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Book of the Long Sun, Books 1 and 2
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Narrado por:
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Jason Culp
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Gene Wolfe
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Litany of the Long Sun contains the full texts of Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun that together make up the first half of The Book of the Long Sun. This great work is set on a huge generation starship in the same future as the classic Book of the New Sun (also available in two volumes from Orb).
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Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- De TBone en 03-18-25
De: Ben H. Winters
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The Martian
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 38,619
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 34,245
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I love Wil Wheaton but why not R. C. Bray?
- De L. Newman en 01-11-20
De: Andy Weir
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The Signal
- De: Eric Buchman, Gabriel Urbina, Sarah Shachat
- Narrado por: Paget Brewster, full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 39 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,033
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,955
Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?
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3 out of 5 stars
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it did a good job keep me listening but disappointed at the ending
- De Tristan M. en 12-21-24
De: Eric Buchman, y otros
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Starter Villain
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,312
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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George Orwell’s 1984
- An Audible Original adaptation
- De: George Orwell, Joe White - adaptation
- Narrado por: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,737
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,174
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,173
It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Revelation!
- De wotsallthisthen en 04-07-24
De: George Orwell, y otros
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On Blue’s Waters
- Book of the Short Sun, Book 1
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
On Blue's Waters is the start of a new work by Gene Wolfe which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves. But Horn is the only one who can locate the great leader Silk and convince him to return to Blue and lead them all to prosperity. So Horn sets sail in a small boat, on a long and difficult quest across the planet Blue in search of the now legendary Patera Silk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Getting the hang of Wolfe
- De Patrick DeWind en 09-20-24
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Shadow of the Torturer
- The Book of the New Sun, Book 1
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,649
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,654
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy towards his victim.
Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great writing, won't appeal to everyone
- De Ryan en 03-20-10
De: Gene Wolfe
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Soldier of the Mist
- Latro, Book 1
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Gregory Connors
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods, and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read Gates of Fire first for context
- De Amazon Customer en 07-17-22
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Knight
- The Wizard Knight Series, Book One
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 224
A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, and wizards.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Confusing as hell.
- De Zachary en 09-26-18
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Wolfe at the Door
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
The circus comes to town . . . and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs . . . and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe's playground, a place where genres blend, and a genius's imagination straps you in for the ride of your life. The Wolfe at the Door is a brand-new collection from one of America's premiere literary giants, showcasing some material been seen before
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- De: Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
Walter M. Miller, Jr., is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, which has been universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern science fiction. But he also produced many shorter works of fiction of stunning originality and power. His profound interest in religion and his innate literary gifts combined perfectly in the production of such works as The Darfstellar, for which he won a Hugo in 1955, Conditionally Human, "I, Dreamer", and "The Big Hunger", all of which are included in this brilliant and essential collection.
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1 out of 5 stars
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big disappointment
- De Sandy A. en 05-21-21
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On Blue’s Waters
- Book of the Short Sun, Book 1
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
On Blue's Waters is the start of a new work by Gene Wolfe which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves. But Horn is the only one who can locate the great leader Silk and convince him to return to Blue and lead them all to prosperity. So Horn sets sail in a small boat, on a long and difficult quest across the planet Blue in search of the now legendary Patera Silk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Getting the hang of Wolfe
- De Patrick DeWind en 09-20-24
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Shadow of the Torturer
- The Book of the New Sun, Book 1
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,649
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,654
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy towards his victim.
Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great writing, won't appeal to everyone
- De Ryan en 03-20-10
De: Gene Wolfe
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Soldier of the Mist
- Latro, Book 1
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Gregory Connors
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods, and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read Gates of Fire first for context
- De Amazon Customer en 07-17-22
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Knight
- The Wizard Knight Series, Book One
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 224
A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, and wizards.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Confusing as hell.
- De Zachary en 09-26-18
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Wolfe at the Door
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
The circus comes to town . . . and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs . . . and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe's playground, a place where genres blend, and a genius's imagination straps you in for the ride of your life. The Wolfe at the Door is a brand-new collection from one of America's premiere literary giants, showcasing some material been seen before
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- De: Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
Walter M. Miller, Jr., is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, which has been universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern science fiction. But he also produced many shorter works of fiction of stunning originality and power. His profound interest in religion and his innate literary gifts combined perfectly in the production of such works as The Darfstellar, for which he won a Hugo in 1955, Conditionally Human, "I, Dreamer", and "The Big Hunger", all of which are included in this brilliant and essential collection.
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1 out of 5 stars
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big disappointment
- De Sandy A. en 05-21-21
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A Borrowed Man
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He is a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library, and his personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. A wealthy patron, Colette Coldbrook, takes him from the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of Murder on Mars. A physical copy of that book was in the possession of her murdered father, and it contains an important secret, the key to immense family wealth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Gene Wolfe Concept, Distracting Narration
- De Alex Levine en 10-27-15
De: Gene Wolfe
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The Land Across
- De: Gene Wolfe
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Give the man a (dead) hand
- De Tango en 11-29-13
De: Gene Wolfe
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Too Like the Lightning (Part 2 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Terra Ignota, Book 1
- De: Ada Palmer
- Narrado por: Chris Stinson, Holly Adams, Lise Bruneau, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must to listen to this edition. This is dense and Graphic Audio makes this feel more organized.
