Resultados Editorial "Audible Originals" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Monologues, sketches and stories set at the Virgin Money London Marathon, narrated by some of the biggest and best names in comedy.

Imagine two worlds at war. In one, citizens with jetpacks and ray guns have colonized Venus. In the other, magic reigns supreme, and history turns on swords and spells. Now imagine they have just discovered a third world. Our world. Our timeline of rideshare apps and strip malls is about to become the newest battlefield in the long war between science fiction and fantasy.

Maintaining stability in a city full of pirates is a delicate balancing act, particularly when one is motivated by making sure the common folk are taken care of instead of simple personal greed. Jarlaxle and his band of rogues known as Bregan D'aerthe are doing their best, stabilizing the city after warding off a terrible attack by demonic and gnoll forces. But now three merchant ships have been destroyed and sent to the ocean floor - obliterated in such a quick and brutal manner that it makes little sense it’s pirates seeking plunder.

During the pandemic, our homes and apartments have transported us to new places, different experiences, and changed our understanding of ourselves and others. This collection of 12 tales explores those journeys through the lens of fantasy and science fiction, accentuating the strange and unexpected to reveal the relatable, human dimensions of our continuing migration from what’s normal to a new normal...or even paranormal.

It’s a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, "smart” houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - family life gets interesting. Creepy and funny, unsettling and entertaining, this is a story that stands on its own even as it proves the perfect follow up to Gish Jen’s critically acclaimed novel The Resisters.

Suni Koudounas is enamoured with the wonders — and dangers — of the Far Wild. As a naturalist’s apprentice, she’s studied every book and expedition report about the miraculous wilderness. But when her mentor goes missing on expedition, Suni sets aside the Far Wild of ink and paper to venture after him into the primordial jungle. As the empire’s most beloved adventurer — or most successful raconteur — Senesio Suleiman Nicolaou doesn’t want much. Wealth beyond measure, fame beyond reason and a small kingdom somewhere warm should be about enough.

Fifteen years after warring artificial intelligences nearly destroyed Earth, a young woman finds an artifact from that struggle, upsetting a delicate balance of power and dragging her into the middle of a new fight for humanity's survival.

James Crowley met his mortal end in a hail of gunfire. Now, he finds himself in purgatory, serving the White Throne to avoid falling to hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his servitude and fade away. His not-so-sacred duty as a Hand of God? Use his new abilities to hunt down demonic beings that have infiltrated the mortal realm. This time, the White Throne has sent him to the middle of nowhere: a Western town called Dead Acre with a saloon, a moldy church, and little else worth talking about. There isn’t even a sheriff.

Dr. Abby Corman has a bold idea: open a stable doorway between our world and an uninhabited parallel Earth. A new world we can use to mine resources to end poverty, grow enough food to end all hunger, and allow for population growth to end overcrowding. What could be a more noble aspiration for a brilliant young scientist? But the path to hell is paved with good intentions....

Paul Steele, known to the world as Baron Steele, isn’t your average masked crimefighter. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t even wear a mask. And he doesn’t even fight crime anymore. That’s for the guys with too much brawn and not enough brain. No, Steele works in consulting. After having his license revoked by the Guild of Masked Crimefighters, he decided he would scout talent instead. Match up heroes with their villainous counterparts, help the young bucks and buckettes discover their talents and abilities. That sort of thing.

More than 700 years into its journey, a massive generation starship carries thousands of passengers to a new home that only their descendants - hundreds more years into the future - will live to see. Life aboard the ship is a daily struggle. One young welder copes by writing a series of letters to an Earth he never knew. The experiences he describes are not as exciting as the ancient works of science fiction made it out to be - but that is about to change. An eccentric old man has offered to train him for an unprotected spacewalk - a dangerous ritual known as “facing space”.

On the heels of a strange event, frustrated British paranormal researcher Cassie Chambers is thrown together with uptight American Glen Hedley (Adam James), an agent for a shady government organization. This mismatched duo soon discover that not only do they have a mystery to uncover, but also they’re humanity’s only defense against malign ultra-terrestrials from a different dimension.

