Starting (2665) Demon Wars Saga BK #2; Demon Spirit (Part 1) by R. A. Salvatore. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished (2664) Dragon Kin. Another great book in the Pern series.

Next item in my queue: (2665) Demon Wars Saga BK #2; Demon Spirit (Part 1) by R. A. Salvatore. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2665) Demon Wars Saga BK #2; Demon Spirit (Part 1) by R. A. Salvatore

Summary: 

Elbryan and Pony—soul mates from childhood who grew even closer over time—fervently hope that the tide of darkness is at last receding from the land of Corona. Yet if evil is on the retreat, why are hordes of goblins and bloody-capped powries slashing their way ever-deeper into civilized lands? A sinister threat now looms over Corona, for the power of the demon dactyl was not entirely vanquished by the sacrifice of the monk Avelyn Desbris. Instead, its darkness has infiltrated the most sacred of places—as a once-admired spiritual leader rededicates his life to the most vicious, most insidious revenge against the forces of good. There may be no stopping the spread of the malignant evil... (Book 2 of 7 - Part 1 of 3)

On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-513-2-the-demon-spirit-1-of-3.aspx

On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Spirit-DemonWars-Trilogy-Book/dp/0345391527/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266152353&sr=1-1

Starting (2664) Dragon Kin by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished Librivox Short Sci-Fi Story Collection, Vol 24. Several good stories in this collection.

Next item in my queue: (2664) Dragon Kin by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2664) Dragon Kin by Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey

Publisher's Summary

Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great Holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization. Mining is fraught with danger. Fortunately, the camp has a watch-wher, a creature distantly related to dragons and uniquely suited to specialized work in the dark, cold mineshafts. Kindan's father is the watch-wher's handler, and his son sometimes helps him out. But even that important job promises no opportunity outside the mine.
Then disaster strikes. In one terrible instant, Kindan loses his family and the camp loses its watch-wher. Fathers are replaced by sons in the mine - except for Kindan, who is taken in by the camp's new Harper. Grieving, Kindan finds a measure of solace in a burgeoning musical talent...and in a new friendship with Nuella, a mysterious girl no one seems to know exists. It is Nuella who assists Kindan when he is selected to hatch and train a new watch-wher, a job that forces him to give up his dream of becoming a Harper; and it is Nuella who helps him give new meaning to his life.
Meanwhile, sparked by the tragedy, long-simmering tensions are dividing the camp. Far below the surface, a group of resentful miners hides a deadly secret. As warring factions threaten to explode, Nuella and Kindan begin to discover unknown talents in the misunderstood watch-wher-talents that could very well save an entire Hold. During their time teaching the watch-wher, the two learn some things themselves: that even a seemingly impossible dream is never completely out of reach...and that light can be found even in the deepest darkness.

On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Dragonriders-Pern-Anne-McCaffrey/dp/0345462009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266152247&sr=1-1

On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000261&BV_SessionID=@@@@0004851170.1266151616@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladejjdifmljcefecekjdffidfgi.0

Starting Librivox Short Sci-Fi Story Collection, Vol 24 by Various Authors. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2662) Vatican Assassin (Podibooks). Book just isn't getting my attention or interest.

Next item in my queue: Librivox Short Sci-Fi Story Collection, Vol 24 by Various Authors. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2663) Librivox Short Sci-Fi Story Collection, Vol. 024 (Librivox) by C. M. Kornbluth

Summary:

