The Green Millennium
By Fritz Leiber; Read by William Coon
6.5 hrs - [UNABRIDGED]

Availiable at Audible and iTunes

Give a free listen to the first chapter.

or use this download link.

From the Hugo and Nebula Grandmaster author, Fritz Leiber.

Phil Gish has always felt like a luck-forsaken little guy who never got a break. But he awakes one morning to overwhelming optimism and hope. The thing that brings him joy is the sudden appearance of a green cat that has jumped through the window of his tiny bachelor apartment. He decides to adopt the cat and names it Lucky. But Lucky has other plans, and the cat disappears from Phil’s place as quickly as it jumped in.

Phil’s journey to retrieve Lucky takes him directly into the paths of some of the most eccentric characters to ever populate a novel, from a female masked wrestler to a psychoanalyst on the take and his seemingly psychotic daughter, Mitzie.

Poor Phil’s problems are only beginning. He starts to have special feelings for Mitzie, and the green cat becomes a sought-after prize by the mob and the government.

An offbeat story written as if someone had dropped a Marx Brothers movie into a Philip K. Dick novel.

Orson Scott Card Selects Star Born by Andre Norton and published by Wonder Audio for the first title in an exciting new feature at Audible.com.

Here’s how Audible describes it:
Orson Scott Card Selects:

In an exclusive relationship, Audible is launching a monthly recommendation program with Hugo Award-winning Orson Scott Card, the author of the classic Ender’s Game, and one of the industry’s best-selling writers. Card will provide exclusive audio critiques of each selection.

“It’s easy for great novels and novellas to get lost in the bookstore - not everything can get front-of-store display!” Card said. “That’s what I’ll be doing with ‘OSC Selects’ - moving new and classic sci-fi and fantasy right to the front, so fans will have a better chance of noticing terrific stories performed by first-rate readers.”

“Orson Scott Card Selects” kicks off with the April selection, Star Born by Andre Norton.

Orson Scott Card calls Star Born - “Excellent, first rate, adult science fiction….”

If you don’t like Sheckley, you must not have read (or listened) to him.

A Sheckley Trilogy: Three Classic Tales of Science Fiction
By Robert Sheckley; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
2 hrs. - [UNABRIDGED]

Availiable at Audible and iTunes

Robert Sheckley, master of the science-fiction short-story form, created numerous tales of dark humor. He had an entertaining gift for looking at society with a warped mirror, enabling us to see ourselves in a clearer reflection.

“Keep Your Shape” is from the perspective of an alien race with the unseemly ability to change shape. In “The Seventh Victim”, murder is legal and sanctioned by society, and the gunman’s victim is a beautiful woman. And when a spaceship filled with diverse alien life forms is stranded without a star drive, they only have one chance of getting home again. That chance is with a “Specialist” from Earth.

These three works were originally published in Galaxy and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in 1953.

Starborn
By Andre Norton; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
7 hrs- [UNABRIDGED]
Availiable at Audible and iTunes.

Wonder Audio’s first audiobook of a novel is now available!  Give a free listen to the first chapter.

or use this download link.

“The two voyagers were neither of the same race nor of the same species, yet they worked together without words, as if they had established some bond which gave them a rapport transcending the need for speech.”

When Raf Kurbi’s spaceship from Earth burst into unexplored skies of the far planet Astra, it was made welcome by the natives of a once-mighty metropolis. But Kurbi was unaware of three vital things: (1) that Astra already harbored an Earth colony - descended from refugees from the world of the previous century; (2) that these men and women were facing the greatest danger of their existence from a new outburst of the inhuman fiends who had once tyrannized Astra; and (3) that the natives who were buying Kurbi’s science know-how were those very fiends - and their intentions were implacably deadly for all humans, whether Earth born or star born!

Much of the planet’s hopes lie with young Dalgard Nordis and his companion, Sssuri, a telepathic native of this alien world. If they fail, their planet will be subjugated and enslaved by that inhuman race.

Here is a top-notch planetary adventure novel by science fiction grand master Andre Norton.

One of our fine narrators, William Coon, has garnered praise for a title he’s did for LibriVox.  It’s for the “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Brett Harte.  Read the review at the Free Listens blog.

William has been busy with recording some wonderful titles for Wonder Audio. He has read “The Last of the Deliverers” by Poul Anderson [see Digital Downloads page] as well as reading “Doom From Planet 4″ by Jack Williamson for The Time Traveler Show.

Coming out this Spring, Mr. Coon does a bang-up job on the Fritz Leiber novel, The Green Millennium as well as Jack Williamson’s “The Wolves of Darkness”.  And later this year, we’ll be releasing “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and other stories by Harry Bates.

Two new great releases now available. 

A is for Alien
By Robert Sheckley, Miriam Allen DeFord & Evelyn E. Smith
Read by Pat Bottino, Sam Mowry & Candace Platt
67 min - [UNABRIDGED]

Availiable at Audible and iTunes

In these three tales, you’ll experience stories from an alien perspective.

In “The Apotheosis of Ki“, by Miriam Allen DeFord, Ki, a primitive savage, encounters a spaceman. Can the two cultures communicate? Read by Sam Mowry.

In “Captain’s Mate“, by Evelyn E. Smith, we hear the tribulations of a crustacean-like alien who is captain of an all-human crew. The trouble begins as the ship drops out of hyperspace. They’re stranded a million miles from anywhere and the captain is acting strangely, even by her own standards.

What passes for a moral is turned upside down in “Monsters“, by Robert Sheckley. Different rules of morality create havoc when a spaceship full of humans lands.

Sam, This is You & The Other Now
By Murray Leinster; Read by Mac Kelly
65 min - [UNABRIDGED]
Availiable at Audible and

Two classic tales from the Dean of Science Fiction - Murray Leinster.

“Sam, This Is You” is a humorous look at Sam, a telephone lineman and inventor. Sam’s invented a device to talk to himself back in time. Unfortunately, Sam’s main interest is courting Rosie, and his love life is being sabotaged by his worst enemy - his future self.

“The Other Now” is a poignant love story. When Jimmy Patterson loses his beloved wife, Jane, in a car accident, he believes he begins to get messages from her. Can their love be enough to reunite them?

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