AuthorArthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
NarratorJohn Lee
SeriesTime Odyssey, Book 3
Duration11h 46m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
The Firstborn-the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey-have inhabited legendary science fiction master Sir Arthur C. Clarke's writing for decades. Now, twenty-seven years later, the Firstborn are back. This time, they are pulling no punches. They have sent a "Q-bomb." Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyed-and that will obliterate Earth. Bisesa's desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end seems inevitable. But as shocking new insights emerge about the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.
Author: Stephen Baxter
Author Stephen Baxter
Narrator David Troughton
Duration 9h 45m
The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. It's a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among t...
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Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Various
SeriesArthur C Clarke's Collected Stories, Book 1
Duration 9h 48m
Arthur C Clarke is without question the world's best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer. His career, spanning more than sixty years, is one of unequalled success. Clarke has always been celebrated for his clear prophetic vision, which is fully on display in this audiobook, but there are also many stories which show his imagination in...
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The Long Earth Series Book 2: The Long War
Author: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 2
Duration 13h 30m
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new `America', called Valhalla, is...
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Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 9h 49m
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it ruled the stars. But then, as legend had it, the Invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of...
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Author: Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Author Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 3
Duration 12h 3m
2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Wil...
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Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Stephen Baxter
SeriesTime Odyssey, Book 2
Duration 10h 29m
Book 2 of the Time Odyssey series. Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why...
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Author: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 1
Duration 11h 30m
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerou...
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Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 9h 2m
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionise the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
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Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator John Lee
SeriesTime Odyssey, Book 1
Duration 11h 37m
The first book in the Time Odyssey Series. For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind-until they act. In an instant, Earth's timeline is carved up and reassembled into a patchwork of different eras, from prehistory to the year 2037, each with its o...
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The Long Earth Series Book 4: The Long Utopia
Author: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 4
Duration 12h
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a norm...
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