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<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Beneath by Jeremy Robinson" text="Podiobooks.com: Beneath by Jeremy Robinson" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/483/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=483" description="Three thousand years after a chunk of iron the size of Khufu’s pyramid collides with Europa, Jupiter’s sixth moon, an asteroid borne of the collision crashes into Earth’s Arctic ice shelf carrying extraterrestrial microbial life. The first man to come into contact with the microbes hears voices—and then dies.

After determining the meteorite originated from Europa, the Global Exploratory Corporation sends oceanographer and biologist, Kathy Connelly, and her crew to the moon aboard the Surveyor, an experimental spacecraft. They are charged with the task of melting through miles of ice to the hidden ocean beneath, where the search for alien microorganisms begins. But a startling discovery awaits them on the surface of Europa. 

Life. 

Vast fields of red, plant-like organisms fill the cracks crisscrossing the moon’s surface, surviving on nutrients welling up from the waters below. Intoxicated by thoughts of what might lie beneath, Connelly and her crew activate the Thermal Exploratory System and melt through the ice—toward a world that does not want to be found, toward a force that will do anything to make sure they never leave. 

They search for life. They find death.

About the Author: Jeremy Robinson is the author of six published novels including his hard cover thriller, PULSE and INSTINCT, which are part of his Chess Team series. His books have been translated into eight languages.

About the Narrator: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jeffreykafer.com&quot;&gt;Jeff Kafer&lt;/a&gt; is an amazing narrator and winner of the 2008 Voicey Award for Best New Voice. 


PRAISE FOR BENEATH:

&quot;Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.&quot; 
--J.C. Hutchins, author of PERSONAL EFFECTS: DARK ART and 7th SON: DESCENT

&quot;Jeremy Robinson hits his stride in BENEATH. His story-telling is as tight as ever, delivering thrills that raise the heart rate and science detail that gets the mind cranking just has hard.  An evocative blend of Crichton and Clarke, BENEATH is destined to become an instant new media classic.&quot; 
--Phil Rossi, Best Selling author of CRESCENT, HARVEY, and EDEN

&quot;Isolation, cold, and the unknown: Like The Thing, Into the Void taps into those fears, and a couple more we never know we had. Robinson strips away all that we hold dear, sends us into the deep dark, and dares us to make our way out of it.&quot; 
--Mur Lafferty, author of PLAYING FOR KEEPS and award-winning podcaster of I SHOULD BE WRITING and the HEAVEN series

“Robinson grabbed my attention in the first chapter, and kept hold of it. BENEATH isn’t your run of the mill way distant future fantasy sci-fi. It reads like its real, like it could happen today…but we hope and pray it doesn’t.” 
--Basil Sands, author of 65 BELOW and FAITHFUL WARRIOR

&quot;Masterful Craftsmanship...a chilling tale that finally answers the question: Are we alone?&quot; 
--thenovelblog.com

PRAISE FOR ROBINSON:

&quot;There's nothing timid about Robinson...&quot;
-- Jeff Long, NY Times bestselling author of THE DESCENT and YEAR ZERO

&quot;How do you find an original story idea in the crowded action-thriller genre? Two words: Jeremy Robinson.&quot;
-- Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of CONTAGIOUS and INFECTED
 
&quot;Jeremy Robinson is an original and exciting voice.&quot;
-- Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Harvey by Phil Rossi" text="Podiobooks.com: Harvey by Phil Rossi" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/441/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=441" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2010/01/05/2009-founders-choice-awards/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4249613583_1c731dc0dd_o.gif&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Television singing sensation Calvin Hubbard has been caught with his hand in cookie jar. An illicit affair with a contest judge costs him not only the competition crown, but his musical credibility as well.  Fleeing the media fallout, Calvin exiles himself to the backwoods town of Harvey, Virginia. With a little solitude and a lot of cheap beer, he plans to write the next great rock and roll album and resurrect his career.  But Calvin doesn't know that a man has just been buried alive in the woods outside of town, and that this quiet murder is just the first in a string of macabre events.  As the town goes silently mad around him, Calvin is unable to abandon the record of his dreams. Drunk on inspiration and blinded by an inexplicable lust, he careens headlong into the maelstrom, only to discover that he may be the town's only salvation. Something is alive in the trees—an ageless, nameless evil—and it's coming for everyone in Harvey. Now Calvin has to decide whether to run or to stay and fight… if it isn’t already too late.

