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<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Ravenwood by Nathan Lowell" text="Podiobooks.com: Ravenwood by Nathan Lowell" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/468/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=468" description="A Tanyth Fairport Adventure.

After twenty winters on the road, Tanyth makes one last pilgrimage in her quest to learn all she can about the herbs and medicinal plants of Korlay before settling down to write her magnum opus. Her journey is interrupted when she stops to help a small village and learns that much of what she knows of the world may not be quite as it seems. 

In this work, Nathan Lowell blends wiccan tradition and shamanistic lore into a fantasy quest and creates a world for a new - if unlikely - heroine to explore. She learns that the familiar sometimes hides the fantastical and that, even when you think you’ve made your decisions, life doesn’t always agree." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Captains Share by Nathan Lowell" text="Podiobooks.com: Captains Share by Nathan Lowell" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/436/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=436" 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;A Trader's Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper

A shuffling of cabins puts Ishmael Horatio Wang in command of the worst ship in the fleet. He learns that being Captain doesn't make you infallible and that life in the Captain's Cabin is filled with new kinds of challenge as he tries to keep the ship moving, the crew out of trouble, and turn a profit to earn his Captain's Share. In a ship where the officers outnumber the crew, how can he manage to keep everybody happy? Welcome to the SC Agamemnon. " />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana (Remastered) by Tee Morris (with Lisa Lee)" text="Podiobooks.com: MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana (Remastered) by Tee Morris (with Lisa Lee)" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/234/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=234" description="Tee Morris returns to the world's first podiobook, restoring lost scenes, adding in more production elements, and featuring guest voices from favorite podcasts. Set sail with Rafe and Askana again...for the first time.

Morevi, a landlocked kingdom shrouded by jungles and mystery, falls under the rule of Askana Moldarin. In the dawn of this New Age, hidden traitors in her own regime threaten to destroy everything. The First Queen, independent of council, seeks help to reveal the conspiracy against her... 

Enter Rafe Rafton, captain of the Defiant." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell" text="Podiobooks.com: Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/298/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=298" description="Follow along with Arcot, Morey, and Wade as they discover a revolutionary form of propulsion, visit our neighboring planets, and go up against aliens from a rogue solar system that passes close to our own.  These three stories (Piracy Preferred, Solarite, and The Black Star Passes) were originally published as a serial in Amazing Stories magazine.


Read by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scottfarquhar.com&quot; target=&quot;_new&quot;&gt;Scott D. Farquhar&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheusradiotheatre.com&quot; target=&quot;_new&quot;&gt;Prometheus Radio Theatre&lt;/a&gt; " />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Double Share by Nathan Lowell" text="Podiobooks.com: Double Share by Nathan Lowell" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/293/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=293" 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;&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;A Trader's Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper : Book 4

When he graduates from the Academy at Port Newmar, Ishmael Horatio Wang reports for duty in his first assignment as an officer. When he gets to his new ship, he finds things are not exactly the way he'd learned in school. The coffee tastes like used engine oil, the ship has no heart, and the nearest decent tailor is two quadrants away. What's a new Third Mate to do? Will he be able to trust Billy?" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Jack Palms II: This Is Life by Seth Harwood" text="Podiobooks.com: Jack Palms II: This Is Life by Seth Harwood" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/157/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=157" description="Jack Is Back! Yes, Jack Palms is back to bring you more of the action, suspense and excitement that you came to expect from the hit podiobook Jack Wakes Up. 

In This Is Life, Jack Palms finds himself caught in a working relationship with none other than the San Francisco police. When one of their own gets killed and corruption invades the Hall of Justice, Sgt. Mills Hopkins hires Jack to poke around. Is Jack ready for his own brand of police work? Is San Francisco? 

Follow Jack Palms as he tries to figure out if the life of a Private Eye fits him, hunts a cop-killer, and tries to solve a series of murders that leads him into the heart of San Francisco's sex trade.

Also by Seth Harwood: &lt;a href=&quot;http://podiobooks.com/title/a-long-way-from-disney&quot;&gt;A Long Way from Disney&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/title/jack-wakes-up&quot;&gt;Jack Wakes Up&lt;/a&gt;" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Jack Wakes Up by Seth Harwood" text="Podiobooks.com: Jack Wakes Up by Seth Harwood" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/100/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=100" 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 does a movie-star one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money?

In the three years since Jack Palms went clean - no drugs, no drinking, no life -  he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he signs on to help a set of Eastern Europeans score enough coke to settle down and set up shop. All Jack has to do is keep them entertained and get them through their purchase.

But when the plan runs into a few problems, and Jack starts getting phone calls from an old friend on the police force, he realizes that this business will take a lot more acting than he first assumed." />
<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: Earthcore by Scott Sigler" text="Podiobooks.com: Earthcore by Scott Sigler" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/24/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=24" description="Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lays the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft.

EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure.

But Kirkland and EarthCore are not the first to find this treasure. The mountain's history reveals two centuries of disappearances, murder, and insanity.

The discovery of ancient platinum knives, razor-sharp despite lying untouched for 1,000 years, reveals evidence of an ancient culture. If the artifacts are genuine, they show a pre-historic empire that once spanned from the Southern tip of South America all the way up through the American Southwest.

Wealth and fame lie under that Utah mountain, but at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting ... and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/claim/4b4hrzqp6&quot; rel=&quot;me&quot;&gt;Technorati Profile&lt;/a&gt;" />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Daughter Of The Sun by Lonnie Ezell" text="Podiobooks.com: Daughter Of The Sun by Lonnie Ezell" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/117/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=117" description="Since the Sundering, all use of the Breath has been outlawed. The Overlord and his family have destroyed all who could wield that mighty power. Now, the Overlord's own son needs that outlawed power to unseat his father.

Having spent her entire life trying to stay unnoticed, Elena is forced to come to grips with the Breath's curse when her only child is ripped away from her. A pawn in the game between the Duke and his father, she must find a way to rescue her daughter and remain free of their manipulative grasp. When she does, her entire world collapses around her, and she realizes just how dangerous this game is.

As she struggles to out maneuver the Overlord, the Duke, and their supernatural allies, Elena must find a way to defeat them both. If she cannot, the entire world will pay the price." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: The Plitone Revisionist by Paul S. Jenkins" text="Podiobooks.com: The Plitone Revisionist by Paul S. Jenkins" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/102/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=102" description="Will Captain Paola Mackie, independent space courier, thrown out of  her home ten years previously, escape the unsavory clutches of the  man who thinks she can lead him to the notorious Revisionist  mothership secretly orbiting within the Lutrana system and plotting  to destabilize its economy, its culture, its very way of life?

Will Paola be reconciled with her estranged and aged father before  it's too late for him to pass on his onerous legacy to her? And will  she finally get it together with Nantuke Orlis, the Revisionist  President's enigmatic scout?

The Plitone Revisionist is a fast-paced, sexy science-fiction  thriller that will keep you enthralled to the end -- and beyond." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Selznick" text="Podiobooks.com: Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Selznick" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/40/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=40" 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;

April 18, 1985 -- Into a world already wound tight with the desperate tensions of the Cold War comes a man with a startling Declaration: Metahumans exist, they demand autonomy, and Dr. William Karl Donner has the reality-bending power to enforce their status.  The balance of power is thrown askew by the addition of not one more Superpower, but &lt;em&gt;six thousand&lt;/em&gt;.

Before the Donner Declaration, high school sophomore Nate Charters was just an outsider and self-proclaimed freak.  His unusual appearance, hair-trigger reflexes, and overactive metabolism should have made him something special, but his differences and low self-esteem have long since marked him as a target for the jocks and popular kids.

Now, just as his unique nature brings him the attention of a self-assured older girl, Nate must find his place in the world.  Why is he the way he is?  Where did he come from?  Is he part of a remarkable, powerful new minority... or just a misfit among misfits?

He'd better find out fast...  others want the truth, and they're closing in...

&lt;b&gt;Praise For &lt;em&gt;&quot;Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;The brilliance of&lt;/em&gt; Brave Men Run &lt;em&gt;is not only in its vision, but its execution. Matthew Wayne Selznick spins a superhero story that transcends predictable ‘grim-n-gritty’ and ‘rock-’em-sock-’em’ conventions, capturing a realism and emotion rarely seen in the genre. Part Stan Lee, part John Hughes..!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jchutchins.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;J.C. Hutchins&lt;/a&gt;, author of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/search.php?keyword=7th+son&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;7th Son&quot; trilogy&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;Selznick effortlessly spins a strong nostalgia for the ’80s with a fascinating alternate history where the superpowers wake up and may not be entirely hip on the idea of serving the rest of mankind. If Peter Parker had been one of the characters in 'The Breakfast Club,' you would have&lt;/em&gt; Brave Men Run&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.murverse.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mur Lafferty&lt;/a&gt;, author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/title/playing-for-keeps&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;Playing for Keeps&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/title/heaven---season-one&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;Heaven&quot; series&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;A fantastical novel written with that all-too-rare attention to character and drama… Selznick speaks softly — yet eloquently — and wields a very big literary stick.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://markjeffrey.typepad.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mark Jeffrey&lt;/a&gt;, Ulysses Award-winning author
of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/search.php?keyword=max+quick&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Max Quick Series&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;This book rocks. It’s engaging, the characters are robust...&lt;/em&gt; Brave Men Run &lt;em&gt;is the finest podcast novel I’ve listened to… A solid story made even better by an exceptional performance by the author, it serves as an example of what a self-produced ‘podiobook’ can be. You won’t be disappointed.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Terra&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Evo Terra&lt;/a&gt;, founder of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Podiobooks.com&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;I thoroughly enjoyed&lt;/em&gt; Brave Men Run &lt;em&gt;for its sympathetic characters, its eighties nostalgia, and its comic industry in-jokes, as well as its thoroughly entertaining story! If John Hughes had written the ‘X-Men’ films, this is what we would have gotten.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://cnvarbiter.livejournal.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Steven H. Wilson&lt;/a&gt;, Parsec Award-winning creator of creator of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheusradiotheatre.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Arbiter Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;A great read, a real page turner. This book could be a bestseller.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://hbaum.blogspot.com/2006/09/brave-men-run.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Henry Baum&lt;/a&gt;, author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNorth-Sunset-Henry-Baum%2Fdp%2F1411656563&amp;tag=mwsmedia-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;North of Sunset&quot;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;Brave Men Run &lt;em&gt;is at once fantastical and ordinary, gripping and emotional, shocking and intelligent. I thoroughly enjoyed it.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dreamwords.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Paul Story&lt;/a&gt;, author of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=26&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;Tom Corven&quot;&lt;/a&gt; podiobook.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&quot;Well written, with great dialogue... utterly convincing.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- Paul S. Jenkins, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://revup.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=34943#&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;Rev-Up Review&lt;/a&gt; podcast.

