The First Bird
Episode 1
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Buy for $19.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Sean Mangan
-
By:
-
Greig Beck
About this listen
Matt Kearns, linguist, archaeologist and reluctant explorer from Beneath the Dark Ice and Black Mountain returns in his first full-time adventure. And this time he doesn't have Alex Hunter to save him when the stuff hits the fan.
When a fame-hungry scientist brings an impossible, living specimen of a creature long thought extinct back from the wild jungles of South America he unwittingly brings along a passenger. Something with the potential to destroy every living thing on our planet.
The infestation begins, rapidly overtaking medical resources and resisting all treatment. One woman knows the danger: Carla Nero, chief scientist of the Center for Disease Control. She makes Matt an offer he can't refuse and together they join a team heading to the deep jungle in a desperate race to locate the hidden place where the specimen was taken.
Only by finding the location of the specimen can the team - and the world - hope to uncover the secret of how to survive the ancient, horrifying parasite that has been released.
©2013 Greig Beck (P)2013 Bolinda PublishingListeners also enjoyed...
-
Fathomless
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Fathomless, the greatest predator the world has ever known is coming home in 2016. Carcharodon megalodon. The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumours of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumours explode into brutal and terrifying reality in Fathomless, by Greig Beck.
-
-
Mega What?
- By JunieJ on 01-24-17
By: Greig Beck
-
Arcadian Genesis
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alex Hunter - in the mission that turned him from a normal man into the weapon known as the Arcadian - and the elite team of soldiers known as the Hotzone All-Forces Warfare Commandos must enter a hostile country to rescue a defected Chechen researcher from the centre of a country at war. But the HAWCs are not the only ones looking for the rogue scientist and the mysterious package he carries with him. A brutal and relentless killer and his death squad are on the trail, too - and they bring a savagery with them that Hunter and his team have never witnessed before in modern warfare.
-
-
Not bad, but not great
- By Michael on 02-27-22
By: Greig Beck
-
Lemuria
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On a desolate beach in far northern Scotland, the winter storms have been washing up all manner of things since time began. But buried in the centre of one smaller iceberg is a shard of ancient Viking pottery telling a partial tale of a hidden mysterious island beyond the ice and mist, that was home to a great treasure and even greater horrors. Thawing in the same block of ice was a rotting flap of skin that refused to be identified but had similar skin patterns to a creature not seen for 100 million years.
-
-
Fun Creature-Feature Adventure!
- By Fruitcat on 10-31-22
By: Greig Beck
-
Primordia
- In Search of the Lost World
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A journey into the deepest, darkest jungles of the Venezuelan Amazon...and a primeval place and time that mankind was never meant to exist in. Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father, stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author Arthur Conan Doyle and his great-great-grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908. Amazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long-extinct creatures.
-
-
Return to the Lost World
- By Richard S. Swol on 07-14-18
By: Greig Beck
-
The Siberian Incident
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep Stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot. But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths. When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales....
-
-
Very Cool
- By MelodicChronic on 05-11-20
By: Greig Beck
-
To the Center of the Earth
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Down there, beyond the deepest caves, below the crust and the mantle, there is another world. An old woman locked away in a Russian asylum has a secret - knowledge of a 500-year-old manuscript written by a long-dead alchemist that will show a passage to the mythical centre of the Earth. She knows it’s real because 50 years ago, she and a team travelled there. And only she made it back. Today, caving specialist Mike Monroe leads a crew into the world’s deepest cave in the former Soviet Union.
-
-
Narrator is awful
- By Roo on 09-15-20
By: Greig Beck
-
Fathomless
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Fathomless, the greatest predator the world has ever known is coming home in 2016. Carcharodon megalodon. The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumours of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumours explode into brutal and terrifying reality in Fathomless, by Greig Beck.
-
-
Mega What?
- By JunieJ on 01-24-17
By: Greig Beck
-
Arcadian Genesis
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alex Hunter - in the mission that turned him from a normal man into the weapon known as the Arcadian - and the elite team of soldiers known as the Hotzone All-Forces Warfare Commandos must enter a hostile country to rescue a defected Chechen researcher from the centre of a country at war. But the HAWCs are not the only ones looking for the rogue scientist and the mysterious package he carries with him. A brutal and relentless killer and his death squad are on the trail, too - and they bring a savagery with them that Hunter and his team have never witnessed before in modern warfare.
-
-
Not bad, but not great
- By Michael on 02-27-22
By: Greig Beck
-
Lemuria
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On a desolate beach in far northern Scotland, the winter storms have been washing up all manner of things since time began. But buried in the centre of one smaller iceberg is a shard of ancient Viking pottery telling a partial tale of a hidden mysterious island beyond the ice and mist, that was home to a great treasure and even greater horrors. Thawing in the same block of ice was a rotting flap of skin that refused to be identified but had similar skin patterns to a creature not seen for 100 million years.
-
-
Fun Creature-Feature Adventure!