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

In this Collection:
01 = Ep-01 - the Altar at Midnight = C. M. Kornbluth.mp3

01 = File-01-Afraid of the Darknet = James Patrick Kelly.mp3

01 = File-01-an Interest on Ten Shillings = H. Rider Haggard.mp3

01 = File-01-Invasion of the Terra-Cots = Roy Trumbull.mp3

01 = File-01-Muddles = Horace Brown Fyfe.mp3

01 = File-01-on the Net-Bring on the Digital Hugos = James Patrick Kelly.mp3

01 = File-01-on the Net-F T L = James Patrick Kelly.mp3

01 = File-01-on the Net-Time Travel = James Patrick Kelly.mp3

02 = Ep-02 - the Defenders = Philip K. Dick.mp3

02 = File-02-Invasion of the Terra-Cots = Roy Trumbull.mp3

02 = File-02-Muddles = Horace Brown Fyfe.mp3

02 = File-02-What Was Found in the Pool = H. Rider Haggard.mp3

03 = Ep-03 - Foundling on Venus = John -& Dorothy De Courcy.mp3

03 = File-03-Jim-Jim Is Avenged = H. Rider Haggard.mp3

04 = Ep-04 - the Leech = Phillips Barbee.mp3

05 = Ep-05 - the Repairman = Harry Harrison.mp3

06 = Ep-06 - Second Landing = Floyd Wallace.mp3

07 = Ep-07 - the Talkative Tree = Horace Brown Fyfe.mp3

08 = Ep-08 - They Twinkled Like Jewels = Philip Jose Farmer.mp3

09 = Ep-09 - Warm = Robert Sheckley.mp3

10 = Ep-10 - Wind = Charles Louis Fontenay.mp3

Starting (2662) Vatican Assassin (Podibooks) by Mike Luoma. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished Beyond the Gap a Novel of the Opening of the World. One of the few books by Turtledove that enjoyed & finished.

Next item in my queue: (2662) Vatican Assassin (Podibooks) by Mike Luoma. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2662) Vatican Assassin (Podibooks) by Mike Luoma

Summary:

BERNARD CAMPION'S friends call him "BC". Not that he has a lot of friends. You don't make a lot of friends when you're an assassin. His mission: eliminate the governor of Luna Prime, Meredith McEntyre. His bosses, The Office of Papal Operations: The OPO, tell him she's been sympathizing with the enemy, the Universal Islamic Nation (UIN). His boss? BC works for the Pope. It's 2109, a time of war. BC is 'officially' assigned as PR man to the Vatican Mission on Luna Prime, the major city on The Moon, as his cover. Just a mild mannered, young, twenty-something priest working for the New catholic Church on public relations. But he's really a weapon pointed at the UIN by the NcC and their Earth based allies, the Universal Trade Zone, the UTZ

On Podiobooks: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/vatican-assassin

Starting Beyond the Gap a Novel of the Opening of the World by Harry Turtledove. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2660) OTR, Podcasts & Music. Listening to some great oldies

Next item in my queue: Beyond the Gap a Novel of the Opening of the World by Harry Turtledove. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2661) Beyond the Gap a Novel of the Opening of the World by Harry Turtledove

Publisher's Summary

Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, its the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Now Nidaros is an old and many-spired city. And though they still feel the breath of the great Glacier in every winter's winds, the ice cap itself has retreated beyond the horizon.
Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots, the next tribe north, has come to town with strange news. A narrow gap has opened in what they'd always thought was an endless and impregnable wall of ice. The great Glacier does not go on forever, and on its other side are new lands, new animals, and possibly new people. Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world.
Now, perhaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. Who could resist the urge to go see? For Count Hamnet and his several companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be traveling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew. Adventures will surely be had.

On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Opening-World-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0765356384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266151608&sr=1-1

On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TANT_000381&BV_SessionID=@@@@0004851170.1266151616@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladejjdifmljcefecekjdffidfgi.0

Music Interlude:
Various Artists, Country Disc 16
Various Artists, Symphonic Star Trek

Starting (2660) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished Targa Trilogy Bk 1; Origin Scroll. Great Fantasy with magic story. 2nd time around for this book.

Next item in my queue: (2660) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2660) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers

Podcast: Le Jazz Affair, show 385

Podcast: Prometheus Radio Theatre, Arbiter Chronicles- Freedoms Blood Pat 1

Music: Various Artist, Radio November 1972 Disc 2

Music: Various Artists, Summertime Gold Disc 1

Starting Targa Trilogy Bk 1; Origin Scroll (Podiobooks) by Richard S. Tuttle. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished (2658) Deathlands #019; Deep Empire. Excellent post holocaust, action/sci-fi book.

Next item in my queue: Targa Trilogy Bk 1; Origin Scroll (Podiobooks) by Richard S. Tuttle. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2659) Targa Trilogy Bk 1; Origin Scroll (Podiobooks) by Richard S. Tuttle

Summary:

Origin Scroll is the first volume of the Targa Trilogy and the cornerstone of the epic fantasy Alcea Collection which spans sixteen volumes in three series.

