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THE TALKING BOOK PROGRAM
In 1931 the Congress established the talking-book program, which was intended to help blind adults who couldn't read print. This program was called ``Books for the Adult Blind Project``. The American Foundation for the Blind developed first talking books in 1932. One year later the first reproduction machine began the process of mass publishing. By 1935, after Congress approved free mailings of audio books to blind citizens, the Books for the Adult Blind Project was in full operation. In 1992 the National Library Service (NLS) for Blind and Physically Handicapped network circulated millions of recorded books to more than 700,000 handicapped listeners. All NLS recordings were created by professionals.
The Wealth of LibriVox
Classic texts, amateur audiobooks, and the grand future of online peer production In the dim, humid basement of his Maryland home, Michael Scherer, a tall 38-year-old with the long, square beard of a mandolin player or a monk, leans toward a rebuilt Russian tube microphone, desperate for silence so he can begin recording a 200-year-old essay by an American founding father. Even in the makeshift studio he has constructed, with thick blankets hanging from nails in the joists and the basement windows plugged with fiberglass, the sounds of lawnmowers, car alarms, birds, air conditioners, and children kicking balls in the street still intrude. I have to hold on a minute heretheres a, theres a truck, he says. A few seconds later, the truck passes, and he reads in his deep, resonant voice, The Federalist. He stops, clears his throat, and begins again. The Federalist, No. 19. Scherer posts some of his recordings to LibriVox, an online community of several thousand people all over the world who read and record public domain books, then post them as podcasts that can be downloaded for free. Some LibriVoxers read; others proof, tag, and catalog the sound files, greet newbies, or manage ongoing book projects. After about a year and a half, LibriVoxs catalog contains more than 400 completed works, including novels, poems, histories, travel books, and plays, making it one of the largest audiobook publishers. The goal? To record every book in the public domain, which means everything published before 1923.

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media. In organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction can be synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction, encompassing creative works incorporating imaginative elements not found in contemporary reality; this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres. This includes Post Apocalyptic SF.

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I am Legend - Richard Matheson - New I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in a future Los Angeles California. It is notable as influential on the developing modern vampire genre as well as the zombie genre in popularizing the fictional concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease and in exploring the notion of vampirism as a disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964 as The Omega Man in 1971 and again in 2007 as I Am Legend. This release of the novel includes several of Matheson's short stories: Buried Talents The Near Departed Prey Witch War Dance of the Dead Dress of White Silk Mad House more details.....
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A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller Jr- an SF Classic In the Utah desert Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel unfolds it is the search itself--for meaning for truth for love--that offers hope to a humanity teetering on the edge of an abyss. About the Novel A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyp more here.....
Foundation Asimov

Foundation - Issac Asimov The first volume of Asimov's saga which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. The ostensible task of Foundation a group of savants established by Seldon on the remote planet Terminus is to compile the "Encyclopedia Galactica" a complete account of human knowledge. About the Novel Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). Foundation is a collection of five short stories which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951. Together they form a single plot. Foundation tells the story of a group of scientists who seek to preserve knowledge as the civilizations around them more details.....
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Reflex - Steven Gould - NEW Novel Davy has always been alone. He believes that hes the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isnt? Reflex released in 2004 picks up ten years after the events in Jumper. Synopsis A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They dont want to hire him and they dont have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes whether Davy agrees to it or not. And so they set about brainwashing him and conditioning him. They have even found a way to keep a teleport captive. Description Davy a young man with the ability to teleport instantaneously to any loca extra info.....
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Enders Game - Orson Scott Card - New is one of the most well-known novels by Orson Scott Card. It is set in Earth's future where mankind has barely survived two invasions by the "buggers" an insectoid alien race and the International Fleet is preparing for war. In order to find and train the eventual commander for the anticipated third invasion the world's most talented children including the extraordinary Ender Wiggin are taken into Battle School at a very young age. The book takes place around the year 2135 and its sequels Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind A War of Gifts and Ender in Exile: Ganges follow Ender to different worlds as he travels far into the future find out more.....
Reynolds Ark

Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds - New The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed!Many many millennia ago the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge.Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race...and awakened the Inhibitors.On Yellowstone where no one is quite who they appear the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with more information.....
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The Reality Dysfunction Part One: Emergence - Peter F. Hamilton - NEW Novel Part One: Emergence is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton's Space Opera "The Reality Dysfunction". Description The Reality Dysfunction is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton and is the first book in The Night's Dawn Trilogy. It is followed by The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan Publishers on 26 January 1996. The first US edition which was broken into two volumes Emergence and Expansion (the UK paperback is not) followed in July and August 1997 from Time Warner Books. The second US edition published by Orbit Books in October 2008 is published find out more.....
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Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood - New Oryx and Crake is a novel with dystopian elements by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Like The Handmaid's Tale the book is often categorized as science fiction novel but Atwood herself prefers to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she associates with the novel form. Oryx and Crake was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003 and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction that same year. Returning to the dystopic themes of Atwood's earlier novel The Handmaid's Tale Oryx and Crake presents a very different click here.....
Uncut NEW Stephen

