James P. Hogan Collection – 17 Books – James P. Hogan Free Audiobook

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James P. Hogan Collection – 17 Books

01) Code of the Lifemaker – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
Once, long ago, a robot factory-ship flew too near a star unexpectedly gone nova. After suffering extensive damage, it continued blindly for millennia.
A million years passed…. Then, in the 21st century, a colony ship destined for Mars was surreptitiously rerouted to Titan…and only the leaders of the military industrial complex knew why.
In addition to its flight crew, the interplanetary transport carried parapsycholoy researchers, linguists, psychologists, representatives of industry, an ambassador…and elite military units from several Western nations. Clearly something was up.
But no one was talking! ©1983

02) CoS 01 – Cradle of Saturn – .mp3
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For years, engineer Landen Keene has envied the Kronian colony among the moons of Saturn, which embodies the pioneer spirit that Earth has lost. Then a Kronian delegation arrives on Earth with newfound evidence that the planets underwent cataclysmic changes only a few thousand years ago. And a white-hot protoplanet which Jupiter has emitted is found to be on a collision course with Earth. Keene has to choose between escaping on the Kronian ship or making a desperate cross-continent journey to find a woman he didn’t even realize he cared about – if she is still alive…. ©1999

03) CoS 02 – The Anguished Dawn – .mp3
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After a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet, Earth is devastated, civilisation as we know it has ended, and the survivors are reverting to barbarism. Only the Kronian colony on Saturn’s moons preserves technology and human culture. Landen Keene, taken off the Earth before the disaster, is a key figure in the Kronian efforts to rebuild civilization on Earth. Then he finds that other survivors from Earth miss the power they once Wielded, and are bent on restoring the old privileges and hierarchy, with themselves at the top.
And if subtle methods fail, they won’t hesitate to use the violent tactics that served them well back on Earth… ©2003

04) Echoes of an Alien Sky – .mp3
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Eighteen years have passed since the first manned mission to Earth arrived from Venus. With the first colonists already establishing themselves across the bright, sunny world of clear blue skies and wonderlands of towering mountains and ice deserts, Kyal Reen arrives to join the Venusian scientific and archeological teams that are working to reconstruct the story of the mysterious and enigmatic extinct Terran race that once flourished there. Studies of Terran geology, scientific works, and ancient records show that Earth’s early peoples witnessed terrifying cataclysmic cosmic events in skies very different from those seen today. In his travels among the Terran ruins, Kyal meets a biologist called Lorili, who is attempting to explain certain baffling similarities between some Terran and Venusian life forms that are irreconcilable with the established fact that Venus is a far younger planet than Earth. Formerly aligned with the ”Progressive” activists back on Venus, Lorili admires the qualities of tenacity and determination written through Terran history. She constructs a theory of Venusians being descended from Terran ancestors. However, even allowing for the greatly exaggerated time scales that Terran science assigned to the processes of biological and planetary evolution, further research shows that there could have been no overlap. The Terrans were extinct long before life emerged on Venus. But there is a different, unexpected answer to the riddle. Lorili and Kyal will have to fight for their theory – and their lives. ©2007

05) Giants 01 – Inherit the Stars – .m4a
Publisher’s Summary
The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair, and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn’t know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50 thousand years old – and that meant this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed. ©1977

06) Giants 02 – The Gentle Giants of Ganymede – .m4a
Publisher’s Summary
Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart millennia ago, the strange race of giants had already vanished. All that remained of them was a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen moon of Jupiter. Now Earth’s scientists are there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race. But when suddenly the Ganymeans return, they bring with them answers that will reveal the secret of our own as well. ©1984

07) Giants 03 – Giants’ Star – .m4a
ublisher’s Summary
Eons ago, a gentle race of giants fled the planet Minerva, leaving the ancestors of man to fend for themselves. Fifty thousand years ago, Minerva exploded, hurling its moon into an orbit about Earth.
In the 21st century, scientists Victor Hunt and Chris Danchekker, doing research on Ganymede, attract a small band of friendly aliens who are lost in time – and who begin to reveal something of the origin of mankind. Finally, man believed that he comprehended his place in the universe…until he learned of the Watchers in the stars. Now Earth finds itself in the middle of a power struggle between a benevolent alien empire and an offshoot group of upstart humans who hate Earth more than any alien ever could. ©1981

08) Martian Knightlife – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
If you read his curriculum vitae, you might think this private eye of the future is a Saint, and swear that he’s honest, paying for what he gets, getting what he’s paid for, with somehow a little extra for everybody to go around. Take the case of the teleported scientist who suddenly has a hole in his memory and a bigger hole in his bank account, emptied by someone answering to his own description. Then there’s the just-discovered Martian ruin which a greedy corporation wants to bulldoze over. Not to mention gangsters who have an old grudge against the Knight and make the mistake of trying to get even. But whenever the Knight is in action, somehow the bad guys never know what hits them…. ©2001

09) Moon Flower – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
Something strange is happening on the planet Cyrene, which is in the early phases of being “developed” by the mammoth Interworld Restructuring Corporation. Terrans from the base there have been disappearing. Myles Callen, a ruthlessly efficient “Facilitator”, is sent to investigate. Also with the mission is Marc Shearer, a young, idealistic quantum physicist, disillusioned with the world, who’s on his way to join a former colleague, Evan Wade. On arrival he finds that Wade too has vanished and doesn’t want to be found by the Terran authorities. Wade has arranged contact via the Cyreneans, however, and accompanied by two companions that he has befriended, Shearer embarks on a journey to find his friend that will change Cyrene—and Earth itself. ©2008

10) Paths to Otherwhere – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
In the early 21st century, the nations of the world hurtle toward war, and this time it looks like there is no escape from the ultimate planet-wrecking, mutually genocidal cataclysm. But in this nightmarish world without a future, a handful of dedicated scientists may have found a way out, for they have discovered a universe vaster than anything previously imagined. ©1996

11) The Genesis Machine – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
In an America becoming repressive in the face of world tensions, Brad Clifford, a young mathematical physicist, had been virtually drafted from academia to work on defense projects. But Brad’s true dedication was to bring about the unification of all fields and forces, and his theory was too wild for his superiors to take seriously. So he defied the political authorities and went AWOL to work with a fellow maverick scientist. They built the machine that his theory made possible – but the machine made all weapons impotent, and could either wreck the world or save it. And the Powers That Be wanted to control it for their own benefit… ©1978

12) The Immortality Option – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
In this spectacular sequel to the acclaimed Code of the Lifemaker, James Hogan returns to the strange world of Titan, inhabited by bizarre self-conscious robots.
Little is known about the civilization that gave birth to these machine intelligences until scientists discover blocks of embedded computer code that appear to be strangely out of place. Reactivating the computer codes results in the re-awakening of ancient alien beings, creators of the strange robot culture, totally alien and immensely powerful. And they are unhappy at being restrained within the narrow confines of the machines they find themselves in. They would much rather be the masters of all.
But while the scientists are helpless against these mighty beings, Karl Zambendord, the media-star “psychic” and his support team prepare to meet the challenge.
The alien intelligences might be intellectually superior and super rational, but this also makes them hyper-materialistic and mechanistic in their outlook and hence, totally unprepared for such “higher” concepts as the spiritual, the mystical, and the transcendental. And selling such notions is precisely Zambendorf’s stock in trade…. ©1995

13) The Legend That Was Earth – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
Earth first! Terra for Terrans!
They’ve eased our problems. They’ve raised our standards of living. Their science has shown us that everything we thought we knew about the universe was wrong. And now the alien Hyadeans’ high-tech gifts and their flair for social order promise to make a paradise of planet Earth.
To us, the Hyadeans seem a model of efficiency and clear thinking. But in Hyadean eyes, Earth’s culture wallows in imagination and dreams, art forms, and concepts which would never have occurred to a citizen of their world. To some of the aliens, this demonstrates Earth’s backwardness; others are increasingly fascinated by us.
But when a political assassination plunges his life into chaos, wealthy socialite and “fixer” Roland Cade discovers the dark underbelly of the alien presence. Our government obeys them. Our economy serves their wealthy masters. And the CounterAction “terrorists” on the news are truly fighting for freedom for Terrans and Hyadeans alike – and one of them is his ex-wife.
Soon Cade is caught up in a terrifying adventure that will take him around the globe, and a conflict that will threaten to destroy the world as it turns American against American – and Hyadean against Hyadean. Cade will find friends in unexpected places – among the agents of CounterAction, and among the aliens themselves. But he will also face deadly enemies closer than he ever could have feared…. ©2000

14) The Proteus Operation – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
When malcontents from a utopian 21st century use their time gate to transform Hitler into an invincible conqueror, a band of freedom-fighting Americans launches the Proteus project and builds a second time gate. ©1985

15) The Two Faces of Tomorrow – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world’s affairs. A proposed major software upgrade – an artificial intelligence – will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. In order to more fully assess the system, a new space-station habitat – a world in miniature – is developed for deployment of the fully operational system, named Spartacus.
This mini-world can then be “attacked” in a series of escalating tests to assess the system’s responses and capabilities. If Spartacus gets out of hand, the system can be shut down and the station destroyed…unless Spartacus decides to take matters into its own hands and take the fight to Earth. ©1979

16) Thrice Upon a Time – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
SOS from a future that will never be
It’s amazing enough when Murdoch Ross’s brilliant grandfather invents a machine that can send messages to itself in the past or the future. But when signals begin to arrive without being sent, Murdoch realizes that every action he takes changes the future that would have been…and that the world he lives in has already been altered!
Then a new message arrives from the future: The world is doomed! ©1980

17) Voyage From Yesteryear – .mp3
Publisher’s Summary
Voyage from Yesteryear is a 1982 science fiction novel by the author James P. Hogan. It explores themes of anarchism and the appropriateness of certain social values in the context of high-technology. The inspiration for the novel was the contention that the ongoing conflict in Northern Ireland had no immediate practical solution, and could only be solved if the children of one generation were somehow separated from their parents, and hence did not learn any of their prejudices. ©1982