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By: Gregory Benford
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- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
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- Unabridged
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Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II.
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Damned If You Do
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By: Clive Barker
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- Unabridged
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After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Do you know how people get old?
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The Iron Dragon's Daughter
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Named a New York Times notable book of 1994, The Iron Dragon's Daughter tells the heartrending story of a changeling child who is kidnapped to a realm of malls and machines and enslaved in a vast, infernal factory. Ultimately, she escapes and attempts to educate herself about this alien world, while being tormented by visions of the life she was denied.
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N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
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5 out of 5 stars
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By: N. K. Jemisin
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Eagle in the Sky
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- Narrated by: Byron Mondahl
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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The Syrian plane disintegrated, evaporating in a gush of silvery smoke, rent through with bright white lightning, and the ejecting pilot's body was blown clear of the fuselage. For an instant it was outlined ahead of David's screen, cruciform in shape with arms and legs thrown wide, the helmet still on the head, and the clothing ballooning in the rush of air.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May be my favorite
- By JDD on 05-14-19
By: Wilbur Smith
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- By: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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HAND DANCING
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-30-15
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- By: Kim Wilkins
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
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- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 6
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Berlin in autumn: Christine Starlight lives in an artists' colony with her lover Jude, whose patience and beauty have eased her battle with chronic pain. But Christine begins to be haunted by childhood recollections of a little girl's disappearance and the flapping of a blackbird's wings. Then her world is rocked by the return of a childhood friend... Mayfridh rules over a land where a wolf is the queen's counsellor, fate turns on the fall of an autumn leaf and mortals feel no pain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Horrible Narration
- By KathyDB on 03-24-15
By: Kim Wilkins
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The Quantum Thief
- By: Hannu Rajaniemi
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Story4 out of 5 stars 711
Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist, and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. Now he’s confined inside the Dilemma Prison, where every day he has to get up and kill himself before his other self can kill him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worldship: Udo the Digger
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- By: Joshua Gayou
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,135
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,021
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,020
Udo's biggest problem isn't being a digger (that's low class), or staying drunk (that's damn expensive), or avoiding the Dwergaz (they're monsters), or even pissing off the supposed Gods. It's that his reality...well, it isn't what he thought. And now, he can't even afford to drink because his so-called friend Nicz is cutting into his business, digging up tin, iron, and copper. So Udo forms a new plan: clay. After all, clay jars are used to store everything: meat, herbs, and, his personal favorite, ale.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I am confused.
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The Hollow Man
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- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4 out of 5 stars 112
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run - from his mind, from his past, from himself - hoping to find peace in isolation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Genius writing, great book
- By David Shear on 02-28-14
By: Dan Simmons
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Grass
- By: Sheri S. Tepper
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Story4 out of 5 stars 349
What could be more commonplace than grass or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Speculative & Creative, Yet well Paced and Unique
- By Zach Wilson on 04-17-17
By: Sheri S. Tepper
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Come Lie with Me
- By: Linda Howard
- Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4 out of 5 stars 135
After a terrible accident, Blake Remington struggles to regain the ability to walk. Therapist Dione Kelly is his final hope - if he can bring himself to trust the woman whose past is shrouded in mystery. Dione's soul is as paralyzed as Blake's body. Dione wants only to help Blake recover, but as his strength returns, so does his desire to unearth her secrets. When they give in to the passion that flares between them, Dione just might find that her patient is the only one who can heal her private pain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Physical Therapist Dione takes on Blake~ 5 STARS~
- By Molly on 04-25-16
By: Linda Howard
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