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John Scalzi
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, it's quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, he's going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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Wil Wheaton, a Star Trek: The Next Generation alum, is a canny choice for narrator of this intersection of science fiction and Elmore Leonard-esque Hollywood farce. In addition to being a rather prominent footnote in sci-fi history, Wheaton’s also got a great voice — sonorous, with an inflection similar to a late-night radio DJ who’s bemusedly sharing an anecdote on air between tracks. His voice also carries a hint of that lilt peculiar to many native Angelenos, which comes in handy when he exaggerates it to Valley Girl-proportions to portray starlet Michelle Beck, former cheerleader and current box office draw.
Hollywood agent Tom Stein is the book’s hero, and when the story begins, Michelle is his most important client. That is, until Tom meets Joshua, an extraterrestrial whose alien race hires Tom and his boss, superagent Carl Lupo, to represent them. The Yherajk have decided their best hope for a peaceful first contact between their race and all of humanity is to out themselves via the movies, and they know if they want to make it in Hollywood, they need good representation.
Wheaton’s voicing of Joshua, who has traveled to Earth as the Yherajk’s representative, is another highlight. Joshua, like his kinsmen, looks like a gelatinous blob, gives off a noxious odor, and slithers around amorphously. He’s also incredibly educated when it comes to human pop culture, having logged countless hours watching sitcoms. Wheaton delivers Joshua’s line, “We look like snot. And we smell like dead fish,” in a nasally deadpan that suits a one-liner-delivering alien to a T.
Even when Scalzi veers into semi-philosophical territory — as when he explores why an alien race would choose a Hollywood debut over staging their premiere in Washington — Wheaton keeps the narration moving with his just-right character voices. Look out for the both silly and spot-on sounding Quebecois accent he uses to portray Roland Lanois, an art-house film director with a critical role in the novel, and for his Buddha-like turn as Gwedif, a Yherajk storyteller. —Maggie Frank
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On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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Weekend Warriors
- De Ms Mare en 04-04-09
De: Fern Michaels
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Waste of Space
- De: Gina Damico
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg, Maxwell Glick
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Cram 10 hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama - and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. Hidden in a desert warehouse, their spaceship replica is equipped with state-of-the-art special effects dreamed up by the scientists partnering with the shady cable network airing the show.
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#CatchPhraseForever
- De Diane S. en 07-28-17
De: Gina Damico
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The Unincorporated Man
- De: Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 23 h y 18 m
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The Unincorporated Man is a provocative social/political/economic novel that takes place in the future, after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every individual is incorporated at birth and spends many years trying to attain control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.
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- De CB en 06-15-09
De: Dani Kollin, y otros
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The Good Byline
- A Riley Ellison Mystery
- De: Jill Orr
- Narrado por: Sarah Naughton
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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Meet Riley Ellison, a smart, quirky, young library assistant who's become known in her hometown of Tuttle Corner, Virginia, as Riley Bless-Her-Heart. Ever since her beloved granddaddy died and her longtime boyfriend broke up with her, Riley has been withdrawing from life. In an effort to rejoin the living, she signs up for an online dating service and tries to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Jordan James, a reporter at the Tuttle Times.
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Entertaining light mystery
- De Elisabeth Carey en 04-13-18
De: Jill Orr
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Short Squeeze
- De: Chris Knopf
- Narrado por: Deanna Hurst
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Meet smart-aleck Southampton attorney Jackie Swaitkowski. Her business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that she finds herself working on something bigger, and more dangerous, than real estate.
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Great Listen - Good Series
- De Patricia en 02-15-10
De: Chris Knopf
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A Pedigree to Die For
- A Melanie Travis Mystery
- De: Laurien Berenson
- Narrado por: Jessica Almasy
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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The apparent heart attack that killed kennel owner Max Turnbull has left seven pups in mourning, and his wife Peg suspecting foul play. But the only evidence is their missing prize pooch - a pedigreed poodle named Beau.
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- De DamselflyStudio en 11-07-20
De: Laurien Berenson
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The Unsung Hero
- Troubleshooters, Book 1
- De: Suzanne Brockmann
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor, Melanie Ewbank
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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After a near-fatal head injury, Navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the Navy dismisses the sighting as injury-induced imaginings. In a last-ditch effort to prevent disaster, Tom creates his own makeshift counterterrorism team, assembling his most loyal officers, two elderly war veterans, a couple of misfit teenagers, and Dr. Kelly Ashton.
