Audiobooks narrated by Larissa Thompson

Sojourn | The Complete First Season Audiobook

The Tantalus Cluster is the fragile cradle of humanity. “The Sojourn is a melange of rich storytelling, superb sound effects, and well-written characters that sound so real it's like you're in the shuttle beside them. There's a lot to enjoy in this immersive, fun audiodrama.' - Jeremy Szal “It's my first audiodrama and it sets the bar very high! Really high quality sound effects and talented voice actors bring the story to life like nothing else.” - Matterbeam, ToughSF Adrift in the divide between galaxies and surrounded by the vast emptiness of the intergalactic void, the Tantalus Cluster is the only home humanity has ever known. Desperate and facing starvation, humanity’s only hope is a strange nebula that has suddenly appeared beyond the edge of the cluster. Its shifting clouds may hide a source of salvation for the people of Tantalus, but time is running out. Signing on to the ambitious Avalon Expedition, Privateer Captain Cassandra Farren will face the shadows of both the past and future as she leads her small crew into the unknown in a last, desperate bid for the survival of the human race. Directed and produced with careful scientific consultation, The Sojourn captures every detail of life aboard ship and features a full cast of veteran voice actors, backed up by high-quality sound effects and an epic original soundtrack. Starring Larissa Thompson as Captain Cassandra Farren, Emily Serdahl as Director Elizabeth Ancelet, Laura Faye Smith as Tamara Melari, Ben Prendergast as Mathias Croft, Stephen Trafford as Inquisitor Castian Vadric, also featuring Matthew Kaufman as Lieutenant Jasper Ravi, and Lelia Symington as Empress Valendra the Sixth. Written by Daniel Orrett, Rowan J. Coleman, and Larissa Thompson with sound design by Kennedy Phillips, and music by Sam Redfern. Transcripts available here: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com/transcripts

Daniel Orrett, Larissa Thompson, Rowan J. Coleman (Author), Ben Prendergast, Emily Serdahl, Full Cast, Larissa Thompson, Laura Faye Smith, Stephen Trafford (Narrator)

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Sojourn | Volume Four: Where Angels Fear To Tread | Observer Effect | Forlorn Hope

The Avalon Expedition stands its ground. Faced with the reality of remaining stranded in a mysterious nebula 3,000 light years from home, the Avalon Expedition has no alternative but to reclaim their captive Gatehauler from the depths of the Advari Empire. Captain Cassandra Farren and the rest of the Expedition’s multinational forces at last go on the offensive, launching a daring mission to infiltrate the enigmatic minefield known as the Aegis of Invia, where much will depend on former Inquisitor Castian Vadric. But Vadric faces a far greater struggle from within. The conclusion to the first season of the critically acclaimed audio drama ‘The Sojourn’, Volume Four takes the Avalon Expedition into their darkest hour, as loyalties are strained and courage tested in the face of nigh-unstoppable odds. Directed and produced with careful scientific consultation, The Sojourn captures every detail of life aboard ship, from the sounds of the smallest airlock seal to the largest space battle. Featuring a full cast of veteran voice actors, backed up by high-quality sound effects and an epic original soundtrack, The Sojourn is a unique and striking audio experience. Starring Larissa Thompson as Captain Cassandra Farren, Emily Serdahl as Director Elizabeth Ancelet, Laura Faye Smith as Tamara Melari, Ben Prendergast as Mathias Croft, Stephen Trafford as Inquisitor Castian Vadric, also featuring Matthew Kaufman as Lieutenant Commander Jasper Ravi, and Lelia Symington as Empress Valendra the Sixth. Written by Daniel Orrett, sound design and audio editing by Kennedy Phillips, music by Sam Redfern. Featuring music licensed under a Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Transcripts available here: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com/transcripts

Daniel Orrett, Larissa Thompson (Author), Ben Prendergast, Emily Serdahl, Full Cast, Larissa Thompson, Laura Faye Smith, Stephen Trafford (Narrator)

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The Sojourn | Volume Three: Theirs Not To Reason Why | Contact, Wait Out | Beneath The Banner

