Kevin J. Anderson has 49 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 38 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 696 ratings. The most-rated is Dune: The Butlerian Jihad.
Avatar Dreams: Science Fiction Visions of Avatar Technology
Summary
The development of “Avatar” technology - the fusion of human awareness consciousness with remote robotic bodies - offers breathtaking advances in medicine, culture, work, transportation, education, and imagination. The Avatar project is designed to drive the exponential innovations needed to make General Purpose Avatars an everyday reality.
The transformational potential of avatars is endless - and who better to illustrate the possibilities than some of the most insightful science fiction writers working in the field today? The collection, edited by New York Times best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson and multiple award-winning author Mike Resnick, with scientific editor Dr. Harry Kloor, one of the foremost visionaries in avatar technology, showcases the amazing possibilities of avatars.
In these 14 stories, you will imagine a group of remote spectators traveling remotely during a rigorous mountain climbing expedition. Or a severely injured athlete able to play his favorite sport vicariously through another body. Or a comatose woman using an avatar to interact with her family and the outside world, even though her body is failing. Or a skilled operative using an avatar on a dangerous search-and-rescue operation. Or medical specialists using avatar bodies to enter hot zones that no vulnerable human can breach.
These provocative journeys written by premiere science fiction authors explore the wondrous possibilities of avatar technology - and they still only scratch the surface. Listen to these stories and let your own imagination roam!
Foreword, I Am an Avatar copyright 2017 Ray Kurzweil. Introduction, Avatar Dreams copyright 2017 Harry Doc Kloor. The Next Best Thing to Being There copyright 2017 WordFire, Inc. Coach copyright 2017 Kirinyaga Inc. The Waiting Room copyright 2017 Tina Gower. That Others May Live copyright 2017 Kevin Ikenberry. The Ghost of the Mountain copyright 2017 Andrea G. Stewart. Action Figures copyright 2017 Martin L. Shoemaker. Covering the Games copyright 2017 Ron Collins. Avatar Syndrome copyright 2017 Harry Doc Kloor. The Gathering copyright 2017 Kay Kenyon. Delivering the Payload copyright 2017 Josh Vogt. Stedman Farrah’s Illustrious Fall copyright 2017 Marina J. Lostetter. Old Dogs, New Tricks copyright 2017 Brad R. Torgersen. Little and Small copyright 2017 Todd J. McCaffrey. In the Heart of the Action copyright 2017 Jody Lynn Nye.
©2017 Kevin J. Anderson, Mike Resnick, and Harry Kloor (P)2019 WordFire, Inc.
Stakeout at the Vampire Circus
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Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble and his ghost girlfriend are called to the Vampire Circus when a fortune teller’s cards go missing. Not exactly the glamorous life, but the stakes escalate when a vampire trapeze act goes dead wrong, and Shamble discovers even more skeletons in the closet than the ones that live there. As he shuffles for clues through an unnatural cast of carnies, he faces a slate of suspects that could freak out even the most daring detective - a werewolf lion tamer, a fat lady with an enormous secret, an undead ringmaster…and what could be scarier than a circus clown? The only thing certain is that the show must go on - dead or alive.
©2013 Kevin J. Anderson (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Unnatural Acts
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In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up - to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff. When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark - condemning the troupe’s “unnatural” lifestyles - Dan smells something rotten. And if something smells rotten to a zombie, you’re in serious trouble… Before his way of life, er, death, is destroyed, Dan wants answers. Along the way he needs to provide security for a mummified madame, defend a mixed-race couple (he’s a vampire, she’s a werewolf) from housing discrimination, and save his favorite watering hole, the Goblin Tavern, from drying up. Throw in a hairy hit man, a necro-maniac, and a bank robber who walks through walls, and Dan Shamble’s plate is full. Maybe this time, the zombie detective has bitten off more than he can chew…
©2012 Kevin J. Anderson (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Vengewar
Summary
Kevin J. Anderson's sequel to Spine of the Dragon brings bitter rivalry and blood feud - that might be the downfall of the human kingdoms. Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara, have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when an outside threat arises - the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world - the two warring nations must somehow set aside generations of hatred to form an alliance against a far more deadly enemy. Book One awakened the great dragon and set the kingdoms at each other's throats. In Book Two, Vengewar, the Three Kingdoms are shattering under pressure from an inexperienced new king who is being led by an ambitious regent to ignore the threat of the Wreths, in favor of a Vengewar with Ishara. His brother and uncle can see only the danger of the Older Race. In Ishara, the queen lies in a coma, while an ambitious priest seizes power. But he has neither the training nor the talent to rule a nation - or even a city. Ishara is in deadly peril, and the Wreths have not even appeared on their continent. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
©2021 Kevin J. Anderson (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
Naughty and Nice
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Dan Shamble, zombie PI, finds himself tackling a bizarre Christmas case when Santa Claus himself becomes a client, hiring Dan to recover some very precious stolen North Pole property. If you like werewolves, vampires, evil elves, zombies, as well as a lot of belly laughs, curl up with this story and some eggnog.
©2017 Wordfire Press, LLC (P)2018 WordFire Press, LLC
Working Stiff
Summary
Back from the dead - and back on the case! Even being murdered doesn't keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter - inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud!) in the night - a zombie PI fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, aka "Shamble", solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer.
©2015 WordFire Press (P)2015 WordFire Press
Slimy Underbelly
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Flushing out evil There's something fishy going on in the Unnatural Quarter. Bodies are floating face-down, the plumbing is backing up, and something smells rotten - even to a zombie detective like Dan Shamble. Diving into the slimy underbelly of a diabolical plot, Dan comes face-to-tentacles with an amphibious villain named Ah'Chulhu (to which the usual response is "Gesundheit!"). With his snap-happy gang of gator-guys - former pets flushed down the toilet - Ah'Chulhu wreaks havoc beneath the streets. While feuding weather wizards kick up storms and a gang of thieving lawn gnomes continues their reign of terror, Dan Shamble is running out of time - before the whole stinking city goes down the drain.…
©2014 WordFire, Inc (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Tastes Like Chicken
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Dan Shamble, zombie P.I. faces his most fowl case yet, when a flock of murderous feral chickens terrorizes the Unnatural Quarter. Also in the caseload, Dan deals with the sinister spokesman for Monster Chow Industries, a spreading contamination that drives vampires berserk, a serial-killer demon from the Fifth Pit of Hell, a black-market blood gang led by the nefarious Ma Hemoglobin, a ghost fighting a hostile takeover of his blood bars...and a cute little vampire girl who may, or may not, be his daughter. With his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his bleeding-heart lawyer partner Robin, and his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, Dan Shamble is back from the dead and back on the case. The feathers will fly as he goes face-to-beak with the evil peckers. Includes bonus story "Road Kill."
©2016 WordFire Press LLC (P)2018 WordFire Press LLC
The Road to Dune
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At long last, millions of Dune fans can now hear the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herbert's correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article, "They Stopped the Moving Sands", Herbert's original inspiration for Dune. The Road to Dune features newly discovered papers and manuscripts and also "Spice Planet", an original 60,000 word short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert. The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every Dune fan will want to add to their collection.
©2005 Herbert Properties LLC (P)2005 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC