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The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully deadly, the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out and destroy them. Humbolt dropped inside the stockade, exulting. For two hundred years his people had been waiting for the chance to fight the mighty Gern Empire with bows and arrows against blasters and bombs!

FNH audio presents a reading of the revolutionary military guide on how to handle and run a counterinsurgency. Gen. David Petraeus saw a need for new updated manual on how to actually wage a counterinsurgency (COIN) conflict, as all existing military manuals were showing their age and out of sync with modern thinking. With experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was able to construct the new definitive guide from actual experience and with reference to previous conflicts.

Lawrence Beesley was a passenger on the Titanic's maiden voyage and therefore a survivor of its tragic loss. In this audiobook he narrates the circumstances of the ship's collision with an iceberg and the strange unexpected behaviour of the passengers, who found it hard to believe anything at all had happened.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Rider Haggard’s tale of Allan Quatermain, 'Long Odds'. Allan Quatermain, the famous African hunter, didn’t drink as a rule, but one night while having a particularly fine wine with his friends, he was led to tell the tale of a lion hunt that would leave Allan both poor and wounded.

When the prefect of police comes to Dupin seeking help he explains how a letter has been stolen that could cause considerable discomfort to a certain powerful person. Strangely, they know who stole the letter, but arresting the culprit is not the issue; recovering this precious letter is the goal.

While taking a break from work and passing through Egypt, Harry Houdini and his wife take a tour of the pyramids. Harry returns after dark with his guide and suddenly finds himself assaulted and thrown into a pit of eldritch horror that challenges his sanity and escapist skills. FNH Audio presents an unabridged narration of this Lovecraft classic.

Professor Nathaniel Wingate is mad, or was mad, or is becoming mad and he doesn't know which. A few years ago he feinted and woke up a different person, years later after a second feint he was himself again. He had no memory of the time between the feints, and began an investigation into his own actions during that time. What he found was inexplicable and horrifying. His investigation that would lead to revelation and a horror that would shake his mind, and set the future of mankind.

The sailing ship Mortzestus is far from shore when the wind drops away and a mysterious mist surrounds the ship. As the days drift by, the observant sailor Jessop spots something half seen creeping over the taff rail. Then men in the rigging are attacked, a man disappears, and everyone starts to get scared. Then Jessop sees something below the water following the ship....

The house on Benefit Street is shunned. With a dark forbidding exterior, a garden overrun by corrupt weeds and bent malformed trees, it simply looks wrong. The locals know its history, know how many people that house has killed, and fear it. Dr Elihu Whipple is not afraid of the house, he's fascinated by it and its history, and now he's decided to investigate its horrifying secret.

1917 was a terrible time for the British Navy and Mercantile marine. The German adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare was sinking British and Empire shipping at an unsustainable rate, hundreds of thousands of tons were being sunk each month. It was necessary for the war-fighting techniques and the organisation at Admiralty to change to meet this new threat.

The cancer-causing disease came from space, and now the whole of humanity is on the brink of extinction. The only hope for Earth is a single starship catapulted across space with a crew of misfits seeking a cure.

In 2020 concerns were raised in the UK parliament over the sudden rise in referrals to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, the off-label use of drugs, and finally the Care Quality Commission report that rated the site’s service as “inadequate”. Dr Hillary Cass was chosen to run an independent review to determine what changes would be required to improve patient care. This audiobook is an unabridged narration of the final report issued by the review, including its appendices.

Nine classic science fiction stories.

The Patrol has a strict policy of pushing any star ship infected with unknown plagues straight into the sun, no questions asked. When the crew of the Queen start dropping like flies with no explanation, rival traders start crying, 'Plague Ship!'

Doctor John Silence is an experienced investigator of the paranormal. In this book, he faces three challenges. In the first, a man seems possessed of an ancient spirit and driven to do its will. In he second, he deals with a man whose experiences in a remote part of France almost pulled him into a cursed afterlife. In the final story, a family are haunted by a spirit of fire-bent on destruction.

When the United Nation’s attempt to put a peace platform in orbit is sabotaged by the enemy, the United States goes ahead on its own. Almost immediately the enemy starts launching missiles at the platform trying to bring it down. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Joe Kenmore pilots a resupply mission. With missiles flying and rockets in short supply something that can survive the combat environment and haul supplies up to the platform is needed. They need a Space Tug!

Ten classic science fiction stories.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of The Defence of Duffers Drift. Written in 1902, this book tells the story of a young officer during the Boer War tasked with defending a river crossing. The officer has a sequence of dreams about the failing defence of the crossing, but with each dream, he learns the lessons of his failed efforts.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Meditations, which is a series of personal musings by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Cepheus Vignettes, is a collection 50 science-fiction vignettes based on the worlds and rules of the 'Cepheus Engine' role-playing rules (which is a derivative of Traveller system). Each vignette is a stand-alone story that highlights an aspect of the Cepheus Lore, or plays in the darker, often ignored areas of the universe. Colonists in trouble, xeno-archeologists finding the impossible, stowaways, raiders launching topedoes, fighting monsterous aliens, Cepheus Vignettes covers a lot of ground.