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Bruce Sterling
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In a near-future new age of corporate control, hacker mercenaries, and electronic terrorism, a public relations executive on the rise finds herself caught in the violent epicenter of a data war.
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the world’s nations are becoming irrelevant. Corporations are the true global powers, with information the most valuable currency, while the smaller island nations have become sanctuaries for data pirates and terrorists. A globe-trotting PR executive for the large corporate economic democracy Rizome Industries Group, Laura Webster is present when a foreign representative is assassinated on Rizome soil during a conference for offshore data havens. Dispatched immediately on an international mission of diplomacy, Laura hopes she can make a difference in a volatile, unsteady world, but instead finds herself trapped on the front lines of rapidly escalating third-world hostilities and caught up in an inescapable net of conspiracy, terrorism, post-millennial voodoo, and electronic warfare.
During the 1980s, science fiction luminary Bruce Sterling envisioned the future . . . and hit it almost dead-on. The author who, along with William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Rudy Rucker, helped create and define the cyberpunk subgenre imagines a world of tomorrow in Islands in the Net that bears a striking - and disturbing - resemblance to our present-day information-age reality. Nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards and winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Sterling’s extraordinary novel is a gripping, eye-opening, and remarkably prescient science fiction classic.
©1988 Bruce Sterling (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“A fast-paced novel of 21st-century techno-intrigue. Recommended.” (Library Journal)
“A sophisticated near-future political thriller that asks all the hard questions but dishes out no easy answers.” (Norman Spinrad)
“In his Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling has written the high-tech Candide. . . . Good show.” (Roger Zelazny)
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When Alex and Diane meet, there are instant, undeniable sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia: independent, highly competent, and seemingly settled in their comfortable lives. She runs a successful catering business. He's a detail-oriented, rough-hewn thief who robs banks, casinos, and jewelry stores. They're immediately drawn to each other, but neither realizes initially that their lives have overlapped once before, under dangerous circumstances. Soon their shared history and burgeoning relationship will threaten everything they love.
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- De Victor V. Cachia en 09-29-20
De: Stan Parish
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Chosen Ones
- De: Veronica Roth
- Narrado por: Dakota Fanning
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Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice - catastrophic events known as Drains - leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal...for everyone but them. Of the five, Sloane has had the hardest time adjusting.
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Same dull and depressed tone throughout
- De Thien-Nga Vo en 04-09-20
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Ivory
- De: Tony Park
- Narrado por: Mark Davis
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Alex Tremain is a pirate in trouble. The two women in his life - one of them his financial adviser, the other his diesel mechanic - have left him. He's facing a mounting tide of debts and his crew of modern-day buccaneers, a multi-national band of ex-military cut-throats, is getting restless. They don't all share his dream of going legit, but what Alex really wants is to re-open the five-star resort hotel which once belonged to his Portuguese mother and English father on the Island of Dreams, off the coast of Mozambique.
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- De kretin3 en 02-21-12
De: Tony Park
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The Desert and the Sea
- 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
- De: Michael Scott Moore
- Narrado por: Corey Snow
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International, Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates for 977 days. Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history.
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Wow!
- De Jonathan en 08-04-18
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Hawke: Three Black Ops
- Alex Hawke Series
- De: Ted Bell
- Narrado por: John Shea
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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This set includes Crash Dive, What Comes Around, and White Death, three Alex Hawke novellas never available before on audio. In Crash Dive, Alex Hawke is on a highly covert mission to enter another nation’s airspace undetected and find a way to avert a global war. In What Comes Around, two CIA officers are found dead. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one man: Spider Payne, a rogue intelligence officer. In White Death, M16 suspects a bizarre conspiracy when two bankers are found dead, and vast sums are plundered from the Queen of England’s accounts.
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Scam
- De Anonymous User en 10-10-18
De: Ted Bell
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No Quarter
- A Supernatural Action Adventure Opera
- De: Michael Todd, Michael Anderle, Laurie Starky
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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The rules have changed. Now the Damned can go on vacation and even hook up. Without Pandora near him, can Calvin get a little action in Cabo? Unfortunately, the general has a different demand for Katie, and it’s coming from the whole industry. Requested in New York to work with the NYPD, Katie is working a side job or two. Her mercenary skills are useful, and profitable, for other types of hard jobs. And this time, the Damned can help a child. There will be hell to pay when Katie and Pandora come calling, with no quarter for the demons.
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No Quarter
- De Joe Mellia en 06-21-24
De: Michael Todd, y otros
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Immoral
- De: Brian Freeman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first minute to the last.
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Intrigue in Minnesota.
- De Byron en 08-25-13
De: Brian Freeman
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Remote Control
- De: Andy McNab
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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After his mission is suddenly terminated in Washington, D.C., British Intelligence agent Nick Stone decides to visit an old colleague, Kev Brown. But when Stone arrives at his friend's eerily quiet suburban home, he discovers a chilling scene of carnage. Every member of the Brown family has been brutally slaughtered except one: seven-year-old Kelly Brown. His instincts on red alert and adrenaline in overdrive, Stone grabs the girl and runs - with anonymous assassins in hot pursuit.
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Not as expected.
- De Brenan T en 01-07-16
De: Andy McNab
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The Ninth Metal
- The Comet Cycle, Book 1
- De: Benjamin Percy
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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The town of Northfall, Minnesota, will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon. John Frontier returns for his sister’s wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government.
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Everyone Will Enjoy This Except My Mother
- De Liv Rosin en 06-04-21
De: Benjamin Percy
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h
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He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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Patriot Games
- De: Tom Clancy
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 22 h y 2 m
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It is fall. CIA analyst Jack Ryan, historian and former Marine, is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter. Suddenly, right before his eyes, a terrorist group launches its deadly attack. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved - the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
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Oldie but Goodie!
- De K. Masheter Deal en 08-13-12
De: Tom Clancy
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New Avengers: Breakout
- De: Alisa Kwitney, Marvel
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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Under secret orders to assassinate the Widow, Hawkeye, the rough-edged marksman, finds himself caught up in a violent prison break that releases some of the world's most vicious and powerful criminals. Defying his superiors, Hawkeye joins forces with the sultry Russian spy and a mismatched group of personalities that include Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Luke Cage, Captain America, and Iron Man.
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To much cut content
- De Amazon Customer en 09-15-19
De: Alisa Kwitney, y otros
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Schismatrix Plus
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Pavi Proczko
- Duración: 17 h y 2 m
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Acclaimed science fiction luminary and a godfather of the genre’s remarkable offspring - cyberpunk - Bruce Sterling carries readers to a far-future universe where stunning achievements in human development have been tainted by a virulent outbreak of prejudice and hatred.
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Sci-fi should be weird but...
- De Ryan H. en 02-11-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T’s long-distance switching system to corporate cyberattacks, he investigates government and law enforcement efforts to break the back of America’s electronic underground in the 1990s.
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Great bit of journalism chronicling a bygone era.
- De Amazon Customer en 12-20-20
De: Bruce Sterling
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Holy Fire
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy - if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression...
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Prescient
- De John D. Furber en 12-10-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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Ascendancies
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- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Pavi Proczko, Brian Nishii, Mikael Naramore, y otros
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Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.”
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The Artificial Kid
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
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Founded centuries ago by the enigmatic genius Moses Moses, the planet Reverie can either be heaven or hell, depending on whether you live on or above it. The superrich orbit the world in luxury abodes, keeping their sometimes-lethal ennui at bay by watching homemade sex and violence videos created by the peons dwelling on the coral continents miles beneath them. The most popular entertainer of all is the Artificial Kid, an unbeatable combat artist whose bloody, self-produced martial arts videos have made him beloved both above and below.
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Outlandishly Boring
- De Adhaincroi en 02-27-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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The Difference Engine
- De: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.
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Starts strong, falls off
- De Delano en 04-22-13
De: William Gibson, y otros
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Schismatrix Plus
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Pavi Proczko
- Duración: 17 h y 2 m
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Acclaimed science fiction luminary and a godfather of the genre’s remarkable offspring - cyberpunk - Bruce Sterling carries readers to a far-future universe where stunning achievements in human development have been tainted by a virulent outbreak of prejudice and hatred.
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Sci-fi should be weird but...
- De Ryan H. en 02-11-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T’s long-distance switching system to corporate cyberattacks, he investigates government and law enforcement efforts to break the back of America’s electronic underground in the 1990s.
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- De Amazon Customer en 12-20-20
De: Bruce Sterling
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Holy Fire
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy - if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression...
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Prescient
- De John D. Furber en 12-10-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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Ascendancies
- The Best of Bruce Sterling
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Pavi Proczko, Brian Nishii, Mikael Naramore, y otros
- Duración: 26 h y 39 m
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Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.”
De: Bruce Sterling
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The Artificial Kid
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Founded centuries ago by the enigmatic genius Moses Moses, the planet Reverie can either be heaven or hell, depending on whether you live on or above it. The superrich orbit the world in luxury abodes, keeping their sometimes-lethal ennui at bay by watching homemade sex and violence videos created by the peons dwelling on the coral continents miles beneath them. The most popular entertainer of all is the Artificial Kid, an unbeatable combat artist whose bloody, self-produced martial arts videos have made him beloved both above and below.
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Outlandishly Boring
- De Adhaincroi en 02-27-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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The Difference Engine
- De: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.