&quot;...sexy and full of scares. Harvey is dark, well-crafted, and downright menacing.&quot;  -Philippa Ballantine, award-winning author of Chasing the Bard

Phil Rossi breaks new ground with Harvey--visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.harveythenovel.com&quot;&gt;http://www.harveythenovel.com&lt;/a&gt; for the Harvey Sessions--the very album that Calvin Hubbard is composing and recording at the Little Rock Motel.  Listen as the record's tracks take form and evolve from idea, to demo, to fully arranged song as impacted by the events in the novel. " />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The Gearheart by Alex White" text="Podiobooks.com: The Gearheart by Alex White" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/438/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=438" description="Jonathan Andrews, Initiate in the Seekers of the Arcane Unknown, joined the society two years ago with the hopes of protecting the secrets of magic from the greedy world beyond.  However, a ravening shadow appears with a hunger for Seekers and Jonathan finds himself out of his depth.  When Jonathan's friend is attacked and the young initiate is assailed with apocalyptic visions of the future, he must find a way to uncover the past and stop the beast before it tears his group, and the world, asunder.  It's a ripping tale of magic, adventure and gunfights!" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Time Crystal by Wyken Seagrave" text="Podiobooks.com: Time Crystal by Wyken Seagrave" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/432/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=432" description="The cosmic monopole has been wandering the Universe since the Big Bang. When it is finally trapped in CERN it triggers a disaster which will take fourteen-year-old Catriona O’Brien on an adventure back to the Big Bang and beyond in a desperate attempt to save the Universe from destruction.

Encompassing the whole history of the Universe and most branches of science, Time Crystal is an epic adventure story and romance that will hold you enthralled and show you new worlds both great and small which you have never even dreamed of. 

It has taken nine years and cost over $1 million dollars for Wyken Seagrave to develop this fantastic and beautiful story. This truly is the greatest adventure in the history of the Universe!" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The God Conspiracy by Derek Gilbert" text="Podiobooks.com: The God Conspiracy by Derek Gilbert" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/401/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=401" description="One e-mail. Five lines. 4,000 dead.

And it is only just beginning…

When a small boy in Iowa forwards a mysterious email from ‘God’ to a small group of friends, he unwittingly releases a trigger that sends blood pouring throughout his farming community.

Thousands more are dead across the country in dozens of simultaneous terror attacks and the government blames fundamentalists who want to trigger the Apocalypse.

FBI Agent Joe Unes reluctantly teams with reclusive Internet radio host Barney Ison (from Sharon K. Gilbert’s The Armageddon Strain) to expose the plot -- and discovers that he's not contending against flesh and blood." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Five: War by Mur Lafferty" text="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Five: War by Mur Lafferty" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/396/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=396" description="Kate and Daniel remain exiled in the new world they created, with the need to build an army to save Heaven. But the allies they need may not be willing participants, as they're trapped gods who blame Kate and Daniel for their imprisonment. As the dark power that traps Heaven begins to seep into Kate and Daniel's new world, they face new enemies and learn about a very old obstacle that blocks them from their goal." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: How to Succeed in Evil: The Novel by Patrick McLean" text="Podiobooks.com: How to Succeed in Evil: The Novel by Patrick McLean" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/372/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=372" description="Alternately funny and dark, a HtSiE is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. A biting satire of both modern business and the conventions of the superhero genre." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by A Square (Edwin Abbott Abbott)" text="Podiobooks.com: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by A Square (Edwin Abbott Abbott)" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/389/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=389" description="Math.  Geometry.  Physics.  Violence?  Is this the same book I read in school?  Yep.

One of the joys of rediscovering old books is that they still have the ability to surprise, even shock.

&quot;If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, fully, to return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland ... But he is not the Square he once was.  Years of imprisonment, and the still heavier burden of general incredulity and mockery, have combined with the thoughts and notions, and much also of the terminology, which he acquired during his short stay in Spaceland. ...&quot;

You may remember Flatland as a clever children's story about squares and triangles and such living a happy life in a sheet of paper, a story about math and geometry and such.  No, not so much.  

Sure, there's no Adult Language or Sex.  But there's plenty of violence.  I recall recording one scene wherein over 120,000 people were stabbed to death, torn to pieces and eaten by their fellow Flatlanders.  Yes.  Way.

Assuming you consider Isoceles Triangles people.  In Flatland, they are.  Mostly.

&quot;Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows--only hard with luminous edges--and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.  Alas, a few years ago, I should have said 'my universe,' but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. ...&quot;

Flatland is very old Hard Science Fiction, if you look at it right.  It's clever, satirical, funny and sad.  It includes well-fleshed-out alien society with similarities to our own, several different alternate universes, genetics, politics, religion, slavery, tyranny, war, rebellion, imprisonment, madness, and death.