The Avalon Expedition divided. Despite the food, water, and other plentiful resources the Expedition has found in the mysterious nebula 3,000 light years from home, Vice Admiral Redfield’s military takeover has sowed distrust among the Expedition's captains. Captain Cassandra Farren and Director Elizabeth Ancelet find themselves in the Avalon’s brig and the crew of the Guinevere press-ganged into service aboard the CSV Shabayev, while the captured Inquisitor Vadric watches events unfold from within his cell. Volume Three of this award-winning series confronts the ideas of leadership, cooperation, and prejudice the humans have brought with them to these unfamiliar stars, though they cannot remain hidden from the Advari for long. Directed and produced with careful scientific consultation, The Sojourn captures every detail of life aboard ship, from the sounds of the smallest airlock seal to the largest space battle. Featuring a full cast of veteran voice actors, backed up by high-quality sound effects and an epic original soundtrack, The Sojourn is a unique and striking audio experience. Starring Larissa Thompson as Captain Cassandra Farren, Emily Serdahl as Director Elizabeth Ancelet, Laura Faye Smith as Tamara Melari, Ben Prendergast as Mathias Croft, Stephen Trafford as Inquisitor Castian Vadric, also featuring Matthew Kaufman as Lieutenant Commander Jasper Ravi, and Lelia Symington as Empress Valendra the Sixth. Written by Daniel Orrett, sound design and audio editing by Kennedy Phillips, music by Sam Redfern. - Transcripts available here: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com/transcripts - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesojourn - Website: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSojournHQ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSojournHQ/ - Discord: https://discord.gg/rppU77f

Daniel Orrett, Larissa Thompson (Author), Ben Prendergast, Emily Serdahl, Full Cast, Jimmy Lockett, Larissa Thompson, Laura Faye Smith, Lelia Symington, Martin Roach, Stephen Trafford (Narrator)

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The Serpent's Spell

Unbeknownst to ten-year-old Wil Wychwood, he comes from a long line of mages. But with the death of his grandmother and his world upended, Wil moves to live with “the Aunts” and finds himself in MiddleGate – where buses drive through brick walls and leaning houses dot streets named Wog’s Hollow and Half Moon Lane. The four-hundred-and-ninety-four-year-old school, Gruffud’s Academy, is out of this world too. With classes in numeristics, botanicals, cartology and verbology, and textbooks like 'Magykal Spelling, Grammar and Palaver,' this is no ordinary school.Yet something dark brews beneath the veneer of this idyllic hidden city. When Wil and his cousin Sophie rescue the sacred snakes of Narcisse, they find themselves swept up in a dangerous plot. The secret society known as the Serpent’s Chain is on the loose, and Wil is carrying the very thing they’ve been searching for. 'Beware the Serpent’s Chain,' they were told, but what does that mean? What dangers await Wil and Sophie as they unravel this wicked mystery?

Rae St. Clair Bridgman (Author), Larissa Thompson (Narrator)

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Till the Sun Dies

Every sunrise demands a sunset When the most important person in your world is hurt, a man learns who he is right down at the core. Will he protect her? Can he do what needs to be done to make it better? Is he willing to take it as far as it needs to go, or is he a p*ssy that talks a big game but has no guts? And if he chooses the second, then did he truly love her at all? No. The answer is no, because a man that loves with his whole heart won’t be stopped. There is no line. There’s no ‘too far’. There’s just her. And her pain is his responsibility to fix, even if she’ll never know it was he who stepped in. Till The Sun Dies is book 2 in the Checkmate Series and includes dark topics. Reader discretion is advised

Emilia Finn (Author), Brian Cade, Brian Walker, Larissa Thompson, Lee Daniels (Narrator)

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The Third Person

Two's company, three's a crowd-and sometimes it's more than that. In The Third Person, a collection of uncanny short stories by Emily Anglin, a sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and reality: employees dissolve from job titles, neighbours overstep comfortable boundaries, voices distanced by space or time make their presence felt. Uneasiness builds among these separate but entangled lives. Anglin's darkly humorous stories contemplate situations in which characters refashion themselves to fit a new competitive milieu. The Third Person reveals how people can become complicit in these milieus, even desire them, often while being led into the loneliness they can instill.

