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by Douglas Adams
Read by Simon Jones. It's holistic detective Dirk Gently against the forces of evil, norse gods, entropy, greed and the puzzling inexplicable. "Adams is the literary equivalent of 'Monty Python'...Dirk Gently will make you laugh."-The Chicago Tribune. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SAD004 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Douglas Adams
Read by the author. This lunatic space extravaganza tells of the worst Thursday ever, when Earth was demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway. Only Arthur Dent is saved from destruction: so begins his great hitch-hike through space. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
SAD005 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Douglas Adams
Read by the author. Volume 5 of the legendary Hitchhiker trilogy. Our hera's father is Arthur Dent and her godless godfather is Ford Prefect. Through a complicated series of misunderstandings at her naming ceremony she is named At Random, or "Random" for short. When she sets out to find out the truth about her amazing, incredible, vanished mother, the journey takes her to an utterly insignificant and small blue-green planet. The only entry Random can find about the place in the Hitchhiker's Guide reads simply: "Mostly harmless." (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
SAD006 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Douglas Adams
Read by the author. Dirk Gently will not make his way into the great tradition of hard-boiled, sophisticated detectives. Missing cats and messy divorces are his usual fare, but now he is faced with clearing a college friend of a suspicion of murder. En route he discovers a ghost, a time traveller, andÉ the devastating secret of humankind. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
SAD007 / Buy $25 / Rent $10.25
by Isaac Asimov
Read by the author. Five classics from the fifties are read by the master with enthusiasm and in the accents of his adopted Brooklyn, interspersed with anecdotes and comments about the stories. "The Immortal Bard," "The Last Question," "Someday," "The Jokester," and "The Ugly Little Boy." (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SAS003 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Ray Bradbury
Read by the author. Complete stories from The Martian Chronicles: "Rocket Summer," "Ylla," "The Summer Night," "The Earth Man," "The Third Expedition," "The Settlers," "The Locusts," "Night Meeting," "The Silent Towns" and "The Million Year Picnic." From The Illustrated Man: the title story, "The Crowd," "There Will Come Soft Rains," "The Dwarf," "The Veldt," "A Sound of Thunder," "Marionettes, Inc.," "The Pedestrian" and "The Smile." (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
SBR003 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by David Brin
Read by Dick Hill. He is a survivor in the savage aftermath of a devastating war, a wanderer who trades tales for food and shelter. One chill winter day he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold, and finds that the old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope. With it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of the road to recovery, a lie that becomes the most powerful kind of truth. (10 hrs. 8 cs.)
SBR004 / Buy $73.25 / Rent $13.75
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Read by Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson. This is the first episode in a series of ten stories, and won the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Engineer Leo Graf is sent by GalacTech to teach free-fall welding and construction on an orbital habitat. His students are genetically engineered workers specifically adapted for life and work in null gravity, under the supervision of "downsiders." Leo's assignment turns out to be less simple than he expected, and his discoveries cause him to examine the very nature of freedom-his students' and his own. (9 hrs. 7 cs.)
SBU001 / Buy $60 / Rent $13
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Read by Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson. Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony and Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar suddenly find themselves at war with each other, abandoned by their respective forces on an uncharted planet and dependent on each other for their very survival. They are trapped in an endless war without victory or glory, the only thing worth fighting for being shards of honor. (8.5 hrs. 7 cs.)