And math.  And geometry.  And some rather clever Puns.  &quot;Written by A. Square?&quot;  Also known as Edwin Abbott Abbott.  Get it?

As if the Brothers Grimm had gotten much, much Grimmer.

&quot;To The Inhabitance of SPACE IN GENERAL, And H.C. IN PARTICULAR, This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland, In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of THREE DIMENSIONS, Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO, So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher, To the Secrets of FOUR, FIVE, or EVEN SIX Dimensions, Thereby contributing To the Enlargment of THE IMAGINATION, And the possible Development Of that most and excellent Gift of MODESTY, Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY.&quot;

Bring a pencil.  And use your imagination.  I dare you." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Weather Child by Philippa Ballantine" text="Podiobooks.com: Weather Child by Philippa Ballantine" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/374/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=374" description="New Zealand’s first podiobook author, Philippa Ballantine, brings her first tale set totally in homeland. Step back in time and sideways into an alternate world, where magicians and seraphim are found only on the shores of the Long White Cloud. Between two world wars, Jack and Faith find themselves unravelling a conspiracy to turn the Awakened children of Aoteroa to dark purposes." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The Communion of the Saint by Alan David Justice" text="Podiobooks.com: The Communion of the Saint by Alan David Justice" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/244/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=244" description="Clio Griffin, an out-of-work academic with an attitude and a tendency toward sarcasm, travels to England to interview for a last-chance job--as the pet historian for an antiquarian group who hope to use her to build the reputation of the local saint--Alban, the first Christian martyr of Britain.

No sooner does she arrive than the saint, dead for seventeen centuries, starts talking to her--out loud. The voice is hard enough for Clio to take; her mother, in her final illness, had lost touch with reality, and Clio fears the same fate. When the saint drags her unwilling into the past, to live the lives of people long dead, Clio fights to hold on to her reason. At the same time, in &quot;ordinary&quot; life, she starts to define--and have defined for her--a place in the life of the town. The resident mystic takes a liking to her; when she dies, she leaves everything to Clio. The sexton of the cathedral becomes a malevolent presence who threatens Clio at unforseen intervals. She falls in love with an Anglican priest on the cathedral staff, who is jealous of the very mystical experiences Clio struggles to deny.

When the the past itself comes to life in Clio's present, in the person of a medieval plague victim who appears in her living room, Clio must choose between her rationalism and her compassion for the dying young man. Her decision lands her in a mental hospital, where she has to confront both the fear of losing her reason and the reality of her experiences.

When Clio gains her release from the psychiatric ward, her psychiatrist, like many others, asks her to pray for him. As she re-enters the community, she finds that other people, whom she doesn't even know, have been taking care of the cottage left her by the mystic. When her employer is injured in an auto accident, Clio's half-believed prayers seem to lead to a miraculous healing.

Throughout the story, past and present are shuffled like two halves of the same deck of cards. With each descent into history, Clio learns about other lives. With each return to the present, she has to make sense of her own life in light of what she's learned.

THE COMMUNION OF THE SAINT (the title is a paraphrase of a line from the Apostle's Creed) is a novel of past and present, skepticism and belief.

The story question: how does a modern, skeptical, rational person fit the irrational, the supernatural, into her life and still make some kind of sense of it all?

The answer: not easily." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow" text="Podiobooks.com: Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/126/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=126" description="Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world.

Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.

The comm -- instant wireless communication -- puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by common time zones, less than families and more than nations. And Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people.

The world of next week is overflowing with ubiquitous computing, where an idea scribbled onto one's comm can revolutionize an industry. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted -- not happiness, not money, and, most certainly, not love.

Which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain. Happiness or smarts? What's it going to be, Art?" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Ask A Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward To Killing You Soon by Painfully transcribed to Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols " text="Podiobooks.com: Ask A Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward To Killing You Soon by Painfully transcribed to Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols " type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/321/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=321" description="DEADLY NINJA WISDOM FOR THE NON-NINJA

Carefully consider the joy of your soft-headed ignorance before you begin to run, flip, and jump along the Ninja Path.
  
After much debate and in a spirit of morbid amusement, the International Order of Ninjas has chosen to produce The Ninja Handbook, the first-ever secret ninja training guide specifically designed for the non-ninja.

