Nathaniel Ascher has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is Unfit.
Unique
Summary
Ugene and the other test subjects escaped Paragon. They thought they were finally safe. But the battle for freedom is far from over. Now, Ugene must fight to liberate the city from the clutches of the oppressive government before the rogue group, the Protectorate, launches their own dangerous attack. But digging into the Directorate’s corruption could be even deadlier than escaping Paragon. As the clock ticks down, it’s more than just his own life on the line. It’s time for the deception to end. And it’s time for everyone to finally learn that being Powerless isn’t weakness. Unique is the thrilling sequel in this YA dystopian sci-fi Ordinary series. If you like fast-paced action, dynamic characters, and ongoing mystery, then you’ll love Starr Z. Davies’ series sequel.
©2020 Starr Z. Davies (P)2021 Starr Z. Davies
Survival: Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species Survival
Summary
14th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards - Finalist How different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not exist. Now, similarly threatened, we too must act quickly if we hope to survive. Yet despite all the signs of a potential greenhouse mass extinction, again due to climate change, this threat is still being ignored. Like the passengers aboard the Titanic, who knew that in two hours and 40 minutes they would either be in a lifeboat or drowning in the cold waters of the Atlantic but waited a full hour before taking action - we too are not getting our lifeboats ready. This book is a wake-up call and looks to evolution itself for guidance on how to avoid extinction. Evolution, the author claims, seems firmly on the side of survival and has left evolutionary survival patterns - adapt, innovate, mature, and migrate to survive or go extinct. Survival depends on how we adapt and innovate as well as on whether we can mature and migrate. Unfortunately, misuse of the adapt and innovate patterns over the last 200 years has driven us to the brink of self-extinction. What can be done? Survival, this book claims, will not emerge from the products of adapting and innovating - science, technologies, and inventions - but by migrating and maturing to evolutionary maturity - maturing beyond the ability to drive ourselves and other species to extinction - and by restoring Earth's habitats and species and a return to sustaining our lives from within Earth's ecosystems, as our forebears did. And failing these, like them, we must be free, willing, and able to choose to migrate - to other planets if necessary - to survive.
©2020 Allan Danns (P)2020 Allan Danns
Ordinary
Summary
Having a superpower is ordinary. Your power determines your entire life. But 17-year-old Ugene is powerless. He can’t read minds or enhance his strength. He can’t manipulate natural matter or heal injuries. Determined to find out why he is different, Ugene submits himself as a test subject at Paragon. But nothing is as it seems. All exits from the testing floor are sealed. Subjects endure brutal and sometimes deadly injuries. No amount of power can save them. When his new friend Jade disappears, Ugene is shocked to discover why so many test subjects vanish without a trace. Now, Ugene must choose between his own preservation...or the lives of countless other test subjects. Ordinary is the first installment in a YA dystopian-sci-fi trilogy. If you like fast-paced action, dynamic characters, and ongoing mystery, then you’ll love this series starter.
©2020 Starr Z. Davies (P)2021 Starr Z. Davies
Unfit
Summary
Nearly a century has passed since the world was devastated by pandemics and wars that wiped out over 90 percent of the Earth’s population. To assure the survival of mankind, the leaders of the rebuilt city of Haven are breeding a better human race: meaning those deemed too stupid, too weak, too poor - too “unfit” - are arrested and forcibly sterilized. John Hunter is a penniless, self-educated young man from the wrong side of Haven struggling to make something of himself to provide for his wife and their hopes of starting a family. Until the authorities show up at his door and arrest him for the crime of being “unfit”. Heartbroken and humiliated, will John abandon his aspirations and resign himself to quietly accept his fate?
©2020 Karma Chestnu (P)2020 Immortal Works