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AuthorArthur C. Clarke
NarratorStephen Baxter
SeriesTime Odyssey, Book 2
Duration10h 29m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
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 did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance? Bisesa's questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun's core - an anomaly that has no natural cause is evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away are coming to fruition in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life in a bombardment of deadly radiation. Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort. And all the while, the Firstborn are watching...
The Witcher Book 1: Blood of Elves
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 1
Duration 10h 54m
For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other. Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Ci...
View BookThe Witcher Book 3: Baptism of Fire
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 3
Duration 11h 58m
The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he ha...
View BookAuthor: Claire Wade
Author Claire Wade
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 11h 55m
Imagine a world where.... Everything you ate was monitored by the government. Every step you took was counted. Your children were weighed every day at school. Neighbours reported on neighbours and no one was safe from judgement. Sugar was illegal, and baking was a crime. Imagine if that world was here.... What would you do? Toe the line or fight fo...
View BookThe Witcher Book 6: Seasons of Storms
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 6
Duration 11h 45m
Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a magical sign, potions and the pride of every witcher - two swords, steel and silver. But what would happen if Geralt lost his weapons? Andrzej Sapkowski returns to his most popular he...
View BookAuthor: 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...
View BookAuthor: Philip K. Dick
Author Philip K. Dick
Narrator Paul Giamatti
Duration 9h 15m
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but t...
View BookAuthor: 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.
View BookAuthor: Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
Author Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
Narrator John Lee
SeriesTime Odyssey, Book 3
Duration 11h 46m
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. Th...
View BookAuthor: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
Duration 12h 53m
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually...
View BookAuthor: Diana Wynne Jones
Author Diana Wynne Jones
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 8h 57m
In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and invisibility cloaks exist, young Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell....Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to...
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