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We're fighting for our lives, living for reward challenges, in front of an intergalactic audience—and, oh yeah, apparently the huge winged alien is now my mate. I've always been a reality TV junkie, heading up a fantasy league and hosting watch parties at my place. I jumped at the chance to...

Two FBI agents, Jack and Louis, investigate tabloid stories. In this case they investigate terrorists that kidnap Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head.

In a city tuned for harmony, dissonance is a crime. Music no longer belongs to people. It’s engineered—regulated, optimized—stripped of risk until every note is safe, predictable, and compliant. But beneath the city’s perfectly curated soundscape, something is slipping through. Out of Tune is a short story set in the world of Cyber Overture, where artificial systems don’t just control music—they shape emotion itself. As algorithms dictate what people hear and how they feel, a handful of unapproved sounds begin to surface. Imperfect. Unplanned. Dangerous.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Audiobook voice samples: https://authorbdmurphy.com/DHint Princess Kainda ran away, but not with the idea of becoming a pirate in this sector of space. She fled after realizing the pirate attack she barely survived was a targeted assassination, ordered...

When the corporate monolith PortSys brought porting to the masses, CEO Emilia Kirsch and her son, Jason, accomplished what every other start-up company had failed to deliver. They really did change the world. They reversed climate change. They created a multitrillion-dollar industry out of thin air, curing economic woes across the globe. They made it so that anyone could be anywhere simply by touching a screen...including the man who murdered Sarah Huff. Now, Sarah’s 17-year-old sister, Anna, is determined to hunt the bastard down. But there are a few problems.  

Experience Kurt Vonnegut's gripping dystopian masterpiece, "2 B R 0 2 B," in this immersive audiobook adaptation. Set in a chilling future where population control is strictly enforced, those who wish to live must find a volunteer to die. A thought-provoking tale of sacrifice, bureaucracy, and the cost of utopia, this short story captures Vonnegut's signature dark humor and sharp social commentary.

Join Christopher Pullen and his two best friends Oakley Harris and Rylan Grant—as they abruptly give up the next six months of their lives to be guinea pigs for a research project in the mountains, unknown to the general public. For their services, monetary rewards are promised in exchange for the invasion of their bodies and the comfort of their own thoughts. As time goes on, the small posse stumbles through revolutionary technology that alters the mind and body, pushing their capabilities past what is naturally obtainable.

All across London, billionaires receive an emergency alert from specialist extraction company B of the Bang. A nuclear missile is inbound, and society's elite have less than 70 minutes to reach the bunkers. As they head for the exits, it's your fault if you get in the way.

Bertram Russell’s The Scourge of B’Moth, first published in the May 1929 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, is a Cthulhu Mythos novelette—a tale of encroaching dread, in which the civilized world finds itself stalked by something ancient, primal, and hideously patient. What begins as a puzzling psychiatric case soon unfolds into a vision of cosmic and biological terror: a malign force rising from the depths, insinuating itself into the minds of men, and calling all life backward—away from order, reason, and restraint, and toward the law of fang, jungle, and abyss.

By using the energy of the land, some humans have found they can develop extraordinary abilities. At the age of 17, these warriors, magicians, chemists, and psychics are allowed the opportunity to train at the Academy, increasing their opportunity for a well-paying career. But there's a catch. They must fight beside the Army if requested by their king. Most aren't concerned by this, as the current treaty has prevented battle for nearly 70 years...but that's about to change.

2069: Earth is dying, and society is on the brink of collapse. We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist. Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

In a future where aging has been cured and death has been carefully regulated, humanity has achieved what appears to be perfect stability. Population is fixed. Order is absolute. Every new life must be balanced by a willing death. Inside a Chicago hospital, this system is carried out with quiet efficiency. Clerks keep count. Doctors follow protocol. Volunteers step forward. When a man waits for the birth of triplets, the logic of this world presses in on him, forcing a reckoning that no amount of order can soften.

"2 B R 0 2 B" (pronounced: to be or not to be), was first published in 1962, and introduces the listener to a future where old age has been cured, population control has been implemented to keep the United States population at exactly 40 million, and death is voluntary. "The Big Trip Up Yonder" was published in 1954, and is similarly themed (old age has been cured), but in opposite. This story follows the Ford family who has 23 members spanning several generations all living together in a small one bedroom apartment under the tyrannical head of the family, "Gramps".

Kurt Vonnegut was a groundbreaking American writer, the author of such classics as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle. In a future where sickness and disease are a forgotten memory, and death itself has been cured, population control requires special consideration, and the concept of "life for life" has a new definition.

Taylor McFadden is willing to go against any monster thrown at him. But something Niki threw at him has got him off his game. Niki must build a consultant team to figure out if she has a problem with another company. But will Dr. Salinger Jacobs of Heavy Metal take her call? Does she have the clout to get him to believe her if he picks up the phone? 

Aufgrund bevorstehender gefährlicher Mission der Ultimo-1 wurden Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson vorübergehend auf einen felsigen Exoplaneten ausquartiert. Alles scheint friedlich, doch plötzlich ereignet sich eine Explosion! Natürlich muss Holmes herausfinden, wer warum dahintersteckt.

The demigod's telepathic control of his people has made Erlon a peaceful world. But people are disappearing, and their friends and families don't remember them once they're gone. Something is upsetting the Untouchable's carefully controlled paradise. Saryn, Chuckie, and the rest of the Charons have spent the decade hiding, but not resting. Saryn has found a way to sever the Untouchable's control over the people of Erlon. But if they use it, people may die. Lots of people.

Kurt Vonnegut creates a near-perfect world. There are no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, and no wars. All diseases were conquered. So is old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers. The population of the United States is stabilized at forty-million souls. Have a problem? Not really, just call the Federal Bureau of Termination. Nothing to it. Just pick up the phone and call 2BR02B. Thus the title, "To be or not to be".

An artificial object made of compressed stardust is barreling toward Earth. Is it an invasion ship? A doomsday weapon? Perhaps it’s the final response of Squanto, the Warlord of Rigel who James McGill has repeatedly humiliated. Or could it be from the Mogwa, sent to avenge McGill’s assassination of Earth’s Imperial Governor? No one knows the truth of its origins, but the object is huge and unstoppable. Whoever hurled this rock at us isn’t answering our calls. Every weapon bounces off, and the people of Earth begin to go mad as they realize their destruction is only hours away.

It was supposed to be an easy job: find the Dark Star Revolution Starships, destroy them, and go home. But a booby-trapped vessel decimates the Meridian Alliance fleet, leaving Serengeti - a Valkyrie class warship with a sentient AI brain - on her own, wrecked and abandoned in an empty expanse of space. On the edge of total failure, Serengeti thinks only of her crew. She herds the survivors into a lifeboat, intending to sling them into space. But the escape pod sticks in her belly, locking the cryogenically frozen crew inside.