Apocalyptic & Dystopian Audiobooks | Immersive & Radically Different

Pandora's Redoubt [Dramatized Adaptation]

In the post-holocaust wastelands of 22nd-centry America, precious little remains of life before the nuclear blowout. Legends circulate of Redoubts, secret pre-Dark military bases with caches of food, medicine and, most important, weapons. Yet only a few of the ragged elite possess the arcane knowledge that enables them to locate and access these valuable storehouses. In a hidden redoubt in Ohio, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists take possession of the ultimate Deathlands War Wag-a crude but effective tank called Leviathan. But having this steel-plated behemoth is a double-edged sword when they fall into the trap of Lady Ward of Novaville, who wants Leviathan for her own means of destruction and domination. In the Deathlands, the future is just an idea.

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Rat King [Dramatized Adaptation]

What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands...a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called Ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, homing their survival skills in a wasteland where danger lurks over the next hill. Emerging into one of the pre-dark installations known as redoubts, the group is taken prisoner in a fully functioning army base operating in a parody of life before the blowout. Its occupants are inbred soldiers, a legacy to the lost secrets of the Totality Concept. Led by the mad general of an obscene military project, the base has found its last hope in the ragtag bunch, a fate that may be even more horrifying than the hell they have survived. In the Deathlands nothing is certain...especially the future.

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Gary Arthur, Kathryn Poe, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny (Narrator)

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Zero City [Dramatized Adaptation]

The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses called villes, policed by stone hearts called sec men. But even in this dark new world, heroes and legends are emerging. One of them is a warrior survivalist named Ryan Cawdor, believed to possess pre-apocalyptic knowledge that holds hope for a beleaguered future. Hungry and exhausted, Ryan and his band emerge from a redoubt into a remarkably untouched pre-dark city and uncover a cache of weapons and food. But the group is not alone. Among other interlopers, the city is guarded by huge winged creatures, protecting the grisly secrets of a nearby barony. Holed up inside an old government building, where Ryan's son, Dean, lies near death, Ryan and Krysty must raid the treacherous ville across the desert where a local baron uses human flesh as fertilizer. In the Deathlands, evil is unstoppable.

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Mark Delgado, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny (Narrator)

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Savage Armada [Dramatized Adaptation]

A nuclear apocalypse almost destroyed Western civilzation in 2001, leaving in its place the forbidding world of Deathlands. Though the human spirit has not been broken, the new rules of survival are harsh and barbaric. As barons fight for power in a savage new America, power is claimed with the salvaged arsenals of a predark world: weapons, gasoline and those willing to kill. The Marshall islands, once the testing grounds for twentieth-century weapons of mass destruction, remains pervesely beautiful. But the infested waters become the battleground for looting pirates and sec men in still-functional navy PT boats, all driven by greed and madness to plunder the predark caches of science and technology hidden in the islands. Ryan Cawdor and his band emerge in this perilous waterworld, caught in a grim fight to unlock the secrets of the past. (The SkyDark Chronicles - 1 of 3)

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Barrett Whitener, Cate Torre, Colleen Delany, David Elias, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny (Narrator)

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Judas Strike [Dramatized Adaptation]

A nuclear Endgame played out among the superpowers created a fiery cataclysm that turned America into a treacherous new frontier. But an intrepid group of warrior survivalists roams the wastelands, unlocking the secrets of a pre-dark world. Ryan Cawdor and his band have become living legends in a world of madness and death where savagery reigns, but the human spirit remains. The South Pacific is a rad-blasted paradise, inhabited by giant mutated crustaceans and savage cannibals. The local baron rules the Marshall Islands with a despotic iron fist and a secret formula for making Deathland's gold: Gunpowder. But his true invincibility lies in his possession of stockpiles of pre-dark rapid fire missiles and a fleet of functional PT boats. Ryan Cawdor and his companions have faced off against the baron and survived. But this time there's only one way out of these death seas-through the sec-men infested waters of the baron's kingdom. (The SkyDark Chronicles - 2 of 3)

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, David Elias, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny (Narrator)

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Shadow Fortress [Dramatized Adaptation]

A planet ravaged by the apocalyptic blast of 2001 gave birth to a new world of savagery-and a new breed of hero. In a land where violence rules with absolute authority, Ryan Cawdor and his wayfarer survivalists roam the strange, nascent twenty second century, living by their own creed of honor as they continue their search for a sanctuary they can call home. In what was once the nuclear testing ground of the pre-dark world, the Marshall Islands are now the kingdom of the grotesque lord Baron Kinnison. Here in this world of slavery and brutality the companions have fought a fierce war for survival, on land and sea-yet the crafty baron still conspires to destroy these interlopers. Activating a twentieth century hot air balloon left untouched by the blast, they escape to the neighboring pirate ruled forbidden island, with the Baron and his sec men in hot pursuit-and become trapped in a war for total supremacy on this water world. (The SkyDark Chronicles - 3 of 3)

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, David Elias, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Sunchild [Dramatized Adaptation]

After an atomic blast hurled the world into an uncertain future, the past still reaches out in hope... and damnation. In a kill or be killed world, one steadfast group of survivors possesses superior fighting skills and sense of fair play that have made them living legends. In their struggle to seek a better way of life, they are unraveling the powerful secrets of the hell on Earth called Deathlands. A pre-dark legacy of shattering promise lies beneath the ruins of nuke-ravaged Seattle. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions come face-to-face with the ancestors of a secret society whose members were convinced that paradise awaited at the center of the Earth. This cult is inexorably tied to a conspiracy of twentieth-century scientists devoted to fulfilling a vision o genetic manipulation.In this labyrinthine ville, carved from the subterranean passages of a doomed past, some of the descendants of the illuminated ones are pursuing the dream of their legacy-while others are dedicated to its nightmare. Even in the Deathlands, twisted human beliefs endure...

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny (Narrator)

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Breakthrough [Dramatized Adaptation]

More than a century after a multi-warhead nuclear strike wiped out nearly all of earth's population, humanity's feral instinct to survive has spawned a savage new America. Here, the brutality of man and nature conspire against hope. Yet despite its chaos and bloody turmoil, Deathlands is a second chance for the human race...and for a group of warrior survivalists lead by a man called Ryan Cawdor. Deathlands is a living hell, but there is someplace worse: a parallel Earth where the atomic mega-cull never happened. Now this Otherworld Earth is in its final death throes. Yet for an elite few, the reality portal offers a new frontier of raw energy, expendable slaves-a bastion of power for Dredda Otis Trask. Her invasion force of genetically engineered warrior women has turned the ruins of Salt Lake City into the deadly mining grounds of a grotesque new order-one that lies in wait for Ryan and his companions. In the Deathlands, danger lurks beyond the imagination.

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Cate Torre, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny (Narrator)

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Salvation Road [Dramatized Adaptation]

Tortured into existence by a nuclear conflagration, the new frontier of a ravaged America is an ordeal only the most intrepid can endure. Pockets of civilization have emerged, some born of will and hope, while others are breeding grounds for tyranny and madness. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions have survived all this and worse. A roving band of survivalists driven to seek a better life, they are unwilling to pay the highest price demanded by the unforgiving crucible called Deathlands. Beneath the brutal sun of the nuke-ravaged Southwest, the Texas desert burns red hot and merciless, commanding agony and untold riches to those greedy and mad enough to mine the slick black crude that lies beneath the scorched earth. When a Gateway jump puts Ryan and the others deep in the hell of Texas, they face a no win situation: fry in the heat, or become a rogue baron's sec force for an oil refinery targeted by saboteurs. The task: catch the raiders and win their freedom. Or fail...and face death. In the Deathlands, the unimaginable is a way of life.

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny (Narrator)

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Amazon Gate [Dramatized Adaptation]

At the heart of the strange new post-nuclear world known as Deathlands lie the mysteries of pre-dark society-secrets that may hold the key to a future of peace...or peril. Armed with rare knowledge of top secret twenty-first-century technology, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists traverse the new America, seeking to claim something beyond the grim reality of Deathlands. In the radiation-blasted heart of the northwest, Ryan and his companions form a tenuous alliance with a society of women warriors in what may be the stunning culmination of their quest. After years of searching, they have found the gateway to the pre-dark cabal of the Illuminated Ones-and perhaps their one chance to reclaim the future from the jaws of madness. But to seize tomorrow, they must confront its deadly guardians: what is left of the constitutional Government of the United States of America. (The Illuminated Ones - 1 of 2)

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Cate Torre, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Destiny's Truth [Dramatized Adaptation]

America has been forever alter by the ravages of a nuclear attack that sent it spiraling toward a virulent new destiny-and by the vestiges of the pre-dark world itself, where humanity's internecine battle between good and evil rages on. Though many of twenty-first-century America's darkest legacies have been entombed beneath the ruins of a wounded planet, some remain dangerously alive... Emerging from a gateway in New England, Ryan Cawdor and his band of wayfaring survivalists ally themselves with a group of women warriors who join their quest to locate the Illuminated Ones, a mysterious pre-dark secret who may possess secret knowledge of Deathlands. Yet their pursuit becomes treacherous, for their quarry has unleashed a deadly plague in the twisted plot to cleanse the earth. As Ryan's group falls victim, time is running out-for the intrepid survivors... and for humanity itself. (The Illuminated Ones - 2 of 2)

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Cate Torre, Colleen Delany, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Skydark Spawn [Dramatized Adaptation]

Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fought for and won with blood-each day alive means another chance to seek refuge and a better way of life in a hostile and brutal world, where hope still fires the human heart. In the relatively untouched area of what was once Niagara Falls, Ryan and his fellow wayfarers find the pastoral farmland under the despotic control of a twisted baron and his slave-breeding farm. Ryan, Mildred and Krysty are captured by the baron's sec men and pawned into the cruel frenzy of their leader's grotesque desires. JB, Jak and Doc enlist the aid of outlanders to organize a counter strike-but rescue may come too late for them all. In the Deathlands, you are sentenced to your destiny from the moment of birth...

James Axler (Author), A Full Cast, Cate Torre, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Tymberlee Chanel (Narrator)

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