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- De Kindle Customer (VH) en 06-21-16
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Dog Dish of Doom
- An Agent to the Paws Mystery
- De: E. J. Copperman
- Narrado por: Christy Romano
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Kay Powell wants to find that break-out client who will become a star. And she thinks she's found him: His name is Bruno, and he has to be walked three times a day. Kay is the Agent to the Paws, representing showbiz clients who aren't exactly people. In fact: they're dogs. Bruno's humans, Trent and Louise, are pains in the you-know-what, and Les McMaster, the famous director mounting a revival of Annie, might not hire Bruno just because he can't stand them.
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Unfortunately Riddled with Mispronunciations.
- De Maggie May en 02-01-18
De: E. J. Copperman
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On Borrowed Time
- De: David Rosenfelt
- Narrado por: Chris Ensweiler
- Duración: 7 h
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Richard Kilmer is head over heels in love with Jennifer Ryan, who takes him home to meet her parents, where she accepts his marriage proposal. While visiting, they set out on a nostalgic drive up to Kendrick Falls. On their way, a freak storm rolls in, Richard loses control of his car, and it rolls. When the storm clears in a matter of seconds, Jen is gone. Richard can't find her, and neither can the police who respond to the scene.
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Not enough dogs!
- De Rowan Mangan en 09-18-11
De: David Rosenfelt
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Until Proven Guilty
- J. P. Beaumont Series, Book 1
- De: J. A. Jance
- Narrado por: Gene Engene
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Lurking in the dark corners of J. P. Beaumont's bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.
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Until proven guilty
- De Jean en 04-21-11
De: J. A. Jance
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For Whom The Minivan Rolls
- Aaron Tucker Mystery, Book 1
- De: Jeffrey Cohen
- Narrado por: Damon Abdallah
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Aaron Tucker isn't a detective. So he's baffled when the richest guy in his New Jersey town insists that Aaron, and Aaron alone, investigate the disappearance of his wife, who has inexplicably vanished from their home in the middle of the night. Funny, down-to-earth, lovable, and resourceful, Aaron Tucker, family man and freelance writer, reluctantly says yes, and continuously wishes he hadn't.
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Funny, Great Narration, Weak Mystery
- De Karen K en 07-16-15
De: Jeffrey Cohen
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The Rabbit Factory
- De: Marshall Karp
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte, James Jenner
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
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Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
- De MidwestGeek en 12-19-12
De: Marshall Karp
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Deborah Hazlett
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- De connie en 02-19-12
De: Laura Lippman
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Too Close to Home
- De: Linwood Barclay
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in the house next door, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. You can't help thinking, "That could have been us". And you start to wonder, "What if we're next?" That's the question Jim and Ellen Cutter are asking, and the answers aren't reassuring.
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Plots and subplots galore
- De shelley en 04-10-14
De: Linwood Barclay
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The Android's Dream
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire.
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Covertly flatulent Scifi at it's best!
- De DAVID en 11-12-11
De: John Scalzi
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Lock In (Narrated by Amber Benson)
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Amber Benson
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
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Love Amber's Narration
- De Anthony en 09-11-14
De: John Scalzi
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Miniatures
- The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Luke Daniels, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
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Small doses of "Scalzian" humor
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 01-05-17
De: John Scalzi
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Redshirts
- A Novel with Three Codas
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
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Not his Wheal-house
- De P. Stover en 09-16-13
De: John Scalzi
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Little Fuzzy [Jimcin]
- De: H. Beam Piper
- Narrado por: Jim Roberts
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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On the planet Zarathustra, a sunstone prospector named Jack Holloway has a mysterious small, "fuzzy" alien show up at his door and make itself at home. Jack names it "Little Fuzzy" and the creature's whole family soon joins them. Hardened prospector Jack is transformed into their "pappy" and chief protector and his life is changed forever.
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Great Story!
- De Kindle Customer en 06-12-10
De: H. Beam Piper
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 03-15-22
De: John Scalzi
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The Android's Dream
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire.
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Covertly flatulent Scifi at it's best!
- De DAVID en 11-12-11
De: John Scalzi
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Lock In (Narrated by Amber Benson)
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Amber Benson
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
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Love Amber's Narration
- De Anthony en 09-11-14
De: John Scalzi
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Miniatures
- The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Luke Daniels, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
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Small doses of "Scalzian" humor
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 01-05-17
De: John Scalzi
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Redshirts
- A Novel with Three Codas
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
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Not his Wheal-house
- De P. Stover en 09-16-13
De: John Scalzi
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Little Fuzzy [Jimcin]
- De: H. Beam Piper
- Narrado por: Jim Roberts
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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On the planet Zarathustra, a sunstone prospector named Jack Holloway has a mysterious small, "fuzzy" alien show up at his door and make itself at home. Jack names it "Little Fuzzy" and the creature's whole family soon joins them. Hardened prospector Jack is transformed into their "pappy" and chief protector and his life is changed forever.
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Great Story!
- De Kindle Customer en 06-12-10
De: H. Beam Piper
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 03-15-22
De: John Scalzi
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The Collapsing Empire
- The Interdependency, Book 1
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
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THE STUPIDITIES OF COURT
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-01-17
De: John Scalzi
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The President's Brain Is Missing
- A Tor.Com Original
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 47 m
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The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?
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Not my cup of tea (Kelly SAID)
- De Kelly A McDermott en 09-15-19
De: John Scalzi
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.
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Slow Time Between the Stars
- The Far Reaches Collection
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Kay Eluvian
- Duración: 56 m
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Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, and—with a perspective created but not limited by humans—what it should do.
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Lovely story! Lovely performance
- De Lisa en 06-28-23
De: John Scalzi
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The B-Team
- The Human Division, Episode 1
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union’s future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers there’s more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected... a secret that could spell war for humanity.
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Obumwe said, Eagan said, Wilson said, Rickney said
- De A Fitts en 01-18-13
De: John Scalzi
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The God Engines
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this — and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given....
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I love Scalzi's writing but not this book
- De Tony Loman en 11-29-11
De: John Scalzi
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Starter Villain
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- De C. White en 09-19-23
De: John Scalzi
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Constituent Service
- A Third District Story
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Amber Benson
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
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Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District–the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself. And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.
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Short and fun!
- De Andrew en 10-04-24
De: John Scalzi
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A Very Scalzi Christmas
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Dina Pearlman, Kevin T. Collins, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 59 m
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New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps 15 short takes on the holiday season - interviews with holiday notables, "informational" articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and New Year’s - and puts them all into a stocking stuffer-sized package that makes the perfect gift for friends, family, or yourself.
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Very Scalzian indeed!
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 12-03-19
De: John Scalzi
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The Dispatcher
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Zachary Quinto
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
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Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-05-16
De: John Scalzi
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Rip-Off!
- De: John Scalzi, Jack Campbell, Mike Resnick, y otros
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In Rip-Off!, 13 of today’s best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction) - then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.
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When is a rip-off not a rip-off?
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-24-13
De: John Scalzi, y otros
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Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue
- A Tor.com Original
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: James MacKenzie
- Duración: 21 m
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Here is Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, now a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
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Excellent Prologue, not short story
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 03-05-13
De: John Scalzi
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- Katya A
- 03-06-13
A stay-up-all-night-reading kind of book
This is my first book by John Scalzi, but definitely not the last. His sharp anad slightly sarcastic humor, effortless wit and narrative flow remind me a lot of "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. The characters are interesting, multi-dimensional and over the top, while still believable and very much likable. The way the story weaves through the fantastic elements and the mundane elements is thrilling.
Separate tip of the hat to Wil Wheaton, an excellent narrator. His characters are very distinct, his technique is flawless and Joshua the Alien sounds like a true hipster, which, i guess is expected for a gelatinous life form.
I would recommend this book, you will enjoy it!
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- Moon River
- 09-11-12
Excellent!
This was my first Scalzi book and I absolutely loved it. Wil Wheaton is a fantastic narrator. Agent to the Stars is funny, sharp, and unexpectedly sweet.
I would recommend this book to anyone, not just science fiction fans!
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- Frank
- 05-15-12
Light humorous touch from both author and narrator
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Scalzi's Old Man's War series is superb, but it's pretty grim stuff. Agent to the Stars is just as good, but has a lighter tone and often (though not always) goes for the funny. Wil Wheaton's voice and voice acting matches the material perfectly. Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation is also narrated by Wil Wheaton; I'm planning to buy that too.
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- Steven Prue
- 10-14-11
one of the best performances from a reader...
I usually don't write reviews, but WIl Wheaton's performance really brought this book to life. I kept getting looks from other people in the subway when i would start laughing between stops on the L train.
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- 10-23-12
entertainment pure
What made the experience of listening to Agent to the Stars the most enjoyable?
excellent flow, never boring, perfectly written dialogs, not too predictable, really good humor
Who was your favorite character and why?
obviously the dog
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my first scalzi novel, wont be the last one. excellent entertainment. i like easy listening audio books, this made my daily drive home instantaneous
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- Renniebrooke
- 06-13-16
Fun, cute, slightly sexist
Loved it, really funny with a bit of serious thrown in to catch you. He's a fun writer (I also enjoyed Redshirts). I do notice that, in the manner of many fantasy/sci fi authors, he's kind of sexist, though not enough to make me stop reading his stuff, just pretty sure he wouldn't pass the Bechdel test.
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- S. Yates
- 06-26-16
Fun and silly
What other book might you compare Agent to the Stars to and why?
It has a Douglas Adams tone to it - absurdist fun and plenty of sly asides about the human race.
Which character – as performed by Wil Wheaton – was your favorite?
Joshua, hands down. My only gripe is that Wheaton's Tom sounded almost identical to his Carl. I wish he had made a bigger effort to differentiate them, as everyone else was great.
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Sometimes you just need entertainment with enough sarcasm thrown in to let you respect yourself when you're done. Not one of Scalzi's most meaningful works, but a great deal of fun. This is a first contact SF book meets Hollywood satire with a healthy dollop of Douglas Adams' absurdist humor. A really smelly alien race has come to earth and, having observed pretty much all the transmissions Earth has to offer (from Brady Bunch reruns to C.H.I.P.S. to the nightly news), they have decided that what they really need before their big reveal is an agent. A Hollywood agent, to be exact - to pave the way and script it and make sure humans are ready to meet friendly, but non-humanoid aliens. There are plenty of jokes and one-liners, a little bit of romance, lots of gentle (and not so gentle) poking of fun at Hollywood and its foibles, and a sort of sweet and feel good ending to tie it all in a bow. Also, a talking dog. If that doesn't sell you, I don't know what will.
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- Brenda Ingles
- 09-21-12
Loved it
This is my second John Scalzi /Wil Wheaton audiobook and I am hooked. I'm not normally much of a sci-fi fan, but I really enjoy how he makes wildly improbable scenarios work out. The narrator is a really good fit for Scalzi's style. Also liked how he fit a Golden Retriever into the story. It was very funny, a little sad, and uplifting all at once. Highly recommended listen.
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- E. McGuire
- 09-16-13
Entertainment at its best
What did you love best about Agent to the Stars?
The book comes together beautifully in a delightful fashion, narrated by Wil Wheaton, who provides just the right range for this whimsical story of aliens approaching life on earth carefully. That they choose Hollywood for the plan is intuitive to our culture and on the mark for a unique "they are among us" story....
What did you like best about this story?
The entirety if it. Humor can be poorly done - this is a very well written book that is not only fun but contains emotion as well.
What does Wil Wheaton bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Wil brings the characters to life and masterfully keeps you engaged in the story.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes.
Any additional comments?
I am hoping to read more from John Scalzi. Thanks for engaging Wil Wheaton to deliver this audible version of your book.
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- Windy
- 08-28-12
A Fun story and a masterful performance
What did you love best about Agent to the Stars?
Mixing humor with science fiction and fantasy is tough but it is well handled here.
What other book might you compare Agent to the Stars to and why?
It reminds me a bit of early (pre 1960) Heinlein in some of its tone and also a touch of the whimsy of Douglas Adams as seen in his Dirk Gently books.
Which character – as performed by Wil Wheaton – was your favorite?
Wheaton's voice and accent selection for this story were well chosen and nuanced I enjoyed the 'youngster' voice given to Joshua in particular.
Any additional comments?
Wil Wheaton has really improved as a performer of audio books and with this production he moves into the first rank of audio book stars... right up there with the readers of Pratchett's Discworld books, Nigel Plainer and Stephen Briggs.he is now in the class of Stefan Rudnicki, Fredrick Davidson, and Bronson Pichot. The mega star audible performers such as Stephen Fry and Derek Jacobi may need to look in the rear view mirror soon if he keeps improving at this rate.
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