Steal the Stars, Nat Cassidy
Steal the Stars, Nat Cassidy
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Steal the Stars
The Original Full-Cast Recording

Author: Nat Cassidy, Mac Rogers

Narrator: Full Cast

Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/16/2018


Synopsis

"Bundling a successful podcast with other material, this audio program makes an attention-grabbing listen...The episodic sci-fi thriller that results is a listening feast." — AudioFile Magazine

*The original podcast recording*

This audio book includes all fourteen episodes of the Audio Verse Award-winning podcast series, plus exclusive bonus content, including the live staged reading of the prequel episode, "Deputy"; a round table discussion with the creators; and more.

Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world.

They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth.

The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes.

It’s love at first sight—which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts vowing not to fraternize with other military personnel. If they run, they’ll be hunted for what they know. Dak and Matt have only way to be together: do the impossible. Steal Moss and sell the secret of its existence.

And they can’t afford a single mistake.

This program is performed by Ashlie Atkinson, Nat Cassidy, Hanna Cheek, Rebecca Comtois, Jorge Cordova, Sol Marina Crespo, Reyna de Courcy, Neimah Djourabchi, Autumn Dornfeld, Abe Goldfarb, Jason Howard, Daryl Lathon, Kelley Rae O'Donnell, Mac Rogers, Seth Sheldon, David Shih, Brian Silliman, Tarantino Smith, Jennifer Tsay, James Wetzel, Brittany Williams, Jordana Williams, Sean Williams, and Christopher Yustin.

Also available from Tor Books: Steal the Stars, a novel by Nat Cassidy, the official adaptation of the podcast and an NPR Book of the Year.

About Nat Cassidy

NAT CASSIDY writes horror for the page, stage, and screen. His acclaimed novels, including Mary: An Awakening of Terror and Nestlings, have been featured in best-of lists from Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, the Chicago Review of Books, the NY Public Library, and more, and he was named one of the "writers shaping horror’s next golden age" by Esquire. His award-winning horror plays have been produced throughout New York City and across the United States. He won the NY Innovative Theatre Award for his one-man show about H. P. Lovecraft, another for his play about Caligula, and was commissioned by the Kennedy Center to write the libretto for a short opera (about the end of the world, of course). You've also likely seen Nat on your TV, playing various Bad Guys of the Week on shows such as Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Bull, Quantico, FBI, and many others ... but that's a topic for a different bio. He lives in New York City with his wife.

About Mac Rogers

MAC ROGERS is an award-winning audio dramatist and playwright. His audio/podcasts dramas The Message and LifeAfter have been downloaded over eight million times. His stageplays include The Honeycomb Trilogy (winner of the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Premiere Production), Frankenstein Upstairs, God of Obsidian, Ligature Marks, Asymmetric, Viral, Universal Robots, Hail Satan(Outstanding Playwriting Winner at FringeNYC 2007), and Fleet Week: The Musical (co-written with Sean Williams and Jordana Williams; winner of Outstanding Musical at FringeNYC 2005). He has earned acclaim from The New York Times, The Guardian, Backstage, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, New York Post, Flavorpill, io9, Fangoria, Tor.com, Show Business Weekly, New York Press, and many others.


Reviews

Title: Steal The Stars Author: Nat Cassidy Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, New Adult I love anything science fiction.. and I grew up watching X-Files etc so I was really intrigued to read this book. Aliens, extra terrestrials beings... who wouldn't want to read about......more

Goodreads review by Glen

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. At a super-secret military base guarding a crashed alien space craft, two of the guards fall in love. They plan to escape, and the only way they can see to do that is to steal the alien. There's the usual Twilight Zone twist. The book is based on a dramatic podca......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

Steal the Stars was conceptually interesting given that it started life as a podcast produced and released by a book publisher (Tor). I like the idea of book publishers getting into the world of podcasts, as narrative storytelling has a lot of cross-platform potential. But, I would have liked to see......more

Goodreads review by Laura

When I realized this was based on a podcast series I thought I’d listen to them first. Glad I didn’t so I can compare them now. This is a very different take on discovering aliens exist. They’ve had Moss, the alien, hidden away for a long time. If you are chosen to work at the facility, you are an em......more

Goodreads review by Antonio

Esta reseña se refiere a la versión en audio dramatizada de Tor Labs. El argumento más o menos clásico de ciencia ficción se ve aderezado por un interesantísimo plantel de personajes. Particularmente la protagonista te atrapa con su personalidad y la fantástica actuación de la actriz de doblaje. La hi......more


Quotes

Praise for the Steal the Stars podcast

A SyFy Wire recommended podcast

"Doesn't so much raise the bar on audio drama as launch it into space." —Amal El-Mohtar, author of "Seasons of Glass and Iron"

"Sharp, superior, intense, and clever." —Una McCormack, author of The Crimson Shadow

"Snappy, fast-paced, and ferocious." —Paul Cornell, author of The Lost Child of Lychford and the Shadow Police series

"Comical, clever, compassionate, and hair-raisingly tense." —Cassandra Khaw, author of Hammers of Bone

"Thrilling and intimate." —Mary Robinette Kowal, author of Shades of Milk and Honey

“A UFO story, a military thriller, a sexy romance, and a tech-industry satire all at once—and it's a total blast to listen to. Get ready to get obsessed.” —Dan Kois, Culture Editor, Slate.com

"Everything I love about great science fiction adventure." —Geoffrey Thorne, co-producer of Leverage

“Compelling, lyrical, and thrilling.” —Max Gladstone, author of The Craft Sequence

"This is rad and you're gonna wanna get in on it." —Brooke Bolander, author of "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies"


Awards

  • NPR Best Book of the Year