Showing results by publisher "audible originals" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

On a sweltering summer’s night, teenage siblings Jack and Lily witness a helicopter crash on the main road between Brighton and London. The next morning they wake to find their village has been sealed off from the entire world. A terrorist cell is holed up in Stenhurst - or at least that’s the official story, put out by sinister government agent Wynter and his vicious sidekick, Major Kellett. But later that day, Lily and Jack stumble on the truth: the authorities are hunting for a mysterious creature, labelled CatX, who escaped during the crash.

Gretch Wolgast is a bit of a dud. Just ask her. She’s a 21-year-old college dropout who has a loser job at the mall. Sure, she can lift a tennis ball with her telekinetic powers. But only three feet in the air. And she has to be sitting. Gretch is an OP, one of thousands born in Orlando, Florida, in the early 1980s who mysteriously developed the ability to move things with their minds. Unfortunately, she turned out to be the weakest of the bunch. Now, Gretch’s life is being turned upside down. She witnesses a murder and discovers a wide-ranging conspiracy.

Ramon “Ray” Cosa’s life is not what he expected it to be. Living in a small Texas town ravaged by Hurricane Harvey, Ray has suffered many losses in his young life, and he has little hope left that anything will ever change or get better. That is, until the vintage Ford Galaxie and its strange, dying owner enters Ray’s life. Given a jeweled ring he cannot remove and a desperate mission, Ray is plunged into a universe of secrets, wonders, and terrors he never dreamed exists. Now, he travels the Queen's Road - a hyper-space highway that connects all the planets in creation.

Une vie parfaite, sur le point personnel et professionnel. Paul a absolument tout ce dont il a besoin pour être heureux : une femme parfaite pour lui, Mathilde, deux enfants qu’il idolâtre autant qu’il chambre, François, un ami sur qui il peut compter pour les choses importantes autant que pour ses conneries, et Chloé, son assistante, qui, avec vingt ans de plus aurait pu être sa femme. Paul n’a besoin de rien d’autre. Pas même de mourir. Pourtant, il n’a plus que deux mois à vivre.

Où il est question de n’avoir plus que deux mois à vivre, de décider que ce n’est pas si grave que ça, d’aller boire un coup entre potes et de réfléchir à comment transformer son enterrement en énorme fête.

Dying is easy. It’s the Apocalypse that’s hard. Before the outside world devolved into a fiery pit of hell, Noel and Julia hosted a successful and wonderfully pretentious community radio show. Now their basement studio is their survival bunker, and they find themselves completely alone. With no escape and nothing left except an increasingly eclectic selection of questionable records, Noel and Julia proudly debut their new show: Is Anyone Alive Out There?. How could they create a stellar show when they really just need to survive?

The only way to stop a bad guy with fangs is a good guy with a stake. And Simon Helsing believes he was put on this Earth to do the job. He is on a single-minded crusade to hunt down vampires and kill them in their lairs. But what if vampires aren’t real? The only thing that Detective Todd Carrow believes is that the bodies turning up in Colorado Springs are the work of a lunatic. Are they strange and sadistic gang murders? Or does someone actually believe in the existence of vampires?

Wally Roux is a teenage genius with a big imagination and a big heart, who just moved to Savannah, GA, from Maine with his mom, who adopted him when he was an infant. In this charming and sweet solo performance, Wally investigates what is causing a number of strange events and occurrences. He explores and gets lost within space-time - an infinite, indefinable, and mysterious void that you can’t see but when you slice into it you can feel it.

Cosa c'è di più reale? Un mondo in cui siamo nati o un mondo che creiamo per noi stessi? Il leggendario creatore, maestro della narrazione e icona culturale Stan Lee, parte verso un nuovo universo alla ricerca di risposte ad alcune delle domande più pressanti del nostro tempo! L'unica domanda rimasta? Ti unirai a lui in questo viaggio?

The machines brought society to its knees. Now, the last remaining humans fight for survival - and to take back what's theirs. Junior, a robotics expert, tinkers quietly underground. With dozens of machine kills under his belt, he knows the enemy inside and out. Alpha0verride, a reclusive black hat hacker, uses the skills acquired over a life of shady activity to outwit the hyper-intelligent machines swarming in on her. Brick, a special forces operator and one of the few Pentagon survivors, fights his inner demons to embark on the most important mission of his life.

Niklaus du Plessis, master swordsman, hasn’t aged a day since being chosen by his goddess. A slave to her will, he moves from one cryptic mission to the next in the hope of pleasing her and perhaps ascending to become her equal.

After centuries of dancing to his goddess’s tune, Niklaus meets the priestess Callis Drethna, and at her urging they embark on a quest together to find an ancient artifact. As they face mortal dangers, Niklaus’s affection for Callis grows, and he begins to wonder if there is more to life than unquestioned devotion.

