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David Brin
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What may we become? How will we endure? The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Here are vivid tales about possible tomorrows, from the keen eye and colorful pen of David Brin, a modern master of speculative fiction.
Visit a chillingly plausible tomorrow, when prisoners may be sent to asteroidal gulags. Or might prisons vanish and felons roam, seeing only what society allows? Suppose, amid lavish success, we gain the superpower to fly! Will we even appreciate it, or will we find new reasons to complain? In "Mars Opposition", you'll experience an alien invasion like no other, confronting humanity with a stark and terrible choice; followed by several more tales of conquest from beyond, each of them wildly different. On the other hand, might fantastically potent new beings emerge out of ourselves, as revealed in "Chrysalis"?
Featuring guest appearances by Gregory Benford, Jules Verne, and Galileo, this adventure takes you beyond the very singularity in "Stones of Significance", pondering what could happen after humans are like gods. And "Reality Check" asks one of you listeners - just one of you - to wake up!
Tomorrow awaits. We can face it and prevail. So long as our stance is brave Insistence of Vision.
©2016 David Brin (P)2016 David BrinLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time: a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.
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- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-30-11
De: Arthur C. Clarke
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Variable Star
- De: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrado por: Spider Robinson
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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At his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of interstellar time and space. Now, the Heinlein estate has authorized award-winning author Spider Robinson to expand his outline into a full-length novel. And the result is vintage Heinlein.
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Spider WHO
- De Randall en 04-25-09
De: Robert A. Heinlein, y otros
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Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours
- De: David Mack
- Narrado por: Susan Eisenberg
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first officer. But if she wants to keep the job, she must prove to Captain Philippa Georgiou that she deserves to have it.
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Could Have Been Great
- De Rick en 11-13-17
De: David Mack
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Distress
- De: Greg Egan
- Narrado por: Adam Epstein
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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Investigative reporter Andrew Worth turns down a documentary on a mysterious new mental illness - "Distress," or acute clinical anxiety syndrome, for another assignment. He's on his way to the artificial island of Stateless, where the world's top physicists are gathering to decide on a new TOE, or Theory of Everything, to replace Einstein's outmoded legacy.
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A good book ruined by a poor (and strange) reading
- De David en 12-06-13
De: Greg Egan
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Starfish
- Rifters Trilogy Series, Book 1
- De: Peter Watts
- Narrado por: Gabriel Vaughan
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew - people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater - down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.
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An excellent story, but only half of it
- De Casey en 02-12-20
De: Peter Watts
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Fear the Sky
- The Fear Saga, Book 1
- De: Stephen Moss
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 20 h y 17 m
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From the Audie-nominated narrator of The Martian. In eleven years' time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out.
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Audible Where Are The Rest?!
- De ByEqualMeasure - julie en 09-14-15
De: Stephen Moss
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Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
- The Four Lords of the Diamond, Book 1
- De: Jack L. Chalker
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four worlds because of unique microscopic symbionts that make it impossible for visitors to leave the Diamond. Seeking a unique solution, each of the four worlds making up the Diamond is sent a person whose mind has been stripped of everything and who is now controlled by an agent of the Confederacy. Lilith is the first planet to be visited.
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A great series if read in its entirety
- De Onix Harbinger en 08-21-18
De: Jack L. Chalker
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Gateways
- Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl
- De: Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, y otros
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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It isn’t easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that’s what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, Gateways is a SF event that will be a must-buy for SF readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting edge; from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny.
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Spectacular.
- De Steve Reid en 08-21-15
De: Greg Bear, y otros
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In the Ocean of Night
- Galactic Center, Book 1
- De: Gregory Benford
- Narrado por: Maxwell Caulfield
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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It is 2019. NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy it, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal….
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Like some Space with your Soaps?
- De Bradley en 05-15-12
De: Gregory Benford
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The Enigma Cube
- Alien Artifact, Book 1
- De: Douglas E. Richards
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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Dr. Kelly Connolly is part of a top-secret team studying the most important find in human history - the Enigma Cube, an alien artifact of incomprehensible power. A cube whose technology can catapult civilization to dizzying heights - or destroy it entirely. After years of failed attempts to unlock the cube's secrets, all hell suddenly breaks loose. Kelly and a black-ops commando, Justin Boyd, are soon fighting against all odds to stay alive, and to keep the cube out of enemy hands.
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Stupid
- De Kindle Customer en 05-07-20
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The Gordian Protocol
- The Gordian Protocol, Book 1
- De: David Weber, Jacob Holo
- Narrado por: Gabriel Vaughan
- Duración: 18 h y 53 m
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Doctor Benjamin Schröder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher - chairman of the Castle Rock University history department - and if his life wasn't perfect, it was close. Until, that is the discussion of his star student Elzbietá Abramowski's dissertation on Operation Oz, the Pacific Allies' invasion of Vladivostok, was brutally interrupted. The psychotic episode that turned his entire world upside down struck with absolutely no warning, and it was more terrifying than anything he should have been able to imagine.
