Audio Books For October And Beyond

Audiobook intake

Not had a lot may audio books to listen to lately, I have been running through a lot of podcasts when I can, so thought it was time to load up a bunch onto my tablet while at work.

Darth Plagueis

Darth Plagueis by James Luceno.
Darth Sidious: Plagueis’s chosen apprentice. Under the guidance of his Master, he secretly studies the ways of the Sith, while publicly rising to power in the galactic government, first as Senator, then as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor.
Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, Master and acolyte, target the galaxy for domination – and the Jedi Order for annihilation. But can they defy the merciless Sith tradition? Or will the desire of one to rule supreme, and the dream of another to live forever, sow the seeds of their destruction?


Doomsday

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin–barely of age herself–finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.


Dune

Dune by Frank Herbert.
Dune is set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs. It tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. While the planet is an inhospitable and sparsely populated desert wasteland, it is the only source of melange, or “the spice,” a drug that extends life and enhances mental abilities. Melange is also necessary for space navigation, which requires a kind of multidimensional awareness and foresight that only the drug provides. As melange can only be produced on Arrakis, control of the planet is thus a coveted and dangerous undertaking. The story explores the multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the factions of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its spice.


Bear Gryll’s

Bear Gryll’s Survival Stories 1-9
World-renowned adventurer and broadcaster, Bear Grylls, presents some of the most incredible near-death experiences, told by those who lived to tell the tale. These extraordinary and diverse accounts of human bravery, mental and physical strength – and sometimes sheer luck – range from being stranded for more than 50 days at sea, to surviving world-changing acts of terrorism.
Bear contextualises each feat of endurance or bravery by relating them to his own experiences of near-misses and misfortune from his military career and survivalist adventures. Listeners will experience the first hand retelling of acts of quick thinking and gruelling struggles of those who found themselves in some of the most extreme circumstances imaginable.


Big Damn Hero

Firefly Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove, Nancy Holder.
The Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet the Browncoats had held the valley for weeks against all odds, before being ordered to lay down their arms. Command stated they refused to send in airpower because the ground war was “too hot.” But the soldiers who were there insist that was not true…
While picking up a new cargo on Persephone, Captain Malcolm Reynolds is kidnapped by a bunch of embittered veteran Browncoats who suspect him of sabotaging the Independents during the war. As the rest of the crew struggle to locate him, Mal is placed on trial for his life, fighting compelling evidence that someone did indeed betray them to the Alliance all those years ago. As old comrades and old rivals crawl out of the woodwork, Mal must prove his innocence, but his captors are desperate and destitute, and will settle for nothing less than the culprit’s blood.


The Magnificent Nine

Firefly The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove.
An old flame of Jayne Cobb’s, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flung world of Tethys, and bandits are trying to overrun her town to gain control of their water supply: the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin. Jayne tries to persuade the Serenity crew to join the fight, but it is only when he offers Vera, his favourite gun, as collateral that Mal realises he’s serious.
When the Serenity crew land at a hardscrabble desert outpost called Coogan’s Bluff, they discover two things: an outlaw gang with an almost fanatical devotion to their leader who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and that Temperance is single handedly raising a teenage daughter, born less than a year after Temperance and Jayne broke up. A daughter by the name of Jane McCloud…


Generations

Firefly Generations by Tim Lebbon.
A mysterious star map
On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists it’s worthless; back on Serenity, River Tam is able to interpret it.
An ancient legend
River claims the map points the way to one of the Arks: legendary generation ships that brought humans from Earth- That-Was to the ’Verse. The salvage potential alone is staggering.
A drifting relic
As the crew approach the aged floating ship, they find it isn’t quite as dead as it first seemed. The closer they get, the more agitated River becomes. She claims something is waiting on board, something powerful, and very angry…


The Ghost Machine

Firefly The Ghost Machine by James Lovegrove.
Mal and the crew take receipt of a sealed crate which they are being paid to transport to Badger, no questions asked. Yet once their cargo is safely stowed aboard, River insists Mal should “space” it out of the airlock, for it contains, she insists, ghosts. With supplies running low, the crew desperately need another pay day, but soon find themselves paralysed by hallucinations of their deepest hopes and desires, so vivid they cannot be distinguished from reality. River is the only one unaffected, and desperately tries to awaken her crew mates, while the fantasies turn sour, and the ship begins to spin out of control.


