Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Venus Series: #17 of The Grand Tour Series Author: Ben Bova Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 13, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Space Opera Publisher's Summary: The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system, its ground hot enough to melt aluminum, its air pressure high enough to crush spacecraft landers like tin cans, its atmosphere a choking mix of poisonous gases. This is where the frail young Van Humphries must go—or die trying. Years before, Van’s older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus. Van’s father has always hated him for being the one to survive. Now, his father is offering a ten-billion-dollar prize to the first person who lands on Venus and returns his oldest son’s remains. To everyone’s surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything—our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Dark Series: #1 of Out of the Dark Author: David Weber Narrator: Charles Keating Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 28, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Space Opera Publisher's Summary: The launch of a new science fiction adventure series--by the New York Times-best selling author of the Safehold series and the Honor Harrington series The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called 'sentients'--'humans,' they called themselves--were almost as bad as the Shongairi themselves, it seemed reasonable to use the Shongairi to neutralize them before they could become a second threat to galactic peace. And if the Shongairi took a few knocks in the process, all the better. Now, Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity's cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, more than half the human race has died. Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, finds himself instead prowling the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols and trying to organize scattered survivors without getting killed. And in the southeastern US, firearms instructor and former Marine Dave Dvorak finds himself at the center of a growing network of resistance--putting his extended family at lethal risk, but what else can you do? On the face of it, Buchevsky's and Dvorak's chances look bleak, as do prospects for the rest of the surviving human race. But it may well be that Shongairi and the Hegemony alike have underestimated the inhabitants of that strange planet called Earth... in David Weber's Out of the Dark.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/134709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Terminal World Author: Alastair Reynolds Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 16 Genres: Space Opera Publisher's Summary: Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different—and rigidly enforced—level of technology. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon's world is wrenched apart one more time. If Quillon is to save his life, he must leave his home and journey into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint's base, starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon's own survival, for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police but by the very nature of reality—and reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shards of Honor Series: #1 of The Cordelia Naismith Series Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 20, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.92 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Space Opera Publisher's Summary: Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force was on a routine mission to study the life forms on an uninhabited, neutral planet. Little did she know that the enemy Barrayarans had chosen this place as their secret base for an as-yet undeclared war. Separated from her team, Cordelia is captured by Lord Aral Vorkosigan, the leader in charge of the Barrayaran mission. Aral himself is caught in a web of political intrigue that has led to a recent attempt on his life. As the two strangers struggle together across the unfriendly terrain of the foreign planet toward Aral’s ship, they discover that their greatest danger may be the romance inconveniently developing between them, on the brink of a war that will divide their peoples more strongly than ever. Recognized as the current exemplar of character-based science fiction, Bujold debuts her beloved Vorkosigan saga with this tale about the future parents of Miles Vorkosigan.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vulcan's Heart Series: Part of Star Trek: The Original Series Author: Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz Narrator: Tim Russ Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 1, 1999 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Space Opera Publisher's Summary: 2329: Now a diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding with Commander Saavik. More than a betrothal, less than a wedding, the sacred Vulcan rite is attended by both Spock's father, Sarek, and a nervous young Starfleet lieutenant named Jean-Luc Picard. 2344: Ambassador Spock receives a top-secret communication from the heart of the Romulan Empire. Decades before, Spock had met and betrayed an honorable Romulan commander during the so-called 'Enterprise incident.' Now she needs his help to prevent a catastrophe that could threaten the peace of the entire quadrant. Spock risks everything by traveling incognito to Romulus itself, but his covert mission becomes even more perilous when Saavik crosses the Neutral Zone to rescue him. Enmeshed in the treacherous political intrigues of the Romulan capital, undone by a fire that grows ever hotter within his blood, Spock must use all his logic and experience to survive a crisis that will ultimately determine the fate of empires. Vulcan's Heart is a powerful tale that explores an untold turning point in the ongoing saga of Spock and the world of Vulcan.