The Stand - Stephen King - complete and uncut - New Other Stephen King Books are here From the Blurb: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides-or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail-and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg the dark man. more information.....
Kim Robinson

Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - New Get other Kym Stanley Robinson Books here - including Blue Mars and Red Mars The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning several centuries. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian the story focuses on egalitarian sociological and scientific advances made on Mars while Earth suffered from overpopulation and ecological disaster. The three novels are Red Mars (1992) Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996). An additional collection of short stories and b more details.....
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Old Man's War - John Scalzi - NEW Novel A stunning novel of the long war for human survival--in a universe replete with hostility. Description Old Man's War is a science fiction novel by John Scalzi published in 2005. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. A loose sequel The Ghost Brigades was published in 2006 and a more direct sequel The Last Colony was published in 2007. Synopsis The first-person narrative is about a soldier named John Perry and his exploits in the CDF (Colonial Defense Forces). Old Man's War is similar in overall structure to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War as it follows Perry's military career from CDF recru more information.....
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Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein The most famous science fiction novel written Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling born and educated on Mars who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. His name is Valentine Michael Smith and he is destined to become a freak a media commodity a scam artist a searcher a sexual pioneer a neon evangelist a martyr and finally a messiah. This novel became not only the bible of the "love generation " it managed to transcend the science fiction genre to achieve the status of a modern classic; or as others put it Heinlein's earthly "divine comedy." About the Novel Stranger in a Str click here.....
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The Dark Tower - Stephen King - Dark Tower 7 - New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here The Dark Tower -All good things must come to an end Constant Reader and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has the author fears sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a little longer if it pleases you for this volume is the last and often the last things are best. Roland's ka-tet remains intact though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birth more details.....
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Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut - NEW Novel Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut is a post-modern anti-war science fiction novel dealing with a soldier's (Billy Pilgrim) experiences during World War II and his journeys with time travel. It is easily his most popular work and widely regarded as a classic. Description Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Synopsis Unstuck in time Billy Pilgrim Vonnegut's shattered more details.....
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Joe Haldeman - The Accidental Time Machine - NEW Novel Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself-or so he thinks. Synopsis Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light his calibrator disappears - and reappears one second later. In fact every time Matt hits the reset button the machine goes missing twelve times longer. After tinkering with the calibrator Matt is convinced that wha more information.....
A Deep NEW Vernor Upon

A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge - New A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) is a science fiction novel written by Vernor Vinge an award-winning space opera about superhuman intelligences well-developed aliens variable physics space battles love betrayal genocide and Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 (tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis). Two major plotlines exist in the Fire; both are triggered by the revival of a malevolent five billion year old quasi-Power described as a "malevolent class 2 perversion" and initially known as the "Straumli Realm Perversion" (named after those responsible for its rebirth) but known eventually because of its cancerous more details.....
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Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke Alone many miles above the Earth Jan Rodricks the last surviving human is witnessing the end of the world. As he watches he records for the benefit of history how mankind was doomed... The massive spaceships appeared over every city on Earth bringing the Overlords a seemingly benign race vastly superior in technology and intelligence. Led by the enigmatic Karellen they promised a new age of peace and prosperity and with the help of UN Secretary General Stormgren they eradicated poverty disease and war. But contentment has its price. As the years pass culture science and religion start to die and there are those who question the road down which the Overlords more here.....
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The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson - New The Diamond Age or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main motifs include: education social class ethnicity and the nature of artificial intelligence. The Diamond Age was first published in 1995 by Bantam Books as a Bantam Spectra hardcover edition. In 1996 it won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the Nebula and other awards placing it among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history. The primary protagonist in the story is Nell a thete (or more details.....
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Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein It is told through the eyes of Starship Trooper Johnny Rico from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon of infantrymen. His destiny is a galactic war of unlimited violence and destruction in which he and his fellow troopers scour the metalstrewn emptiness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy an insect life form which threatens the very future of mankind. About the Novel Starship Troopers is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein first published (in abridged form) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction and published hardcover in 1959. The first-per extra info.....
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The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - New The Time Traveler's Wife is a 2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger. It is an unconventional love story that centers on a man with a strange genetic disorder that causes him to unpredictably time-travel and his wife an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. In this book unlike many other time travel stories it is not possible to change the past or future. Plot The novel tells the story of Henry DeTamble (born 1963) a librarian at the Chicago Newberry Library and his wife Clare Abshire (born 1971) an artist from a wealthy family who makes paper sculptures. When 20-year-old Clare meets 28-year-old Henry in 19 extra info.....

Science fiction differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation). Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". Science fiction is largely based on writing entertainingly and rationally about alternate possibilities in settings that are contrary to known reality.

These may include:

* A setting in the future, in alternative time lines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archeological record
* A setting in outer space, on other worlds, or involving aliens
* Stories that involve technology or scientific principles that contradict known laws of nature
* Stories that involve discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots, or of new and different political or social systems

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