- By Fruitcat on 10-31-22
By: Greig Beck
-
Primordia
- In Search of the Lost World
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A journey into the deepest, darkest jungles of the Venezuelan Amazon...and a primeval place and time that mankind was never meant to exist in. Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father, stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author Arthur Conan Doyle and his great-great-grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908. Amazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long-extinct creatures.
-
-
Return to the Lost World
- By Richard S. Swol on 07-14-18
By: Greig Beck
-
The Siberian Incident
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep Stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot. But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths. When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales....
-
-
Very Cool
- By MelodicChronic on 05-11-20
By: Greig Beck
-
To the Center of the Earth
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Down there, beyond the deepest caves, below the crust and the mantle, there is another world. An old woman locked away in a Russian asylum has a secret - knowledge of a 500-year-old manuscript written by a long-dead alchemist that will show a passage to the mythical centre of the Earth. She knows it’s real because 50 years ago, she and a team travelled there. And only she made it back. Today, caving specialist Mike Monroe leads a crew into the world’s deepest cave in the former Soviet Union.
-
-
Narrator is awful
- By Roo on 09-15-20
By: Greig Beck
-
The Fossil
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Danny Montooth
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Klaus and Doris have just made the discovery of their lives - a complete Neanderthal skeleton buried in a newly opened sinkhole. But on removing it, something else tumbles free. Something that switches on, and then calls home. Soon the owners are coming back, and nothing will stop their ruthless search for their lost prize.
-
-
The Outer Limits on steroids
- By Old Man Parker on 04-04-21
By: Greig Beck
-
Seed of Evil
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Danny Montooth
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There’s something growing deep in the old Angel Mine - something the Native Americans warned us about - And now it’s rising again. Mitch Taylor, ex-Special Forces medic, is seeking a quiet life in the town of Eldon. Tragedy has dogged his life, and he sees the small friendly place as a second chance. But buried deep below the friendly smiles and quaint painted houses is an old abandoned mine that holds a legend of an ancient and terrible god. In the mine’s labyrinthine depths, something has been growing, something from a time of myth when ancient gods strode the Earth.
-
-
Tree of Life Not
- By Chris on 10-06-21
By: Greig Beck
-
Hunger: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 25 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The world’s food supply grows aggressively, occupying every inch of earth, no matter how inhospitable. World hunger is averted. Humanity flourishes. RC-714 is digested, absorbed…and passed on. The Change affects small fast-breeding mammals first. They multiply with the same aggressive speed as the ExoGen plants, but an insatiable hunger drives them to violence. A war between species breaks out. When RC-714 reaches humanity, along with every other large creature on the planet, civilization implodes.
-
-
Get ready to get your ESG score doubled
- By JoJo on 08-17-23
By: Jeremy Robinson
-
The Black
- By: Paul E. Cooley
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Under 30,000 feet of water, the experimental exploration rig Leaguer has discovered an oil field larger than Saudi Arabia, with oil so sweet and pure, nations would go to war for the rights to it. But as the team starts drilling exploration well after exploration well in their race to claim the sweet crude, a deep rumbling beneath the ocean floor shakes them all to their core. Something has been living in the oil and it's about to give birth to the greatest threat humanity has ever seen.
-
-
Smart and very scary
- By DianaInSC on 08-30-22
By: Paul E. Cooley
-
Creature from the Crevasse
- By: Michael Cole
- Narrated by: Nathan Westhoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A bizarre series of incidents take place on a usually tranquil lake. Boats are found ravaged, a body torn in two, other people are missing and an injured victim cries of a monster. Chief of Police Morgan Sydney must face the reality that a huge monster is lurking in the lake. With bulletproof scales, territorial aggression, and an insatiable appetite, the beast causes mayhem in the peaceful town.
-
-
Boring narration.
- By V6 Studios on 10-20-23
By: Michael Cole
-
Chimera
- By: Michael McBride
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When the Air National Guard receives an emergency call for help from a remote Arctic research station in Greenland, Senior Master Sergeant Dan Cameron is chosen to lead the rescue mission. In an attempt to combat climate change, the scientists have genetically engineered an aquatic biofilm capable of generating oxygen and lowering the temperature of the underlying seawater, producing environmental conditions that awaken an organism that has lain dormant beneath the ocean floor for millions of years.
-
-
Microbiology and the fear of the unknown
- By Lomeraniel on 10-06-21
By: Michael McBride
-
The Cavern
- By: Alister Hodge
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a sink hole opens up near the Australian outback town of Pintalba, it uncovers a pristine cave system. Sam joins an expedition to explore the subterranean passages as paramedic support, hoping to remain unneeded at base camp. But, when one of the cavers is injured, he must overcome paralyzing claustrophobia to dive pitch-black waters and squeeze through the bowels of the earth. Soon he will find there are fates worse than being buried alive, for in the abandoned mines and caves beneath Pintalba, there are ravenous teeth in the dark.
