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Hard Science Fiction Audiobooks: April 2024s Essential Listening

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Hard Science Fiction Audiobooks: April 2024s Essential Listening

Kickstart your April 2024 with our curated list of Hard Science Fiction audiobooks.

Virtually Perfect by Maria K

Surrounded by close buddies offering toasts and congratulations on the upcoming nupitals, along with sly comments about the bottom line, Sam Horton discovers more might be at stake than a transaction. It takes two to consolidate, but when the other one turns into Bridezilla, Sam’s about to experience a lesson in fortitude and empathy.
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Forbidden Shadows by E.J. Dales

Asher has a secret. A secret that, if the ever-watchful government or vigilantes find out, would kill him. Living in the secluded Willow Wood manor has kept him away from prying eyes for 16 years, but one night, everything changes. When his safe haven is compromised, Asher must seek out his father for the first time and find a way to hide in plain sight onboard a junior academy starship. Asher has to deal with his past while forming an unexpected future among the stars and ensuring that no one finds out who...or what...he is.
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Johnny Angel Planet Sonst Boy Loves Boy by John Williams

Book 5 JOHNNY ANGEL PLANET SONST BOY LOVES BOY. This is the fifth book in the series, the first being JOHNNY ANGEL SPACE STATION QUARK, THE SECOND BEING JOHNNY ANGEL TIME BIT UNIT AND THE THIRD BEING JOHNNY ANGEL SEA OF PROSPERITY. All books deal with a boy loves boy backdrop to highly imaginative science fiction. There are four different stories dealing with different boys. Johnny Angel, Mathew someday, Christopher Cross and Simon Sevenson.
Johnny Angel PLANET SONST
Still on the island, apparently in the galaxy ship Anama No1, while at the pool, Johnny wakes to darkness, apparently he’d been there all day. He is taken at gunpoint boy a boy patrolman at the waterfall to an imperial base where a scientist gives him a module; a book of numbers which allows him to float through a chasm over the sea. There he saves William being pursued by a hunter killer whale by using the book of numbers by lifting him up out of the whale’s jaws and taking him back to the island.
Mathew Someway
Mathew wakes as an alien twin. After the shock, Michael listens to his story; in a midnight swim, Mathew follows Michael down where he found an alien, who after giving Michael oxygen takes him to an underwater spout which hides a window to another planet; Sonst; a jungle airbase, a raider, a girl, a city full of aliens.
Christopher Cross
Still on Jules’, the phylogenetic, island, just off the city of Sky, on the planet of Plutarch, Cris is jumped on by a young savage, apparently an unofficial visitor. Both faint after a breakfast of drugged coconut milk. Cris wakes with hunter Frank Black who believes Jules is still out there…
Someone else woke me up, this one really was thirteen, Jules, a charming one, some pirates are an unusual package, this one was master of unarmed combat, he was telephetic, which was probably the reason he was master of unarmed combat. Not only did he move like greased lightning, he could tell what the other fellow was thinking to do.
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All That Outer Space Allows: Apollo Quartet Book 4 by Ian Sales

It is 1965 and Ginny Eckhardt is a science fiction writer. She’s been published in the big science fiction magazines and is friends with many of the popular science fiction authors of the day. Her husband, Walden, has just been selected by NASA as one of the New Nineteen Apollo astronauts… which means Ginny will be a member of the Astronaut Wives Club.
Although the realities of spaceflight fascinate Ginny, her genders bars her from the United State space programme. Her science fiction offers little in the way of consolation—but perhaps there is something she can do about that…
Covering the years 1965 to 1972, when Walden Eckhardt lifts-off aboard Apollo 15 as the mission’s lunar module pilot, this is Ginny’s life: wife, science fiction writer, astronaut wife… because that is ALL THAT OUTER SPACE ALLOWS.
SELECTED FOR THE JAMES TIPTREE JR AWARD HONOR LIST
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Then Will The Great Ocean Wash Deep Above: Apollo Quartet Book 3 by Ian Sales

It is April 1962. The Korean War has escalated and the US is struggling to keep the Russians and Chinese north of the 38th parallel. All the men are away fighting, but that doesn’t mean the Space Race is lost. NASA decides to look elsewhere for its astronauts: the thirteen women pilots who passed the same tests as the original male candidates. These are the Mercury 13: Jerrie Cobb, Janey Hart, Myrtle Cagle, Jerri Sloan, Jan Dietrich, Marion Dietrich, Bernice Steadman, Wally Funk, Sarah Gorelick, Gene Nora Stumbough, Jean Hixson, Rhea Hurrle and Irene Leverton. One of these women will be the first American in space. Another will be the first American to spacewalk. Perhaps one will even be the first human being to walk on the Moon.
Beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, deep in the Puerto Rico Trench north of San Juan, lies a film bucket from a KH-4 Corona spy satellite. It should have been caught in mid-air by a C-130 from the 6549th Test Group. That didn’t happen. So the US Navy bathyscaphe Trieste II must descend twenty thousand feet to retrieve the bucket, down where light has never reached and the pressure is four tons per square inch. But there is more in the depths than anyone had expected, much more.
This is not our world. But it very nearly was.
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Join us in celebrating the art of storytelling with the finest Hard Science Fiction audiobooks of April 2024. The story continues at sounded dot com.

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