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"Narrator Joe Gaminara keeps listeners right where the author wants them: teetering between perception and reality." — AudioFile Magazine From acclaimed British poet Luke Kennard comes The Transition: an intriguing and mysterious debut audiobook. Do you or your partner spend more than you earn?...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT AND STARRING JACOB ELORDI, MARGARET QUALLEY, AND JOSH BROLIN NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu...

Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls illuminates authoritarianism, complicity, and identity in the digital age, in a darkly-funny, frightening and touching story that recalls Philip K. Dick, John LaCarré and Kurt Vonnegut in equal measure. Welcome to the Caspian Republic. The last bastion of...

This program is read by the author. From national bestselling author Nick McDonell, The Council of Animals is a captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) in the power of timeless storytelling. “‘Now,’ continued the cat, ‘there is...

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel - the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. 'A highly entertaining, satisfying blend of classic detective noir and inventive speculative...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything You Ever Wanted written by Luiza Sauma, read by Stephanie Racine. You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after...

Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear – his own...

The fourth in The Faithful and the Fallen series, Wrath by John Gwynne is the breathtaking, pulse-pounding conclusion to an epic series. It’s time to brave the final battle . . . In the Banished Lands, the war reaches new heights. King Nathair has seized the fortress at Drassil, and now...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The most exquisite kind of literature' OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 'Genrebusting ... Gospodinov may just have created a classic' THE TIMES 'Could not be...

A missionary begs to be moved from disease-ridden Bangkok. A musician plays a private show for ghosts. A student abandoned by his lover bleeds to death in the street. A plastic surgeon designs a girl a new face. A woman decides whether to cook a final meal for a dying murderer. Lurching through decades, from Bangkok's rich past to its imagined, uploaded future, witness the city as it changes from a booming capitalist hub to a city engulfed by water, through human tales seeping into one another, held together by delicate threads.  

Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "In a city where perfection is mandatory, your reflection is your greatest enemy." Under the shimmering Great Dome of Miridion, human life has been perfected. Every choice is calculated, every emotional peak is smoothed over, and every citizen lives in...

Após ter sido quase aniquilada por um cataclismo nuclear, a humanidade mergulha em desolação e obscurantismo. Os anos de loucura e violência que se seguiram ao Dilúvio de Fogo arrasaram o conhecimento acumulado por milênios. A ciência, causadora de todos os males, só encontrará abrigo na Ordem Albertina de São Leibowitz, cujos monges se dedicam a recolher e preservar os vestígios de uma cultura agora esquecida.

Clássico eterno da ficção científica, Laranja mecânica é um verdadeiro marco na história da cultura pop e da literatura distópica. Narrada pelo protagonista, o adolescente Alex, esta brilhante e perturbadora história cria uma sociedade futurista em que a violência atinge proporções gigantescas e provoca uma resposta igualmente agressiva de um governo totalitário.

Zürich, 2049: Vor dem ersten Schweizer Robotergericht steht Martin Landis unter Anklage – ein Verfahren, so surreal wie die Welt, in der es stattfindet. Ein Vierteljahrhundert zuvor beginnen sich drei Leben miteinander zu verweben: Ajoub, ein afrikanischer Flüchtling, der in Bitcoin und Technologie einen Weg zur Freiheit sieht. Sarah, die in der Quantenphysik den Widerspruch zwischen Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit erkennt. Und Martin, der nach einem schweren Verlust in östlichen Lehren nach Sinn sucht.

In Caimor sind die Reichen so gut wie unsterblich. Wer genug Geld hat, kauft sich einen neuen Körper, wenn der alte versagt – oder nicht mehr gefällt. Doch Anabelle Gage ist nicht reich. Sie kann sich nur einen schwachen, kranken Jungenkörper leisten. Ihre einzige Chance auf ein besseres Leben ist die Paragon Academy, die magische Eliteschule Caimors. Als Anabelle zum dritten Mal durch die Aufnahmeprüfung fällt, beschließt sie, einen neuen Körper zu stehlen – und wird prompt erwischt. Und zwar von keinem Geringeren als Carriwitch, dem Direktor der Paragon Academy.

An extraordinary vision of the future that puts dystopian fiction in a whole new light, from the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. “Thought provoking, imaginative, and packs a hell of an emotional punch.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time Ven...

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of 20th-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.

Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things”, but he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in his world. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him.

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?