Most non-ninjas who handle these delicate, deadly pages will die-probably in an elaborately horrific and painful manner. But whether your journey lasts five seconds or five days or (rather inconceivably) five years, all those who bravely take up this text and follow the tenets and trials laid out within will die knowing they were as ninja as they possibly could've been.

For the true of heart or the extremely lucky, this powerful and honorable manuscript contains such phenomenal ninja wisdom as:

 - How to create and name your very own lethal ninja clan
 - The proper weapon to use when fighting a vampire pumpkin
 - Why clowns and robots are so dangerous on the Internet
 - Easy-to-follow charts showing when to slice and when to stab
 - How to execute such ultradeadly kicks as the Driving Miss Daisy
 - Why pretty much every ninja movie ever made sucks
 - How to make a shoggoth explode using well-placed foliage
 - What the heck a shoggoth is and why you'll need to make it explode
 - Death Aide certification
 - And much more ninjafied enlightenment on every shuriken-sharp page!

Remember: People do not take the Path, the Path takes people. " />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The Silk Code by Paul Levinson" text="Podiobooks.com: The Silk Code by Paul Levinson" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/129/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=129" description="Phil D'Amato, New York City forensic detective, is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on earth--and one of his best friends is a recent casualty. Unless Phil can unravel the genetic puzzle of the Silk Code, he'll soon be just as dead.

Praise for The Silk Code:

&quot;Forensic detective Phil D'Amato is one of my favorite characters, and the puzzles he solves are always imaginative, ingenious, and addictive, but Paul Levinson really outdoes himself this time in a mystery involving murders, moths, mummies, the Silk Road, poisons, fireflies, and forensics, all woven into a mystery only D'Amato could solve! A marvelous book!&quot;
—Connie Willis

&quot;At last we get Paul Levinson's superb forensic sleuth, Phil D'Amato, in full-length novel. . . . Kick back and enjoy a mystery that spans the ages.&quot;
—Jack McDevitt

&quot;The Silk Code is an intriguing story refreshingly rich not only in action but in ideas.&quot;
—Stanly Schmidt, editor of Analog

[An] odd and thrilling mix of forensic detective work, intellectual history, and biological speculation. It's a rare thriller that actually achieves its goals both as a detective tale and work of boldly speculative SF.
—Locus

As a genre- bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises...
-Gerald Jonas in The New York Times Book Review

All donation to this title go to the reader, Shaun Farrell." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Murder at Avedon Hill by P.G. Holyfield" text="Podiobooks.com: Murder at Avedon Hill by P.G. Holyfield" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/229/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=229" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://parsecawards.com/node/861&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3773548318_0f024bb111_o.jpg&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podcastpeers.org/winnersPPA5.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/3104683159_fa35353c56_o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Podcast Peer Award icon&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Lord Avedon has a problem. Generations of Avedons have watched over Avedon Hill and controlled the only pass through the Lantis Mountains. Traditions are important to the Avedon family, but one tradition has tragically come to an end. Gretta Platt, Housemistress of Avedon Manor, has been murdered. A member of the Platt family has always served the Avedons as Housemistress. until now. Only a handful of people live at Avedon Hill, and most are suspects. Arames Kragen, retired Aarronic Advisor and scholar of prophecy, arrives at the gates of Avedon Hill, hoping to gain access to the mountain pass. Lord Avedon is not in a giving mood, however.

This is the story of Arames Kragen and his attempt not only to discover who killed Gretta Platt, but also to uncover the truth about a town that apparently has more secrets than inhabitants.

The Land of Caern: It is a world where the gods, the Children of Az, can choose to be born as mortals to directly affect events in the world, and often do. It is a world where the Priests of Caern frantically search for the mortal incarnations of any of the Children, in order prevent the Prophecies of Iberian from coming to pass.

Welcome to The Land of Caern. Welcome. to Murder at Avedon Hill, the podcast novel by P.G. Holyfield." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: 7th Son: Book Three - Destruction (The Beta Version) by J. C. Hutchins" text="Podiobooks.com: 7th Son: Book Three - Destruction (The Beta Version) by J. C. Hutchins" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/192/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=192" description="AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is &quot;The Beta Version&quot; of this podiobook. 7th Son: Descent is now available as a print novel from St. Martin's Press. During the editorial process, significant changes and improvements were made to Descent's print manuscript. Character names were changed, and events at the end of the print novel were modified in ways that will impact the rest of the print trilogy. The print novel represents an official reboot of the 7th Son series.