by Orson Scott Card
Read by Robby Benson. The Fletchers think they have finally found their permanent home when they move to Steuben, North Carolina. Within weeks, however, they and their neighbors are terrified by the complete disappearance of boy after boy in the town. People say that a serial killer has gone amok, and refuse to imagine the even more horrible alternative explanation for the boys' vanishing. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SCA003 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Arthur C. Clarke
Read by Ray Montecalvo. Clarke has used his sense of humor and personal flair for adventure to combine the worlds of science and literature. Accomplished and lauded in both fields, Clarke threads scientific facts into his classic tales of fiction. The title story is joined by "The Star" and "The 9 Billion Names of God." (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SCL001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by James Mason. The foremost mystery writer of all time also excelled in sci-fi. Professor Challenger and his team explore an Amazon plateau, discovering a relic of prehistoric times, a lost world inhabited by dinosaurs and ape-like people. Mason's famous voice injects just the right note of terror. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
SCO001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Michael Crichton
Read by John Heard. A shroud of secrecy covers a privately owned island in the Caribbean where an american bioengineering firm is quietly building a resort theme park. Local doctors are mystified when an injured park worker arrives at the hospital with gashes as if he's been mauled by an animal of monstrous proportions. So begins a suspenseful story of an idea gone extraordinarily bad. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SCR001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Michael Crichton
Read by Anthony Heald. It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, since that extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a disastrous end, the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public. But there are rumors that something has survived.... (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
SCR003 / Buy $23.50 / Rent $10.25
by Jack Finney
Read by Campbell Scott. Transported from the mid-20th century to New York City in 1882, Si Morley is enchanted by the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway and the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park. He solves a 20th century murder by finding its 19th century roots. And when he falls in love, he is forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past. Science fiction, mystery, love story and detailed history blend in a tale spanning the troubled present and a nostalgic past. (4.5 hrs. 4 cs.)
SFI001 / Buy $23 / Rent $10.25
by Jack Finney
Read by Campbell Scott. When Time and Again was published in 1970, it developed a following that has grown with each passing year. Here at last is a return to the magical territory of the Project, with Ruben Prien still dreaming of altering humanity's fate by going back in time for a few little adjustments: this time, to prevent WWI. (4.5 hrs. 4 cs.)
SFI002 / Buy $23 / Rent $10.25
by Stephen King
Read by James Woods. Volume One from Stephen King's bestselling series Four Past Midnight. Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we use to order our sense of reality. In this volume, only 10 passengers survive a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston in a most unfriendly sky. (8.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
SKI002 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
by Stephen King
Read by James Woods. Mort Rainey is divorced, depressed and alone on Tashmore Lake, until John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
SKI003 / Buy $23.95 / Rent $10.25
by Stephen King
Read by Ken Howard. Volume Three is set in Iowa where Sam Peebles, a middle-aged businessman, happens to have some books overdue at the library. A minor offense, it would seem, but it does not seem trivial to the malevolent monster who is Junction City's librarian. (9 hrs. 6 cs.)
SKI005 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
by Stephen King
Read by Tim Sample. The Sun Dog is 15-year-old Kevin Delevan's initiation into the supernatural. Kevin takes photographs with a polaroid camera-but no matter where the lens is aimed, the pictures reveal a huge, ugly, terrifying dog. What is this creature that draws nearer each photo? And who is its target? (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
SKI006 / Buy $23.95 / Rent $10.25
by Stephen King
Read by Lindsay Crouse. Jessie is a willing participant in her husband's kinky games, until she finds herself abandoned alone, tied helpless, facing the facts of her life that led her to this place. (13 hrs. 12 cs.)
SKI004 / Buy $34.95 / Rent $16.75
by Stephen King
Read by Lindsay Crouse. A bestselling novelist is rescued from a car crash by a woman claiming to be his #1 fan. But Annie is no ordinary fan. When she discovers that he is planning to kill off her favorite character Misery in his next book, the novelist's convalescence turns into a struggle for suvival. (12 hrs. 8 cs.)
SKI007 / Buy $30 / Rent $13.75
by Stephen King
Read by Frank Muller. A middle-class man is mistakenly convicted of killing his wife, and sent to a prison run by a sadistic warden and a brutal ruling con. He is smart and has a gift for getting along, and the path he is on leads to a brilliant scheme for revenge. A novella from Different Seasons. (4.5 hrs. 3 cs.)
SKI008 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $8
by Stephen King
Read by Kathy Bates. Nevada is mostly a long stretch of desert you cross on the way to someplace else. Hopefully with someone else, because it's a scary place. Headed down Route 50 in the brutal heat are people who are never going to reach their destinations. They come to Desperation, the mining town whose road sign is decorated with a dead cat and whose highway is patrolled by a lunatic in uniform who has made himself the only law west of the Pecos. (9 hrs. 6 cs.)
SKI010 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
by Stephen King
Read by Elsa Cardenas. The complete Spanish version of this #1 bestseller, wherein the inhabitants of Little Tall Island have been wondering for thirty years about the events of the day Dolores Claiborne's husband died, the day of the total eclipse. (9 hrs. 6 cs.)
