Science Fiction/Fantasies
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Science Fiction/Fantasy
“The Strange” by Nathan Ballingrud (DB122100)
Narrated by Sophie Amoss (10 hours, 27 minutes)
"Since Anabelle's mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father's diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars stopped, life seemed stuck in foreboding stasis until the night Silas Mundt and his gang attacked. At once evoking the dreams of an America explored in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and the harder realities of frontier life in Charles Portis True Grit, Ballingrud's novel is haunting in its evocation of Anabelle's quest for revenge amidst a spent and angry world accompanied by a domestic Engine, a drunken space pilot, and the toughest woman on Mars. Nathan Ballingrud's stories have been adapted into the film Wounds and the Hulu series Monsterland, The Strange is his first novel"
“Stars, hide your fires” by Jessica Mary Best (DB121676)
Narrated by Natalie Naudus (7 hours, 59 minutes)
"After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together with a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name."-- From publisher.
“Fall of the iron gods” by Olivia Chadha (DB122168)
Narrated by Sharmila Devar, Soneela Nankani, and Neil Shah
"Continues the story of the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries who fight a government which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that dictates every citizen's fate."-- From publisher.
“Fiasco” by Constance Fay (DB122330)
Narrated by Paige Reisenfeld (12 hours, 23 minutes)
"Cynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She's Generosity, a cultist who never quite fit in. She's Bella, the daughter who failed to save her cousin's life. And then there's Cyn, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers. Hunting a kidnapper doesn't usually mean accidentally taking your sexy new target to dinner at your parent's house, a local mystic predicting you'll have an increasingly large number of children, or being accompanied by a small flying lizard with a penchant for eating metal, but, as they field investigative hurdles both dangerous and preposterous, Cyn and Micah grow ever closer. When a violent confrontation reveals that everything Cyn thought about her past is wrong, she realizes that she has the power to change her future. The first part of that is making sure that Micah Arora is around to be a part of it."-- From publisher.
“The Stars too fondly” by Emily Hamilton (DB122603)
Narrated by Vico Ortiz (11 hours, 28 minutes)
"When they accidentally steal a spaceship, Cleo and her friends are soon en route to Proxima Centauri, and as they go deeper into space, the laws of physics start twisting, old mysteries come back to life and Cleo's battle with the hologram of the ship's missing captain turns into something desperate."-- From publisher.
“Village in the Sky” by Jack McDevitt (DB121694)
Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck (9 hours, 53 minutes)
"When an entire town seemingly vanishes from a planet with conditions favorable to life, Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew must solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly--and why--which raises the stakes as they each look to maketheir mark on history."-- From publisher.
“A world out of time” by Larry Niven (DB121757)
Narrated by Tom Weiner (7 hours, 57 minutes)
"Jaybee Corbell wakes up after more than two hundred years to find he is in someone else's body and being trained for a one-way mission to the stars, but once Corbell is away from the watchful eye of the Society, he heads for the galactic core, where he hopes to escape his captors and reclaim his life."-- From publisher.
“Moon of the turning leaves” by Waubgeshig Rice (DB122205)
Narrated by Billy Merasty (10 hours, 2 minutes)
"It's been over a decade since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy. Evan Whitesky led his community in remote northern Ontario off the rez and into the bush, where they've been living off the land, rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions in total isolation from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in the world after everything, Evan's people are in some ways stronger than ever. But resources in and around their new settlement are beginning to dry up, and the elders warn that they cannot afford to stay indefinitely. Evan and his fifteen-year-old daughter, Nangohns, are elected to lead a small scouting party on a months-long trip to their traditional home on the north shore of Lake Huron to seek new beginnings, and discover what kind of life and what dangers still exist in the lands to the south. Moon of the Turning Leaves is Waubgeshig Rice's exhilarating return to the world first explored in the phenomenal breakout bestseller Moon of the Crusted Snow: a brooding story of survival, resilience, Indigenous identity, and rebirth."-- Provided by publisher.
“Another time, another place” by Jodi Taylor (DB119019)
Narrated by MacKenzie Beyer (15 hours, 6 minutes)
"It's long been known that if a thing can go wrong, it will. With knobs on, usually. Disasters start to pile up. A new colleague with no respect for the past and a great deal to prove. Historians lost in time. And - worst of all - Rosie Lee on her very first jump. Then there's the small matter of Max's dishonourable discharge. From Tudor England to the Tower of Babel - it's all going horribly wrong. Jobless and homeless, Max receives an offer she can't refuse. Another time, another place. A refuge, perhaps. She's got that wrong, too." -- Provided by publisher.
“Welcome to forever” by Nathan Tavares (DB122201)
Narrated by Neil Shah (14 hours, 42 minutes)
"Fox is a memory editor, gifted in the art of creating real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in the Field of Reeds Center for Memory Recovery, the therapists tell him he was victim of a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks, the pioneer of memory editing turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims, including his husband Gabe. Thrust into fragments of memories that survived the blast, Fox struggles to rebuild himself and grieve for a man he can't remember."-- Provided by publisher.