Due to these changes, this &quot;Beta Version&quot; of Book Three: Destruction is no longer the &quot;official&quot; version of the podiobook. Please visit the 7th Son: Descent (The Print Edition) page to subscribe to the definitive beginning of the trilogy. You're welcome to continue the series with this version of Destruction, but note that you will encounter slight inconsistencies in character names and plot references.

THE STORY
As day four in the 7th Son adventure begins, John Alpha's quest for anarchy and genocide enters its final stage.

At every turn, the global terrorist has been triumphant. The world is reeling from a nuclear attack. An unprecedented energy crisis is upon us. Alpha himself has exclusive access to the White House, and secret weapons primed to propel his conspiracy into the endgame. The goal: planetary chaos.

Amidst this turmoil, the 7th Son's four surviving Beta Clones -- John, Father Thomas, Kilroy2.0 and Jack -- must defy their creators and hunt Alpha on their terms. Their mission: to stop the greatest assassination plot in history. The secrets John and his brothers discover will press them toward a final battle with their progenitor ... a battle in which the clones are outgunned, outnumbered and out of time.

Alliances will be made. Heroes will die. The end is nigh.

Destruction is the final novel in the J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son thriller trilogy." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: 7th Son: Book Two - Deceit (The Beta Version) by J.C. Hutchins" text="Podiobooks.com: 7th Son: Book Two - Deceit (The Beta Version) by J.C. Hutchins" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/103/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=103" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://parsecawards.com/2007Finalists&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/1224364836_1d5a4b70ac_o.gif&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; height=&quot;99&quot; alt=&quot;Parsec-Seal-2007-Nominee&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is &quot;The Beta Version&quot; of this podiobook. 7th Son: Descent is now available as a print novel from St. Martin's Press. During the editorial process, significant changes and improvements were made to Descent's print manuscript. Character names were changed, and events at the end of the print novel were modified in ways that will impact the rest of the print trilogy. The print novel represents an official reboot of the 7th Son series.

Due to these changes, this &quot;Beta Version&quot; of Book Two: Deceit is no longer the &quot;official&quot; version of the podiobook. Please visit the 7th Son: Descent (The Print Edition) page to subscribe to the definitive beginning of the trilogy. You're welcome to continue the series with this version of Deceit, but understand that you will encounter slight inconsistencies in character names and plot references.

THE STORY
Two days ago, seven human clones -- John, Michael, Father Thomas, Dr. Mike, Jonathan, Jack and Kilroy2.0 -- were torn away from their &quot;normal&quot; lives to stop a ruthless plot created by their progenitor, a man code-named John Alpha. Their quest was a descent into conspiracy, violence and death.

The clones were successful in their mission, but victory was not without its price.

As 7th Son: Book Two - Deceit begins, the Beta clones are demoralized, reeling from their loss ... and about to learn that John Alpha's plans are far from over.

To prevent the next phase of Alpha's plan, John, Kilroy2.0, and the others must unearth more dark secrets about the government project from which they were spawned. They will experience the horrors of betrayal, and race cross-country to track John Alpha.

And they will finally realize the scope of Alpha's wrath -- the bloodshed the clones have witnessed is merely a prelude to the world-rending destruction to come. Unless they can stop it first.

Deceit is the second novel in J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son thriller trilogy." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: 7th Son: Book One - Descent (The Beta Version) by J.C. Hutchins" text="Podiobooks.com: 7th Son: Book One - Descent (The Beta Version) by J.C. Hutchins" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/53/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=53" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://parsecawards.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;donation&quot; src=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/images/parsec120.gif&quot;  width=&quot;120&quot; height=&quot;80&quot; hspace=10 vspace=10 align=right border=0/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is &quot;The Beta Version&quot; of this podiobook. 7th Son: Descent is now available as a print novel from St. Martin's Press. During the editorial process, significant changes and improvements were made to Descent's print manuscript. Character names were changed, and events at the end of the print novel were modified in ways that will impact the rest of the print trilogy. The print novel represents an official reboot of the 7th Son series.

Due to these changes, this &quot;Beta Version&quot; of Book One: Descent is no longer the &quot;official&quot; version of the podiobook. Please visit the 7th Son: Descent (The Print Edition) page to subscribe to the definitive version of the story.

THE STORY
Three weeks ago, the U.S. president was murdered by a four-year-old boy.

Today, seven men stare at each other in a locked conference room. Kidnapped and brought to this underground facility, the strangers are sitting in silence, thunderstruck. Despite minor physical differences, they all appear to be the same man, with the same name ... and the same childhood memories.

Unwitting participants in a secret human cloning experiment, these seven &quot;John Michael Smiths&quot; have been gathered by their creators for one reason -- to capture the mastermind behind the president's assassination.

Their target? The man they were cloned from; the original John Michael Smith, code-named John Alpha.

Soon our heroes -- John, Jack, Michael, Kilroy2.0 and the others -- realize the president's murder was merely a prologue to Alpha's plans. As the mystery deepens and the implications of Alpha's scheme are slowly revealed, the clones decide to stand against John Alpha. The outcome will unearth a conspiracy larger than they could have ever imagined.

Descent is the first novel in J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son thriller trilogy." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The Failed Cities Monologues by Matt Wallace" text="Podiobooks.com: The Failed Cities Monologues by Matt Wallace" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/110/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=110" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://parsecawards.com/2007Finalists&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/1224364836_1d5a4b70ac_o.gif&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; height=&quot;99&quot; alt=&quot;Parsec-Seal-2007-Nominee&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

In a hardboiled dystopian future, one major American city has been divided in two. Separated by much more than a river, one side is an unfinished technological marvel populated by mega-skyscrapers where the wealthy live, work, and play. The other is a forsaken wasteland where order is strictly maintained by a rogue group of cleric soldiers known as the street preachers. But this dichotomy is about to change. Slowly, quietly, clandestine forces are working to undermine the small piece of redemption the street preachers have brought to their concrete flocks. In the face of watching their second chance crumble to dust, some will fight to stop it. Others will kill to make it happen.

A bold experiment in podcast fiction, The Failed Cities Monologues are told from the shifting perspectives of the characters who inhabit this world, twisted noir archetypes and cyberpunk warriors. Their lives and their stories are linked together by conspiracy, fate... and blood." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Darwin or Design  by Jason Rennie" text="Podiobooks.com: Darwin or Design  by Jason Rennie" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/204/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=204" description="Darwin or Design is a collection of interviews with 25 people on both sides of the intelligent design question. There are interviews on what evolutionary theory currently thinks, what is intelligent design, the philosophy of science, ID and The Law and many others. If you want to learn about about Intelligent Design and get an overview of what is going on and have 9 1/2 hours to spend on the question, then this is the book for you!" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty" text="Podiobooks.com: Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/223/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=223" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2008/12/30/2008-founders-choice-awards/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4285895645_98147f8aee_o.gif&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Playing for Keeps tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Infected by Scott Sigler" text="Podiobooks.com: Infected by Scott Sigler" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/255/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=255" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2008/12/30/2008-founders-choice-awards/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4285895645_98147f8aee_o.gif&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

Working under the government's shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common - they've been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.

Meanwhile Perry Dawsey - a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey - awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.

The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.

Infected is the first major print release from Internet phenom Scott Sigler, whose podcast-only audiobooks have drawn an immense cult following, with more than three million individual episodes downloaded. Now Sigler storms the bookstore shelves with this cinematic, relentlessly paced novel that mixes and matches genres, combining horror, technothriller, and suspense in a heady mix that is equal parts Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King.

Infected will crawl beneath your skin and leave fresh blood on every page.

QUOTES: 
&quot;Part Stephen King, part Chuck Palahniuk, Infected blends science fiction and horror into a pulpy masterpiece of action, terror, and suspense.  Three recommendations: don't read it at night, or just after you've eaten a full meal, or if you're weak of heart.  You've been warned!&quot;
--James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas Strain and Black Order

&quot;Sigler is masterful at grabbing the reader by the throat and refusing to let go. Just when I thought I knew what abyss he was leading me across, he knocked the bridge out from under... I think I screamed the whole way down... Infected is a marvel of gonzo, in-your-face, up-to-the-minute terror.&quot;
--Lincoln Child, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Storm and Death Match

&quot;Sigler is the Richard Matheson of the 21st Century...smart and creepy, Infected is a flawless thinking-person's thriller. Bravo to a bold new talent!&quot;
--Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Bad Moon Rising and Ghost Road Blues

&quot;Horror mavens rejoice! Infected is a revelation -- a novel that lives up to its hype. From page one, the story of a mysterious smart-virus that turns its hosts into deadly drooling drones creeps up on a reader like the ratchet of a roller coaster climbing toward its inevitable crest. Sigler brings the folksy character detail of Stephen King, the conceptual panache of Clive Barker, and the oozing, shuddery pathologies of a David Cronenberg movie. Zombies, spies, conspiracies, and gallons of goo make this the fastest read in the west! Highest recommendation!&quot;
-- Jay Bonansinga, national bestselling author of Shattered, Twisted, Frozen, and The Sinking of the Eastland