-
-
good
- By Alicia Durham on 09-03-20
By: Alister Hodge
-
Serpent
- A Deep Sea Thriller
- By: Michael Cole
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dr. Hugh Meyer believed he had created the ultimate miracle. Using the DNA of ancient creatures preserved in the Arctic, he had genetically engineered one of the most remarkable species of sea creature to ever exist: the Serpent Eel. Believed to possess the cure for countless diseases, the creature holds great promise for the medical community. All goes awry when the beast escapes containment. With a rapid growth rate and remarkable physical evolution, the beast travels to the coastal town of Spiral Bay. There, the creature designed to save human life instead starts taking it.
-
-
Nope
- By Amy Johnson on 04-26-22
By: Michael Cole
-
Island 731
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working onboard the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, surrounded by 30 miles of refuse, the ship and its high-tech systems are plagued by a series of strange malfunctions and the crew is battered by a raging storm. When the storm fades and the sun rises, the beaten crew awakens to find themselves anchored in the protective cove of a tropical island...and no one knows how they got there.
-
-
Beware of your next Pacific cruise
- By Matthew on 04-15-13
By: Jeremy Robinson
-
Amazonia
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: John Meagher
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest - a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing...and came out with both intact.
-
-
Creepy-Crawly!
- By Snoodely on 07-07-13
By: James Rollins
-
Claw: A Canadian Thriller
- Claw, Book 1
- By: Katie Berry
- Narrated by: Alex Knox
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lawless, British Columbia is on edge after a powerful earthquake jolts the region, quickly followed by a string of savage animal attacks. Newly stationed to the area after her predecessor mysteriously disappears, Conservation Officer Christine Moon needs to calm the jangled nerves of the small mountain town. Awakened from ancient slumber, something stalks the swirling, grey mists that surround Lawless. A beast with a gnawing hunger that grows stronger by the minute - its only thought, to satisfy its ravenous appetite.
-
-
Has its moments...
- By pw on 09-09-20
By: Katie Berry
-
Helicoprion
- By: Michael Cole
- Narrated by: Louis B. Jack
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings, the injuries are more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac. Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature. Exhausted and traumatized, her claims that the beast is a Helicoprion are dismissed. With little help from the police department, Luke and Elise form an unlikely alliance that puts them face-to-face with a violent man-eating shark, and its terrifying reason for existing.
-
-
Goes a little deeper
- By I. Castillo on 01-27-24
By: Michael Cole
Related to this topic
-
The Dig
- By: Michael Siemsen
- Narrated by: Chris Patton
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A mysterious woven metal artifact is found at a paleontological dig in Africa. Mystified experts, confounded by the impossible timeline they get from traditional dating methods, call upon a stubborn young man with a unique talent. Matthew Turner's gift is also his curse: When he touches any object, his awareness is flooded with the thoughts and feelings of those who touched it before him. It is a talent that many covet, some fear, and almost no one understands.
-
-
So I liked it, in a random sorta way...
- By Jan on 12-15-13
By: Michael Siemsen
-
Vitalis Omnibus
- By: Jason Halstead
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mysterious blackouts left Kira with precious few memories of events in her life, never mind those worth sharing. Somewhere in those blank spots she acquired skills - skills she was hard pressed to explain. But those skills got her a job as the new navigator for the Rented Mule, a transport ship that plied the Rim Systems at the very edge of human civilization.
-
-
Moral of the stoty is...
- By Rachel on 10-22-14
By: Jason Halstead
-
The Paths Between Worlds
- By: Paul Antony Jones
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For Meredith Gale, ending her life seems like her only choice, and that choice is the reason she’s dangling by her fingertips from a bridge high above the freezing water of the San Francisco Bay. But someone or some thing has other plans for Meredith, and as her fingers slip from the cold steel of the bridge, a disembodied voice asks her a simple question: “Candidate 13: Do you wish to be saved?” Realizing her mistake too late, Meredith screams “Yes!” and instantly finds herself transported to a mysterious island, alongside hundreds of other Candidates like her.
-
-
A whole lot of fun!
- By Jane on 04-16-19
-
The World Walker
- The World Walker Series, Book 1
- By: Ian W. Sainsbury
- Narrated by: Todd Boyce
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Just outside Los Angeles, a prisoner hidden away for 70 years sits up, gets off the bed and disappears through a solid wall. In Australia, a magician impresses audiences by producing real elephants. Nobody realizes it's not an illusion. Across the world, individuals and organizations with supernatural power suddenly detect the presence of something even they can't understand. At the center of it all, Seb Varden, a 32-year old musician with a secret in his past, slits his wrists, is shot dead and run over on the freeway.
-
-
Good Stuff
- By DobieChuck on 01-15-17
By: Ian W. Sainsbury
-
Subterranean
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: John Meagher
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Travel to the bottom of the earth...to a place you never dreamed existed. Beneath the ice...a hand-picked team of specialists makes its way toward the center of the world. They are not the first to venture into this magnificient subterranean labyrinth. Those they follow did not return....
