Brian Cramer has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Flicker World.
What the Luck?
Summary
Bill Brabham, a recently divorced and unemployed financial manager from Texas, is a man down on his luck. With nothing left to lose except possibly a few years of his life, he takes a high-risk, high-reward job cleaning up at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. While in Japan, his luck drastically changes, and everything starts to go right for him. Unfortunately, his newfound luck seems to be coming at the expense of those around him. His investigation into this phenomenon puts him in the middle of a dangerous criminal conspiracy, where he must contend with everything from the Yakuza to a sassy teenage girl with a penchant for role-playing.
©2014 Brian J. Cramer (P)2020 Brian J. Cramer
Two Calvin
Summary
In this third Zero Calvin novel, Calvin and Tarpa move to Evionia to bring the Ariel system to its inhabitants. But Calvin's life is never so straightforward. Not only must he contend with the day-to-day challenge of being a business owner, but he also finds himself in the middle of a potential war between his new home city and their technophobic neighbors to the west. Meanwhile, Bobford3 assembles a new crew of three talented but eccentric scientists to help him with his latest idea, one that will prove to revolutionize the world if it does not end it first.
©2015 Brian J. Cramer (P)2021 Brian J. Cramer
Zero Calvin
Summary
Calvin Jones, a computer programmer in his mid-20s, decides to skip work and meet his girlfriend at the beach instead. However, because of an accident, a trip to the hospital, death, and cryogenic freezing, he never quite makes it there. When Calvin is revived, he finds himself in a utopian society 300 years in the future. But every society has its peculiarities. This one happens to be governed by an artificial intelligence named Ariel. Using Ariel, this society has been able to identify its stupid, lazy, or otherwise detrimental individuals - and kill them. The result is a civilization of intelligent, hardworking inhabitants - except for Calvin. Will Calvin be able to adapt to his new surroundings, or will the learning curve be too steep for him to survive?
©2003 Brian J. Cramer (P)2019 Brian J. Cramer
One Calvin
Summary
Calvin Jones is back again in this long-overdue sequel to Zero Calvin. Once again he has been revived by the gang at Bobcorp3, and once again he must continue to adapt to his strange new life in the future. Unfortunately, nothing is ever so straightforward in Calvin's life and he soon finds himself involved in a complicated love square with Tarpa and two newly-revived cryogenic patients. To add to the complications, these two patients are part of a new program by Bobcorp3 to use a section of the brain to directly interface with the Ariel system. But all new technologies have a few glitches. Now Calvin gets his chance to earn back some karma by saving the Ariel system from the side effects of this glitchy new program - if only his girlfriend were not one of those glitches.
©2013 Brian J. Cramer (P)2020 Brian J. Cramer
Flicker World
Summary
Big things are happening for Mark Scottsdale. He has just graduated from college and is looking forward to starting a new life with his childhood friend and longtime girlfriend, Lisa. So when an old classmate of his offers him a high-paying job working for a new research facility, Mark jumps at the opportunity.
However, all of his dreams come to an abrupt end when Lisa is taken from him by a drunk driver. Distraught and devoid of a reason to live, Mark contemplates suicide. However, before following through on his dark thoughts, Mark has an epiphany: if he could gain access to his company's secret Flicker World project, he just might be able to see his beloved Lisa again after all.
©2016 Brian Cramer (P)2019 Brian Cramer