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Trash
- De E en 05-08-19
De: David Weber, y otros
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Existence
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact".
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Will its universe envelop you?
- De Andreas Henriksson en 07-20-13
De: David Brin
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Otherness
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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From Hugo- and Nebula-winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays about the near and distant future, as humans and other intelligences encounter the secrets of the cosmos - and of their own existence. What happens when an urban archaeologist discovers a terrible secret under the landfills of Los Angeles? Will there still be a purpose for "biologicals" when cybernetic humans become mighty and smart? Come explore these and another dozen startling and provocative tomorrows with a modern master of science fiction.
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Feh..
- De Chris en 12-17-18
De: David Brin
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River of Time
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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The River of Time brings together 12 of David Brin's stories, including "The Crystal Spheres", which won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 1985. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe. Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves?
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Love this book
- De Pernicious en 05-26-16
De: David Brin
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Nanoverse: Books 1-4
- De: Theophilus Monroe
- Narrado por: Miles Meili
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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Nanovax was supposed to be our salvation. Death and disease, now obsolete. Until the terrorist attack. Fifteen cities in a single day. Again, they said Nanovax was the answer. The same technology meant to heal us could now be used, through an algorithm, to track us, to predict human behaviors...to thwart future terrorists. I'm Lieutenant Brian Goff. I received the first injection. It healed my wounds. I became the face of Nanovax. Then the algorithm identified me as a terrorist. Now, I'm fighting against the technology that once saved my life...and the government has my daughter.
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Fascinating Dystopian Sci-Fi Technothriller Boxset
- De Laura en 04-17-22
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Heart of the Comet
- De: Gregory Benford, David Brin
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 21 h y 24 m
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Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet, alter its orbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells - that might once have brought life to Earth - begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future - and that of Earth - only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.
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Challenging hard sci-fi with some characterization
- De William Tanksley, Jr. en 08-06-18
De: Gregory Benford, y otros
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Brightness Reef
- The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 25 h y 48 m
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Persecuted refugees from six separate alien races have migrated to the idyllic planet Jijo. And despite their incredible diversity, the inhabitants live together in blissful harmony. However, settlement on Jijo is illegal - and it's only a matter of time before the residents of this forbidden paradise are discovered by the galactic powers-that-be.
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Hard Core Sci-Fi at it's best!
- De Chas en 05-14-10
De: David Brin
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Existence
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact".
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Will its universe envelop you?
- De Andreas Henriksson en 07-20-13
De: David Brin
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Otherness
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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From Hugo- and Nebula-winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays about the near and distant future, as humans and other intelligences encounter the secrets of the cosmos - and of their own existence. What happens when an urban archaeologist discovers a terrible secret under the landfills of Los Angeles? Will there still be a purpose for "biologicals" when cybernetic humans become mighty and smart? Come explore these and another dozen startling and provocative tomorrows with a modern master of science fiction.
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Feh..
- De Chris en 12-17-18
De: David Brin
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River of Time
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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The River of Time brings together 12 of David Brin's stories, including "The Crystal Spheres", which won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 1985. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe. Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves?
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Love this book
- De Pernicious en 05-26-16
De: David Brin
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Nanoverse: Books 1-4
- De: Theophilus Monroe
- Narrado por: Miles Meili
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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Nanovax was supposed to be our salvation. Death and disease, now obsolete. Until the terrorist attack. Fifteen cities in a single day. Again, they said Nanovax was the answer. The same technology meant to heal us could now be used, through an algorithm, to track us, to predict human behaviors...to thwart future terrorists. I'm Lieutenant Brian Goff. I received the first injection. It healed my wounds. I became the face of Nanovax. Then the algorithm identified me as a terrorist. Now, I'm fighting against the technology that once saved my life...and the government has my daughter.
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Fascinating Dystopian Sci-Fi Technothriller Boxset
- De Laura en 04-17-22
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Heart of the Comet
- De: Gregory Benford, David Brin
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 21 h y 24 m
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Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet, alter its orbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells - that might once have brought life to Earth - begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future - and that of Earth - only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.
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Challenging hard sci-fi with some characterization
- De William Tanksley, Jr. en 08-06-18
De: Gregory Benford, y otros
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Brightness Reef
- The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 25 h y 48 m
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Persecuted refugees from six separate alien races have migrated to the idyllic planet Jijo. And despite their incredible diversity, the inhabitants live together in blissful harmony. However, settlement on Jijo is illegal - and it's only a matter of time before the residents of this forbidden paradise are discovered by the galactic powers-that-be.
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Hard Core Sci-Fi at it's best!
- De Chas en 05-14-10
De: David Brin
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- Shawn Oueinsteen
- 08-01-16
Brin Is Brilliant; Sometimes Too Brilliant
Most of the stories are great. Some are too much lost in their brilliance. Inter-story discussion is actually pretty interesting. The reader is very good.
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