Science Fiction

Beyond the Hidden Sky by Marcha Fox

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

When the Brightstars leave Mira III for Cyraria they have no idea their comfortable lifestyle is about to end. Before the starcruiser arrives events occur that comprise a parent’s worst nightmare. Their 14- year-old daughter is missing and her father’s ruthless and power-hungry nemesis is exploiting the situation to promote his selfish ambitions. Formidable challenges await as suspicious circumstances scatter them across the galaxy. Will they survive long enough to be together again?

Targeted Age Group: 12-16
Genre: Science Fiction

Battle on the Marathon by John Thornton

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

The Colony Ship Marathon left a dying Earth on a generations long voyage to another planet. Inside its giant biomes were people who would spend their entire lives during that flight. They knew that their descendants would be the people who would arrive at the destination world. Life in those biomes was as close to life on Earth as possible, including ecologies, plants, animals, and families. In its own way, those biomes were idyllic. Additionally, tens of thousands of people would make the journey in suspended animation to be awakened on the destination planet.
During the long journey, something went wrong. Something else was on the Marathon. This book chronicles the life of one habitat dweller, Kalju, as he becomes aware of his role in what is taking place.
How will the battle on the Marathon end?
This is a stand-alone book set in John Thornton’s Colony Ship Universe.

Targeted Age Group: adults
Genre: Science Fiction

The Creators by Rick Moskovitz

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

A teenaged Natasha Takana seeks to decode the remainder of the hidden DNA code that became the basis for a new religion reviving Creationism in A Stand-in for Dying. Her quest takes her on a voyage to a parallel dimension to learn the fate of the Creators’ civilization.

The conflict between the warring factions of Brink of Life is rekindled, sweeping Natasha into the middle of it in a pursuit that crosses the boundaries of worlds and time.

Targeted Age Group: Young adult and adult audiences
Genre: Science Fiction

A Stand-in for Dying by Rick Moskovitz

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

In a near future world on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a mysterious woman brokers an anonymous pact between two men for the older man Ray to inhabit the younger man Marcus’s body when he dies in exchange for a fortune and access to vast knowledge. The consequences for both men evolve over the ensuing years. When Ray finds a way to exchange identities while still alive, both men struggle to navigate their new lives and relationships while under attack by Ganymede, the architect of the consciousness swapping technology, and the Tribe of 23, a human supremacist organization that has targeted Marcus because of his and his wife’s advocacy for AIs to have equal rights with carbon based humans.

Their moral and emotional development is informed by the resourceful women who love them, one an accomplished journalist, the other a teacher who guides AIs to perceive and feel human emotions.

Targeted Age Group: Adult audiences
Genre: Science Fiction

Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

A woman plunges into consciousness in the midst of what seems like someone else’s life, sending her on a quest to discover who she is and to craft an identity that makes sense of her new reality. As she digs into the mystery of her life, she uncovers a top secret government organization plotting world domination and a clandestine vigilante organization dedicated to destroying it and is caught between these warring factions. Nobody in her new world is exactly who they appear to be, including herself. Identity, she learns, is complicated and inseparable from the body in which it resides.

Targeted Age Group: Adult audiences
Genre: Science Fiction

BOB by Tegon Maus

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

After 27 years as a newspaper man, Peter Anderson’s career is slipping away, at least it was, until he stumbled upon the story of a lifetime. Sent to do a fluff piece about lights in the night sky over Arizona, he discovers far more than he ever expected when he comes upon a mysterious young woman held prisoner in a basement. After helping her to escape, she disappears before he can learn the truth about who she is or where she came from. His search for her leads him back to the lights in the sky and leaves him with more questions than answers. The only thing he knows for certain . . . the only thing he can count on are the two words offered repeatedly by his friend and guide . . . “IS BELT.”

Targeted Age Group: 15 & up
Genre: Science Fiction

[Read more…] about BOB by Tegon Maus

Daisy’s Run: The Clockwork Chimera 1 by Scott Baron

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

Daisy’s Run: The Clockwork Chimera 1 by Scott Baron

Rudely yanked from cryo-sleep, Daisy woke to find herself on a burning ship in deep space, and among a crew of modded humans, no less. Her life had just become a whole lot more complicated. And it was only going to get worse.

As if the creepy cyborg and the mechanically-enhanced human crew weren’t bad enough, what was supposed to be a simple flight home to Earth was going horribly wrong. A deadly plot was unfolding. One that could jeopardize the entire human race. And Daisy found herself stuck in the middle

It wasn’t her job, saving the world, and she sure as hell didn’t want it. But the snarky young woman didn’t have a choice. But with Daisy reluctantly coming to the rescue, did humanity even stand a chance?

The Contingency War boxed set by G J Ogden

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

Get all four books in the Contingency War Series for one low price. Hours of epic space opera action and adventure with unique heroes and twists that you won’t see coming!

The series includes: The Contingency, The Way Station Gambit, Rise of Nimrod Fleet, and Earth’s Last War.

From book one:

No-one comes in peace. Every being in the galaxy wants something and is willing to take it by force. The Hedalt were no different. They came from the distant reaches of the galaxy to wage war. Their fleet wanted to take Earth for its prize, but we were ready. We were stronger.

For years, we fought them, ship-to-ship, until we scattered their forces and drove them back. Pursuing the Hedalt fleet to their home world, we delivered the decisive blow. We nuked their planet and wiped them out for good.

Or so we thought.

For decades, Earth Fleet sent out Deep Space Recon missions to scour the galaxy and clean up the remnants of the Hedalt Empire. Eventually, we found only ghosts – empty outposts and long-dead colonies. But, close to the edge of known space, I – Captain Taylor Ray – and my crew are about to make a discovery that will change everything.

The war isn’t over. The war has yet to begin.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Genre: Science Fiction

Zombie Airman by David Guenther

Posted By Audiobook Librarian Leave a Comment

Dragon Awards Horror Novel Finalist
The night of the plague follows sunset on April Fool’s Day around the world. By sunrise, less than fifteen percent of the world’s population is uninfected. The airborne disease is invulnerable to any air filter or disease barrier. The fifteen percent uninfected are still vulnerable to the disease when spread via bodily fluids as the infected seek to spread their disease. These are the stories of those just trying to survive.
Airman First Class Caleb White, dorm rat, burned out on monitoring computer displays eight hours a day in a small cubicle in a large cubicle farm. His few interests off duty, bar hopping, taking care of his beloved truck, and managing to find trouble. A spur of the moment decision sets him up for a night of adventure and more excitement than he ever had in the Air Force.
Major General William ‘Willy Pete’ Peters, has a rotten night. Preparing for his third divorce, he wakes to find his one night stand trying to eat him. She ends up having a fireplace poker sticking out of her skull as he learns that’s the least of his problems. By morning, he comes to the realization he is the senior ranking survivor of all the services.
Lieutenant Gloria ‘Grits’ Alban awakens among dozens of corpses on a bridge. Her uniform is torn and saturated in blood. She has no memory of the long night. She joins her fellow survivors and finds it hard to accept their stories of zombies the night before. Equally hard to believe is the new abilities she’s slowly learning she now has.

Targeted Age Group: 16 to 90
Genre: Science Fiction

Khe by Alexes Razevich

Posted By Audiobook Librarian 1 Comment

Khe looked for a savior.
She found monsters.

Khe loves her simple life on a farming commune until she discovers her ability to make the crops grow faster is a death sentence. Terrified, she flees the only home she’s ever known for the far-off city of Chimbalay in search of those who might save her.

But Chimbalay has its own dangers. When a powerful alien race takes notice of her and wants to use her for their own evil purpose, Khe must learn to fight. What she discovers about herself will change her planet forever…

Khe deftly blends elements of sci-fi and fantasy, satisfying those wanting something new. Readers looking for solid world-building and strong female characters will especially enjoy this book.

Targeted Age Group: 14+
Genre: Science Fiction

Categories