Alexander Tork is an apprentice lumberman, a fifteen year old who is forced to take the lead when his village is attacked by a pack of vicious beasts. But darker things lurk in the lands of Targa and Cordonia, an evil questing for an artifact that will shake the very Universe. Alex, and two more unknown youths, Oscar and Jenneva, are the only ones who can prevent the end of their universe... they just don't know it yet.

On Podiobooks: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/origin-scroll

On Author's Web site: http://www.rstuttle.com/index.htm

Starting (2658) Deathlands #019; Deep Empire by James Axler. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished (2657) Librivox Short Sci-fi Story Collection #23. Only 1 of the 10 stories caught my interest enough to finish it.

Next item in my queue: (2658) Deathlands #019; Deep Empire by James Axler. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2658) Deathlands #019; Deep Empire by James Axler

Summary:

Once an idyllic chain of inlets running from Key Largo to Key West, the Florida Keys have become an isolated universe of grotesquely mutated wildlife and bizarre submarine malformations. Blind seventy-foot sea snakes lurk among the reefs around underwater volcanoes, while typhoons and pirates turn the crystal waters above into a death zone.

 

But Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists find a slice of heaven in this ocean hell at a marine research center created to further the amazing promise of the dolphins. Here, a brilliant scientist offers the perfect vacation of sun, fishing and fun. Until Ryan discovers this post-holocaust aquatic paradise is a hoax—and gentle dolphins are being mutated into killers.

 

On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-46-19-deep-empire.aspx


On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Empire-Deathlands-James-Axler/dp/037362557X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266150509&sr=1-1

Starting (2657) Librivox Short Sci-fi Story Collection #23 by Various Authors. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished (2656) The Immortals. Excellent book. It made my keeper list the 1st time I listened to it.

Next item in my queue: (2657) Librivox Short Sci-fi Story Collection #23 by Various Authors. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

(2657) Librivox Short Sci-fi Story Collection, vol. 023 by Various Authors

Summary:

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg

In this Collection:
01 = Ep-01 - Bolden's Pets = Floyd L. Wallace.mp3

02 = Ep-02 - a Filbert Is a Nut = Rick Raphael.mp3

03 = Ep-03 - the Hated = Frederik Pohl.mp3

04 = Ep-04 - the Plattner Story = H. G. Wells.mp3

05 = Ep-05 - Regeneration = Charles Dye.mp3

06 = Ep-06 - Rex Ex Machina = Frederic Max.mp3

07 = Ep-07 - Tales of Space and Time; the Star = H. G. Wells.mp3

08 = Ep-08 - the Success Machine = Henry Slesar.mp3

09 = Ep-09 - Unspecialist = Murray F. Yaco.mp3

10 = Ep-10 - What's He Doing in There-- = Fritz Leiber.mp3

Starting (2656) The Immortals (Podibooks) by Tracy & Laura Hickman. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.

Finished (2655) Dragonflight. Shorter than usual story but enjoyable.

(2656) The Immortals (Podibooks) by Tracy & Laura Hickman

Summary:

The future story of United States Internment Camps ... of the dreams of the pre-deceased ... and of triumph beyond oblivion.

It's 2020, and an attempted cure for AIDS has mutated into a deadlier disease, V-CIDS. The U.S., under martial law, has set up "quarantine centers" in the Southwest. Searching for his gay son, Jon, media mogul Michael Barris smuggles himself into one of centers only to discover that it and the other centers are actually extermination camps. With a strange assortment of allies, including the leader of the camp's gay barracks, an army officer and a local cowboy, Barris precipitates an inmates' rebellion that promises the unraveling of the death-camp system and the overthrow of the government that established it.

As read and performed by Tracy and Laura Hickman. Published as a podiobook during the ten-year anniversary of its first printing.

"Powerful... disturbing... A vision of the future that is all too possible..." Margaret Weis

"Masterful ... sensitive ... controversial ... Hickman holds up a mirror to our society." R. A. Salvatore

"Excellent and exciting ... An important book..." Robin Wayne Bailey.

On Podiobooks: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-immortals

Music Interlude:
Various Artists, Country Disc 15
Various Artists, Rock Disc 2