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Charles Stross
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In this new Laundry Files adventure the fate of the world will literally depend on the roll of dice... twenty-sided dice, that is.
In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another spotty teenage dungeon master growing up in middle England. But then a secret government agency tasked with suppressing magical intrusions received a tip-off—and one midnight raid later, his life was turned upside down by the Satanic D&D Panic.
Decades later Derek, now middle-aged and institutionalized, is a long-term inmate at Camp Sunshine, a center for deprogramming captured Elder God cultists. He's considered safe enough to edit the camp newsletter, and he even has postal privileges—which he uses to run a play-by-mail game. After 25 years, Derek finally has reason to escape: a nearby D&D convention. While Derek's D&D games were full of fictional elder gods and world-ending threats, a LARP game at the con is a dread ritual designed to summon a great evil into our world, and it's up to Derek and his players to stop them.
The fate of the world may depend on the contents of Derek's magic dice bag.
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Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity’s exodus from Earth. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this series!
- De Jim Cira en 01-21-25
De: Malka Older
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Glasshouse
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 380
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 331
With Glasshouse, Stross pens a Kafkaesque tale set in a 27th-century of teleport gates and mind-attacking network worms. After Robin awakes in a clinic, he struggles to summon details of his life, but too many of his memories have been wiped clean. More troubling is the stark awareness of immediate danger: someone is trying to kill him. On the run, Robin makes a desperate gamble and volunteers for what he hopes is the sanctuary of an unusual study at the Glasshouse. Once there, however, he realizes the true terror has only begun.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vintage Stross
- De Ken en 06-21-11
De: Charles Stross
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Besieged
- Stories from The Iron Druid Chronicles
- De: Kevin Hearne
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,847
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,412
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,384
In ancient Egypt, Atticus agrees to raid a secret chamber underneath the library of Alexandria, dodging deadly traps, only to learn that on-site security includes two members of the Egyptian pantheon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short or full-length, Hearne & Daniels OWN it all
- De RabidReads en 08-21-17
De: Kevin Hearne
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Empire Games
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 252
Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travelers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's 17 years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Alex Beckers en 03-23-17
De: Charles Stross
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Singularity Sky
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 556
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 423
In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gonzo giggleworthy geekitude
- De Noah Smith en 11-11-10
De: Charles Stross
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Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge
- De: John Ringo, Larry Correia
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,254
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,716
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,695
When marine private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the marine barrack bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to heaven, which, while nice, might be a little boring, or return to earth. The Boss has a mission for him, and he's to look for a sign. He's a marine: He'll choose the mission. Unfortunately, the sign he's to look for is "57". Which, given the food services contract in Bethesda Hospital, creates some difficulty. Eventually it appears that God's will is for Chad to join a group called Monster Hunters International.
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1 out of 5 stars
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My first in the monster hunter series
- De Randall en 06-20-18
De: John Ringo, y otros
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Antibodies
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: Jared Doreck
- Duración: 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when one of the great and the good is assassinated. You can kill a politician, but their ideas usually live on. They have a life of their own. How much more dangerous, then, the ideas of mathematicians? The announcement of the solution to the traveling salesman problem heralds the imminent destruction of humanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite a ride..
- De Kindle Customer en 06-08-11
De: Charles Stross
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Stone and Sky
- Rivers of London, Book 10
- De: Ben Aaronovitch
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland. He'll need one once this is over...
De: Ben Aaronovitch
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Velocity Weapon
- De: Megan E. O'Keefe
- Narrado por: Joe Jameson
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 404
Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take down any enemy combatant. Biran is a savvy politician who aims to use his new political position to prevent conflict from escalating to total destruction. However, on a routine maneuver, Sanda loses consciousness when her gunship is blown out of the sky. Instead of finding herself in friendly hands, she awakens 230 years later on a deserted enemy warship controlled by an AI who calls himself Bero. The war is lost.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Romance Novel with a Science Fiction Setting
- De T. Van Valkenburgh en 07-23-20
De: Megan E. O'Keefe
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Every Heart a Doorway
- De: Seanan McGuire
- Narrado por: Cynthia Hopkins
- Duración: 4 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,579
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,321
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,318
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions - slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced...they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly Moving
- De tm en 07-12-16
De: Seanan McGuire
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Future's Edge
- De: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrado por: Sarah Cullum
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Two years later, she's plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artifact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity's survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superbly Done (again by this author)
- De Anonymous User en 06-13-25
De: Gareth L. Powell
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HALO: The Fall of Reach
- HALO, Book 1
- De: Eric Nylund
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8,164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,139
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7,124
The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exploding into a full-blown interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal story - problematic performance
- De wotsisname en 07-02-19
De: Eric Nylund
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Accelerando
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 708
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 628
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 629
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hardest of hard SF...
- De DLee en 11-24-14
De: Charles Stross
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In Our Stars
- The Doomed Earth, Book 1
- De: Jack Campbell
- Narrado por: Andrea Emmes, Tim Fannon
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 134
Genetically engineered with partly alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different from ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she’s spent her life trying to overcome society’s prejudice by serving in Earth’s Unified Fleet. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity’s factional extremism on the planet reaches a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth. When the massive forces unleashed by Earth’s death warp space and time to hurl her forty years into the past, Genji is given a chance to try to change the future and save Earth.
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3 out of 5 stars
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So much potential but poor dialogue writing
- De Timothy Dearborn en 06-18-24
De: Jack Campbell
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Saturation Point
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Emma Newman
- Duración: 4 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes. Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the program was cut short. Now, they're sending her back in.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not up to snuff
- De Stephen Clark en 02-09-25
loved the introspective talk of sources and inspiration at the end!
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Solid story + bonus Bob content
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But what if D&D was a path to dark magic?
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