the Rebels to rally an army and reclaim the Epsilon Eridani system. She knows this isn’t just a fight for one system but all systems in the galaxy.

After a new pilot joins Captain Lexi and her crew aboard the Auroris, a ship navigating through the Milky Way galaxy, things get rocky. Tarquin Vox is a sharp-witted and talented pilot with unnatural beauty. Lexi is a determined captain who has her suspicions. In a whirlwind of difficult maneuvers and secrets from the mysterious pilot, Lexi and her crew, including her friend and bodyguard Johno, find themselves in the Epsilon Eridani system. A wicked Alien Overlord is on the loose, and the United Galaxies are not helping.

Although most of humanity is unaware of it, the world always has a way of protecting itself from the forces of darkness. The essences of fire, wind, water, electricity, earth, and spirit are willing to fight against evil, although they must enter human hosts to do so. These people, called the Destined, arise roughly every 700 years to fight against oppression. And now the powers have chosen six hosts to protect the world: five teenagers and one teacher.

When Edward’s big brother gets lost during the Halloween raid, he decides to sneak inside the pumpkin looming over London and become a raider himself. But will he manage to survive Halloween night, when the challenges he faces seem to have changed since last year, when his best friend is also missing inside the witch’s house, and when the aliens seem to have turned this whole thing into some sort of video game?

During an oceanic expedition, Ray discovers a glowing alien orb in a remote cave, linked to a massive celestial megastructure. Through an AI-assisted neural interface HOCI, the orb serves as an oracle, granting humanity access to universal knowledge that propels technological progress. As Ray and his team bond with this celestial realm, the luminous sphere becomes an enlightening yet uncertain beacon, leaving them to grapple with the profound implications of their newfound cosmic wisdom. The orb leaves them at a crossroads, pondering the balance between progress and responsibility.