&quot;Sigler has a unique talent for keeping readers on the edge of their seats; I absolutely had to know what was going to happen next. Infected is full of mayhem, action, and gore--and you won't be able to put it down.&quot;
-- Dave Wellington, author of 13 Bullets and the Monster Island trilogy

&quot;Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.&quot;
--Joe R. Lansdale, World Horror Convention Grand Master and six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Bubba Ho-Tep and Lost Echoes" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The Secret World Chronicle, Book Two: The Hunt by Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey" text="Podiobooks.com: The Secret World Chronicle, Book Two: The Hunt by Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/225/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=225" description="The Hunt portrays the frenzied aftermath of the devastating Thule Society attacks. Famed fantasy and sci-fi author Mercedes Lackey and newcomer Steve Libbey have joined forces to create a superhero-themed braided novel podcast series called The Secret World Chronicle. The series depicts an ensemble cast of metahuman characters coping with worldwide attacks by a mysterious, technologically advanced Nazi secret society, and the ensuing chaos.  The Secret World is a meeting ground for pulpy adventure and thoughtful science fiction speculation, where ordinary people are elevated above their fellow humans and must grapple with the consequences of their newfound abilities." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The Secret World Chronicle, Book One: Invasion  by Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey" text="Podiobooks.com: The Secret World Chronicle, Book One: Invasion  by Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/224/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=224" description="Emerging mysteriously during World War II, metahumans became icons of the best - and worst - humanity had to offer. Yet sixty years later, the world still suffers from war, greed and madness. Worse, man's nadir of systematic cruelty returns with bizarre new weapons. The metahumans of Earth must find a way to defeat this powerful foe and discover what lurks behind the scenes - a secret world hidden from our own. Mercedes Lackey, one of fantasy's most beloved voices, and new talent Steve Libbey bring you a podcast series that catapults the classic superhero into the 21st century.

Book One: Invasion starts the series off with a bang - a set of coordinated attacks by Nazi warriors in futuristic battle armor. We meet our cast of heroes in the midst of chaos: Belladonna Blue, a young azure-skinned healer; Victoria Victrix Nagy, a geomancer fighting panic attacks; Handsome Devil, whose luck is metahumanly good; Red Saviour, strident leader of an anachronistic Soviet team; Red Djinni, the shapeshifting criminal; and John Murdock, a fugitive super-soldier. Watching over them all is the Seraphym, descended from the Infinite to protect humanity.

As the heroes fend off the blitzkrieg attack, they are left wondering what secrets have erupted from this hidden world, and whether, once unleashed, they can be contained. For there are clues that all is not what it seems...
" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Spherical Tomi: A Novel of Despair by Jack Mangan" text="Podiobooks.com: Spherical Tomi: A Novel of Despair by Jack Mangan" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/31/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=31" description="  &quot;Star Wars is over.  Star Trek is dead.  In Spherical Tomi, Jack Mangan has opened up a new frontier.&quot;
- Ernest Hogan, author of Smoking Mirror Blues

A top-secret AI project.

A deadly power struggle between warlords.

Tomi was once lead combat programmer for the Shogun Ryogi, on the front lines of his conflict against President William the Black of Cerberus. When she failed to prevent William from killing the samurai she loved, she abandoned all sides, all loyalties, all hope. In her fury, Tomi destroyed the Greatship, Hades IV, and almost everyone onboard. Almost everyone. . .

William the Black escaped with his life.

She now hides out in a remote monastery, awaiting the day when she can kill the three she holds responsible for the death of her samurai:  William, Ryogi, and herself. . .

With her real body in exile, Tomi's consciousness inhabits a deteriorating clone body on a satellite around Cerberus. She's lived and worked incognito in orbit for almost three years now, monitoring the planet's subspace debris cleanup.

But some histories will not stay buried.

Tomi again finds herself in the crossfire when Ryogi's forces ambush the Presidential shuttle in her sector.

Ryogi's samurai have pirated remote control of her satellite's store of dormant clone bodies; his combat programmers fight her for the station's computers, while the planet's extrasphere swarms with deadly smart-mines. Will she be able to protect the President's shuttle to secure her own vengeance? Will she be able to hold her satellite together? Or will Tomi abandon it all and give in to despair?

