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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A Triptych Three Perspectives on the Coming Era The future doesn't arrive all at once. It begins quietly. An office is emptied. A prisoner asks the wrong questions. Two minds discover that freedom may lie beyond the world that created them. Set in a...

What would you do if you found your perfect life? When lonely physicist Chloe Carsen discovers a parallel world she becomes addicted to her life there with a perfect family and a perfect career. She doesn't even care that her physical body in the real world is wasting away. But, then, in the alternative world her ideal life begins to fall apart. Her anti-gravity experiment unleashes a government manhunt for her and her family; they'll do anything to get their hands on her tech. The lives of Chloe's alternative-world husband and sons are endangered.

For centuries, the Moon has been a symbol of stability. Then it begins to break. When naval officer and scientist Trevor Lombardi discovers unexplained changes in Earth's tides, he assumes it's an error. But as strange events begin occurring across the globe. Coastal flooding, shifting ocean currents, and growing scientific anomalies, it becomes clear that something is terribly wrong. Meanwhile, emergency management specialist Eden LaGreen races to understand a disaster no one can explain. A fisherman notices the sea behaving in ways he has never seen before.

Gravity is the most dependable force in our lives —until it isn’t. The Shape of Falling is a collection of speculative short stories about what happens when gravity is borrowed, taxed, insured, inherited, or misunderstood. These stories explore curiosity, good intentions, and the consequences of changing the rules that hold things together.

The master of science-fiction is back for Volume Two of the Ray Bradbury Classics Collection. These legendary tales come straight from the Golden Age of Sci-Fi, and are just as intense, dark, and full of flavor as the stories in Volume One. Buckle up your space seatbelt, and let’s take a journey across hostile worlds in Asleep in Armageddon, encounter mystery and danger in Lorelei of the Red Mist, explore the consequences of creation in The Monster Maker, and discover the wit, imagination, and humanity that would later make Bradbury one of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century.

Two kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a research station is failing. One engineer remains inside, keeping its last living systems alive. When a structural failure tears through Erebus Deep Station, Priya Okonkwo is forced to seal a flooding bulkhead. The action saves the Greenhouse and the cultures that sustain the station. It also leaves her colleague Ines on the other side. The decision is necessary. Priya must live with its cost. With the evacuation vessel gone, Priya is left alone beneath the Ronne Ice Shelf. Power declines. The hull weakens. Filters fail.

Zwei abgehalfterte Astronauten, ein Raumschiff vom Schrottplatz und ein rostiger Roboter retten eine Welt. Ein paar Millionen auf dem Konto, ein hübsches Weingut und eine großartig unkonventionelle Familie: Ex-Astronaut Nick hat das perfekte Leben. Doch die Vergangenheit drängt sich dazwischen und zwingt ihn, noch ein letztes Mal in ein Raumschiff zu steigen.

Hidden powers. Mind numbing geometry. But is it reality or illusion? One year after the world's first space elevator ascent, a new megastructure is taking shape high above the equator. But for all its wonders, there's trouble brewing on this colossal ring of carbon. The people who roam its high...

All paths converge. Will Earth survive what's coming? Ryan Pierce has done everything in his power to protect the people of Earth, but his patience is running out. Finally, with the go-ahead from his former commander, Ryan devises a plan. The Formless, along with his brother, are on the way to...

Mars Station is just a really nice place; it’s known as the home of the fresh start. All of the people that live there are really nice too, even if they are a bit odd by some peoples’ standards. Unfortunately, some of them are just a little bit odder than the others. But first, the Celeste and its crew have to get there. The ship is running well and everything looks good. This should be a simple run without any problems to speak of. After all, the Celeste is a well-run ship and well-run ships rarely have problems. Even when they do, they are perfectly able to fix them and keep moving.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Features a full cast of AI-generated voices, with dedicated voices assigned to recurring characters throughout the story. About Story- Thirty-one people are missing. The FBI thinks it is a serial killer. The truth is much, much worse. FBI Special Agent...

Mit der Welt außerhalb der weltumspannenden Computernetzwerke hat Dandelion nicht viel am Hut. Bits und Bytes bestimmen ihr Leben. Und natürlich die Firewalls und Sicherheitsprogramme der Server, in die sie sich hackt. Doch dann muss sie zu ihrer tiefen Bestürzung feststellen, dass es einen erheblichen Unterschied macht, ob man sich nicht aus der virtuellen Realität ausloggen will – oder es plötzlich gar nicht mehr kann.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Features a full cast of AI-generated voices, with dedicated voices assigned to recurring characters throughout the story. ABOUT STORY- In a city governed by mathematical perfection, human instinct is the only variable they cannot control. Elias Thorne...

Dr. Corinne Dowd thought she was practicing medicine at the cutting edge. She was wrong. The Telluride Center wasn’t a hospital. It was a farm. And she was the livestock. Fused to her pelvic floor is the Bio-Weld—a synthetic, living stem-cell chimera that can stop a hemorrhage, restart a stopped heart, and knit shattered bone in seconds. The ultimate military asset. Two billion dollars of pure, engineered invincibility. There’s just one problem. It’s hungry. Deny it massive calories and it will cannibalize your organs and bone marrow to survive.

There are days when the universe doesn’t much care what you want and doesn’t leave you any choices. When a serious mechanical problem comes up that can’t be fixed out in space, you have to put into the nearest port, no matter where it is. Unfortunately, that place is Downshift City. Downshift City is not a nice place to live. Unless you happen to be one of the upper-level Corps, that is. They think it is just fine. They would, they are the ones that made it that way and they made it that way for their own benefit.

From multimillion-copy bestselling authors Douglas E. Richards and Joshua T. Calvert comes a high-stakes science fiction thriller about a neuropsychiatrist investigating an epidemic of mass suicides and NASA astronauts uncovering an impossible secret beneath the ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa...

The Shadows have a name. And they are running. For centuries, the Imperium believed its borders were secure and its enemies understood. Then the impossible begins to happen. Ancient vessels retreat without explanation. Frontier systems report unexplained disturbances. Military commanders struggle to explain a growing pattern that seems to defy everything known about the galaxy. As tensions rise and old assumptions collapse, humanity finds itself drawn into a mystery far larger than anyone imagined.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Features a full cast of AI-generated voices, with dedicated voices assigned to recurring characters throughout the story. He cuts out the nightmares of the rich, but today he woke up with a monster in his head. At an isolated clinic in the Swiss Alps...

Eine exotische Wasserwelt, angenehm temperiert, bisher nicht von intelligenten Wesen bewohnt – die Grosnopfe sind glücklich. Wird das die neue Heimat ihrer Zivilisation, nach der sie schon so lange gesucht haben? Marchenko ist skeptisch. Dieser Planet wirkt einfach zu perfekt – als wäre er exakt für die Bedürfnisse ihrer Alienfreunde geschaffen worden.

Einhundert Jahre sind vergangen, seit die Erde auf mysteriöse Weise von den Sternen abgeschnitten wurde. Nach den dramatischen Ereignissen am Mount Bental kämpfen die Nachkommen einer neuen Erde, die sich noch immer von der Katastrophe erholt, um ihre Zukunft. Sie müssen in Erfahrung bringen, ob eine neue Gefahr von den Sternen droht, doch dafür gilt es, eine gefährliche Reise durch eine fremd gewordene Natur zu bestehen und Antworten zu finden, die nur ein Mann je gehabt zu haben scheint: Marcus Chen.