-
-
Great story, funny Ausrtalian accent
- By David on 03-18-10
By: James Rollins
-
Blades VR
- By: Terry Schott
- Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
- Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Put your dice and paper away. Turn off that computer. Blades of Verchinor, the most popular fantasy role-playing game of all time, is now the world’s first fully immersive virtual reality game! Okay, maybe there are a few glitches and bugs. Perhaps the NPC’s and monsters aren’t behaving exactly as expected. And sure, the creator who can fix issues such as these is missing, but this shouldn’t worry you. Life’s an adventure, right? Step through the portal and enter a new reality.
-
-
Hard to listen to
- By Jess on 07-09-18
By: Terry Schott
-
The Dig
- By: Michael Siemsen
- Narrated by: Chris Patton
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A mysterious woven metal artifact is found at a paleontological dig in Africa. Mystified experts, confounded by the impossible timeline they get from traditional dating methods, call upon a stubborn young man with a unique talent. Matthew Turner's gift is also his curse: When he touches any object, his awareness is flooded with the thoughts and feelings of those who touched it before him. It is a talent that many covet, some fear, and almost no one understands.
-
-
So I liked it, in a random sorta way...
- By Jan on 12-15-13
By: Michael Siemsen
-
Vitalis Omnibus
- By: Jason Halstead
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mysterious blackouts left Kira with precious few memories of events in her life, never mind those worth sharing. Somewhere in those blank spots she acquired skills - skills she was hard pressed to explain. But those skills got her a job as the new navigator for the Rented Mule, a transport ship that plied the Rim Systems at the very edge of human civilization.
-
-
Moral of the stoty is...
- By Rachel on 10-22-14
By: Jason Halstead
-
The Paths Between Worlds
- By: Paul Antony Jones
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For Meredith Gale, ending her life seems like her only choice, and that choice is the reason she’s dangling by her fingertips from a bridge high above the freezing water of the San Francisco Bay. But someone or some thing has other plans for Meredith, and as her fingers slip from the cold steel of the bridge, a disembodied voice asks her a simple question: “Candidate 13: Do you wish to be saved?” Realizing her mistake too late, Meredith screams “Yes!” and instantly finds herself transported to a mysterious island, alongside hundreds of other Candidates like her.
-
-
A whole lot of fun!
- By Jane on 04-16-19
-
The World Walker
- The World Walker Series, Book 1
- By: Ian W. Sainsbury
- Narrated by: Todd Boyce
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Just outside Los Angeles, a prisoner hidden away for 70 years sits up, gets off the bed and disappears through a solid wall. In Australia, a magician impresses audiences by producing real elephants. Nobody realizes it's not an illusion. Across the world, individuals and organizations with supernatural power suddenly detect the presence of something even they can't understand. At the center of it all, Seb Varden, a 32-year old musician with a secret in his past, slits his wrists, is shot dead and run over on the freeway.
-
-
Good Stuff
- By DobieChuck on 01-15-17
By: Ian W. Sainsbury
-
Subterranean
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: John Meagher
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Travel to the bottom of the earth...to a place you never dreamed existed. Beneath the ice...a hand-picked team of specialists makes its way toward the center of the world. They are not the first to venture into this magnificient subterranean labyrinth. Those they follow did not return....
-
-
Great story, funny Ausrtalian accent
- By David on 03-18-10
By: James Rollins
-
Blades VR
- By: Terry Schott
- Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
- Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Put your dice and paper away. Turn off that computer. Blades of Verchinor, the most popular fantasy role-playing game of all time, is now the world’s first fully immersive virtual reality game! Okay, maybe there are a few glitches and bugs. Perhaps the NPC’s and monsters aren’t behaving exactly as expected. And sure, the creator who can fix issues such as these is missing, but this shouldn’t worry you. Life’s an adventure, right? Step through the portal and enter a new reality.
-
-
Hard to listen to
- By Jess on 07-09-18
By: Terry Schott
-
Edge of Survival
- By: Toni Anderson
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dr. Cameran Young knew her assignment wouldn't be easy. As lead biologist on the Environment Impact Assessment team, her findings would determine the future of a large mining project in the northern Canadian bush. She expected rough conditions and hostile miners... but she didn't expect to find a dead body her first day on the job.
-
-
A Worthy Story
- By Maria on 11-05-12
By: Toni Anderson
-
Temple of Sorrow
- Stonehaven League, Book 1
- By: Carrie Summers
- Narrated by: Annie Ellicott, Jeff Hays
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Relic Online is the hottest new game out there, and it's Devon Walker's best hope for escaping her hard-knock life. Thanks to her rocking achievements in other games, she's been hired as a salaried player. Even better, her new position comes with cutting-edge implants that turn RO's virtual reality into a full-sensory explosion. Her only task? Drive the game's creator AI to the outermost limits of its creativity. Sounds easy, right? But when Devon logs in, her expectations shatter like an ice golem hit with a sonic blast.
-
-
No veil of tears here
- By LITRPG Audiobook Reviews on 08-29-18
By: Carrie Summers
-
The Event
- By: Nathan Hystad
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guides Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.
