# | Year | 1st Read | Title | Author(s) | My Rating | |
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1 | 2008 | | Alliance Space Alliance-Union Universe #0.5 Cover Blurb | C J Cherryh | | |
| From audible.com:
Two Alliance-Union novels, Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna, bound in one omnibus volume for the first time!
Merchanter's Luck
His name was Sandor, and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union planets under false papers and fake names. Her name was Allison, and she was a proud but junior member of the powerful family whose mighty starship, Dublin Again, was the true queen of the spaceways. They met at Viking Station. She seeking a night's dalliance; he desperately in search of a spacer assistant. Their fateful meeting was to lead to a record-breaking race to Pell Station, thereby catching the calculating eye of the grim commander of the Alliance battlecraft Norway and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
When 40,000 human colonists are abandoned for political reasons on a planet called Gehenna, and re-supply ships fail to arrive, collapse seems imminent. Yet over the next two centuries, the descendants of the original colonists survive despite all odds by entering a partnership with the planet's native intelligence - the lizard-like, burrowing calibans. | |
2 | 1968 | | Battle Circle Cover Blurb | Piers Anthony | | |
| AMERICA RISING FROM THE ASHES OF ITS FINAL DESTRUCTION...
Here is Piers Anthony's epic trilogy... the brilliant, riveting tale of the savage struggle for empire and diminance in primitive postcataclysmic America.
SOS THE ROPE
The kill spirits of the blast were retreating and Sos was pledged to begin an empire, to build a dream - the same dream which had been built so many times, eons ago.
VAR THE STICK
Var was the chosen one - half man, half animal, a mutant victim of the blast - called upon to rescue the Empire in a battle he was secretly afraid of winning.
NEQ THE SWORD
An age of darkness was upon the Empire and Neq, the greatest of warriors, was emarked on a quest that would decide the future of the world!
"SUPURB... In prose as sharp as a nomad's sword, Anthony writes of the price of heroism, the power of love, the futility of vengeance." Science Fiction Review | |
3 | | | The Commodore at Sea and Spartan Planet Commodore John Grimes #5 | A Bertram Chandler | | |
4 | 2019 | 2024 | The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Cover Blurb | H P Lovecraft | | |
| From audible.com:
For the first time ever, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has produced an audio recording of all of Lovecraft's stories. These are not dramatizations like our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre - rather, this is an audiobook of the original stories, in all-new, never-before-heard recordings made by the HPLHS' own Andrew Leman and Sean Branney exclusively for this collection. Working from texts prepared by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, this collection spans his entire career from his earliest surviving works of childhood to stories completed shortly before his death. All tales include original music by HPLHS composer Troy Sterling Nies. This audio bonanza features 74 stories adding up to more than fifty (50!) hours of Lovecraftian listening fun, professionally performed and recorded for your enjoyment. | |
5 | 2015 | 2023 | The Cycle of Arawn Cycle of Arawn #3.5 Cover Blurb | Edward W Robertson | | |
| From audible.com:
The White Tree (book one): In Mallon, the dark magic of the nether has been banned for centuries. Its users have been driven out or killed. Its secrets lost.
But the holy book of the nethermancers has just been found by a boy named Dante.
As he works to unlock the book's power, he's attacked in the street. The nethermancers aren't gone—and they want their book back. Caught between death cultists and the law, Dante fights for his life, aided by his growing skills and a brash bodyguard named Blays. Together they're drawn into a centuries-old conflict that brings Mallon to the brink of civil war.
Surviving won't be easy. But if they make it out alive, they'll step down the path to becoming two of the greatest warriors the world has ever known.
The Great Rift (book two): Dante and Blays have averted war against their new home of Narashtovik. But they didn't do so alone. It's time to repay their debts.
The norren who helped them remain enslaved by the Gaskan Empire. While arming the norren clans for rebellion, Dante hears one of them is in possession of the legendary Quivering Bow. If he can track down the weapon, it could secure norren independence.
