Nothing Bad Happens in These
Nothing bad happens in these books. Easy reads for hard times.
Radiance
By Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Heath Miller
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes
Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the...
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Blue Remembered Earth
Poseidon's Children: Book #1
By Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Length: 21 hours 44 minutes
Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds holds a well-deserved place ''among the leaders of the hard-science space opera renaissance'' (Publishers Weekly). In Blue Remembered Earth, Geoffrey Akinya wants nothing more than to study the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But when his space-explorer grandmother dies, secrets come to light and... Read more »
Record of a Spaceborn Few
By Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!
Brimming with Chambers' signature blend of heart-warming character relationships and dazzling adventure, Record of a Spaceborn few is the third standalone installment of the Wayfarers series, set in the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, and following a new motley crew on a journey to another...
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The Dispossessed
A Novel
Hainish Cycle
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen King
From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them.
A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated...
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That Inevitable Victorian Thing
By E.K. Johnston
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Speculative fiction from the acclaimed bestselling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka.
Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history. The imperial tradition of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically... Read more »
The Goblin Emperor
By Katherine Addison
Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes
The Goblin Emperor is a vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent, Katherine Addison.
The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three...