Short Stories Audiobooks | Science Fiction & Fantasy

A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton, the bestselling master of space opera, is a collection containing a novella and six short stories set in the Confederation Universe of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Sonnie's Edge:The popular sport of 'beastie-baiting' involves contests to the death between artificial monsters controlled via human affinity bonds. Sonnie's team is particularly successful. . . but then her monster, 'Khanivore', has one special advantage. A Second Chance at Eden: A bitek habitat which orbits Jupiter, mining the fusion fuel on which Earth is dependent, Eden is a mini-nation of radical politics -- and even more radical technology. Then its creator is murdered in full view of the whole population, but nobody can identify the perpetrator -- or the motive. New Days Old Times: Settlers came to the planet Nyvan hoping for a lifestyle free of Earthbound hatreds. Alas, though environments may change, human nature does not. Candy Buds: The crime-lord Laurus rules Kariwak with an iron fist, jealously guarding control of the bitek trade. But when an astonishing new substance appears on the streets, virtual reality takes on an entirely new dimension. Deathday: On a desolate planet, a man wages an obsessive campaign of retribution against the last survivor of an alien race. But vengeance can cut both ways. The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa: A passion that spans two generations of women. . . and endures beyond. Escape Route: The starship Lady Macbeth encounters a long-abandoned alien spacecraft, with its escape route still intact -- but leading where? And is the craft as empty as it seems?

Peter F. Hamilton (Author), Steven Crossley (Narrator)

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Die Modernisierung meiner Mutter - Geschichten

Das Best of Bov. Das Beste aus 20 Jahren vom Shootingstar der deutschen Literatur: Geschichten über die schwäbische Heimat, das Berliner Exil und das ferne Amerika. Komisch und melancholisch. Vielschichtig und pointiert. Für den literarischen Genuss und den großen Lesespaß. 'Seine Geschichten zu lesen ist ganz einfach immer wieder ein sehr großes Vergnügen.' Horst Evers. Gerade als seine Mutter den Führerschein macht, lässt der Gemeinderat eine Fußgängerampel aufstellen, mit fatalen Folgen für Mensch und Tier. Und ausgerechnet während des Urlaubs mit seiner Freundin in einem amerikanischen Nationalpark zieht ein heftiger Sturm auf. Und mitten im Zug auf halber Strecke zum Satireabend nach Frankfurt stürzen die Zwillingstürme ein. Egal ob Mütter oder Söhne, Lokaljournalisten oder Bankdirektoren, Münzsammler oder Apotheker - die Figuren in Bov Bjergs Geschichten haben eins gemeinsam: Für ihren Lebensweg gibt es keinen Verkehrsfunk. Schwäbische Alb, Berlin, Amerika. Das sind ihre Koordinaten. Aber was unterwegs passiert, damit müssen sie irgendwie allein fertig werden. Mit großer Einfühlsamkeit spürt Bov Bjerg den kleinen und großen Schicksalsschlägen des Lebens nach und sorgt mit seinem besonderen Humor dafür, dass man am Ende trotzdem lacht. Die in diesem Hörbuch veröffentlichten Geschichten waren bis auf eine in dem E-Book 'Ohne Brille kann ich recht und links nicht unterscheiden' enthalten.

Bov Bjerg (Author), Bov Bjerg (Narrator)

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The Moonlit Road and other stories

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre "Can Such Things Be?" was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This selection contains two of his most famous tales: "The Moonlit Road" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" together with 10 others: "John Mortonson's Funeral," "One Summer Night," "A Baby Tramp," "A Diagnosis of Death,""Staley Fleming's Hallucination," "Moxon's Master," "A Psychological Shipwreck," "John Bartine's Watch," "The Realm of the Unreal" and "The Damned Thing."

