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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Long ago, far from earth, humans were discovered evolving in a galaxy populated by Avianids. This was not right. Mammals are food, yet humans had evolved unnoticed. Once discovered, some Avianid races wanted them protected because human genes are...

Annie Bot meets Fallout in this dystopian satire: six women created in a lab, designed to serve the billionaires of the future in a luxury fallout shelter, rebel against their programming after the end times arrive. Welcome to the Felicity Complex! Constructed during the height of the Cold War...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the...

Czy eliksir życia wart jest każdej ceny? Bossy i Ryen pracują przy tajnym projekcie Yggdrasil – niezwykłym drzewie, dzięki któremu korporacja tworzy eksperymentalne suplementy i próbuje opracować eliksir życia. Niestety projekt od dawna wymyka się spod kontroli. Kolejni pracownicy odchodzą albo giną w tajemniczych okolicznościach, a badania stoją w miejscu.

Die Zukunft ist der nächste Moment, in diesem Buch hat die Zukunft bereits gestern angefangen. Einem Genforscher gelingt es, die Lebenserwartung eines Menschen deutlich zu erhöhen. Je früher das Serum verabreicht wird, desto älter kann der Empfänger werden. Den Forschungsergebnissen nach könnten junge Erwachsene ein Alter von fünfhundert Jahren erreichen.

James and Terrance share DNA, but they aren't brothers. They aren't even friends. As a civil advisor for the LAPD, James relies on Terrance— his genetic clone—to help him pass mandatory drug testing. But when Terrance suddenly goes missing, and multiple clones end up murdered, a case of...

Bloomsbury presents The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke, read by Ebony Jonelle. For readers of Megan Nolan and Sheila Heti, a mesmerizing Borgesian literary debut about the frayed borders between our bodies and minds. Ada lives a solitary life. She spends her days in her London apartment...

Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans. "[John] Pirhalla's narration easily differentiates a variety of animal gang leaders, henchmen, and more...He adjusts his pacing precisely...

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking listeners. Mimi is...

The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitgeist." (The Dallas Morning News). What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the...

Laura Lam's adult sci-fi debut False Hearts: Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs, shared dreaming, organized crime, and a sinister cult. Raised in the closed cult of Mana's Hearth and denied access to modern technology, conjoined sisters...

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate...

From award winning tech-journalist and io9 founder Annalee Newitz comes a highly anticipated science fiction debut! Autonomous will pull listeners into a dark and dirty world that feels, at times, a bit too familiar. Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing...

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17). Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human...

The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light Kirkus—Best Fiction Books of the Year 2021 Tor.com—Best of the Year 2021 New York Public Library—Nine...

Im packenden Nachfolger von Gestranded finden sich Angela und Vaughn, die letzten Überlebenden der Menschheit, in einer zeitverbiegenden Mission wieder, die darauf abzielt, nicht nur eine, sondern mehrere Erden im Multiversum zu retten. Der Feind – Necks, eine Rasse von intelligenten Robotern – dringt gnadenlos in parallele Erden ein und beraubt sie jeglichen Lebens.

ماذا يمكن أن يحدث إذا امتلكت الحيوانات قدرات مشابهة لقدرات البشر؟ يلجأ السيد "بندرك" إلى جزيرة مجهولة بعد غرق سفينته ليكتشف أن بها رجلاً يدعى "دكتور مورو" يقوم بتجارب علمية لتحويل الحيوانات إلى بشر، تتصاعد الأحداث حتى تقوم تلك الحيوانات بالثورة على الدكتور مورو وتخرج على كل القوانين التي وضعها لحفظ النظام في الجزيرة. تمتلئ الرواية بالإحالات الفلسفية عن الطبيعة البشرية والقوانين الاجتماعية وأنظمة السلطة والعلم، في قالب خيالي برع فيه هربرت ويلز كعادته في الجمع بين الخيال العلمي والإثارة ومحاولاته المعتادة للتنبؤ بمستقبل البشر.

Wissenschaft, Moral & das Grauen der Experimente – H. G. Wells' düsterer Klassiker über die Grenzen der Menschlichkeit, eindrucksvoll gesprochen von Tim Eriksson. Über das Hörbuch: Mit "Die Insel des Dr. Moreau" schuf H.G. Wells einen der eindringlichsten und verstörendsten Romane der...

After The Fall, it was the Metanationals, impossibly large, impossibly powerful corporations, who stepped into the vacuum left by a collapsing government. It’s their world now; we’re all just living in it. Two worlds, really: At the top, legions of “citizen employees” live and work in a...