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Narrated by:
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Emily Gibbons Bouchard
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Seth Haddon
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This is How You Lose the Time War meets Ex Machina: Seth Haddon's science fiction debut, Volatile Memory, is a sapphic sci-fi action adventure novella.
With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the alert goes out that a lucrative piece of tech lies hidden on a nearby planet, she calls on all the swiftness of her prey-animal instincts to beat other hunters to it.
What you found wasn’t your ticket out—it was my corpse wearing an AI mask. When you touched the mask, you heard my voice. A consciousness spinning through metal and circuits, a bodiless mind, spun to life in the HAWK’s temporary storage. I crystallized and realized: I was alive.
Masks aren't supposed to retain memory, much less identity, but the woman inside the MARK I HAWK is real, and she sees Wylla in a way no one ever has. Sees her, and doesn’t find her wanting or unwhole.
Armed with military-grade tech and a lifetime of staying one step ahead of the hunters, Wylla and HAWK set off to get answers from the man who discarded HAWK once before: her ex-husband.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com
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Critic reviews
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: GoodReads | Words & Brush Strokes | SheReads | BookTrib | We Are Bookish
"Propulsive, inventive, and delicious, Volatile Memory is a cyberpunk romance with a sweet and vengeful heart."—Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House
"Murderbot meets Firefly in a Thelma & Louise-style, high-tech, thrill-a-minute hunt for freedom, justice, and revenge."—Library Journal
"Haddon combines sapphic romance, fast-paced mystery, and fascinating worldbuilding in his thrilling first sci-fi novel... Packed with combat, intrigue, and budding love, this is an exciting new direction."—Publishers Weekly
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Thrill of the Chase
- By: Kathryn Nolan
- Narrated by: Annalee Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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While on assignment in Santa Fe to find a treasure hunter, reporter Harper Hendrix stumbles onto an even better story—the fate of the missing Blackburn Diamonds, rumored to be buried in the nearby hills. Harper knows a solid lead when she sees one, and with a promotion on the line, she'll do anything to impress her editors. Even if that means finding the missing diamonds herself. Unless Eve Bardot gets there first.
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A thrilling, heart-stopping adventure!
- By CzekMart on 07-02-25
By: Kathryn Nolan
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The Library at Hellebore
- By: Cassandra Khaw
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers. Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told after she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But the Institute is more than just a haven for monsters. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s classmates.
By: Cassandra Khaw
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The Fireborne Blade
- By: Charlotte Bond
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Maddileh is a knight. There aren’t many women in her line of work, and it often feels like the sneering and contempt from her peers is harder to stomach than the actual dragon slaying. But she’s a knight, and made of sterner stuff. A minor infraction forces her to redeem her honor in the most dramatic way possible, she must retrieve the fabled Fireborne Blade from its keeper, legendary dragon the White Lady, or die trying. If history tells us anything, it's that “die trying” is where to wager your coin.
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The entire story
- By Anonymous User on 05-02-25
By: Charlotte Bond
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Of Monsters and Mainframes
- By: Barbara Truelove
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan, Emana Rachelle, Chris Devon, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula.
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Not what you would think
- By Sid (yes the one from Toy Story) on 06-18-25
By: Barbara Truelove
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The Two Lies of Faven Sythe
- By: Megan E. O'Keefe
- Narrated by: Zara Ramm
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known as the Clutch. Only famed pirate Bitter Amandine knows better, and she’ll do anything to never go near it again. No matter the cost. Faven Sythe is crystborn, a member of the near-human species tasked with charting starpaths from station to station. She’s trained to be a navigator her entire life. But when her mentor disappears, leaving behind a mysterious starpath terminating in the Clutch, she is determined to find the truth. And only Amandine has the answers.
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Poorly written ‘Fabio’-esque novel
- By S. Rodionov on 07-03-25
By: Megan E. O'Keefe
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Reforged
- By: Seth Haddon
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Since time immemorial the warriors of the Paladin Order have harnessed arcane powers to protect their rulers. For Balen, who has given up his chance at love and fought his way to the top of the Paladin Order, there can be no greater honor than to serve his king. But when assassins annihilate the royal family, Balen suddenly finds himself sworn to serve the very man he abandoned. Now with their nation threatened by enemies both within and outside the kingdom, Balen must fight hidden traitors and unnatural assassins, while also contending with the biting wit and dangerous charm of King Zavrius.
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Pretty good for a debut novel
- By Oinkers on 09-05-23
By: Seth Haddon
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
- By: Malka Older
- Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity’s exodus from Earth. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.
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I love this series!
- By Jim Cira on 01-21-25
By: Malka Older
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How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
- Guides for Dating Vampires, Book 1
- By: D. N. Bryn
- Narrated by: Simon Dornet
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Wesley Garcia has been waking up with fang marks. Lucky for him, he needs a vampire—to use as bait. He's certain Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceutical killed his mother, but to gain access to their covert research labs, he has to bring them a bloodsucker for their experiments. Step one, a dramatic offer: Stay, and you can bite me. Vincent leaps at the chance to gobble Wesley up.
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Fantastic Fluff Gay Vampire Novel
- By Mai Shaina on 08-09-23
By: D. N. Bryn
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This Princess Kills Monsters
- The Misadventures of a Fairy-Tale Stepsister: A Novel
- By: Ry Herman
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Ry Herman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Someone wants to murder Princess Melilot. This is sadly normal. Melilot is sick of being ordered to go on dangerous quests by her domineering stepmother. Especially since she always winds up needing to be rescued by her more magically talented stepsisters. And now, she's been commanded to marry a king she’s never met. When hideous spider-wolves attack her on the journey to meet her husband-to-be, she is once again rescued—but this time, by twelve eerily similar-looking masked huntsmen.
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Wow!
- By Sarah Hall on 06-25-25
By: Ry Herman
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The Queer Principles of Kit Webb
- A Novel
- By: Cat Sebastian
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him pine for the heady rush of thievery. When a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop, Kit quickly realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this highborn man desires. In order to save himself and a beloved friend, Percy, Lord Holland must go against every gentlemanly behavior he holds dear to gain what he needs most: a book that once belonged to his mother, a book his father never lets out of his sight and could be Percy’s savior.
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Fun, cute, a bit underdeveloped
- By Little J on 06-14-21
By: Cat Sebastian
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So Let Them Burn
- By: Kamilah Cole
- Narrated by: Keylor Leigh, Kamali Minter
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She’s a legend to her people and a nuisance to her neighbors. When she’s forced to attend an international peace summit, Faron expects that she will perform tricks like a trained pet and then go home. She doesn’t expect her older sister, Elara, forming an unprecedented bond with an enemy dragon.
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Why are people mad?
- By LP on 02-24-25
By: Kamilah Cole
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Party of Liars
- A Novel
- By: Kelsey Cox
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Kate Handford, Pearl Hewitt, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Today is Sophie Matthews’s sixteenth birthday party, an exclusive black-tie bash in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where secrets are as deep-rooted as the sprawling live oaks. Sophie's dad has spared no expense, and his renovated cliffside mansion—once thought haunted and shuttered for years from outsiders—is now open for the event of the season. Then, just before the candles on the three-tiered cake are blown out, a body falls from the balcony onto the starlit dance floor below.
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Everything I want from the genre and excellent cast!
- By Annie B. on 07-03-25
By: Kelsey Cox