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Starts strong, falls off
- De Delano en 04-22-13
De: William Gibson, y otros
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Neuromancer
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.
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Story? Classic. Narrator? Ugh.
- De Sage en 11-11-14
De: William Gibson
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Hardwired
- De: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.
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The Best Cyberpunk I Have Read
- De David en 02-06-13
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Involution Ocean
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua. It was John Newhouse’s addiction to the substance that made him a dealer and forced him to move to this airless, inhospitable planet. But when the all-powerful galactic Confederacy declares Flare illegal, the needs of Newhouse and his clientele leave the desperate off-worlder no choice but to sign on as an able seaman aboard a dustwhaler and hunt the giant creatures himself.
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I miss Bruce Sterling
- De Amazon Customer en 06-26-22
De: Bruce Sterling
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When Gravity Fails
- Marid Audran Trilogy, Book 1
- De: George Alec Effinger
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can't refuse.The 200-year-old godfather of the Budayeen's underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.
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Neuromancer in the Middle East
- De David en 07-28-13
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Zeitgeist
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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ZeitgeistIt's 1999 in Cyprus, an ancient island bejeweled with blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers and littered with rusting land mines, corroding barbed wire, and illegal sewage dumps. Here, in the Turkish half of the island, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted, pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the "G-7" girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl band ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex. And his market is staring him in the face.
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interesting near future history
- De James K. Freda en 03-15-03
De: Bruce Sterling
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Pattern Recognition
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
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Only gets better with age
- De Mika en 12-14-18
De: William Gibson
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Burning Chrome
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Dennis Holland, Kevin Pariseau, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of the most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.
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abstract art
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-05-14
De: William Gibson
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The Science Fiction Collection (20 Books)
- Ray Bradbury the Monster Maker, Rocket Summer, Isaac Asimov Youth, E.M. Forster Machine Stops, H. G. Wells Time Machine and Others
- De: Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, y otros
- Narrado por: Peter Coates, Mark Bowen, David McCord, y otros
- Duración: 47 h y 31 m
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This Science Fiction Collection brings together 20 iconic works from some of the genre's most influential authors. Featuring Ray Bradbury's atmospheric The Monster Maker and Rocket Summer, Isaac Asimov's thought-provoking Youth, E.M. Forster's dystopian The Machine Stops, and H.G. Wells' timeless masterpiece The Time Machine, the anthology explores a wide range of speculative themes. From futuristic worlds and artificial intelligence to time travel and human survival, this collection delves into the challenges and possibilities of the future.
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Good stories
- De Rose Antrim en 01-22-25
De: Ray Bradbury, y otros
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The Windup Girl
- De: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
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Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.
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Good and also Frustrating
- De txkimmers en 11-16-09
De: Paolo Bacigalupi
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The Diamond Age
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.
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The rock could use a bit more polishing
- De Tango en 05-19-13
De: Neal Stephenson
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Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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A solid sci-fi novel
- De Brent en 02-05-03
De: Neal Stephenson
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Cryptonomicon
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 42 h y 44 m
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....
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Two thirds through and quit
- De Joshua en 06-20-16
De: Neal Stephenson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Islands in the Net
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- Aaron K. Clark
- 03-07-21
Bruce said this audiobook would never happen.
Having grown up in the outskirts of Galveston County, this is my favorite science fiction book of all time. I literally emailed Bruce asking him if he'd ever consider bringing this title to audible and he said it wasn't going to happen. I owe whomever convinced him to change his mind a Texas Sized T-Bone Steak! I do not think I have heard anything by Rebecca Mozo before but she did great. If you only ever buy one audio book in your entire life, buy this one!
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- ssejhog
- 02-03-24
A novel of ideas… and?
This book is full of interesting ideas and hypotheses about technology and social organization, but it lacks a really compelling story to explore those themes.
I found the main character (and all of them, really) to be strangely naive. As she is whisked from one situation to another, everything she encounters is brand new information despite the primary conceit of the book being a world that is increasingly interconnected by The Net. One reveal - arguably the most important one - is something that nobody has *ever* successfully kept secret. Laura Webster usually reacts to these discoveries with either “Aw shucks” American outrage or despair. (This may be a critique of the typical ignorant American, but I don’t know.)
Very little action occurs in the first half of the book, and the second half is a series of things that happen to poor Laura. She is a master of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is not to say that it isn’t worth reading, but reads almost more like a setting book for a roleplaying game: exotic locations, different factions, competing ideologies (Are the neoliberal globalists supposed to be the good guys?!).
As a piece of late Cold War speculative fiction it’s a very interesting document and makes as many cogent predictions as off-base ones, it’s just awkward storytelling.
The voice actor does a great job, although the word “insecticide” appears three times and each time she says “incesticide”! 😂
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