-
-
Did not inspire me to get the next book.
- By MD on 12-13-18
By: Nathan Hystad
-
Origin
- A Thriller
- By: J. A. Konrath
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When linguist Andrew Dennison is yanked from his bed by the Secret Service and taken to a top secret facility in the desert, he has no idea he's been brought there to translate the words of an ancient demon. He joins pretty but cold veterinarian Sun Jones, eccentric molecular biologist Dr. Frank Belgium, and a hodge-podge of religious, military, and science personnel to try and figure out if the creature is, indeed, Satan. But things quickly go bad, and very soon Andy isn't just fighting for his life, but the lives of everyone on earth…
-
-
Making My Beelzebubble Burst
- By Carol on 01-01-14
By: J. A. Konrath
-
The Beast of Barcroft
- By: Bill Schweigart
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ben McKelvie believes he's moving up in the world when he and his fiancée buy a house in the cushy Washington, DC, suburb of Barcroft. Instead he's moving down - way down - thanks to Madeleine Roux, the crazy neighbor whose vermin-infested property is a permanent eyesore and looming hazard to public health. First Ben's fiancée leaves him; then his dog dies, apparently killed by a predator drawn into Barcroft by Madeleine's noxious menagerie. But the worst is yet to come for Ben.
-
-
Just Bearable
- By Nancy Chilton-Kendrick on 06-18-17
By: Bill Schweigart
-
Gabriel: Zero Point
- Evan Gabriel Trilogy
- By: Steve Umstead
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Evan Gabriel wasn't always a feared and respected North American Federation Navy Commander. Before dangerous missions to the ice-bound planet of Poliahu, the deadly jungle world of Eden, and politically corrupt Mars, he was a simple recruit, fighting to make his mark in the elite Naval Special Forces…and was part of a top-secret military experiment that would change his life forever. Zero Point tells the tale of a young man faced with difficult choices and dangerous trials.
-
-
THE FLICKER OF THAT MEMORY
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-29-14
By: Steve Umstead
-
Into the Out Of
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Earth is being invaded by the shetani - spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak, and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.
-
-
Another Great Book by a Master Storyteller!
- By Tracy Michael Herring on 05-03-21
By: Alan Dean Foster
-
Control Point
- Shadow Ops
- By: Myke Cole
- Narrated by: Corey Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Myke Cole is an expert at ratcheting up suspense and delivering pulse-pounding adventure that leaves audiences breathless. In Shadow Ops: Control Point, the world has seemingly gone mad. People are waking up with magical powers, such as the ability to raise the dead or call forth storms. The only thing staving off a plunge into chaos is the Supernatural Operations Corps, headed by Oscar Britton. But when Oscar exhibits a power of his own, the hunter becomes the hunted.
-
-
get on with it
- By Eugene on 05-15-12
By: Myke Cole
-
The Legacy of Heorot
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Best-selling science fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind’s first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise—until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.
-
-
Great read!
- By Thomas on 12-05-12
By: Larry Niven, and others
-
Prelude to Mayhem
- Mayhem Wave Series, Book 1
- By: Edward Aubry
- Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the ruins of his world, Harrison Cody follows a mysterious voice on the radio as he and his pixie sidekick travel on foot across a terrifyingly random landscape. They discover Dorothy O'Neill, who has had to survive among monsters when her greatest worry used to be how to navigate high school. Together they search for what remains of Chicago, and the hope that civilization can be rebuilt.
-
-
Fun and unique post-apocalyptic fiction
- By Quick Brown Fox on 03-23-17
By: Edward Aubry
-
Wicked River
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Milchman
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Six-million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, the isolated backcountry honeymoon seemed ideal for starting their lives together, but as they begin to explore the dark interiors of their own hearts, it soon becomes clear that they are not alone in the woods. A man watches them, wielding the forest like a weapon. He wants something from them that's more terrifying than death. And once they are near him, he will do everything in his power to make sure they never walk out again.
-
-
Wow !
- By Dlh on 05-16-18
By: Jenny Milchman
-
Critical Dawn
- The Critical Series, Book 1
- By: Darren Wearmouth, Colin F. Barnes
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Archaeologists Pippa Quinn and Charlie Jackson find advanced technology in undisturbed 16th-century graves. A portent, the discovery precedes thousands of giant sinkholes opening up across the globe as extreme weather threatens the population. Charlie suspects the two are related.
-
-
Younger adult sci-if.
- By William W on 07-22-15
By: Darren Wearmouth, and others
People who viewed this also viewed...
-
Lemuria
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On a desolate beach in far northern Scotland, the winter storms have been washing up all manner of things since time began. But buried in the centre of one smaller iceberg is a shard of ancient Viking pottery telling a partial tale of a hidden mysterious island beyond the ice and mist, that was home to a great treasure and even greater horrors. Thawing in the same block of ice was a rotting flap of skin that refused to be identified but had similar skin patterns to a creature not seen for 100 million years.
-
-
Fun Creature-Feature Adventure!
