Discover the Best Audio Stories in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Blue Screens of Death: A System Apocalypse Short Story by Tao Wong

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548274 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548274] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Screens of Death: A System Apocalypse Short Story Series: #6 of The System Apocalypse Short stories Author: Tao Wong Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian Publisher's Summary: Morning in Whitehorse, and everything is the normal. All too normal. A girlfriend who loves him, an evening at the farmer’s market in Shipyard’s Park. Idyllic, relaxing, peaceful. What more could a man want?   John Lee isn’t sure, but stray thoughts intrude, and memories of a different time, a different place, a different world keep intruding. Angst-ridden, exhausting memories of a world of pain and struggle. Nothing like the paradise he lives in.   Now, if only John wasn’t so attracted to them.   This short story is set between Books 9 and 10. Minor spoilers included within.

Questing for Titles: A System Apocalypse Short Story by Tao Wong

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535121 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535121] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Questing for Titles: A System Apocalypse Short Story Series: #5 of The System Apocalypse Short stories Author: Tao Wong Narrator: Aven Shore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian Publisher's Summary: What’s in a Title? That which the System gives by any other Title might not smell as sweet.   In the System Apocalypse, a single Title can make or break a build. And in the entire Galactic System, there are Title Seekers, those who make it their life quest to acquire the most unusual and rare Titles possible.   Earth, a new Dungeon World offers multiple possibilities. Not least among them, the one from a familiar set of golden arches. For the Kyaz, it’s a chance in a million to get a rare Title. If he can manage to evade the machinations of a fellow Title Seeker and trust his human sidekick, Xi Ping.

Adventures in Clothing: A System Apocalypse Short Story by Tao Wong

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529403 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529403] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adventures in Clothing: A System Apocalypse Short Story Series: #4 of The System Apocalypse Short stories Author: Tao Wong Narrator: Stephanie Dillard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian Publisher's Summary: Some quests require ass-kicking; others require clothing designers.   The System Apocalypse has brought the clothing industry, and just about everything else, to a grinding halt. Now Lana Pearson intends to kickstart the local industry into gear to help Vancouver self-sustain itself. Key to her strategy are special teams of non-combat Classes.   Meg, Hanna, Cassidy and Obrav are Cosplayers, Tailors, Models and more. Not your usual team combination at all. But it’s not your usual Quest they’ve been given. If they’re going to meet Lana’s needs, they’re going to have to think outside the sewing pattern.   Adventures in Clothing is a short story by Tao Wong, set in the bestselling post-apocalyptic universe the System Apocalypse.

The Sky Vault by Benjamin Percy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566691 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566691] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sky Vault Series: #3 of The Comet Cycle Author: Benjamin Percy Narrator: Michael David Axtell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian Publisher's Summary: The third book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault, follows an investigation of a mysterious weather phenomena in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a government secret buried since WWII. The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky opens and the aircraft vanishes…but only for a minute. When the flight lands, everyone on board and in the community will be changed forever. Chuck Bridges, a local DJ and conspiracy theorist, was on board and later reported dead to his family, but not before proclaiming that something inside the clouds was speaking to him. Now his son, Theo, must chase down answers to the mystery his father unlocked. He’ll find himself at odds with Sophie Chen, an agent with a shadowy employer desperate to secure the black box from the airplane, as well as Rolf Wagner, a widowed sheriff investigating a series of increasingly strange and unsettling reports. And then there is Joanna Straub, a contractor reconstructing a top-secret government lab active during WWII and shuttered deep within the nearby White Mountains. The answer to the comet’s origin is about to be unveiled, and its impact on Earth is more treacherous and sublime than humanity could imagine.

Always Coming Home: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566684 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566684] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always Coming Home: A Novel Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Narrator: Isabella Star Leblanc, Yareli Arizmendi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian Publisher's Summary: “One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . A study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like—for society and for the art of storytelling.''—The Millions Reissued for a new generation of readers, Always Coming Home is Ursula K. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing story about a future utopian community on the Northern California coast, hailed as “masterly” (Newsweek), “hypnotic” (People) and “[her] most consistently lyric and luminous book” (New York Times). This new edition features an introduction by Shruti Swamy, author of A House is a Body, as well as illuminating extra material that includes interviews and liner notes to the book's musical soundtrack. Midway through her career, Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. Blending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer’s fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Having survived ecological catastrophe brought on by relentless industrialization, the Kesh are a peaceful people who reject governance and the constriction of genders, limit population growth to prevent overcrowding and preserve resources, and maintain a healthy community in which everyone works to contribute to its well-being. This richly imagined story unfolds through a series of narrated “translations” that illuminate individual lives, including a woman named Stone Telling, who travels beyond the Valley and comes to reside with another tribe, the patriarchal Condor people. With sharp poignancy, Le Guin explores the complexities of the Kesh’s unified society and presents to us—in exquisite detail—their lives, histories, adventures, customs, language, and art.  In addition to poems and folk tales, Le Guin created verse dramas, records of oral performances, recipes, and even an alphabet and glossary of the Kesh language. The novel is illustrated throughout with drawings by artist Margaret Chodos and includes a musical component—original recordings of Kesh songs that Le Guin collaborated on with composer Todd Barton—bringing this utterly original and compelling world to life. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.