Lot of Four Starship Sagas

Four Stories on Five CDs

Escape Route by Peter F. Hamilton

The Days Between by Allen M. Steele

Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds

Guest Law by John C. Wright

Escape Route by Peter F. Hamilton

read by Jared Doreck

Unabridged New 2 CDs (in poly box) 156 minutes

lightly accented with music

The Lady Macbeth sets out on a dubious prospecting mission and ultimately discovers an ancient, long abandoned, derelict xenoc starship. Captain Marcus Calvert must unlock its alien secrets in time to save his crew. Set in the author’s Confederation universe of his “Night’s Dawn” trilogy, this gripping tale tells the story of the last flight of Joshua Calvert’s father. This story also explains why the Lady Macbeth was in such poor shape when it first made its appearance in The Reality Dysfunction.

An English author of modern baroque space opera, Peter F. Hamilton has written novels in the following series: Greg Mandel; the Commonwealth saga, and the Confederation universe. Titles in the Confederation universe include the “Night’s Dawn” trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God; A Second Chance at Eden; and The Confederation Handbook.

The Days Between by Allen M. Steele

read by Tom Dheere

1 CD (in polybox) / 71 minutes / Unabridged/ New

Three months after leaving Earth, the URSS Alabama had just achieved cruise velocity when the accident occurred: Leslie Gillis woke up. His first lucid thought was: Thank God, I made it. His next thought was: Something’s wrong. Everyone was still asleep. Everyone except himself. This story, nominated for the Hugo award and a Nebula award finalist, is part of the author’s popular Coyote series.

His novels include Orbital Decay, Clarke County, Space, Lunar Descent, Labyrinth of Night, The Jericho Iteration, The Tranquillity Alternative, A King of Infinite Space, Oceanspace, Chronospace, Coyote, Coyote Rising, Coyote Frontier,  Spindrift, and Galaxy Blues. He has also published four collections of short fiction: Rude Astronauts, All-American Alien Boy, Sex and Violence in Zero-G, and American Beauty.

Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds

read by Tom Dheere

1 CD (in polybox) / 72 minutes / Unabridged/ New

Beyond the Aquila Rift. It’s shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.

Alastair Reynolds was born in 1966. He was raised in Cornwall and Wales. He moved to Newcastle to study physics. He earned his doctorate in Scotland, moved to the Netherlands, and worked for the European Space Agency. His highly acclaimed Inhibitor Universe novels are now considered classic New Space Opera.

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Beyond the Aquila Rift
By Alastair Reynolds; Read by Tom Dheere
1 CD - 72 min [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Infinivox
Published: Feb 22, 2008
ISBN: 9781884612770
Themes: / Science Fiction / Space Travel / Suspended Animation /

Beyond the Aquila Rift. It’s shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.

Fiction editors. I don’t know much about how they work and I don’t much care to. More than anything in an editor, I want a gatekeeper who consistently picks stories that I like. Thinking about who that might be, I always bring one name to mind: Isaac Asimov. If Asimov liked the story then I usually did too. But Asimov is dead. If it’s new stuff today, it has to be one guy very few readers have heard of. His name is Allan Kaster. Kaster edits an ongoing anthology (released one tale at a time) entitled Great Science Fiction stories. Nowhere on the package of any Infinivox title does it say “Allan Kaster, Editor”, but he’s definitely the guy making this series live up to it’s title. I can’t remember a single Infinivox production that left me cold. They often leave me confused, frightened, hurt, awed, satisfied, or unsatisfied (but not in the wrong way). Mostly though they leave me thinking: “Please, sir, can I have another?”

Beyond The Aquila Rift is another little known novelette deserving the title “Great Science Fiction.” I say this because this story got me thinking thoughts about the nature of reality that not even Philip K. Dick couldn’t conjure. Most tales that deal with “what is reality?” type scenarios come up with a weak endorsement of something I’ll call “real reality.” Sometimes they end in another way, one more noir than mainstream. This one has it both ways and I like that. The ambivalence is itself novel, and makes the story work. Thanks Allan!

Narrator Tom Dheere, another in Infinivox’s stable of previously unknown narrators, delivers this reading straight. It is a good reading. This is 72 minutes of thought provoking modern SF. Have a listen to a sample |MP3|.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Guest Law  by John C. Wright

read by Tom Dheere

1 CD  (in poly CD box) NEW 52 minutes, unabridged

There be pirates in the vast void of space! Does not the poet say: “Beware the strangeness of the stranger. Unknown things bring unknown danger?”  The noble ship Procrustes was silent as a ghost. Warships can be silent if they are slow; only their missiles need speed. And so it was silently, slowly, that the Procrustes approached the stranger’s cold vessel.

John C. Wright is the author of the highly acclaimed The Golden Age Trilogy. Publishers Weekly has hailed the author as "This fledgling century's most important new SF talent."  His latest novel is Null-A Continuum.

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