Emily Anglin (Author), Larissa Thompson (Narrator)

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The Sojourn | Volume Two: Dust and Shadow | The Promised Land | Theirs Not to Make Reply

The Avalon Expedition forges on. Humanity’s final hope for salvation has survived the 3,000 light year journey across the intergalactic void, only to find themselves scattered and vulnerable in a forbidding and alien nebula. Privateer Captain Cassandra Farren, despite her misgivings, has accepted the burden of responsibility for the safety of the Avalon Expedition, but protecting the fleet and it's firebrand civilian director, Elizabeth Ancelet, will prove more complicated than she could have possibly expected. Continuing the award-winning series, Volume Two explores the painful past of the humans who made the journey, and the existential threat of those who already call the mysterious nebula home. Directed and produced with careful scientific consultation, The Sojourn captures every detail of life aboard ship, from the sounds of the smallest airlock seal to the largest space battle. Featuring a full cast of veteran voice actors, backed up by high-quality sound effects and an epic original soundtrack, The Sojourn is a unique and striking audio experience. Starring Larissa Thompson as Captain Cassandra Farren, Emily Serdahl as Director Elizabeth Ancelet, Laura Faye Smith as Tamara Melari, Ben Prendergast as Mathias Croft, Stephen Trafford as Inquisitor Castian Vadric, also featuring Matthew Kaufman as Lieutenant Jasper Ravi, Lelia Symington as Empress Valendra the Sixth, Tim Parker as Lord Cardinal Hastus Arvannis, and Amy Kay as Cindra Tacira. Written by Daniel Orrett and Rowan J. Coleman, sound design by Kennedy Phillips, music by Sam Redfern. - Transcripts available here: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com/transcripts - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesojourn - Website: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSojournHQ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSojournHQ/ - Discord: https://discord.gg/rppU77f

Daniel Orrett, Rowan J. Coleman (Author), Ben Prendergast, Emily Serdahl, Full Cast, Jimmy Lockett, Larissa Thompson, Laura Faye Smith, Lelia Symington, Marta Da Silva, Matthew Kaufman, Stephen Trafford, Tim Parker (Narrator)

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They Stole the Earth!: A Middle Grade Sci-Fi Adventure

Everyone’s frozen!Aliens hijacked Earth from orbit! As the only humans awake, Bruce and Lindy team up with an android friend to do something about it! Bruce, 11, and sister Lindy, 9, show up to school on a warm Spring morning. They discover that friendly aliens have arrived on Earth. Unfortunately, at lunch, things go awry when all of their classmates freeze in place. The brother and sister realize that the interstellar visitors aren’t really there to make friends. They must pull together the courage to save their planet before it’s stolen for good. They’ll need to use alien technology, sneak aboard the visitors’ craft, and fight for their home. If they fail, the Earth and everyone on it will become the property of an extra-terrestrial race, or worse!

D.W. Hitz (Author), Larissa Thompson (Narrator)

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Second Survivor

Isabel Fontaine's lavish lifestyle came to a crashing halt the night the General Chanzy sank. At 18, she had everything-fine luxuries, a prominent family, and an extravagant estate in Marseille. The one thing she didn't have was her freedom. As the sole heir to the Fontaine fortune, her future was forged with a betrothal to a stranger from a foreign country, but when her family perishes at sea, Isabel sees this as a chance to hide her identity and change her fate. Taken in by poor, elderly farmers on the Spanish island of Menorca, Isabel is torn between the growing affection for a neighbor and the guilt of living a lie. The simplicity and genuine goodness of this life take her on a journey she never believed was possible, yet, as time passes and the threat of her untruths face exposure, Isabel must make an agonizing choice. When that choice is taken from her prematurely and danger cultivates from an implausible guise, will Isabel accept the outcome, or fight to save those she loves? Told from the perspective of four characters, Second Survivor is a twist on the tragic shipwreck . . . the General Chanzy in the Mediterranean Sea. Facts from this disastrous sailing on the night of 10 Feb 1910, between Marseille and Algiers, share the horrific details that 156 people aboard the barge lost their lives. There was only one survivor. This story shares the fate of a Second Survivor.

Leah Moyes (Author), Larissa Thompson (Narrator)

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On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I

Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and World building, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire. ON WRITING Part I: Prologues Part II: The First Chapter Part III: The Exposition Problem Part IV: Foreshadowing Part V: Villain Motivation Part VI: Hero-Villain Relationships Part VII: Final Battles Part VIII: The Chosen One Part IX: Hard Magic Systems Part X: Soft Magic Systems Part XI: Magic Systems and Storytelling ON WORLDBUILDING Part XII: Polytheistic Religions Part XIII: Hidden Magical Worlds Part XIV: How Empires Rise Part XV: How Empires Work Part XVI: How Empires Fall EXCLUSIVE CONTENT Part XVII: How I Plan a Novel Dozens of side notes and extra thoughts on all these wonderful stories

Timothy Hickson (Author), Larissa Thompson, Merphy Napier (Narrator)

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The Sojourn | Volume One: The Cold Divide | Inclement Weather | Yesterday's War

The Tantalus Cluster is the fragile cradle of humanity. Adrift in the divide between galaxies and surrounded by the vast emptiness of the intergalactic void, the Tantalus Cluster is the only home humanity has ever known. Desperate and facing starvation, humanity’s only hope is a strange nebula that has suddenly appeared beyond the edge of the cluster. It’s shifting clouds may hide a source of salvation for the people of Tantalus, but time is running out. Signing on to the ambitious Avalon Expedition, Privateer Captain Cassandra Farren will face the shadows of both the past and future as she leads her small crew into the unknown in a last, desperate bid for the survival of the human race. Directed and produced with careful scientific consultation, The Sojourn captures every detail of life aboard ship, from the sounds of the smallest airlock seal to the largest space battle. Featuring a full cast of veteran voice actors, backed up by high-quality sound effects and an epic original soundtrack, The Sojourn is a unique and striking audio experience. Starring Larissa Thompson as Captain Cassandra Farren, Emily Serdahl as Director Elizabeth Ancelet, Laura Faye Smith as Tamara Melari, Ben Prendergast as Mathias Croft, Stephen Trafford as Inquisitor Castian Vadric, also featuring Matthew Kaufman as Lieutenant Jasper Ravi, and Lelia Symington as Empress Valendra the Sixth. Written by Daniel Orrett, sound design and audio editing by Kennedy Phillips, music by Sam Redfern. - Transcripts available here: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com/transcripts - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesojourn - Website: https://www.thesojournaudiodrama.com - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSojournHQ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSojournHQ/ - Discord: https://discord.gg/rppU77f

Daniel Orrett (Author), Ben Prendergast, Emily Serdahl, Full Cast, Larissa Thompson, Laura Faye Smith, Lelia Symington, Matthew Kaufman, Stephen Trafford, Tim Parker (Narrator)

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Death Donor: A Dystopian SciFi Technothriller

Would you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance and a roof over her head. Life is livable... But then Sam’s daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts. Overnight, her life (and belief in the system) shatters. When the rich bastards get off scot-free, Sam’s weak husband commits suicide, and the ex-assassin snaps. Someone is going to pay. The question: how to kill the heartless elites that use the poor like livestock and whose security rivals the president? And then there’s the senator fighting to abolish life extension, the trillion-dollar corporate standoff, and bloody protests in the streets as conditions deteriorate. Things are about to get ugly. Death Donor is a speculative fiction technothriller by renowned futurist and sci-fi author, Matt Ward, that features espionage, political drama, and fast-paced adventure in the dark dystopian world of synthetic biology. If you like Michael Crichton, Daniel Suarez, or Neal Stephenson, or loved dystopian classics: the Handmaid’s Tale, Brave New World, and Ready Player One, you’ll love this page-turning science fiction thriller. Grab Death Donor today if a fast-paced genetic technothriller filled with political espionage, bloody twists, and explosive turns sounds right up your alley! Praise for Death Donor: 'a fast-paced revenge / payback story with a kick-A** female lead!--She Just Loves Books “Politically intense, fast paced, and raw, Death Donor spares no grit, guts, or tools of fate.” --EL Strife, author of Stellar Fusion Buy Death Donor today for an action-packed techno thriller… right up to its shocking conclusion.

Matt Ward (Author), Larissa Thompson (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Larissa Thompson