John Thornton has 40 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 19 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Recovery of a Colony Ship.
Ascent of the Conestoga
Summary
This is book seven in the eight-book series, the Colony Ship Conestoga. Most of the wrecked Colony Ship Conestoga is scattered across the alien planet Zalia. Its needle ship is still in orbit, but many of its systems are only partially functional. The planet is not hospitable, and the human biological habitats are in severe danger. The survivors of the Conestoga, along with the two adventurers from Earth, struggle to find a way to launch the crashed biological habitats off the alien world. The habitats must ascend to escape the toxic elements of the planet before they all fail. However, while the engineering obstacles are immense, perhaps even greater are the difficulties of getting people, machines, and artificial intelligences to cooperate on a common goal. Will the natives of Zalia allow the humans to escape? What will happen during the ascent of the Conestoga?
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Defending the Vanguard
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Expanded and enhanced as of February 12, 2018. In book 7 of the Colony Ship Vanguard series, Paul, Gretchen, Brinley, and Larissa are seeking to find ways to counter the threats to the colony ship Vanguard. The alien forces are brutally seeking to take over. Humans are struggling and unsure how to respond. What will happen as the humans work at defending the Vanguard?
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Reconnoiter of the Conestoga
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In book five of the Colony Ship Conestoga series, Jerome and Cammarry are trying to investigate the various parts of the wrecked ship. Along the way they encounter new people, some dangerous and some who might be potential allies. However, danger and threats lurk in every corner. The crash-landed habitats are on the planet's surface while the remains of the needle ship are in orbit. Few facts are well understood, and strange things are happening. What will the adventurers uncover as they do a reconnoiter of the Conestoga?
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Tracking the Trailblazer
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Janae and Ken are part of the remnant of humanity which lives in Dome 17, surrounded by the radioactive, toxic wasteland of a dead Earth. The leadership of the dome has sent out adventurers to explore the other domes, but all they have found are failed domes, and deadly ruins. Some of those adventurers have self-terminated upon return from those grueling missions. Only Dome 17 survives, but now, Dome 17 is facing its own failure. Looking to history, they come up with a plan to try to find the seven lost generational colony ships which left Earth a century before. Those ships had biomes filled with the flora and fauna of Earth, as well as people who would live all their lives inside those ships. However, the colony ship program was considered a failure. Nothing is known about the condition of those huge ships, but they might offer a possible way to save the people of Dome 17. If they still exist. If they can be found. If the people can somehow get to one of them. The Committee designs a plan using two unproven technologies, faster-than-light scout ships - which can only carry two people - and teleportation. Will this attempt to find one of those colony ships work? What will be found? And, what threats are waiting, both from Dome 17, and from the Colony Ship Trailblazer? Janae and Ken set off to track down the Trailblazer, but will they find hope, or more death and destruction? This is book one of the Colony Ship Trailblazer series, another exciting sci-fi adventure set in John Thornton's Colony Ship Universe. A parallel series to the Colony Ship Eschaton, the Colony Ship Vanguard, the Colony Ship Conestoga, and Battle on the Marathon.
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Repairing the Conestoga
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Cammarry and Jerome have only explored a small part of the wrecked Colony Ship Conestoga. The section called the needle ship is in orbit around a strange world, but where are the remaining sections? Book three of The Colony Ship Conestoga series. Using the help of Khin, a man born on the needle ship, and the artificial intelligence system Sandie, Jerome and Cammarry try to get parts of the old ship fixed and functional. But things do not go smoothly. What will they discover? What new things await? How will they locate the lost habitats which made planet-fall somewhere on the unknown planet? What dangers will they encounter as are repairing the Conestoga?
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Conflict on the Conestoga
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In this volume, book six of the Colony Ship Conestoga series, conflict erupts in a myriad of places and ways. Jerome and Cammarry, the adventurers from Earth, are still trying to piece together what all has happened to the Colony Ship Conestoga. The slave revolt in Habitat Alpha is continuing. The various systems of the ship are broken, half-working, or just frustratingly difficult to get operational. The enigmatic inhabitants of the alien world, Zalia, are potential threats, and more mysteries than ever are surrounding all attempts to make things work. But sometimes the deepest and most painful conflicts are not physical. Conflict can take other forms as well; some will not survive the conflicts on the Conestoga.
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Last Flight of the Conestoga
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In this final book of the Colony Ship Conestoga series, the crippled ship flees away from the dying planet Zalia.