- By Fruitcat on 10-31-22
By: Greig Beck
-
To the Center of the Earth
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Down there, beyond the deepest caves, below the crust and the mantle, there is another world. An old woman locked away in a Russian asylum has a secret - knowledge of a 500-year-old manuscript written by a long-dead alchemist that will show a passage to the mythical centre of the Earth. She knows it’s real because 50 years ago, she and a team travelled there. And only she made it back. Today, caving specialist Mike Monroe leads a crew into the world’s deepest cave in the former Soviet Union.
-
-
Narrator is awful
- By Roo on 09-15-20
By: Greig Beck
-
Primordia
- In Search of the Lost World
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A journey into the deepest, darkest jungles of the Venezuelan Amazon...and a primeval place and time that mankind was never meant to exist in. Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father, stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author Arthur Conan Doyle and his great-great-grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908. Amazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long-extinct creatures.
-
-
Return to the Lost World
- By Richard S. Swol on 07-14-18
By: Greig Beck
-
The Fossil
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Danny Montooth
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Klaus and Doris have just made the discovery of their lives - a complete Neanderthal skeleton buried in a newly opened sinkhole. But on removing it, something else tumbles free. Something that switches on, and then calls home. Soon the owners are coming back, and nothing will stop their ruthless search for their lost prize.
-
-
The Outer Limits on steroids
- By Old Man Parker on 04-04-21
By: Greig Beck
-
Arcadian Genesis
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alex Hunter - in the mission that turned him from a normal man into the weapon known as the Arcadian - and the elite team of soldiers known as the Hotzone All-Forces Warfare Commandos must enter a hostile country to rescue a defected Chechen researcher from the centre of a country at war. But the HAWCs are not the only ones looking for the rogue scientist and the mysterious package he carries with him. A brutal and relentless killer and his death squad are on the trail, too - and they bring a savagery with them that Hunter and his team have never witnessed before in modern warfare.
-
-
Not bad, but not great
- By Michael on 02-27-22
By: Greig Beck
-
The Siberian Incident
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep Stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot. But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths. When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales....
-
-
Very Cool
- By MelodicChronic on 05-11-20
By: Greig Beck
-
Lemuria
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On a desolate beach in far northern Scotland, the winter storms have been washing up all manner of things since time began. But buried in the centre of one smaller iceberg is a shard of ancient Viking pottery telling a partial tale of a hidden mysterious island beyond the ice and mist, that was home to a great treasure and even greater horrors. Thawing in the same block of ice was a rotting flap of skin that refused to be identified but had similar skin patterns to a creature not seen for 100 million years.
-
-
Fun Creature-Feature Adventure!
- By Fruitcat on 10-31-22
By: Greig Beck
-
To the Center of the Earth
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Down there, beyond the deepest caves, below the crust and the mantle, there is another world. An old woman locked away in a Russian asylum has a secret - knowledge of a 500-year-old manuscript written by a long-dead alchemist that will show a passage to the mythical centre of the Earth. She knows it’s real because 50 years ago, she and a team travelled there. And only she made it back. Today, caving specialist Mike Monroe leads a crew into the world’s deepest cave in the former Soviet Union.
-
-
Narrator is awful
- By Roo on 09-15-20
By: Greig Beck
-
Primordia
- In Search of the Lost World
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A journey into the deepest, darkest jungles of the Venezuelan Amazon...and a primeval place and time that mankind was never meant to exist in. Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father, stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author Arthur Conan Doyle and his great-great-grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908. Amazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long-extinct creatures.
-
-
Return to the Lost World
- By Richard S. Swol on 07-14-18
By: Greig Beck
-
The Fossil
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Danny Montooth
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Klaus and Doris have just made the discovery of their lives - a complete Neanderthal skeleton buried in a newly opened sinkhole. But on removing it, something else tumbles free. Something that switches on, and then calls home. Soon the owners are coming back, and nothing will stop their ruthless search for their lost prize.
-
-
The Outer Limits on steroids
- By Old Man Parker on 04-04-21
By: Greig Beck
-
Arcadian Genesis
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alex Hunter - in the mission that turned him from a normal man into the weapon known as the Arcadian - and the elite team of soldiers known as the Hotzone All-Forces Warfare Commandos must enter a hostile country to rescue a defected Chechen researcher from the centre of a country at war. But the HAWCs are not the only ones looking for the rogue scientist and the mysterious package he carries with him. A brutal and relentless killer and his death squad are on the trail, too - and they bring a savagery with them that Hunter and his team have never witnessed before in modern warfare.
-
-
Not bad, but not great
- By Michael on 02-27-22
By: Greig Beck
-
The Siberian Incident
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep Stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot. But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths. When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales....
-
-
Very Cool
- By MelodicChronic on 05-11-20
By: Greig Beck
-
Fathomless
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Sean Mangan
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Fathomless, the greatest predator the world has ever known is coming home in 2016. Carcharodon megalodon. The largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumours of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumours explode into brutal and terrifying reality in Fathomless, by Greig Beck.