In a world where women hold all the power and men have barely been an afterthought, an intrepid shipmistress must put aside everything she knows if she is to save her people. Bela is at the helm of the Sandcrow, a ship sent from calm seas to the far frozen north in search of a legendary power that could turn the tide of war. Locked into ice, the Sandcrow is lost. Now, for the shipmistress and her crew, a desperate voyage becomes a chilling struggle for survival against nature, fear, and prejudice.

Liegt das Geheimnis des Mars an seinem Südpol vergraben? Während eine einsame Astronautin dort Hinweisen auf die früheren Marsbewohner nachgeht, übernimmt Rick Summers, der durch seine Intrigen zum Administrator der Mars-City aufgestiegen ist, mit Waffengewalt die Macht über alle Menschen auf dem Roten Planeten. Doch ihn erwartet eine böse Überraschung, der auch er nichts entgegenzusetzen hat.

A former mercenary turned blind priest, Ash is running from his amoral past - a victim of a power-hungry corporation, Titanus, which used him for mysterious experiments, discarding him when he lost his sight. Through its experimentation, Titanus unwittingly created a dark mirror world called Shade, a place where no human can survive - except for Ash. By opening a rift, Ash can escape into Shade. While attempting to implement a global teleportation system, Titanus makes a grave error and opens several dangerous rifts, which threaten to tear the planet apart.

Hulde is a queen’s daughter and lives in a palace. But her life is lonely. Growing up atop the glass mountain, she knows only her violent and autocratic mother and a household of terrified servants. Then a white bear named Rune comes to visit, and Hulde learns what kindness is. But the queen has a plan for Hulde. When she turns 16, she will wed the most beautiful man in all the world. Hulde has never met her intended husband, and her mother refuses to explain the arrangement.

Au cœur d'une France envahie par les zombies, Dernière Terre raconte le voyage insolite de quatre jeunes prêts à tout pour rejoindre l'Angleterre. Thomas, David, Laura et la petite Sophie vont côtoyer une série d'univers aussi bien mystique, surnaturel que médiéval. Pour traverser la Manche, notre quatuor de bras cassés va ainsi croiser une galerie de survivants aussi terrifiants qu'excentriques. Chaque étape de l'aventure permet de comprendre les origines de l'infection et le rôle primordial que les quatre personnages vont devoir tenir.

Was haben ein übergewichtiger, korrupter Stadtgardist und ein leichtfüßiger elbischer Langfinger gemein? Als Colin Silberbart und Flynn Grünblatt einander begegnen, sind sie sich sofort in herzlicher Abneigung verbunden. Doch eine mysteriöse Explosion auf dem Wazaar, Brae Flammars ältesten Marktplatz, zwingt die beiden zur Zusammenarbeit. Kann das gut gehen?

Ein ungewöhnlicher Fall für Grünblatt & Silberbart, den zwei ungleichen Ermittlern aus der fantastischen Metropole Brae Flammar: Ein Abenteurer hat sich einen Fluch eingefangen und wird von einem Golem verfolgt - seit Jahren. Der magische Häscher scheint unzerstörbar, weder Waffen noch Magie können ihm etwas anhaben. Kann es den beiden Detektiven dennoch mit einer List gelingen, ihren Klienten von dem Quälgeist zu befreien?

Es klingt nach einem Standardauftrag für Grünblatt & Silberbart, den zwei ungleichen Ermittlern aus der fantastischen Metropole Brae Flammar: Ein Seemann ist verschwunden. Seine Frau bittet die beiden, ihn wiederzufinden. Doch warum ist das mächtige Verbrecherkartell der Illim ebenfalls an dem Vermissten interessiert? Und was hat es mit den mysteriösen magischen Harpunen auf sich, die der Seemann besaß? Bald sind die beiden Detektive einem der dunkelsten Geheimnisse ihrer Heimatstadt auf der Spur.

Wer in der Stadt der Türme ein heikles Problem lösen muss, der engagiert das vielleicht skurrilste Ermittlerduo, von der die Fantasyliteratur je gehört hat: den stark übergewichtigen, humorresistenten Zwerg Colin Silberbart und seinen deutlich leichtfüßigeren und ziemlich nichtsnutzigen elbischen Kompagnon Flynn Grünblatt. Gemeinsam spüren die beiden vermisste Personen auf, befreien unglückliche Abenteurer von magischen Flüchen oder beschaffen verschwundene Gegenstände wieder. Sie übernehmen jeden Auftrag - vorausgesetzt, es geht nicht um Drachen oder unterirdische Verliese.