Portals & Paradoxes
Ever wish you could go back and read your favorite books again for the first time? *Sigh* It may never be possible, but at least you can listen to some of our favorites for the first time! These titles feature protagonists who slip between worlds for science, for revolution, for revenge, or simply by accident. With twists and turns, and maybe a couple do-overs, a well-crafted time travel story upends consensus reality to guide us through thrilling and subversive alternatives.
This Is How You Lose The Time War
By Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
This Is How You Lose The Time War
“I was so enchanted by this book that once I finished it, I started it over from the very beginning. I have reread it many times and each time I find something new to marvel. It's beautiful, lyrical, gripping, epic and incredibly romantic, leaving its scent on readers like a fragrance transferred between loves.”
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The Peripheral
The Jackpot Trilogy: Book #1
By William Gibson
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010’s New York Times–bestselling Zero History.
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night... Read more »
The Future of Another Timeline
By Annalee Newitz
Narrated by: Annalee Newitz & Laura Nichol
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!
“A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard." —Wil Wheaton
From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.
This program includes a bonus interview with the author, as well as an author's...
Finna
Finna: Book #1
By Nino Cipri
Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange.
When an elderly customer... Read more »
The Space Between Worlds
By Micaiah Johnson
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.
WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • “Gorgeous writing,... Read more »
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
By Kelly Robson
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 5 hours
Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past. In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim... Read more »
Kindred
By Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
The first science fiction written by a Black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of Black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably... Read more »