-
-
Mega What?
- By JunieJ on 01-24-17
By: Greig Beck
-
Seed of Evil
- By: Greig Beck
- Narrated by: Danny Montooth
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There’s something growing deep in the old Angel Mine - something the Native Americans warned us about - And now it’s rising again. Mitch Taylor, ex-Special Forces medic, is seeking a quiet life in the town of Eldon. Tragedy has dogged his life, and he sees the small friendly place as a second chance. But buried deep below the friendly smiles and quaint painted houses is an old abandoned mine that holds a legend of an ancient and terrible god. In the mine’s labyrinthine depths, something has been growing, something from a time of myth when ancient gods strode the Earth.
-
-
Tree of Life Not
- By Chris on 10-06-21
By: Greig Beck
-
Subhuman
- Unit 51, Book 1
- By: Michael McBride
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
They are not human. They are not natural. They are not friendly. At a research station in Antarctica, five of the world's top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Their subject, however, is anything but human. Deep beneath the ice, the submerged ruins of a lost civilization hold the key to the strange mutations that each scientist has encountered across the globe. When a series of sound waves trigger the ancient organisms, a new kind of evolution begins. A long-extinct life form is reborn.
-
-
Science, Sound and Secrets
- By Kim Venatries on 11-13-17
By: Michael McBride
-
USS Hamilton: Ironhold Station
- USS Hamilton, Book 1
- By: Mark Wayne McGinnis
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s captain. Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet's crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth. To make matters worse, there’s a murderer running loose on board the ship, critically low fuel levels, and the Grish are back, in fast pursuit and ready to finish what they’d started. Only by sheer luck - and a good measure of cagey smarts - will Quintos be able to rise to the challenge.
-
-
Requires Serious Suspension of Disbelief
- By Aser Tolentino on 07-24-21
-
The Remaining
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. The infected turn into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. Someday soon, the soldier will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete his mission....
-
-
Die Hard Meets 28 Days Later
- By G Wallace on 01-10-14
By: D. J. Molles
-
The Black
- By: Paul E. Cooley
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Under 30,000 feet of water, the experimental exploration rig Leaguer has discovered an oil field larger than Saudi Arabia, with oil so sweet and pure, nations would go to war for the rights to it. But as the team starts drilling exploration well after exploration well in their race to claim the sweet crude, a deep rumbling beneath the ocean floor shakes them all to their core. Something has been living in the oil and it's about to give birth to the greatest threat humanity has ever seen.
-
-
Smart and very scary
- By DianaInSC on 08-30-22
By: Paul E. Cooley
-
PULSE (A Jack Sigler Thriller - Book 1)
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Imagine a world where soldiers regenerate and continue fighting without pause, and where suicide bombers live to strike again. This is the dream of Richard Ridley, founder of Manifold Genetics, and he has discovered the key to eternal life: an ancient artifact buried beneath a Greek inscribed stone in the Peruvian desert.
-
-
James Bond (x 5) takes on the Monster!
- By crazybatcow on 02-02-12
By: Jeremy Robinson
-
The Fall of the Third Temple
- Arisen: Operators, Book 1
- By: Michael Stephen Fuchs
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Strap in for the opening salvo of the ARISEN: Operators epic—the biggest and most explosive ARISEN adventure yet and the untold story of the pipe-hitting operators of the Unified Special Operations Command during the first two years of the Zulu Alpha. To have any chance of reaching safety in Fortress Britain, Master Sergeant Yaël Sion must first escape the collapsing gravity well of Israel as it's devoured from within by merciless jihadi fighters, striking in the chaos of rampaging hordes of infected civilians, all in a global pandemic spiraling out of control.
-
-
Arisen masterpiece
- By Anonymous User on 08-14-24
-
Deep Freeze
- The Revival Series, Book 1
- By: Michael C. Grumley
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff’s life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water. There was no expectation of survival. None. Let alone waking up beneath blinding hospital lights. Struggling to move, or see, or even breathe. But the doctors assure him that everything is normal. That things will improve. What they haven’t told him… is that he is the first person to be successfully revived from a cryonic sleep.
-
-
Sounds Plausible to Me!!!!
- By shelley on 01-12-24
-
Hunger: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 25 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The world’s food supply grows aggressively, occupying every inch of earth, no matter how inhospitable. World hunger is averted. Humanity flourishes. RC-714 is digested, absorbed…and passed on. The Change affects small fast-breeding mammals first. They multiply with the same aggressive speed as the ExoGen plants, but an insatiable hunger drives them to violence. A war between species breaks out. When RC-714 reaches humanity, along with every other large creature on the planet, civilization implodes.
-
-
Get ready to get your ESG score doubled
- By JoJo on 08-17-23
By: Jeremy Robinson
-
Induction
- Welcome to the Multiverse, Book 1
- By: Sean Oswald
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Silas is inducted into the System, becoming the last in a long line of Earth's "forerunners." The rewards are great, but the danger is greater. We are not alone in the universe. The fate of five worlds hangs on how their forerunners perform. Will Silas have what it takes to win Earth a place in the multiverse? Or will Earth become another mining world stripped of all resources and left a barren husk floating in the cosmos?
