Anne Lentino has narrated 7 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is Chasing Reality.
The Android Sisters
Summary
All androids are not alike. Especially if they're teenagers... By the 2070s, most humans have interacted with androids in either a servile or sexual relationship. Dr. Bryan Galloway wants to tip the scales. So, he’s engineered two sisters who not only share a synthetic form of DNA, but a sentience and individualism no android has enjoyed before. Like human teens, the android sisters develop not only by nature but by nurture. Nyx, the red-eyed robot, finds life to be a journey you experience a step at a time. For Dayna, the violet-orbed android, life is a game to be won through emulation and manipulation. But Nyx’s journey is a whole lot less passive than she imagined, especially when she suffers bouts of what humans call PTSD. As Nyx becomes convinced her programming is unable to separate past from present and reality from virtual experience, she begins to doubt her creator Bryan Galloway and his sudden disappearance from her life now that she faces school, boys, and the pressure of planning a future in a still dominated human population. Is Nyx defective or, maybe, is this what it's really like to grow up as a human female? Perhaps, there is a third alternative she and her sister know nothing about...
©2017 Gary Starta (P)2019 Gary Starta
Moving with the Sun
Summary
You’re one of the lucky ones - you lived through the global pandemic that eradicated seven billion people. You survived civilization’s collapse and the unspeakable atrocities committed by desperate people. Now it’s two years later...and you’re still alive. So are two intriguing groups of survivors living in close proximity on the Florida coast. The first, a harmonious community of highly intelligent people who reside on a former island paradise; they are determined to create sustainable quality of life. The other, camping in a Costco warehouse on the nearby mainland, a ruthless tribe of organized raiders who will stop at nothing to provide for their own. Not only must they endure hardships and hunger in their ravaged world, fate seems hell-bent to crush them all as a monster hurricane seethes in the Atlantic. Fans of Stephen King’s The Stand will love these novels. Intricately plotted, superbly paced, and brought to life by fully developed protagonists, quirky supporting characters (some you will recognize from the previous books), and charming villains, the Troop of Shadows Chronicles is a tour de force. It is the unfolding story of the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and is populated with some of the most entertaining people you will ever meet.
©2018 Nicki Huntsman Smith (P)2020 Nicki Huntsman Smith
The Android Sisters: Volume 2: Changing Faces
Summary
For a special pair of android sisters, Nyx and Dayna, it’s a sure bet they dream. But when Nyx, the red-eyed sister, finds herself expired, is she dreaming, experiencing a post death virus or perhaps something greater? Further blurring the lines, Dayna, the violet-eyed sister, finds herself paired hybrid style with the consciousness of a deceased financial baroness. Can these androids die and experience an afterlife? If so, what implications does it have for humans who experience the same out of body experiences? Is the afterlife limited to biological beings, or perhaps, as Simulation Theory suggests, are we are all binary codes playing out in pixelated formation? The Android Sisters, Changing Faces, explores death, the universe and just how an artificial being might classify itself as human by loose definition.
©2018 Gary Starta (P)2020 Gary Starta
The Sublime Seven
Summary
Death is the doorway to the in-between where time is nonlinear and geography is fluid. Following an armed robbery gone terribly wrong, J awakens in a black void and meets Sarah, a spiritual guide tasked with mentoring the transcendence of souls. She explains that perfection is impossible. Sublimity is the goal.
J can travel anywhere in any time period to get the job done...and can take as many lifetimes as necessary to do it right. The journey spans a pyramid builders’ village in Giza to the Dakota Plains, from Renaissance Italy to pre-history Mesopotamia, from a Martian colony to 1960s Kansas.
How many incarnations will it take? What lessons must be learned along the way?
©2019 Nicki Huntsman Smith (P)2019 Nicki Huntsman Smith
Troop of Shadows
Summary
A catastrophic pandemic ravages the globe, reducing the human population to extinction levels and cleansing the world of mediocrity. A doomsday prepper, a molecular geneticist, a journal-keeping loner, and a martial arts-trained nerd survive the disease that annihilated almost everyone else on the planet. Despite the miles between Kansas and California, Texas and Arizona, the four share a connection. They realize that not dying was the easy part. Now a year later, they navigate a bleak world...one without technology, without modern medicine, and without law and order. They must unify their diverse strengths not only to rebuild civilization but to battle those who would forge empires through brutality and oppression. "There is one who would rule the world or see it burn." Fans of Stephen King’s The Stand, Hugh Howey’s Wool series, and Markus Sakey’s Brilliance trilogy will love this novel. Intricately plotted, superbly paced, and brought to life by fully-developed protagonists, quirky supporting characters, and charming villains, the Troop of Shadows Chronicles is a tour de force. It is the unfolding story of the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and is populated with some of the most entertaining people you’ll ever meet.
©2016 Nicki Huntsman Smith (P)2020 Nicki Huntsman Smith
Beauty and Dread
Summary
Picking up immediately where the first book in the series ended, Beauty and Dread continues the saga of a small group of extraordinary people. Their unique genetic code allowed them to survive a devastating global pandemic. Now they must continue to fight for their lives, their humanity, and their town’s enviable progress toward rebooting civilization. The tiny population of Liberty, Kansas, has weathered disease, starvation, marauders from without, and dissension from within. Still, it is a shining star of hope in an otherwise bleak and desolate land. But a madman approaches with an army at his heels, spurred by blood-lust and fantasies of revenge. Will he prevail, usurping the town and murdering its citizens? Or will this eclectic group of geniuses and misfits fight back? Intricately plotted, superbly paced, and brought to life by fully-developed protagonists, quirky supporting characters, and charming villains, the Troop of Shadows Chronicles is a tour de force. It is the unfolding story of the greatest threat humankind has ever faced and is populated with some of the most entertaining people you’ll ever meet.
©2016 Nicki Huntsman Smith (P)2020 Nicki Huntsman Smith
Chasing Reality
Summary
What if reality was only limited by your perceptions? When two android teenagers are chosen for the Mars colonization project, each sister believes they will carry out an agenda fated for them by their own distinct programming. Nyx, the younger teen, revels in art, expression, and a need to explore. Dayna, the older sister, believes ambition and career paths are more important than self-discoveries. Realizing they are part of a corporate vision to make Mars an exclusive breeding ground for eugenic superiority, Nyx can only find solace in mind journeys toward higher consciousness while Dayna unexpectedly discovers the value of love over career. As their dreams continue to conflict with a privatized agenda, the android sisters fear their new world, despite its progressive stance, will not only eradicate their dreams but maybe their very artificial lives. Yet that concern will soon pale in comparison to a new jeopardy which threatens to decimate any reality the androids can dare to chase.
©2019, 2020 Gary Starta (P)2020 Gary Starta