Matter by Iain M. Banks

Star Wars Legends: Honor Among Thieves by James S.A. Corey

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206724 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206724] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Star Wars Legends: Honor Among Thieves Series: Part of Star Wars - Legends Author: James S.A. Corey Narrator: Marc Thompson, Ilyana Kadushin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.77 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 8 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: Nebula and Hugo Award nominees Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck—writing as James S. A. Corey—make their Star Wars debut in this brand-new epic adventure featuring Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia Organa. The action begins after the destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.   When the Empire threatens the galaxy’s new hope, will Han, Luke, and Leia become its last chance?   When the mission is to extract a high-level rebel spy from the very heart of the Empire, Leia Organa knows the best man for the job is Han Solo—something the princess and the smuggler can finally agree on. After all, for a guy who broke into an Imperial cell block and helped destroy the Death Star, the assignment sounds simple enough.   But when Han locates the brash rebel agent, Scarlet Hark, she’s determined to stay behind enemy lines. A pirate plans to sell a cache of stolen secrets that the Empire would destroy entire worlds to protect—including the planet where Leia is currently meeting with rebel sympathizers. Scarlet wants to track down the thief and steal the bounty herself, and Han has no choice but to go along if he’s to keep everyone involved from getting themselves killed. From teeming city streets to a lethal jungle to a trap-filled alien temple, Han, Chewbacca, Leia, and their daring new comrade confront one ambush, double cross, and firestorm after another as they try to keep crucial intel out of Imperial hands.   But even with the crack support of Luke Skywalker’s x-wing squadron, the Alliance heroes may be hopelessly outgunned in their final battle for the highest of stakes: the power to liberate the galaxy from tyranny or ensure the Empire’s reign of darkness forever. Includes a bonus short story, Silver and Scarlet, read by Ilyana Kadushin.

Like a Mighty Army: A Novel in the Safehold Series by David Weber

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205255 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205255] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like a Mighty Army: A Novel in the Safehold Series Series: #7 of Safehold Author: David Weber Narrator: Oliver Wyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 18, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.79 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new-no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then awoke Merlyn Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of a warrior a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which Earth was lost. Monk, warrior, counselor to princes and kings, Merlyn has one purpose: to restart the history of the too-long-hidden human race. And now the fight is thoroughly underway. The island empire of Charis has declared its independence from the Church, and with Merlyn's help has vaulted forward into a new age of steam-powered efficiency. Fending off the wounded Church, Charis has drawn more and more of the countries of Safehold to the cause of independence and self-determination. But at a heavy cost in bloodshed and loss--a cost felt by nobody more keenly that Merlyn Athrawes. The wounded Church is regrouping. Its armies and resources are vast. The fight for humanity's future isn't over, and won't be over soon... David Weber's Like a Mighty Army is the hotly anticipated seventh volume in the New York Times bestselling Safehold series.

Matter by Iain M. Banks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206766 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206766] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Matter Author: Iain M. Banks Narrator: Toby Longworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 11, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter. MATTER is a novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head.

Pillar to the Sky by William R. Forstchen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206460 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/206460] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pillar to the Sky Author: William R. Forstchen Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 11, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: A towering epic to rank with Douglas Preston's Blasphemy and Michael Crichton's Prey Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies, and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos. Gary Morgan—a brilliant renegade scientist pilloried by the scientific community for his belief in a space elevator: a pillar to the sky, which he believes will make space flight fast, simple, and affordable. Eva Morgan—a brilliant and beautiful scientist of Ukranian descent, she has had a lifelong obsession to build a pillar to the sky, a vertiginous tower that would mine the power of the sun and supply humanity with cheap, limitless energy forever. Gunther Rothenberg—the ancient but revered rocket scientist who labored at Peenemünde with von Braun to create the first rockets and continued on to build those of today. A legend, he has mentored Gary and Eva for two decades, nurturing and encouraging their transcendent vision. Franklin Smith—the eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire who will champion their cause, wage war with Congress and government bureaucracy, and most important, finance their herculean undertaking. This journey to the stars will not be easy; it will be a tumultuous struggle filled with violence and heroism, love and death, spellbinding beauty and heartbreaking betrayal. The stakes could not be higher. Humanity's salvation will hang in the balance.

Burn by Julianna Baggott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205256 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205256] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burn Series: #3 of The Pure Trilogy Author: Julianna Baggott Narrator: Nicholas Tecosky, Casey Holloway, Khristine Hvam, Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: The stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Pure, recommended by People for those who loved The Hunger Games. With his father now dead, Partridge has assumed leadership of the Dome, one of the last few refuges from the ravaged wastelands of the outside world. At first, Partridge is intent on exposing his father's lies, taking down the rigid order of the Dome, and uniting its citizens with the disfigured Wretches on the outside. But from his new position of power, things are far more complex and potentially dangerous than he could have ever imagined. On the outside, a band of survivors faces a treacherous journey to Dome. Pressia carries with her the key to salvation. If she can get it to the Dome, the Wretches could one day be healed and everyone might be able to put the horrors of the past behind them. Bradwell, the revolutionary, cannot forgive so easily. Despite Pressia's pleas, he is determined to bring down the Dome and hold its citizens accountable for leaving the rest of the world to burn. El Capitan, the former rebel leader, wants to help Pressia save as many lives as possible--but he's struggling to reconcile his newfound compassion with his vicious past. As former allies become potential enemies, the fate of the world is more uncertain than ever. Will humanity fall to destruction? Or will a new world rise from the ashes?