- De Tory Thai en 10-07-24
De: Ada Palmer
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The Dying Earth
- Tales of the Dying Earth, Book 1
- De: Jack Vance
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom and beauty, lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Decadent and Hopeful Dying Earth
- De Jefferson en 06-27-10
De: Jack Vance
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Tomorrow's Children
- De: Daniel Polansky
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud that separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods, and using emojis in place of written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with scrap metal spears and Molotov cocktails.
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Amazing Characters and World
- De William D. Wallace en 05-09-24
De: Daniel Polansky
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The Quantum Magician
- De: Derek Kunsken
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he'll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he succeeds, he might trigger an interstellar war, but success might also point the way to the next step of Homo quantus evolution.
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Just when I had given up.... jack pot!
- De Zach en 11-08-18
De: Derek Kunsken
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Blood Music
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream.
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THOUGHT UNIVERSE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 08-01-15
De: Greg Bear
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Perdido Street Station
- De: China Mieville
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 24 h y 21 m
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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, wonderful book -- horrible recording
- De James en 08-19-09
De: China Mieville
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Dangerous Visions
- De: Harlan Ellison
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Simon Vance, Steven Jay Cohen, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 33 m
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A landmark short story collection that put the more character-based New Wave science fiction on the map, Dangerous Visions won several prestigious awards and was nominated for many others. This now-classic anthology includes thirty-three stories by thirty-two award-winning authors, over half of whom have won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pre-Star Trek pre-Star Wars brilliance!
- De Darrell James en 06-29-24
De: Harlan Ellison
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Dhalgren
- De: Samuel R. Delany
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 34 h y 32 m
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Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there...the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young man - a poet, a lover, and an adventurer - known only as the Kid.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic I return to every few years
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 04-08-17
De: Samuel R. Delany
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The Hallowed Hunt
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. The road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey's destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Extremely disappointing
- De Loren en 10-12-12
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Accelerando
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Litany of the Long Sun
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- C. Duval
- 06-11-24
Good ideas, but...
Note: my review encompasses this and the next book (really they are both pairs of books) in this series.
I thought the idea(s) behind this book were really, really interesting. But for me, the story never paid off. The dialog is recursive and tangential; with lots of exposition. And certain details of the story don't really make sense; for example, how could a society that built a generation starship devolve into such a primitive medieval state after only 300 years, despite the presence of functioning futuristic technology in its midst?
This first book pair was more solid than the second; the second book pair created a lot more questions than answers, and introduced one other twist in the epilog that was just plain weird. The whole thing just never quite came together for me, and I don't plan on reading more in this series.
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- Shannon Cole
- 04-20-24
It is a great story
It took a couple of hours to get into it.
Ride out that first couple of hours and you’ll be happy.
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- red
- 07-09-24
Discovering the (supposed) truth of the setting
Gene wolfe is the master of worldbuilding for all time. Following Silk through his ignorant yet wise escapades makes me love him more than any protagonist
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- Adam
- 05-19-22
Finally a worthy audio version of this classic
Culp's performance of the many characters is distinct and consistent, and helps keep the reader's focus tight in the middle of what eventually becomes a fairly convoluted plot.
Let's be honest though, the performance succeeds or fails on one question, and the answer to that question is: yes, he nails the voice of Oreb the talking bird. Fish heads?
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- Robert DeFrank
- 05-15-22
Worth the wait!
A long-awaited Audible version of Wolfe's classic that does the story justice. Worth listening to and listening again.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-10-23
EXCELLENT!!!
So happy to listen to this in audio format many years after reading the series.
The narrator was awesome and the story was even more engaging than I had remembered.
Thank you audible for making this available.
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- Tzoltzor
- 08-26-23
A great story, and a fantastic bird
Oreb is one of my new favorite literary creations. Jason Culp brings Oreb and the myriad other characters to vivid life. Another great tale from Mr. Wolfe
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- John
- 04-14-22
Utterly brilliant in it’s tedium
Less baroque, wordy and seemingly postmodern than New Sun but no less rife with allegory. When Wolfe is ON, my is he ON. The bizarre mashing of Levantine and Mesoamerican traditions works even better in long sun than it did in new sun, and the pacing is quite unique. Cannot wait to finish the last two books in this series nor can I wait for the release of short sun. The solar cycle may be one of the best series I have ever encountered.
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esto le resultó útil a 10 personas
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Wicked Messenger
- 06-15-23
SPOILERS IN TITLE DESCRIPTION
The publishers description spoils major information that 5 chapters in hasn’t been revealed. One of the joys of reading Gene is figuring out his worlds from context clues alone. A joy spoiled by fools.
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esto le resultó útil a 2 personas
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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- Sherry
- 09-21-24
just terrible
bad post tech steam punk. Just goes on and on with weird transitions. main character is such a loser.
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