Resultado Editorial "Recorded Books" em Ficção Científica e Fantasia

People are “popping,” disappearing one-by-one, into thin air: an ongoing global cataclysm known as Spontaneous Human Absence. In a world where prospects for survival are increasingly grim, hopelessness prevails, political rifts widen, and doomsday predictions flourish. Harvey Ellis works the night shift for the Bureau of Depopulation Affairs, an ad hoc federal agency meant to contain and catalog the crisis. His job: to investigate claims of Absence, and, if validated, issue a standard government stipend to boost morale.

Amber reveals the mysteries of King Oberon's disappearance, the hell-witch's identity, and the magical pattern that holds the kingdom of Amber together, but his victory over the Dark Lands remains in doubt.

Traveling through the strange lands of the Odin, Drakonis and Keith stumbled upon bizarre discoveries in their quest to return back to their people: the long-lost Icon of Stars, an AI from the golden era, possessing all the power and abilities of that time. And an ominous infestation—the remnants of a biological weapon unleashed by the Relinquished against humanity during one of her many attempts to wipe humanity from the world. A threat held back by the Odin in a slowly losing war of attrition. To make matters worse, To'Orda, the third Feather, has arrived.

Max has been battered, yanked around by the universe. So far, he's survived on a mix of skill, grit, and a little bit of luck. But now, back where it all started, he'll be pushed even further than before. Ever since monsters attacked Earth, Max has been slowly reclaiming everything that made him who he was in his past life. However, to stand face to face with the man who ruined his life, the one who truly caused Max the greatest misery and betrayal he'd ever felt, he will need more than just good fortune.

A subversive debut short-fiction collection from one of the hottest talents in speculative fiction: 2025 Compton Crook Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee Samantha Mills (The Wings Upon Her Back). These riveting stories range effortlessly from fantasy and science fiction to literary fiction, from the here and now all the way into the farthest reaches of space. The central tale of the collection is Mills’ pivotal Nebula, Locus, and Sturgeon Award-winning story “Rabbit Test,” which interrogates the past, present, and future of abortion rights.

A posthumous recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Marion Zimmer Bradley reinvented—and rejuvenated—the King Arthur mythos with her extraordinary Mists of Avalon series. In this epic work, Bradley follows the arc of the timeless tale from the perspective of its previously marginalized female characters: Celtic priestess Morgaine, Gwenhwyfar, and High Priestess Viviane.

The first book in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover series, The Planet Savers introduces listeners to the world of Darkover. Darkover is plagued with a disease called trailman’s fever, but Dr. Randall Forth has a plan. He sends a man with two distinct and warring personalities, Jay and Jason, out on an expedition to find a cure.

Pahtal and his brother, Imul, have scraped a life together in pre-civil war Guatemala by finding and selling ancient relics from the Maya ruins. Their latest expedition uncovers a potentially life-changing find, a valuable tablet, etched with glyphs, hidden within the mouth of a sculpture of Nohochacyum, a god of creation–and destruction. But when they attempt to retrieve their prize, Imul is crushed beneath the stone carving.

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f—)

War hero Basuin doesn't know what to believe in anymore. All Basuin knows is life as an army captain and the pain, loss, and disgrace it has brought him. Demoted and humiliated by his legion commander, he is led into the forest for one more mission: capture a god. But when his commander uses innocent wolf pups as bait, Basuin dies saving them. The Wolf God, impressed by his sacrifice, deifies Basuin to protect the forest and its beautiful, sharp-tongued god from the legion's deforestation.

Dungeons & Dragons meets The Wizard of Oz in this darkly hilarious romantasy adventure in which a young woman who will do anything to rescue her sister from an evil sorcerer's curse hires a ruthless assassin. They embark on a quest with a band of misfits, one of whom harbors a devastating secret that could ruin her fairy-tale ending.

In the wake of the Blood Lotus Sect's utter defeat, its previous territories, cities, and noble families are left without a leader. While chaos runs rampant throughout the lands as cultivators decide whether they should bow to their new ruler or flee, Ashlock is unable to give his all to putting out the fires as trouble brews at home.

Surviving a fight with an immortal necromancer should have bought Garrett some peace, but when the Princess he thought was dead shows up on his doorstep, any chance of an easy time slips away. Together with the Klein Family, Garrett will have to navigate a danger far greater than any he has faced in the dream world. To make matters worse, his father now knows he is alive and is bent on using Garrett for his own nefarious agenda.

The Protectorate of Mars Foreign Legion: A path to citizenship. A fresh start. Defending the Protectorate of Mars against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Kasira used to be a masterful con artist: choosing her target, building trust, judging the precise moment to make her move. Now, she’s working off a lengthy prison sentence by hunting dangerous magical creatures on behalf of the fanatical kingdom of Kalthos. But Kasira’s past catches up to her when the ambassador from Kalthos arrives at her camp with a deal: her freedom in exchange for infiltrating and destabilizing the magical institution meant to protect all six kingdoms—the Library of Amorlin.

The P.U.V. James Keeling has two objectives: raid enemy supply lines, and capture live specimens of a flesh-eating, warmongering alien species. The first mission is suicidal. The second might be worse. But there’s a complication. The operation unfolds in the territory of a neutral power—one whose ships escort the enemy, and whose laws forbid Keeling’s crew from firing back. A single stray artillery shell could spark a second war, one the Planetary Union will not survive.

Alex Orlov is a changed man. Not because his time in Pelican Bay Prison rehabilitated him—rehabilitation is for the guilty, after all—but because helping a stranger cost him three years of his life and his dream job as a forest ranger. All Alex wants now is to stay out of other people’s business, finish his parole quietly, and to never, ever return to the harrowing experience of living behind bars.

In theory, the dragoness of Summer can make any resident on her island the ruler, if the previous Lord Summer is so careless as to die without an heir. In practice, absolutely no one expected her to choose Teddy, the last lord’s middle-aged fancy man. With his quick wit, heaps of charisma, and excellent dress sense, Teddy brings plenty of virtues to his new role, but statecraft, pedigree, and decorum are not among them. That’s all right: he’s done his duty to the island, and his five-year-old daughter, Zinnia, will make a brilliant Lady Summer when her time comes.

Centuries ago, mortals split the realm into two, with a magical veil placed firmly between them and their immortal rulers, the Tiarcons. Fueled by stolen magic, the mortal kingdoms flourished, but the Tiarcons never stopped trying to reclaim their magic and mortal subjects. And now, generations later, the veil between realms has begun to tear, letting immortal monsters ravage across the nations and threaten all the mortals have built.

They sent Radrick Siegn to Venus to keep him out of trouble. Before he even gets there, space pirates brutally hijack his ship. Life in the 23rd century really isn't fair sometimes. The worst part? Siegn's sadistic commanding officer survives the attack, too. Tasked with recovering their ship, Siegn quickly learns that the Martian survivors are unwelcome guests on Venus Station. It's almost as if someone doesn't want him to find out too much about the pirates lurking beneath Venus's cloud tops. But that never stopped Siegn before.