-
-
the main characters annoying to a degree
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-23
By: Sean Oswald
-
Planetside
- By: Michael Mammay
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big - and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated - but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command.
-
-
Refreshing Sci-Fi
- By Chris Duemig on 08-01-18
By: Michael Mammay
What listeners say about The First Bird
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Blue Dragonfly
- 08-19-15
Fun adventure
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Sure. I enjoyed the adventure of it.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The native guide. He was so calm and so sure of himself, despite the chaos that the visitors brought with them. He also added a kind of wise rationality with no hidden agendas.
What does Sean Mangan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Well, for me, any audiobook is preferable over reading them myself ,because a good narrator can bring the characters alive. I liked Sean Mangan's narration and will look for more books narrated by him.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, and I look forward to the next two episodes.
Any additional comments?
I thoroughly enjoyed this first episode, though I could have done without the somewhat adolescent interaction between the main character and his annoying girlfriend. She is a character that could have easily been left out without much of a change to the story Otherwise, this was very "Indiana Jones" which is the kind of book I enjoy. No terrorists, not politics, how refreshing!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- rowanoak
- 10-31-19
Excellent book didn't know with so short
It was an excellent book but I did not know it was so short. It leaves you on a cliffhanger that you want to hear the rest of the story and buy the next book which I am going to do now because it was worth it again a little too short for my liking
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Daniel
- 12-03-15
I purchased episode II...
The story was good enough that I purchased to second episode as soon as I finished to first. If your just looking for an entertaining story this is not a bad choice. The only complaint I have is that I have to buy the story in 3 different installments. Guess that's probably the part the author really likes!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Laurulcat
- 03-11-14
Intregued as to where this story is going now!
Anthropology, Amazon forest site, paleo-bird link as well as the hook of an ancient disease getting a new foothold in the modern world! The ,author has hit four of my six most interesting subjects just with this one story!
Where is part 2!?
The narration of the story made me feel I was along during the trek through the forest and I want to get back to it. Please!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Loydette Youngblood
- 08-25-15
marginal
Predictable and easy to follow. I listened to the book while mowing the yard. Easy entertainment, but no resolution at the end. Be ready to committ to the series or be left hanging in a not so sure you want to continue way.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- crazybatcow
- 12-21-13
Not a complete story - too bad, it was promising..
The title indicates that it is Episode One - which I took to mean that it was the first part of a series... i.e. book one of, say, a 3 book series. This was not the case: this is more like an Episode 1 in terms of a storyline arc in a TV series... i.e. as if you were watching part one of a 3 part TV show where episode one sets up the problem, episode two explores how it can be resolved, and episode three resolves it.
In the latter example, you do expect a cliff-hanger at the end of each show, and you will tune in next time to find out what happens. This novella is exactly like that... the characters get to a certain point, in the middle of the plot, and the story just stops. It does not resolve any single component first, it just ends at the end of a scene.
This is why I have only given the novella 3 stars (yes, the word novella is accurate - it is too short for a novel, and if it were a short story, it would have had a resolution). The story is decent and suspenseful but... a written story ending in the middle of a plot point is just jarring. You are absolutely required to get the next book in the series if you want to know anything about how this story is resolved (and my guess is that you will need to buy the 3rd one as well).
If novella 2 of a series is MANDATORY in order to have any sense of resolution to a story, and each part is too short to be a proper novel in the first place, it should be packaged and sold along with novella one.
Oh, and the price of it does not reflect the fact that it isn't even a complete story. You will buy it thinking you got a proper book on the cheaper end of the scale, not 1/3 of a complete story which will end up costing more than many other 20 hour audiobooks
I did buy the next one because the story was engaging; I am just a bit annoyed at the marketing ploy. There is no graphic violence or sex, and not much in the way of foul language either. The narration is quite good.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
20 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Readers Together
- 06-20-14
Great listen
I really enjoyed this book, it's the first of three and I cannot wait to listen to the next episode. The writing is done really well, you can tell lots of research went into it and it is very entertaining. Sean Mangan does a great job with the narration,
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Valerie Jackson
- 08-18-15
Nice Read
This was a good read. It left me on the edge of my seat for Book 2. The narrator was great and the storyline was interesting.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- cherry patrick jamison
- 11-03-15
Just as I was really getting into it
It ended. Talk about a cliff hanger! At only 5.5 hours in length, I find that pretty annoying. I would like to know the solution, but don't think I will buy the next two episodes. I guess that calling them episodes rather than volumes or books should have been a clue.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Flora
- 04-24-14
Don't let the title fool you.
Any additional comments?
Not a five star as some say. I'm already listening to the 2nd book. There is more to it then just "birds". Other "creatures in the forest lurk. Price is good so got for it.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
5 people found this helpful