Use Of Weapons

Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances’ foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action.
The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.
The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman’s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past.


Phase One

Marvel’s Phase one box set
Steve Rogers was once just a scrawny kid. But after a top-secret government experiment, he became Captain America. Join the action when this superhero protects the free world against the Red Skull and Hydra in this complete origin story as told in Marvel’s Avengers Phase One: Captain America: The First Avenger.
Relive the excitement of The Incredible Hulk!
Bruce Banner was once just a shy scientist. But after a devastating lab accident, he became the Incredible Hulk. Join the action as this superhero fights against Abomination in his complete origin story as told in Marvel’s Avengers Phase One: The Incredible Hulk.
Relive the excitement of Marvel’s Thor!
Once just a powerful and arrogant royal from another realm, Thor became one of Earth’s finest defenders. Join the action as this superhero battles for mankind in this complete origin story as told in Marvel’s Avengers Phase One: Thor.


Phase Two

Marvel’s Phase two box set
Marvel’s Ant-Man
Before he was Ant-Man, Scott Lang was a master thief who wanted to change his ways. But he didn’t expect to change his height! So when Dr. Hank Pym recruits him to wear a super-powered suit that shrinks him down to the size of an insect, he reluctantly realizes his life of breaking-and-entering is far from over. Working with Hank and his daughter, Hope, Scott must plan and execute a takedown of Darren Cross, Hank’s protege, who has become so power hungry, he’s willing to sell the technology of the suit to the highest bidder. Even if that bigger is an international terrorist organization….
Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron
Things go very wrong when Tony Stark and Dr. Bruce Banner begin work on a global peacekeeping system, and the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye – are put to the ultimate test. The Avengers must stop the evil Ultron from executing his terrible plan, which threatens the fate of humanity.
Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier
After the Avengers saved the planet, Steve Rogers begins working for S.H.I.E.L.D. in Washington, DC. He soon realized adjusting to the modern world is the least of his worries when the integrity of the agency is compromised and director Nick Fury is attacked by an elusive assassin. Now a fugitive from his former allies, Captain America must get to the bottom of the international conspiracy and figure out the identity of the mysterious Winter Soldier.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Before they were the Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket, and Groot were just a group of cosmic misfits. They must put aside their differences and band together to protect a mysterious Orb from a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. In so doing, they learn more about themselves than they ever thought possible.


Phase Three

Marvel’s Phase three box set
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War
Following Ultron’s war on humanity, the world no longer trusts the Avengers. After a controversial decision to hold the team accountable is made, Captain America is torn – he can understand people’s fear, but the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. taught him just how dangerous unchecked power can be, and he trusts his own judgment above all to do what’s right. The Avengers themselves are bitterly divided as to the best course of action. Captain America will have to take a stand and fight for what he believes in – even if it hurls him down the road to civil war.
Marvel’s Doctor Strange
Marvel’s Doctor Strange follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange, who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilizing a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
After saving the known universe once already, you’d think Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and a sapling Groot would be sitting pretty. But nothing is ever easy for the Guardians of the Galaxy. After wrapping up their heroic and totally altruistic guardianship of expensive resources for the Sovereign, Rocket slips back into old habits and steals a couple. You know, for fun. Just like that, the Guardians are back on the run, and Yondu and his Ravagers are looking to cash in on the bounty. Their survival depends on the godlike figure who calls himself Ego – and claims to be Peter’s father. Family is important, but for the Guardians of the Galaxy, it could be the difference between life and death.


Podcast that I’m listening to at the moment.

  • No Such Thing As A Fish
  • Friday Night Comedy
  • Very Bad Wizards
  • Omnibus!
  • Behind The Bastards
  • The Infinite Monkey Cage
  • Pratchat
  • Fall Of Civilizations
  • My Dad Wrote A Porno
  • Stephen Fry’s 7 Deadly Sins
  • You’re Dead To Me
  • Grounded With Louis Theroux
  • I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
  • The Goon Show
  • Inside Egosoft X4
  • Evil Genius

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