&lt;em&gt;&quot;Amazingly good... I'm totally hooked! Matthew's prose is clean and true...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- Jesse Willis, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sffaudio.com/2005/12/podcast-novel-from-just-under-radar.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;SFFaudio.com&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Extended Show Notes&lt;/b&gt;

Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattselznick.com/writing/fiction/novels/brave-men-run/free-audiobook/show-notes/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;annotated show notes and comment on each episode&lt;/a&gt;!

&lt;b&gt;More From  The Sovereign Era &lt;/b&gt;

Immerse yourself in the Sovereign Era at Matthew Wayne Selznick's FREE ongoing serial fiction fiction project, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hazydaysandcloudynights.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; 

Enjoy a new short story set in the Sovereign Era of &quot;Brave Men Run!&quot;  Read &quot;The World Revolves Around You&quot; for free, or purchase an e-book or signed and numbered limited edition chapbook &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattselznick.com/writing/fiction/short-fiction/the-world-revolves-around-you/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;right here&lt;/a&gt;.

Visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattselznick.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Matthew Wayne Selznick's website&lt;/a&gt; for more fiction, plus music, commentary and other content!

&lt;b&gt;Support the Author&lt;/b&gt;

Support independent creative endeavors!  If you enjoyed the free podcast edition of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; consider purchasing the paperback book or electronic editions for the Amazon Kindle, iPhone / iPod Touch, and other DRM-free e-book formats from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattselznick.com/writing/fiction/novels/brave-men-run/purchase/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BraveMenRun.com&lt;/a&gt;." />
<outline title="Podiobooks.com: Burn by James Patrick Kelly" text="Podiobooks.com: Burn by James Patrick Kelly" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/bookfeed/sampler/75/book.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=75" description="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.laconiv.org/2006/hugos/nominees.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;donation&quot; src=&quot;http://www.podiobooks.com/images/hugo2006.128x80.gif&quot;  width=&quot;120&quot; height=&quot;80&quot; hspace=10 vspace=10 align=right border=0/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

From Hugo-award winning science fiction writer James Patrick Kelly comes a fiery adventure set in the far future.  On a distant planet, the last remaining true humans have come together to form a utopia based on the principles of Walden. The posthuman population resists human encroachment by setting fire to their terraformed forests. Thoreau and terrorism, apples and baseball -- all figure in the mystery of the burn.

BURN has been selected for inclusion in Gardner Dozois's THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COLLECTION published by St Martin's Press in July of 2006,   BURN is currently a finalist for the World Science Fiction Convention's Hugo Award, to be given at LACon IV in August, 2006

Find out for yourself why so many critics have hailed BURN:

&quot;Kelly's many-layered story pivots on a set of paradoxes, asking questions about the difference between innocence and willful ignorance, responsibility and balance and the true essence of nature.&quot; --Publisher's Weekly
 
&quot;BURN combines maturity with the adventurous spirit of youth, as though the Mark Twain of HUCKLEBERRY FINN had come back with a yen to write science fiction.&quot; --Locus

&quot;...the warm humanity and rural sympathies of this affectionate, winsome novel will make many recall Ray Bradbury at his best.&quot; --Booklist

&quot;With his immaculate prose and perfect structural tricks, Kelly's book offers a richly satisfying blend of adventure and philosophy&quot; --SciFiWeekly 

Cover art by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnpicacio.com&quot;&gt;John Picacio&lt;/a&gt; 
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<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." />
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