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Foundation and Earth
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 18 h y 44 m
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Golan Trevize, former councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all - and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know.
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Please please re-record with Scott Brick!!
- De Amazon Customer en 06-12-12
- Foundation and Earth
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
Epic
Revisado: 03-17-21
follow the entire series to see where the stories you like got some of the beats and plots from.
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EPISODE 3: Peer Review
- De: Jackson Musker
- Narrado por: Octavia Chavez-Richmond, James Ludwig, Pun Bandhu, y otros
- Duración: 25 m
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Bee gives Ty a tubeworm tutorial and sees something even stranger on the seafloor.
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Fantastic!
- De Jerry A. Griffith en 10-16-20
- EPISODE 3: Peer Review
- De: Jackson Musker
- Narrado por: Octavia Chavez-Richmond, James Ludwig, Pun Bandhu, Lizan Mitchell, a full cast
Juvenile and fun
Revisado: 02-01-21
If you expect a rational story, move past this series.
By ep 3 we have been told that the space program allows for a long term mission with just two people and one of them goes to explore in an untested bit of tech.
Even with the "money issue" they bring up as a reason, there is that voice in my head that refuses to see this as more than a story for kids.
The performance and the sound is amazing. Just a shame the talent was wasted on this story.
push the timeline a few more decades and have a Base orbiting Jupiter or something...
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The Sea in the Sky
- De: Jackson Musker
- Narrado por: Octavia Chavez-Richmond, James Ludwig, Pun Bandhu, y otros
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Wisecracking, marine biologist Bee Guerrero has signed up for the trip of a lifetime: a series of dives deep into the pitch-black waters of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus.
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Too annoying
- De Kristian Pulz en 10-07-20
- The Sea in the Sky
- De: Jackson Musker
- Narrado por: Octavia Chavez-Richmond, James Ludwig, Pun Bandhu, Lizan Mitchell, a full cast
no logic but fun
Revisado: 01-28-21
Sending two people on this kind of mission with the tech level we are presented is just not something I can suspended in my mind. it ruins most of this story for me. It is a bit weak in the story and dialogue. It is worth the production and performance.
As I enter ep 4 I just can't imagine this ever happening. It makes no sense that a person with painic attacks is ever allowed on a deep space mission with just one other person. Neither of them Medical or anything related.
This needs to be added to the young adult library as no adult is taking this seriously.
I may finish the series and add notes as I go.
This is just not good or well thought out.
ep 6 just doubles down on the stupid. Not only do they give an example of why more than 2 people would be on the mission... but seriously goes into this mission being the longest ever done and keep pressing cost/discovery and place the crew as disposable.
Even 80s cartoons were more logical.
As ep 9 attempts to bring a drama to the table, I just do a hard eye roll. No rescue mission?! So this universe has ZERO connection to the entire history and modern practice of all space exploration.
The set up needed to be an accident or external events like war or the mother ship being destroyed.
As the story gives us a protagonist that would never be sent on this type of mission. We also get an unreasonable idea that NASA would send two people to Saturn with no follow up mission or something else to cover any events...
The performance and sound mixing are the only things keeping me here.
This ends and skips all concept of an ending....
Overall a fun listen even if it is a terrible and uninformed concept. The static characters are alive only by way of the actors and sound mixing.
Hamfisted commentary on social gripes and cultural stereotypes is very tiresome.
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Slan
- De: A. E. van Vogt
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Jommy Cross is a slan, a genetically bred superhuman whose race was created to aid humanity but is now despised by normal humans. Slans are usually shot on sight, but that doesn't stop Jommy's mother from bringing him to see the world capital of Centropolis, the seat of power for Earth's dictator, Kier Gray. But on their latest trip to Centropolis, the two slans are discovered, and Jommy's mother is killed.
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An Old Friend
- De Jon en 05-24-08
- Slan
- De: A. E. van Vogt
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Dated and cringe
Revisado: 01-08-21
This feels like a really bad story of a youth that is part of a master race of new humans and his endless luck and seemingly limitless power.
The story jerks through the growth of two mutant kids through adulthood. Each child experiences a typical male story of adventure and a typical female story of forced drama and captivity.
It smacks deeply of someone wishing to make a case for a super race that is seeding themselves within the frightened and paranoid human race.
I imagine people that were sympathetic to Nazi ideals would have eaten this book up when written.
There are a number of books surrounding this I will never read. This book is good for young readers of about 14+ with historical and social understanding of the time it was written. Going in with no information on the history or time of writing, you may think this written by an incel.
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Cycle of Fire
- De: Hal Clement
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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Stranded on an alien planet, light years from home, wandering from blistering heat to searing cold, Nils Kruger was not a happy man. So when he met another being - even though it wasn't human - things seemed to be looking up. The alien might be helpless, or it might be dangerous, but one thing was for sure - they stood a better chance for survival if they worked together. But as the two creatures overcame their mutual suspicion, as they worked together, as the language barrier was broken down, Nils came to a terrifying conclusion....
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dated sci-fi
- De nailsthatglow en 12-29-20
- Cycle of Fire
- De: Hal Clement
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
dated sci-fi
Revisado: 12-29-20
Pulp Speculative Fiction from the 1950s and 1960s doesn't often age very well. While the story is entertaining in a way there is a lack of a real journey in the center of a journey.
There is also not too subtle reference to ethnic stereotypes and a serious white savior issue.
The story end is clunky and is supposed to make you think. The human still wants to save his friend and his friend still wants his world. All we really get is world building with no real drama or danger or development in characters.
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Foundation and Empire
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series. Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire - the mightiest force in the Galaxy - is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who - or what - is the Mule?
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NOT AS HAPPY AS I WOULD LIKE TO BE
- De Joseph en 05-25-10
- Foundation and Empire
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
the 'foundation' of many
Revisado: 12-12-20
here you will find the basic story used by many over the years and most notable in 90s sci-fi and political TV.
The 'twist' phones itself in early but the ride is more about the characters and the world building needed for the next book to be what it is.
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Foundation (Apple Series Tie-in Edition)
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
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An unabridged classic but "Psychologist?!!"
- De Roger Lee en 04-07-13
- Foundation (Apple Series Tie-in Edition)
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
great start
Revisado: 11-28-20
it is a shame it ends when it does. it needs to be a collected three book run.
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Forget Nothing
- De: Jason Anspach, Michelle C. Meyers
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
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The daughter of a Legion war hero, fighting was in Andien Broxin's blood. But the battles Republic marines face on strange and alien worlds are a far cry from the vaunted, brutal, no-holds-barred conflicts fought at the edge of the galaxy by the elite legionnaires. Until a devastating war erupts right in the Republic’s stellar backyard. Newly stationed on a mid-core planet being harassed by terrorist revolutionaries, Andien and her fellow “hullbusters” find themselves right in the middle of a desperate fight for survival.
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Loved this story, but:
- De Nina Gaston en 06-06-20
- Forget Nothing
- De: Jason Anspach, Michelle C. Meyers
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
nope
Revisado: 11-15-20
This is the kind of writing you find in someone so thrilled with themselves. I simply can't listen to this. It comes across as pretentious and juvenile.
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Immortality, Inc.
- De: Robert Sheckley
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Want to be immortal? You can be in AD 2110. Just go to the Hereafter Insurance Corporation and hook yourself up to the Machine. There’s nothing to fear. That is, if it happens to be working right, and if nobody slips another mind into your body when you’re not looking, and if you’re not on a poltergeist hatelist.
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Sheckley Is The Best There Is
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 05-14-14
- Immortality, Inc.
- De: Robert Sheckley
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
dated and unfocused
Revisado: 10-30-20
The story seems to suggest the reader would be offended at the idea of a science based understanding of what happens after death. Following a white savior that literally goes out of his way to be an idiot. The setup feels forced and improbable even with the long way we go to explain how it all is supposed to work. Heinlein inspired characters inhabit a bland and soulless world of people that have to have money and influence to have an afterlife and even a possible immortal life path. The concept of a body being interchangeable with a mind has been done in better ways by better writers. The ending also insults women and the idea of love. A wonderful performance by Pinchot is the only reason I kept through the end.
When released it likely felt innovative and has had influence on similar religious tinted sci-fi by way of core concept and some of the drama.
A story to pass if you want a good story. Go for it if you are interested in a story of a willfully ignorant lead and empty bland women. Also interesting to people looking at the history of strange science fiction that plays with religion.
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Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories
- What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
- De: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11. And then, there are subjects from alien invasions to the Moon landing was simulated - theories that are truly out of this world, which according to some, is flat. Many of these crazy concepts have jumped off the pages or screens to become so pervasive in our culture that thousands - even millions - subscribe to them as reality.
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No chapter titles!!???
- De Nomad of the World en 09-21-19
- Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories
- What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
- De: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
opinions and views
Revisado: 06-16-20
More of a PBS level "lecture" series. The points made are open doors to follow after listening.
Not bad but very shallow. Gratuitous use of the word "should".
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