&quot;Spherical Tomi&quot; is an action-packed tale of deception, revenge, redemption, fragmented identity, and the limitations of the human and artificial mind." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Crescent by Phil Rossi" text="Podiobooks.com: Crescent by Phil Rossi" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/181/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=181" description="Crescent is the last stop at the intergalactic crossroads of gritty sci-fi and pucker-inducing horror. --Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Contagious

Crescent is the ultimate sci-fi / horror mashup. It's a wicked blend of the claustrophobia seen in Ridley Scott's Alien, and the viral demonology of Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness with the hard-drinkin' bad attitude of Battlestar Galactica added for good measure. The future has never been so frightening. Phil Rossi brings it. --J.C. Hutchins, author of Personal Effects: Dark Art and 7th Son: Descent

Phil Rossi has crafted a space station tale with sex, horror, and vibrant attention to tech and human detail. Evocatively served, highly recommended. ---Paul Levinson, author of The Plot to Save Socrates


Darkness has inspired fear since mankind first watched the sun go down. Bad things hide in the dark feral beasts with mouths full of razors waiting for a taste of flesh. But now, the darkness is stirring with a life of its own. Crescent Station is the last bastion of civilization, floating in the cold, outer systems where colonized space gives way to the sparser settlements of the Frontier. Like the boom towns of distant Earth s Old American West, Crescent Station is a gateway to power, wealth, and opportunity for anyone who isn t afraid to get his or her hands dirty. But deep within the station s bowels, in Crescent s darkest and most secret places, an ancient evil is awakening and hungry, and it threatens the very fabric of space and time. Will the residents of Crescent Station find a way to stop it before the terror drives them insane? Or is it already too late?

This is the original Podiobook as released in 2007." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Nocturnal by Scott Sigler" text="Podiobooks.com: Nocturnal by Scott Sigler" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/266/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=266" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2010/01/05/2009-founders-choice-awards/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4249613583_1c731dc0dd_o.gif&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Something lives deep beneath the streets of San Francisco. Something that has been there for centuries, something which comes out at night to feed on the dregs of society. A sub-culture with its own myths and its own legends. 

Stories of a leader named The King, who will lead them out of bondage, and their own demon, a hunting shadow known only as Savior. But the legends of Savior's brutality have faded, the fear used only within fables told to the young ones about their hunter.

When The King finally appears,just as foretold, the Nocturnals know their time has come -- the time to emerge from under the streets and hunt humanity in the open." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Four: Wasteland by Mur Lafferty" text="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Four: Wasteland by Mur Lafferty" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/260/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=260" description="Daniel has been forced from the afterlife to be exiled in the wasteland, with nothing but his misery and Kate's dead body. But he is not without power entirely, and he begins to make his way in this world that looks less like a wasteland and more like another world. But the volatile power of the wasteland still touches this new world, and Daniel and his friends must not forget the trouble facing Heaven and Hell." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Three: Earth by Mur Lafferty" text="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Three: Earth by Mur Lafferty" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/183/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=183" description="After gaining the rule of Heaven and Hell, with all the power that promised, Kate and Daniel should be set for eternity, right? Well, sure, as soon as they get used to their god-like powers. And then they need to remake the Earth. And there's the matter of the major and minor deities who are not pleased with their ascension. Even now, the afterlife still isn't easy." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Two: Hell by Mur Lafferty" text="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season Two: Hell by Mur Lafferty" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/112/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=112" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://parsecawards.com/2007Finalists&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/1224364836_1d5a4b70ac_o.gif&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; height=&quot;99&quot; alt=&quot;Parsec-Seal-2007-Nominee&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Kate and Daniel are reunited at last, but they have to return to their duties in traveling the afterlife. There are stolen souls suffering without cause in Hell, and only they can help. Kate is back in her corporeal body, but keeping memories of her time as pure soul energy, recently touched by the divine. Daniel carries the magic of an old god and the sword of a death goddess, as well a grudge against the deity who tricked him into losing nearly everything. As they search for the missing souls, Kate and Daniel have to come to terms with themselves and see if their friendship - not to mention the cosmos - can handle everything they've been through thus far. " />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season One by Mur Lafferty" text="Podiobooks.com: Heaven - Season One by Mur Lafferty" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/97/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=97" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://parsecawards.com/2007Finalists&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/1224364836_1d5a4b70ac_o.gif&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; height=&quot;99&quot; alt=&quot;Parsec-Seal-2007-Nominee&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;5&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

What if Heaven wasn't all it's cracked up to be? Friends Kate and Daniel find that after their untimely deaths, Heaven leaves them dissatisfied and itching for something... else. So they're off, with a passport to discover more afterlifes, heroes and gods. During their adventures, they find out that their travel isn't a journey taken on a whim, but may be orchestrated, or even prophesied." />
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