![]() “ Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.” ![]() But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. Now Vic is all grown up and desperate to forget. Only Victoria McQueen, a child with powers of her own, has ever escaped Charlie’s grasp. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.” He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. “Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. “An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. ![]() A man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, ‘Welcome back, my friend.’ “Jason Dessen awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life.” “Andrew ‘Ender’ Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.” The young woman’s diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs – and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. to backwoods hollows and truckstops, while risking what’s left of his very soul.” “In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in-between, Laytham Ballard is a legend…Now a promise to a dying friend has Ballard on the trail of an escaped Serbian war criminal with friends in both high and low places―and a sinister history of blood sacrifices…Ballard must follow a winding, treacherous path that stretches from Wall Street and Washington, D.C. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride.” “Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy book #1) by Margaret Atwood (descriptions were taken and/or modified from publisher or Goodreads) Without further ado… Audiobooks for a Road Trip with a Sci-fi Lover and a Sci-fi Lukewarmer I got wonderful suggestions and am happy to share them with the world. One problem: my travel companion reads almost exclusively science-fiction novels and I read almost exclusively…anything but science-fiction? Not exactly an ideal situation So, in a recent audiobooks newsletter ( sign-up here!), I asked my fellow audiobook lovers which books might be good for this journey. I fully expect audiobooks to be an important part of the trip. This summer I am going on my first ever road trip (with another actual human being) and…that’s a long time to spend in close quarters with another person. Read her work at or follow her on Twitter: All posts by Katie MacBride She’s hoping to one day update this bio with the title of a forthcoming book. When she’s not hunched over her computer, she’s teaching writing to high school students or reading in the bathtub. Katie MacBride is a freelance writer, librarian, and weird dog lady living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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