Ambrose Bierce (Author), Roy Macready (Narrator)

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The Sea-Raiders

H. G. Wells (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Moth

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Moth' is the strange tale of two rivalling entomologists, each determined to demolish the other's life's work. When one of them dies, the other struggles to cope in the absence of his rival. And then he discovers an entirely new species of moth - a moth very reminiscent of his dead rival - and which pursues him wherever he goes.

H. G. Wells (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Lost Inheritance

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Lost Inheritance' is the story of a young man whose sole purpose in life is to persuade his wealthy and eccentric uncle to leave him his fortune. He is delighted when the old man declares that he has written a will leaving him everything...but when the old man passes away, the will is nowhere to be found. What follows next is comic tragedy.

H. G. Wells (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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A Catastrophe

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'A Catastrophe' is a poignant tale of a shopkeeper whose business is on the verge of bankruptcy, when a dreadful catastrophe strikes the family, just in time to save him from total ruin.

H. G. Wells (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Magic Shop

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Magic Shop' is the story of a small boy and his father who go into a shop which appears to sell magic tricks. But the proprietor insists that all the tricks are really genuine magic, and the longer they stay in the shop, the stranger the tricks become. Then the shopkeeper performs one truly terrifying trick...and what happens next is very peculiar....

H. G. Wells (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Witness for the Prosecution

Agatha Christie's shocking courtroom drama, read on audio by her grandson, Mathew Prichard. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms French's housekeeper, Janet gives damning evidence against Vole, but as Romaine's cross-examination begins her motives come under scrutiny from the courtroom. One question remains, will justice out?

Agatha Christie (Author), Mathew Prichard (Narrator)

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Real In Reel

Life brings along with it many stories…waiting to be heard…waiting to be read. And I too have heard many real life incidents from friends, family and others. Incidents which then would linger in my mind, far too long, and take paths, far too adventurous. It was not long before I started to jolt down these stories and narrate them into an audiobook, to turn real life episodes into fiction. The whole process of masking as another character, letting loose the creative possibilities, working with music was an unforgettable learning experience. There is always something to learn from others. Real In Reel is all about reflections from the strange, small or big experiences of many in the most delightful manner. These stories have also had a great impact on my outlook in life. Occasionally I would find looking at my stories from a different point of view, so as to add more details and flavor to the situations and characters and, overtime I internalized these habits to my circumstances. It was not my will, but of those stories that have made themselves heard through me and led me to create this audiobook. I thank the many inspirations for this book and my father the most. ----- Shreyans Ranjalkar

Shreyans Ranjalkar (Author), Shreyans Ranjalkar (Narrator)

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The Souls of Black Folk

One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation’s history from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. In The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, Du Bois argued against the conciliatory position taken by Booker T. Washington, at the time the most influential black leader in America, and called for a more radical form of aggressive protest—a strategy that would anticipate and inspire much of the activism of the 1960s. Du Bois’s essays were the first to articulate many of Black America’s thoughts and feelings, including the dilemma posed by the black psyche’s “double consciousness,” which Du Bois described as “this twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings . . . in one dark body.” Every essay in The Souls of Black Folk is a jewel of intellectual prowess, eloquent language, and groundbreaking insight. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the struggle for Civil Rights in America.

W.E.B. Du Bois (Author), Toriasuncle (Narrator)

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Madness

From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Juliet Stevenson, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Scarborough, Tamsin Greig, Stephanie Beacham and Andrew Scott. 'There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know' Our greatest fear is of losing control - of our lives, but, most of all, of ourselves. In these ten unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity. Collected together for the first time, stories include Edward the Conqueror, Katina, The Sound Machine, An African Story, The Landlady, Pig, The Boy Who Talked with Animals, Dip in the Pool, William and Mary and The Way Up to Heaven. Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Madness is one of four audiobooks - the rest being Lust, Cruelty and Deception - that explore our hidden selves.

Roald Dahl (Author), Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Scott, Cillian Murphy, Juliet Stevenson, Stephanie Beacham, Tamsin Greig (Narrator)

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Short Stories Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy