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    22 Short Scifi Stories: A Flash Fiction Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 143min
    It was hot and muggy inside the desalinization plant. The building was drenched in sunshine, but enclosed, allowing no wind. This is a collection of 22 Sci-Fi stories. Enjoy tales of time travel, dystopian futures, apocalypse, aliens, genetic engineering, and much more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James K. White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023867/bk_acx0_023867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Double or Nothing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
    First appearing in the May, 1962 magazine Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Double or Nothing, by Jack Sharkey, is a tongue-firmly-in-cheek science fiction short story chronicling a few hilarious, tragic-but-still-funny, days in the lives of wacky inventor Artie Lindstrom and Burt, his long-suffering engineer/fabricator partner and the tale's narrator. It is summer, in the probably distant future, and Artie Lindstrom - the wizard behind a remotely-triggered jar lid opener that became the weapon that defeated the Martian invasion, a water desalinization machine that inadvertently produced gin, and a death ray gun that obliterated Venus during the Three-Day War - has sketched out plans for an anti-gravity machine not much bigger than a mini-fridge. Burt, not all that convinced that Artie's invention is such a great idea, nonetheless builds the machine according to plan. Following Artie's and Burt's few tests and revisions, in a classic example of unintended consequences, nothing else ever goes according to plan again. After listening to Double or Nothing, you'll never look at a humble bowl of cornflakes in quite the same way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001632/bk_mike_001632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In a Handful of Dust , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 550min
    The only thing bigger than the world is fear. Lucy's life by the pond has always been full. She has water and friends, laughter and the love of her adoptive mother, Lynn, who has made sure that Lucy's childhood was very different from her own. Yet it seems Lucy's future is settled already - a house, a man, children, and a water source - and anything more than life by the pond is beyond reach. When disease burns through their community, the once life-saving water of the pond might be the source of what's killing them now. Rumors of desalinization plants in California have lingered in Lynn's mind, and the prospect of a "normal" life for Lucy sets the two of them on an epic journey west to face new dangers: hunger, mountains, deserts, betrayal, and the perils of a world so vast that Lucy fears she could be lost forever, only to disappear in a handful of dust. In this companion to Not a Drop to Drink, Mindy McGinnis thrillingly combines the heart-swelling hope of a journey, the challenges of establishing your own place in the world, and the gripping physical danger of nature in a futuristic frontier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allyson Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004140/bk_harp_004140_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Clouds Above: Plausible Science Fiction
    In 1962, John F. Kennedy said, "Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel Prizes -- one for science and one for peace." Sixty-four years later neither prize has been awarded. In CLOUDS ABOVE the year is 2035, the same year renowned science author Maude Barlow (Blue Covenant) predicted that water would become the most valuable resource on our planet. Our lakes and rivers are drying up at an exponential rate. All that's needed to push us over the edge is a drought. Without land lakes and rivers, clouds won't form, so even cloud seeding will no longer be useful. Should we look to the ocean for our water solution? Desalinization? Moisture from the air? Grayson Fields, age 27, PhD in math and science, tries desperately to help prove her grandfather's theory. A theory that's never been tested. They must first make it work inside Georgetown's abandoned gymnasium (a gift from the university for his experiments.) But one particularly greedy water treatment company is out to sabotage Fields' and her grandfather's experiments. Steve Muller, the sinister CEO of Purity Worldwide will do anything to stop them; because if they succeed there'll be no need for turning sewage into drinking water, which is exactly what Purity Worldwide does, a process that began in 2005, and is in use today. Even now, waste water treatment plants around the globe are growing at an exponential rate. Purity happens to be the bully in the industry. Soon, we will all be drinking treated water that came from our toilets. As our rivers and lakes continue to evaporate into puddles, there will no longer be enough large clouds over land to create rainwater. India and Africa are the first to experience the disease caused by improper treatment. Demand for converted wastewater will overload the treatment plants, creating a worldwide catastrophe. The giant filtration companies will fail to keep up. Here's an example to consider. Put a drop of sewage in a bottle of Dom Perignon and it can no longer be called champagne; so too will millions of water bottles no longer be water when a tiny leak occurs in the filtration membranes of these plants. It's already happening. Today! Chemical solutions and reverse osmosis will not be enough to reverse the disaster. CLOUDS ABOVE is a plausible thriller that promises to uncover a possible way out. But it will take the genius of our two Georgetown professors to try something unique. Something that's never been done. It will require the fortitude and determination of these main characters to face the corrupt and greedy water barons to make it happen--with some unexpected help. Danger from all angles face Grayson and her Grandfather. Politicians are on the take from the water filtraters and do as much to sabotage the professors' work as does Steve Muller and his scientists. CLOUDS ABOVE will take you from D.C. to India and the Himalayas, and along the way reveal several countries already facing enormous water shortages. Reading CLOUDS ABOVE is entertainment with eye-opening real consequences. But like all good stories this one doesn't end as you'd expect. CLOUDS ABOVE may just become the most important book of the next few decades.
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