SKI009 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dean R. Koontz
Read by Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson. Reporter Holly Thorne observes a man appear out of nowhere to snatch a boy out of the street and save him from death under the tires of an out-of-control truck that no one else had even heard coming. Holly follows the man to get a story; what she gets are a new city, a new friend, and new ideas about reality, as she is forced to believe in the impossible. (14 hrs. 9 cs.)
SKO001 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $14.50
by Dean R. Koontz
Read by Jay O. Sanders. The life of happy Marty Stillman, successful writer, loving husband and father, is shattered the day a madman bursts into his house, claiming to be the real Stillman. The authorities can't protect Marty, so the Stillmans run, struggling to stay together, with the killer in hot pursuit every step of the way. (15 hrs. 10 cs.)
SKO002 / Buy $35 / Rent $15.25
by Dean R. Koontz
Read by Anthony Heald. Two nomads, loners, meet in a bar. Suddenly they are fleeing, at first separately and then together, the long arm of a clandestine, illegal and powerful agency. The woman is hunted for the information she has, the man is mistaken as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement, and the agent leading the chase after them is uncommonly cruel and mad. (20 hrs. 12 cs.)
SKO003 / Buy $49.95 / Rent $16.75
by Dean R. Koontz
Read by Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson. Frank Pollard wakes in an alley, knowing nothing but his name and a sense of being in peril. He awakes again, to find his hands covered with blood; he wakes another time, with strange and frightening objects in his pockets. Detective team Bobby and Julie Dakota agree to get to the bottom of Frank's amnesiac fugues. (15.5 hrs. 10 cs.)
SKO004 / Buy $44.95 / Rent $15.25
by Dean R. Koontz
Read by Jay O. Sanders. Harry Lyons is one of the most by-the-book, detail-oriented perfectionists on the force. When a hulking, gruesome person appears out of nowhere and proclaims a countdown to death, Harry is sure there is a rational explanation. But Harry soon finds his world transformed into a place of bizarre dangers which threaten his life, that of his partner Connie Gulliver, and of everyone he loves. (13 hrs. 8 cs.)
SKO005 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $13.75
by Dean Koontz
Read by Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson. Accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital, where a doctor miraculously rescuscitates him. Hatch and his wife Lindsey celebrate their second chance at life together, until a series of scary events make Hatch fear that he has brought a deadly Presence back with him from the land of the dead. (14 hrs. 9 cs.)
SKO006 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $14.50
by Dean Koontz
Read by Kate Burton. The book unfolds over just 24 hours and gives us what is perhaps the author's most inventive, and terrifyingly suspenseful novel yet. Chyna Shepherd manages to escape Edgar Vess, a self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer". But she also learns the identity of Vess's intended next victim. Courage and daring are her only hope as the threat of Vess closes in and grows more horrifying moment by moment. (12 hrs. 12 cs.)
SKO007 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $16.75
by Dean Koontz
Read by David Birney. A mysterious air catastrophe leaves 330 dead, no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and daughter of LA crime reporter Joe Carpenter. A year later, still paralyzed with grief, Joe meets a woman named Rose who claims to have survived the crash, then disappears. Joe is enraged: have the authorities withheld information? He sets out to find Rose, only to step into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can talk to anyone about the crash. (12 hrs. 8 cs.)
SKO008 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $13.75
by Ursula K. LeGuin
Read by Laurence Ballard. A classic by today's most loved writer of science fiction and fantasy, who weaves a spellbinding tale of humanity as it reaches into the unknown worlds of deep space. LeGuin stands out as a writer of social science fiction, whose works are entertaining and change forever the way one thinks. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SLE001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Anne McCaffrey
Read by Adrienne Barbeau. These are the first two in the Harper Hall Trilogy. When Susannah was 11 she spent days in the hospital with a ruptured appendix and chicken pox, much of the time listening to Debby and Duncan read these books to her. Menolly is an enchanting, independent girl who becomes the first female Harper. She also rediscovers the legendary fire lizards. We all still long for one of fantasy's best-ever animal friends to alight on our shoulders. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
SMC002 / Buy $22.95 / Rent $10.25
by Stanley Pottinger
Read by Rene Auberjonois. Explosive courtroom drama, groundbreaking medical technology and controversial social issues are combined in a terrifying medical-legal suspense thriller that goes beyond the boundaries of today's medicine to an all-too-plausible and very frightening future. At least, if you're an important man.... (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
SPO002 / Buy $22.50 / Rent $10.25
by Anne Rice
Read by Lindsay Crouse. When Rowan Mayfair pulls the drowned body of Michael Curry from the sea and brings him back to life, she is aware that she possesses special powers, but is not aware that she comes from a great dynasty of witches. He, in his brief interlude with death, has acquired frightening and mystifying sensory abilities. Fiercely drawn to each other, the two fall in love and set out to solve the mysteries of her past and his unwelcome gift. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SRI002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Anne Rice
Read by Joe Morton. Rice brings us once again into the midst of the dynasty of witches she introduced in The Witching Hour. At the center: the brilliant and beautiful Rowan, queen of the coven, and Lasher, the darkly compelling demon whom she finds irresistible and from whose evil spell and vision she must now flee. With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of occult and spiritual aspirations and passion. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
SRI003 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Anne Rice
Read by Tim Curry. Rice's millions of devoted fans will pick up the story begun in The Witching Hour and continued in Lasher, meeting quiet, tall, kind Mr. Ash, who believes himself to be the sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos. Then rumor has it that another has been spotted in the very same scottish glen where Ash was clan chieftain long before the coming of the roman empire. Ash is propelled into the world of Rowan Mayfair and her New Orleans dynasty of witches. (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
SRI004 / Buy $22.50 / Rent $10.25
by Anne Rice
Read by Roger Rees. Volume 5 of The Vampire Chronicles. The vampire Lestat is in New York, searching for his beloved Dora, when he is snatched from the world by Memnoch, who claims to be the devil. Lestat is invited to witness the creation and is escorted into the heavenly realms like ancient prophets and into purgatory. He must decide if he can believe in either god or devil, and if so, which he will serve. (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
SRI005 / Buy $23.50 / Rent $10.25
by Carl Sagan
Read by Jodie Foster. In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who, or what, is out there? World-renowned scientist and science writer Sagan explained the universe in his earlier books: here he predicts its future, and our own. (5 hrs. 4 cs.)
SSA001 / Buy $24 / Rent $10.25
by Mary Shelley
Read by Samuel Griffin. An award-winning performance by Samuel Griffin. Shelley's novel of creation is considered by most to be the first modern science fiction story. It was written as an entry to a competition! An unchallenged masterpiece. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
SSH001 / Buy $23.95 / Rent $12.25
by Nevil Shute
Read by Sam Neill. This powerful doomsday novel is set in Australia in the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust. The last survivors of civilization helplessly await the atomic rain that will wash away all traces of humanity from this earth. Moving descriptions of the different ways people react to the fact that they are going to die within a few weeks. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
SSH002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Mark Twain
Read by Matthew Dooley. Mark Twain continues to be a bestselling author. His unmatched ability to capture american attitudes, humor and shortcomings serves as a timeless chronicle of human behavior. Seldom noted are Twain's contributions to the development of the science fiction genre. Connecticut Yankee is not only a masterpiece, it is also considered to be the first time travel story ever written. Hank Morgan, master mechanic of the Colt arms factory in Hartford, tries to bring 19th century enlightenment to 6th century Britain. (12 hrs. 8 cs.)
STW001 / Buy $23.95 / Rent $13.75
by Kurt Vonnegut
Read by Alan Arkin. Through war, famine, insanity and advertising, 10 hapless humans are shipwrecked on a remote island in the Galapagos atoll, not knowing that by a bizarre process of unnatural selection they have been chosen to rescue the whole human race from extinction. Vonnegut gives a hilarious new look at the evolution of humanity. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Kurt Vonnegut
Read by Lawrence Pressman. Old sci fi writer and Vonnegut alter ego Kilgore Trout predicts a global timequake on February 13, 2001. At that moment the universe will be suffering a crisis of conscience: should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse into another big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons it decides to back up to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of déjà vu, making everybody do exactly what they'd done during the past decade a second time. (5 hrs. 4 cs.)
SVO002 / Buy $22.95 / Rent $10.25
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