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Anticipating climate fiction and the new weird literary genre, while garnering fans from Doris Lessing and J. G. Ballard to China Miéville and Patti Smith since it was first published in 1967, this fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe feels as though author Anna Kavan had seen the future.
Ice is slowly covering the entire globe; as the glacial tide creeps forward, the fabric of society begins to break down. Through this chaotic landscape, a nameless narrator hunts for the white-haired girl he once loved—or perhaps wishes to annihilate. Battling a powerful enemy known only as the Warden, he travels through nightmarish and ever-shifting scenes, where the object of his obsession remains constantly just out of reach. She is guarded by the Warden and by a cruel older woman who wishes her ill—but each time the narrator seems poised to rescue her the encroaching ice wreaks violence on her fragile body, or his own base nature sends him hurtling onward in his kaleidoscopic pursuit. Again and again the girl appears, but inevitably she eludes him.
This dystopian classic, the last book Anna Kavan published in her lifetime, renders her apocalyptic vision of environmental devastation and possessive violence in unforgettable, propulsive, oneiric prose.
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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- By Burns on 09-20-11
By: Stanislaw Lem, and others
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Roadside Picnic
- By: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Olena Bormashenko - translator
- Narrated by: Robert Forster
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty", something goes wrong.
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Gritty, resonant sci-fi classic
- By Ryan on 02-14-13
By: Arkady Strugatsky, and others
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A Fire Upon the Deep
- By: Vernor Vinge
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.
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What a wild, wacky, awesome book!
- By Noah Smith on 06-20-10
By: Vernor Vinge
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The Crack in Space
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When a repairman accidentally finds a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?
By: Philip K. Dick
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Blood Music
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just how his actions will change the world.
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THOUGHT UNIVERSE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-01-15
By: Greg Bear
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The China Pandemic
- A Post-Apocalyptic Virus Pandemic Survival Thriller (Graham's Resolution, Book 1)
- By: A. R. Shaw
- Narrated by: Darriel Driml
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Published six years before the real-world pandemic became reality, The China Pandemic by A.R. Shaw is a gripping, prescient tale of survival and resilience in a world ravaged by catastrophe. In this haunting post-apocalyptic novel, Graham Morgan finds himself one of the last survivors of a pandemic that wipes out over 98% of humanity.
By: A. R. Shaw
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Frozen Farmhouse
- An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Thriller Boxset
- By: Robert J. Walker, Colton Lively, Roger Hayden
- Narrated by: Cheryl May
- Length: 33 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare and survive. When an EMP cripples the nation's power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. An electromagnetic pulse attack instantly disables all electronics, plunging society into chaos. As humanity dwindles, gangs form and starvation spreads across a lawless land. Maria and her fellow survivors navigate this perilous new reality at the border, their every step a battle for survival. Local law enforcement and emergency services, now powerless, face overwhelming challenges.
By: Robert J. Walker, and others
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The Blood
- The Stone’s Blade, Book 1
- By: Allynn Riggs
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright, Jennifer March, Nicholas Mondelli, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Only the one known as The Blood can save Lrakira . . . but is there time? The women of Lrakira have begun to die and the Stones have chosen Renloret to rescue Lrakira’s only hope of survival, a five-year-old child living on Teramar. When his ship crashes on Teramar, Renloret races against time to find the child whose blood carries the cure for his people. But the child cannot be found, and to complicate matters, Renloret is falling in love with Ani, a female Teramaran blade ring champion with serious alien issues and a need to be accepted for who she is.
By: Allynn Riggs
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Flicker
- By: Matthew J. McKee
- Narrated by: J. Creed
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The flame of consciousness burns within us all, but for Heat Agaki, that flame has always been an intense inferno. Restless and filled with smoldering nihilism, Heat’s mind seems ablaze, her words steeped in napalm, her tongue the lighter always at the ready.
By: Matthew J. McKee
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Abduction
- A Fantasy/ Sci-fi Adventure (Zartoto, Book 1)
- By: Callie Woodridge
- Narrated by: Carl Jeong
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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While this book series might seem like a sci-fi book series, it is more of a fantasy series. It used to take place on Earth, but before I published it, I rewrote it to take place on another planet, so it only became a sci-fi book when I moved it to another planet. However, I see it as more of a fantasy series because of all the magic. This book is a fantasy series with some sci-fi in it. There is more of an explanation in the book.
By: Callie Woodridge
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Missing Link
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Tony J. Martin
- Length: 36 mins
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Step into a world of cosmic mystery and exploration with Missing Link by Frank Herbert, narrated by Tony J. Martin. In this gripping science fiction tale, humanity’s encounter with an alien civilization raises profound questions about evolution, intelligence, and survival. As a lone space traveler navigates an enigmatic alien landscape, the discovery of strange markings and signs of life leads to a revelation that could redefine humanity’s place in the universe.
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Missing Link
- By Jesse on 02-07-25
By: Frank Herbert
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Blindsight
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Set in 2082, Peter Watts' Blindsight is fast-moving, hard SF that pulls readers into a futuristic world where a mind-bending alien encounter is about to unfold. After the Firefall, all eyes are locked heavenward as a team of specialists aboard the self-piloted spaceship Theseus hurtles outbound to intercept an unknown intelligence.
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Gothic Horror Hard Science Fiction
- By Doug D. Eigsti on 06-24-15
By: Peter Watts
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- Philharmonic
- 05-05-25
Great Read - 20th Century Classic
Great book, Great read. The book is of the genre 'Slipstream'. The story is a cryptic labrynth interpreted by the reader. I saw a lot in it. IMO, the narrator or hero is an insane man who is obsessed with a woman who is also insane but beautiful who may or may not have been romantically involved with her. But he understands her in a way that drove him insane. I saw the story as him basically stalking her, and saving her from her own mind everytime she acknowledges him. But it could also have been a complete fabrication of a man in love by a woman who is mad, who imagines everything. The existence of ice in the story represents the fragility of her mind or his mind. Not sure. The narration is amazing. Thank you Audible for making it possible for me to become well read while I cook, clean and do laundry.
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- Idaho61
- 03-08-25
How terrible it is?
What a waste of money. If the author just needs to go to therapy, just say that.
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