This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Bradley had one fear in his life. He had to escape regeneration. To do that, he was willing to take any chance, coward though he was—even if it meant that he had to become a god!

Life on a remote asteroid lighthouse is supposed to be dull, not unbearable. For Jim Palmer, it isn’t unbearable at all. A powerful drug smooths every edge, silences fear, and turns isolation into contentment. The problem is that his wife doesn’t share his peace. She still feels the pressure of time, danger, and the creatures waiting just beyond the hull. Jim believes he has found a way to give her the same calm he enjoys. He tells himself it is an act of love. He refuses to consider what ...

An interstellar envoy journeys across unimaginable distances to deliver a message of goodwill to Earth. He anticipates wonder, curiosity, and the thrill of first contact. What he encounters instead is something far stranger: complete and total indifference. People walk past him, ignore his ship, and treat the impossible as routine. Confused and increasingly disturbed, he sets out to understand why no one seems to care that he has come from another world.As he learns the language an...

Bradley had one fear in his life. He had to escape regeneration. To do that, he was willing to take any chance, coward though he was—even if it meant that he had to become a god!

Bradley had one fear in his life. He had to escape regeneration. To do that, he was willing to take any chance, coward though he was—even if it meant that he had to become a god!

Shipping Clerk by William Morrison - If Ollie knew the work he was doing, he would have resigned—if resigning were possible!If there had ever been a time when Ollie Keith hadn't been hungry, it was so far in the past that he couldn't remember it. He was hungry now as he walked through the alley, his eyes shifting lusterlessly from one heap of rubbish to the next. He was hungry through and through, all one hundred and forty pounds of him, the flesh distribu...

Some science fiction stories rely on spectacle. Spoken For relies on something far quieter and far more unsettling. A man arrives among the colonies carrying a photograph, a partial memory, and an unshakable certainty that somewhere his wife and children are waiting for him. He has crossed worlds chasing that certainty, guided by fragments of recollection that feel solid even when everything else slips away.As he searches, the people he meets begin to understand what he does not. S...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.He was lost—anyone could see that—but she had no idea how entirely lost he was nor why!

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.To all who didn’t know him, Curt George was a mighty hunter and actor. But this time he was up against others who could really act, and whose business was the hunting of whole worlds.

John Tinker spends his days in the lonely vacuum of the asteroid belt, troubleshooting the isotope plants that humanity relies on. Between the constant threat of a radiation leak and the company of his abrasive partner, his life is one of grim routine — until Siria Cottrell arrives. She’s a technician from Earth, efficient and no-nonsense, but her voice over the radio sparkles with a warmth that Tinker hasn’t felt in months.As they work side by side, surrounded by headless robots t...

The book recounts the events and memories of eight decades of the author’s life from the late 1930s - a mere fifteen years after independence - to the current year of the pandemic, 2020.It describes the simple village life of an ordinary middle class family growing up in the suburban village of Blackrock County Dublin. It is as much a social history of the times as a description of a personal childhood. The story of the early working life and subsequent business career reflects the changes...

Sam Wilson thought he could outrun grief by leaving civilization behind. With only his young son for company, he drifts from world to world, searching less for discovery than for silence. When they land on a stark, empty planet, the quiet feels different—charged, watchful, and unwilling to let the past stay buried.The arrival of an unexpected presence on this desolate world unsettles the fragile balance between father and son. What begins as curiosity slowly presses into something ...