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Short novels are movie length novels that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This unabridged audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2011, by current and emerging masters of this form. In "The Ice Owl", by Carolyn Ives Gilman, an adolescent, female, Waster, in the iron city of Glory to God finds an enigmatic tutor who provides her with much more than academic instruction while a fundamentalist revolt is underway.

In Wraith, author Robert Allen Johnson leaves the alleys, battlefields, and politics of ancient Rome behind in favor of fantastical war-torn lands from ages long past. Following the tales of two haunted, fragile protagonists, Wraith drops the listener into dense forests scouted by cruel soldiers, abandoned wilds teeming with dangerous mysteries, scorched villages burned to ash, and hidden rebel camps as both men fight to escape their haunted, tortured pasts.

While on the search for missing comrades, John Henry and his pards stumble on a paradise on earth. A beautiful Garden of Eden bursting with enough crops and livestock to feed Uncle Billy’s army for months. But the property is owned by Kate Bradley and her lovely daughters, who reside in a nearby home converted into a hostel for guests. An invitation to wine and dine in the company of these ladies is too tempting to resist. While the soldiers are easily seduced, John Henry is suspicious from the get go.

Diego Sanz grew up witnessing neglect by officials on the North side of Morgan City. Beating the odds, he became the CEO of a fortune 500 company, but he never left his community behind. Determined to fight the crime in Morgan City, Diego returns, donning the mantle of Shadow Guardian, a mysterious vigilante who protects the people.

Being Mayor isn’t enough for supervillain Doug Trainer. He craves total domination. He releases the Pup Patrol, a pack of masked men wielding shock guns, on the city. But even his actions have consequences, and the mysterious Board kidnaps his beloved nephew, Gaymer. With Morgan City in danger and Gaymer missing, Shadow Guardian answers the call to action with three reluctant new heroes: Sentry, Fire, and Ice. Together, they take on the Pup Patrol and the villainous vixens, Lip-Sync and Death Drop. Thankfully they have the help of their binary non-binary friends.

Esmerelda and Freddy have spent lifetimes trying to find the prison of the demon Don Marcos so they can break the curse and find Freddy’s lost love. Everything seems to be lining up, but Don Marcos’s prison slips through their fingers yet again. When a new demon rises to take his place, they must trust their friends with the truth and hope they can end this curse.

They hide among us, these near-immortals, and they go by names like William Shakespeare and John Donneand Napoleon Bonaparte. They're immune to most diseases, heal rapidly from injury, and age so slowly that their life-spans are encompassed by the passage of millennia. Only accident and injury, murder and mayhem,or suicide, can end their existences. Those who do survive, those who have learned how to live their long lives to the fullest, call themselves The Elders.

I've taken everything from the wolves. Their magic. Their pride. Their alphas. But now I wish I could give it all back. Fulfilling my role as the Moon Guardian has brought a new force to this world, one that might even be worse than the wolves.

Wolves aren’t supposed to mate humans. Humans also aren’t supposed to interrupt sacred mating ceremonies, but I had a good reason, all right? I needed magic, and I needed a lot of it to save my little sister from the Moon Shadow plague running rampant in human territory.

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear - and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, 23 talented authors, including New York Times best sellers Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Jody Lynn Nye, have stood on the shores of their psyches and looked out over the ocean of possibility and wondered "What lies beneath?"