Fiction by Jon Haldeman
Matt Fuller is a research assistant at the MIT physics department when he discovers that he's accidentally built a time machine (hence the title). What follows is exciting, unpredictable, and sometimes hilarious.
This was a fun little story with narration I enjoyed a lot.
Fiction by John Marrs
In the future, information is currency and security is priceless. When a terrorist group called the Hacking Collective arises, their weapon is full exposure of all secrets, and every world nation lives in fear of them. In Britain, the government is coming up with more and more radical forms of hiding their nation's confidential files: first in moving lorries and then... inside the minds of human subjects?
You're going to have to really stretch your willing suspension of disbelief on this one, I've got to say. I felt like I was stepping around potential plot holes sometimes.
This story is set in the same near-future world as John Marrs's fabulous best-sellers The One and The Passengers, but I didn't like this one quite as much. It was still a solid thriller and a decent read.
I also read by this author: What Lies Between Us
Fiction by Nora Murphy
Leah is a young woman whose life has gotten so narrow that her only daily ritual is going to a different liquor store each day of the week, and her only goal is to supply herself with enough vodka to endure another evening with her handsome, successful, abusive husband. Then one day she sees McKenna, a woman who looks just like Leah herself, only it's the self she was before her husband winnowed her down to that barest nub of a human creature that she is. And McKenna's husband looks pretty controlling...
Leah senses that McKenna is in danger, but can she be saved before it is too late? This was a good thriller with some surprises.
Fiction by Jacqueline Mitchard
Fiction by Jesse Suanto
This was a fun and light story, although I might have enjoyed it better in print rather that on audible.
Fiction by Karin Slaughter
In this story, Dr. Sara Linton is pediatrician and coroner in her small Georgia hometown. The coroner job is usually uneventful, aside from the fact that she has to work with her ex-husband the police chief, until Sara herself discovers a woman stabbed in the ladies' room of the local diner. Then another woman who resembles the first is reported missing. Could there be a crazy criminal on the loose, abducting and killing lookalikes?
This was a good story and the beginning of a series.
I also read recently by this author: False Witness
Fiction by R.W.W. Greene
I found this at the Dollar Tree and it looked good. You don't expect much from a book at the Dollar Tree, to be honest; I'm pretty sure that's the place where bad books go to die. But this was (fortunately!) not a bad book.
Over a thousand years in the future, Earth is pretty much dead, and everyone who possibly could has evacuated into space colonies. Adem is a part owner in his family's starship business, which gives him a livelihood and freedom to travel, but limits his dating prospects. It's tough to meet chicks when you land on a planet for only a day or two at time, and then when you come back only a few weeks in light-year travel later, you find that years have passed on that planet since you last visited.
So Adem does what most space travelers do: contracts with an on-planet matchmaker to buy a wife from a couple expecting a baby, and then plans to come back and pick her up when she's twenty-four years old. Wait, what?! Yep, you've got to do some willing suspension of disbelief on this story, but if you know anything about science-fiction you should be aware of the light-years-travel-time-distortion concept.
Anyways, this was a pretty good story that kept my attention.