But the wheels of war have already begun to turn. As Gask moves to crush the rebellion, Dante and Blays find themselves at the head of a campaign for survival—for norren and Narashtovik alike.
The Black Star (book three): Narashtovik has been saved—but Dante and Blays' friendship has been destroyed.
Blaming the Gaskan king for the loss of his love, Lira, Blays infiltrates the enemy nobility. There he schemes to bankrupt Gask and drive its ruler from the throne. But Dante's been waiting for Blays' return. If he finds and exposes him, Blays will be executed as a spy.
As they squabble, strange lights shine in the east. Harbingers of a long-forgotten threat. If the signs go ignored, Narashtovik will be annihilated by an enemy it never knew it had. | |
6 | 1978 | | The Dark Dimensions and The Rim Gods Commodore John Grimes #3 Cover Blurb | A Bertram Chandler | | |
| DRAGONS? FAIRIES? FROG PRINCES? SIR DOMINIK FLANDRY?
In a John Grimes Rim Adventure? Strange things happen out where the stellar medium grows thin, out where it is difficult to say if you remain within the galaxy or you're falling through the intergalactic void. Add to that strangeness an Outsider ship filled with technology so far in advance of the human as to appear magical, and the catalytic presence of Commodore John Grimes, and anything can happen - anything at all. | |
7 | 1978 | | The Inheritors and Gateway to Never Commodore John Grimes #2 Cover Blurb | A Bertram Chandler | | |
| DRONGO KANE NEVER BROKE THE LAW
He was a cunning, ruthless opportunist who paid when he had to and stole when he could - but never when there was the slightest chance of getting caught. That's what had John Grimes worried: here was Kane directly under the watchful eyes -and guns - of a Federation Survey vessel, openly engaging in kidnapping and trafficking in human flesh!
Despite the fact that the beautiful inhabitants of this Lost Colony faced a fate worse than death, a more cautious - or less gallant - officer would do nothing - secure in the knowledge that regardless of appearances there would be some loophole that placed the Law squarely on Kane's side. But Grimes, being Grimes, would have to act - knowing full well that to "interfere with a merchantman on her lawful occasions" meant a blasted career... and knowing too that Drongo Kane never broke the law... | |
8 | | | Into the Alternate Universe and Contraband from Otherspace Commodore John Grimes #4 | A Bertram Chandler | | |
9 | 1999 | 2014 | Northworld Trilogy Northworld Trilogy Cover Blurb | David Drake | | |
| From amazon.com:
Now with a new afterword by David Drake!
The inhuman Rulers of the galaxy sent three fleets to learn what had happened to the world located by Captain North and the Survey Team he led. Neither a soul nor a message returned. The fourth time, the Rulers sent a single man: Nils Hansen.
Commissioner Hansen had a mind that saw the shortest path to each task's completion and a ruthless determination to do what the task required. The cost - to himself and whoever happened to be in the way - didn't matter. Hanson's Special Units had kept his planet safe from the most sophisticated and violent criminals in the galaxy. Now Hansen was being sent to penetrate a spacetime enigma which had made gods or demons of the first humans to discover it. He would succeed or die.
Northworld: a place of slashing violence and mystic transformation Northworld: a place of treachery and dazzling beauty Northworld: a place of honor, of faith, and of love.
Hansen's iron will and strong arm confront godlike power and godlike cunning while a galaxy trembles for the outcome. And if Hansen dies - he will not die alone!