Die Erde, 2100 - Klimakatastrophen haben die Welt zu einem instabilen Ort gemacht. Hives, zu kollektiven Bewusstseinen zusammengeschlossene Menschen, sollen Lösungen finden - oder sind sie doch der Untergang einer scheinbar friedlichen Gesellschaft? Diese Frage stellt Karla Schmidt mit ihrem neuen Audible Original Sci-Fi-Thriller Die Beute. Hitze, Stürme und Missernten: Die Menschheit soll durch Hives wieder in Harmonie und Frieden zusammenleben können.

Der spannende Abschluss der Gaukler-Chroniken von Bestseller-Autor Sam Feuerbach um den Söldner Brocken, seine ungleichen Gefährten und ihre Suche nach der Hexe Aglaja. Wohin führt der magische Kompass die vier Gefährten nach ihren Abenteuern in Drachenbein? Schon die Reise über das Nebelkammgebirge zum Nordmeer nimmt einen unheilvollen Verlauf.

Im Jahr 2048 erfüllt sich der begeisterte Gamer Nick einen Traum und reist zur Ultimate Survivor Weltmeisterschaft nach Neopolis - eine in der Wüste aus dem Boden gestampfte, halb reale, halb virtuelle Metropole, in der digitale Dschinns als virtuelle Assistenten das Leben erleichtern und mit dem nötigen Kleingeld alle Wünsche erfüllt werden. Doch Nick kommen schnell Zweifel: Ist die Stadt nur eine blendend-laute Matrix mit einem düsteren Geheimnis? Wer sind hier die Guten und wem kann Nick überhaupt noch trauen?

Eine Serie unerklärlicher Morde hält London in Atem - in der neuen Paranormal-Fantasy-Reihe von Robin G. Hunter. Düster und spannend, mysteriös und humorvoll nimmt die erste Staffel dieses Audible Originals ihre Hörer mit in den magischen Untergrund der Metropole. Nils Nelleßen, Judith Mauthe und Anke Reitzenstein sprechen die Hauptrollen. London, 2020. Die Magier des hermetischen Ordens wachen über den zerbrechlichen Frieden, der zwischen den Menschen und den paranormalen Wesen herrscht.

The year is 2016. Not our 2016. Theirs. Earth is dying, the result of a worldwide nuclear holocaust caused by America’s dictatorial President-for-Life Lewis Henderson, a man who will use any means necessary to maintain power and survive. Enter: The Splitter. A machine capable of splitting off an exact replica of Henderson’s world. A world where the cataclysmic events causing its destruction have yet to occur. That world is ours.

They were sent to investigate the first extraterrestrial signal. What they found was beyond anything they could have imagined - or feared. On a voyage to a mysterious moon in the Alpha Centauri system, the UEA Centaurus meets with disaster. Only the quick thinking of the flight engineer, Rachel Terman, saves some of the crew. Crash-landing on the moon, trillions of kilometers from Earth, they struggle to carry out their mission and try to survive. But nothing has prepared them for what they will face.

She is the clone of a famed space explorer, but Mariska Volochkova rejects her mother and her heritage and wants no part of interstellar adventure. Although she is genetically engineered to hibernate through the interminable decades of space travel, Mariska's home is a habitat on the moon, and there she intends to stay. But the sweep of interplanetary politics and an affair with a Martian catches Mariska up in a conspiracy to commit a bold theft that will alter the future of space colonization.

In einer düsteren Zukunft spielt eine junge Frau ein riskantes Spiel und gerät zwischen die Fronten eines gewaltigen Machtkampfes. Der erste Teil von Marie Graßhoffs Audible Original - ein packender Sci-fi-noir, gesprochen von Nora Jokhosha. Im Jahr 2100 können Menschen ihr Bewusstsein mittels Implantaten zu "Hive Minds" verbinden. Die Programmiererin Atlas Lawson profitiert davon gleich doppelt: Tagsüber arbeitet sie für den größten Hive-Entwickler. Nachts betreibt sie unter dem Deckmantel "Oracle" einen lukrativen Handel mit Erinnerungen, die sie aus Hive-Implantaten stiehlt.