However, the greatest threat the survivors have ever faced is pursuing them.
Will the Apex Predators catch them?
The survivors are hoping to escape, but the ship is not working well, machinery is failing, and something strange has kidnapped some of the children.
They plan to reach an anomaly in space, but are unsure what will happen if and when they reach it.
Is the enemy already aboard the Conestoga? Will the last flight of the Conestoga lead to death for everyone, or is there a glimmer of hope?
This is book eight, and the last of the Colony Ship Conestoga series.
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Tants on the Trailblazer
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In book four of the Colony Ship Trailblazer series, Janae is struggling with all her traumas. The artificial intelligence system, Kimberly, is malfunctioning. After an unexpected encounter with some adventurers Janae remembers from the past, she decides to make a risky attempt to repair Kimberly. Will that restore to Janae a functional friend and helper? Or will more loss and grief haunt her life? What happens as Janae tries to find an ally in her struggles, and what unexpected events propel her onward? And how do the strange people who live in the radioactive parts of the old colony ship fit into all the mysteries? What will Janae discover about the Tants on the Trailblazer?
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Building the Colony Ship
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This is book seven in the Colony Ship Eschaton series. Jamie and Michael are asked to help track down something that is destroying food in Habitat One of the Colony Ship Eschaton. What they find is a secret history of the ship itself. Cut off from everyone, except the dog, Liduma, Jamie and Michael race to find all the pieces of this suppressed history. But something else is seeking it as well and does not want Jamie and Michael to succeed. Will they make it back to report what they have learned about the building of the colony ship?
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Battle on the Marathon
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The Colony ship Marathon left a dying Earth on a generation's long voyage to another planet. Inside its giant biomes were people who would spend their entire lives during that flight. They knew that their descendants would be the people who would arrive at the destination world. Life in those biomes was as close to life on Earth as possible, including ecologies, plants, animals, and families. In its own way, those biomes were idyllic. Additionally, tens of thousands of people would make the journey in suspended animation to be awakened on the destination planet. During the long journey, something went wrong. Something else was on the Marathon. This adventure chronicles the life of one habitat dweller named Kalju, as he becomes aware of his role in what is taking place. How will the battle on the Marathon end? This is one audiobook in the John Thornton's Colony Ship Universe series.
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Hunting on the Colony Ship
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Enhanced and expanded version as of July 1, 2017. This is book four of the series. The giant Colony Ship Eschaton has numerous habitats with animals, plants, and people, all of which should be in balance as it makes its generations long journey to another solar system. One of those people is Tamar, a young woman who was born on board and is growing up in the town of Media. Because of failures in past generations, both human and mechanical, most people born on board the Eschaton do not even know they are inside a colony ship. Technology has been lost, societies have crumbled, and dangers abound. People struggle just to survive. Tamar is gifted with machines, but that is not a blessing in the town where she lives. She has a frightful encounter in the night and is forced to flee everything she knows. She hunts for her freedom, and she hunts for answers to who she is. She runs away and encounters Michael and Jamie, two of the Dome 17 refugees who escaped the dying Earth and are trying to keep humanity alive in the Colony Ship Eschaton. Jamie and Michael are also hunting for answers about the old ship's systems, and are hunting for keys to unlock its secrets. But some things do not want to be found. Someone is also hunting for Tamar. And he is hunting for vengeance.
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Nightmare on the Warren
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Beth and Allen are isolated in a strange part of the colony ship Warren. They have faced extreme dangers before, but now, something else is after them. Something which can only be described as a nightmare. Book three of the Colony Ship Warren series.
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Exploring the Colony Ship: After Recovery
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The Earth is a dry, dead, wasteland. The last place livable was Dome 17, but it was failing. Those people made a last ditch effort to survive. Though a bold and daring plan, they were able to reach what seems to be a derelict colony ship, The Eschaton, which is in mid-flight. (Please see book one, Recovery of a Colony Ship). The Eschaton had been designed to hold numerous and diverse immense biological habitats: flora, fauna, and everything needed to terraform a new world. It also carried thousands of people in suspended animation. The ship was designed to be tended by crews who would live out their lives in the journey between worlds. That journey would only be completed after several generations had lived and died while in transit. That was the plan. But something happened. The people from Dome 17 have reached The Eschaton, but what will they find in those habitats? What systems are still functioning? Did any of the crew survive? What lurks deep in the bowels of a colony ship? Jamie and Michael will seek to unravel these mysteries, and survive, as they explore the Colony Ship.
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Mysteries on the Colony Ship
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This is book five of the Colony Ship Eschaton series. Something mysterious is happening. The giant colony Ship Eschaton is in the midst of its generations-long journey to another solar system. But in Habitat One: Coastal Plains, two strange bodies have been found. There are rumors of a lurking visitor. Is anyone safe? The artificial intelligence systems still are not functioning as expected. Now more then ever, the AIs are needed. The people born on the ship as well as the refugees from Dome 17 are struggling to survive, and to learn more about the huge colony ship and its various habitats. But what do these mysteries mean? Jamie, Michael and their friends set out in an attempt to unravel these mysteries, but what they encounter is not what they expect. Who will make it back alive?
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Jesus' Terrible Financial Advice
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"Jesus' advice ruined what I planned to write." It was the recipe for a great book. John and his wife - both financial experts - had cut their income by 80% to pursue more meaningful lives. Within six years they had two kids, were debt-free, went on several vacations, and doubled their net worth. John was ready to share the biblical principles that made this possible. But he couldn't. After reviewing Scripture's teaching on money - over 1,300 verses - he realized he had missed something big. Jesus' Terrible Financial Advice turns even conventional Christian wisdom on its head. While it answers many of the practical questions we have - like does Jesus want me to be rich or poor? Should I give to everybody who asks? Is it wrong to save? - it goes beyond these concerns. It asks bigger questions, gives bolder answers, and offers a more comprehensive view of stewardship. Follow Jesus' "terrible" (shocking, otherworldly) financial advice, and you'll have what money can't buy: purpose.
©2017 eChristian (P)2017 eChristian
Destination of the Colony Ship
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Expanded and enhanced, as of June 29, 2017
In book 10, the final book of the Colony Ship Eschaton series, the adventurers and crew and AIs look to incorporate a modified version of faster-than-light travel. Will it work? Will an old enemy try to stop them? Will they make it to the destination of the colony ship?
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Invasion on the Colony Ship
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Expanded and enchanced version as of July 1, 2017 PROXIMITY ALERT. DANGER TO THE SHIP. WARN ALL SYSTEMS. INVADERS. One of the barely functional artificial intelligence systems on the Colony Ship Eschaton has sent a warning message. Who will receive it? What will happen? What has found the ship, and why is an invasion happening? Can the people and systems inside of the Colony Ship confront this new foe? If so, how? This is book nine of the Colony Ship Eschaton series.
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Discoveries on the Colony Ship
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Enhanced and expanded version as of July 1, 2017 This is the sixth book of the Colony Ship Eschaton series. On the derelict colony ship, things are being discovered. What will that mean for the refugees from Dome 17? Will they be helpful in restoring the technology of the Eschaton? Will the Domers finally find a way to repair their high tech equipment? Or will these discoveries lead to more tension between those born on board and the newcomers? Tensions mount as a major crisis happens. Who will survive when old adversaries return to seek retribution? And who will not?
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Journey for the Warren
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The world nearly ended in 2044. Less than 30 years later, the survivors on Earth launched seven great colony ships to seed humanity to other planets. Those ships were not heard from again. A century later, the only place people are known to survive on Earth is Dome 17. Beth and Allen live there. They are adventurers who have explored other domes, but everywhere else is dead. Is Done 17 just the last one to fail? The Committee has a risky plan to try two unproven technologies: a faster-than-light propulsion and teleportation. Both technologies have severe limits, but time is running out for Dome 17. While other two-person teams set out for the other lost colony ships, Beth and Allen agree to make a dangerous journey for the Colony Ship Warren. Will it be a found? Will it be a wrecked derelict? Or will it be a last chance for humanity? Join Beth and Allen on their journey for the Warren, but be prepared, this is no fairy tale. This is book 1 of the Colony Ship Warren series and is set in the Colony Ship Universe!
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Kosmos
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Rookie barrister George Winsome, young and arrogant, defends an old boy who thinks he’s Merlin on a manslaughter charge. The riotous trial turns Merlin into a celebrity; money, greed and ambition take hold of George and his partner, Heather, until the secret of Merlin’s past is revealed as the spirit of Saint Yves intervenes to ensure George and Heather follow their true paths. Kosmos is a modern-day jury trial, a feel-good love story, and a spiritual journey involving Saint Yves, Nemesis and Merlin. Flame Tree Press is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018, the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established, the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
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