At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Praise for The Northworld Trilogy:
"Down and dirty . . . this one blazes!" —Los Angeles Daily News
"Fast-paced adventure with convincing depth!" —Publishers Weekly
"Good military SF . . . the action is fast and the tension is high!" —Locus
"Northworld is that rare work-a novel that works on more than one level. A stunning tapestry . . . highly recommended!" —The SFRA Newsletter
Vietnam veteran, former lawyer, former bus driver, and now bestselling author, David Drake tells a military story like no other. His readers recognize that he can take them where no one else can, with gut-wrenching description that puts them face-to-face with the enemy, and in the midst of the action right on the battlefield. He helped create the audience for mercenary military science fiction with his best-selling "Hammer's Slammers" books. Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His stint at Duke University Law School was interrupted for two years by the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Drake has a wife, a son, and various pets. | |
10 | 1970 | | Planet of Adventure Planet of Adventure Cover Blurb | Jack Vance | | |
| From audible.com:
Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited - not only by warring alien cultures but by human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history. Reith must find a way off the planet to warn Earth of Tschai's deadly existence.
Against a backdrop of baroque cities and haunted wastelands, sumptuous palaces and riotous inns, Reith will encounter deadly wastrels and murderous aliens, dastardly villains and conniving scoundrels - and always the random beauty in need of rescue. | |
11 | | | The Road to the Rim and The Hard Way Up Commodore John Grimes #1 | A Bertram Chandler | | |
12 | 1969 | 1981 | The Starchild Trilogy Starchild Trilogy Cover Blurb | Frederik Pohl Jack Williamson | | |
| ON THE EARTH OF THE FUTURE, ALL HUMANITY MUST SERVE THE PLAN OF MAN THE STARCHILD TRILOGY
THE REEFS OF SPACE Far beyond the orbit of Pluto, half-mythical bodies circle the Solar System - the Reefs of Space, unknown, shrouded in mystery, the goal of human conquest, the obsession of the Plan of Man, tyrannical ruler of Earth.
STARCHILD A mysterious being of awesome powers, the Starchild has sent an ultimatum to Earth, demanding that the Plan of Man abdicate his control over humanity. If not, the Starchild will extinguish the Sun and the Plan of Man's realm will become a frozen, lifeless waste.
ROGUE STAR A passionate human love sets in motion forces of cosmic power and unleashes the Starchild, a creation that knows neither love nor hate and understands only "life." But even "life" is not necessarily life as humans define it.
A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTION | |
13 | 2018 | | The Trackers Series The Trackers Cover Blurb | Nicholas Sansbury Smith | | |
| From audible.com:
The entire four-book Trackers series in one bundle: over 30 hours of post-apocalyptic survival fiction and action.
No power. No rules. No help coming.
The end of the world is just the beginning of the hunt....
Five days ago, North Korea detonated three strategically placed nuclear warheads over the United States, triggering an electromagnetic pulse that crippled the country. A second attack destroyed the nerve center of America in a nuclear blast that flattened the nation's capital. As the government falls apart in the aftermath, the survivors must decide how far they will go to save the ones they love.
In this lawless new world where the most ruthless thrive while innocents suffer, a sheriff, a retired marine, a nurse, and a senator turned secretary of defense are faced with keeping their communities and families safe. One thing is certain - they won't be able to save everyone. Not with their humanity still intact.
The explosive Trackers series is a harrowing story of survival and a realistic depiction of what an EMP attack and the aftermath might look like from former Homeland Security disaster mitigation officer and New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Packed full of action, survival tips, and a unique twist on the EMP genre, the Trackers series has thrilled hundreds of thousands of fans across the world. | |
14 | 1983 | 2007 | The Worthing Chronicle Worthing Series #3 Cover Blurb | Orson Scott Card | | |
| THE SEED
Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds. He vowed that his new world would be different from the stagnant one he had fled. He established his colonists and his descendants; and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in the last somec chamber in all the galaxy, triggered to awaken him when his world had built a new civilization.
He slept for fifteen thousand years. And when he awoke, it was to a future he had never dreamed of... | |
15 | 1978 | 2007 | The Worthing Saga Worthing Series #4 Cover Blurb | Orson Scott Card | | |
| SOMEC
It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful - they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built.
It came near to destroying humanity.
After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried.
Orson Scott Card is "a master of the art of storytelling" (Booklist), and The Worthing Saga is a story that only he could have written.
THE WORTHING SAGA | |