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"Few SF writers merge rousing adventure with advanced futuristic technology as skillfully as Alastair Reynolds" (Toronto Star), the award-winning author of On the Steel Breeze.
In the conclusion of his Poseidon's Children saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from across the stars - and a last opportunity to redeem their name....
"Send Ndege". The cryptic message originated 70 light-years away from the planet Crucible, where Ndege Akinya lives under permanent house arrest for her role in the catastrophe that killed 417,000 people. Could it be from her mother, Chiku, who vanished during a space expedition decades earlier?
Ndege's daughter, Goma, a biologist, joins the crew of the Travertine dispatched to Gliese 163 to uncover the source behind the enigmatic message. Goma's odyssey will take her not only into the farthest reaches of space but centuries into her family's past, where the answers to the universe's greatest mysteries await....
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- De Tungsten en 04-02-16
De: Greg Bear
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Variable Star
- De: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrado por: Spider Robinson
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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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Beholder's Eye
- Web Shifters, Book 1
- De: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrado por: Luci Christian Bell
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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They are the last survivors of their race, beings who live on and communicate through energy, who are capable of assuming the shape of any other species. When their youngest member is assigned to a world considered safe to explore, she is captured by the natives. To escape, she must violate the most important rule of her kind, and reveal the existence of her species to a fellow prisoner - a human being. Now her race is in danger of extinction, for even if the human does not betray her, the Enemy who has long searched for her people may finally discover their location.
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- De Marniac en 08-06-12
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A Talent for War
- An Alex Benedict Novel
- De: Jack McDevitt
- Narrado por: Gregory Abbey, Jack McDevitt
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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Everyone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Fighter. Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war, Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur. But now, Alex Benedict has found a startling bit of information, long buried in an ancient computer file. If it is true, then Christopher Sim was a fraud.
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Very good - but the cover and title are deceptive
- De Brian en 09-25-10
De: Jack McDevitt
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Intrinsic
- De: Philip C. Quaintrell
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Kalian Gaines has a secret; he just doesn't know it yet. He looks like us, he lives like us...but he is not one of us. Kalian knows nothing outside of his mundane life teaching history on 30th-century Earth, until a day like any other triggers a series of events that will tie his fate to that of humanity. A human handprint, embedded into a rock with alien script, is discovered on a moon that mankind has never set foot on. This discovery holds a secret, which will sweep Kalian into the heart of a conspiracy that has corrupted the galaxy for 200,000 years.
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Unexpectedly Brilliant
- De Fraser en 04-22-18
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Prominence
- De: A. C. Hadfield
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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They tried to destroy our planets. Our way of life. They tried to send us into extinction. But we, the Coalition, fought them and won. That was a decade ago. They’re known as the Host: a cabal of aliens seeking to dominate our sector of space. And they’re back - with help from a powerful new enemy. We’re outnumbered and unprepared. But there is hope. An ancient race of long-dead but technologically advanced aliens called the Navigators have a ship called the Blackstar that could potentially turn the tide. That is if I, Kai Locke, a humble ship racer, can find it and learn how to harness its power in time.
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Newly found love.
- De L. Rampey en 03-22-19
De: A. C. Hadfield
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Diving into the Wreck
- Diving Series, Book 1
- De: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she's an active historian. She wants to know about the past--to experience it firsthand. Once she's dived the ship, she'll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It's a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.
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NOT Clive Cussler in Space
- De W. S. en 03-18-10
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The Course of Empire
- De: Eric Flint, K. D. Wentworth
- Narrado por: Chris Patton
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
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Conquered by the Jao twenty years ago, the Earth is shackled under alien tyranny - and threatened by the even more dangerous Ekhat, one of whose genocidal extermination fleets is coming to the solar system. The only chance for human survival is in the hands of an unusual pair of allies: a young Jao prince, newly arrived to Terra to assume his duties, and a young human woman brought up amongst the Jao occupiers. But, as their tentative alliance takes shape, they are under pressure from all sides.
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ERIC FLINT'S VENTURE INTO FULL SCI-FI MODE
- De Professor en 11-01-12
De: Eric Flint, y otros
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Prador Moon
- A Novel of the Polity, Book 1
- De: Neal Asher
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun. Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes.
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Narration Terrible; Prador’s Moon has Big Ideas and Epic Scale
- De For_the_Love_of_Books en 08-09-18
De: Neal Asher
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The Dark Between the Stars
- The Saga of Shadows, Book One
- De: Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy. In Kevin J. Anderson's The Dark Between the Stars, galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and factions of humanity are pitted against one another.
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TASTE LIKE EYEBALLS BOILED IN URINE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-07-15
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Revelation Space
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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Defeated
- De Eoin en 07-15-12
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Century Rain
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
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Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber.
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One of John Lee's best performances
- De DAVID en 07-24-10
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Terminal World
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 45 m
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Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different---and rigidly enforced---level of technology. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue.
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This ain't your fathers Alastair Reynolds
- De DAVID en 09-10-10
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Pushing Ice
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed.
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Proof that a good story doesn't require a trilogy
- De Jesse en 01-14-12
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House of Suns
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
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Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.
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Science fiction in Deep time
- De A reader en 05-12-10
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The Medusa Chronicles
- De: Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter - and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. But he is no longer himself. Instead he has been changed into an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable.
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Almost stopped listening. Glad I didn't.
- De cek en 08-21-16
De: Stephen Baxter, y otros
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Revelation Space
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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Defeated
- De Eoin en 07-15-12
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Century Rain
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber.
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One of John Lee's best performances
- De DAVID en 07-24-10
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Terminal World
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 45 m
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Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different---and rigidly enforced---level of technology. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue.
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This ain't your fathers Alastair Reynolds
- De DAVID en 09-10-10
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Pushing Ice
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed.
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Proof that a good story doesn't require a trilogy
- De Jesse en 01-14-12
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House of Suns
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
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Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.
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Science fiction in Deep time
- De A reader en 05-12-10
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The Medusa Chronicles
- De: Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter - and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. But he is no longer himself. Instead he has been changed into an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable.
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Almost stopped listening. Glad I didn't.
- De cek en 08-21-16
De: Stephen Baxter, y otros
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Colonization: Second Contact
- Colonization, Book 1
- De: Harry Turtledove
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 28 h y 7 m
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In the extraordinary Worldwar tetralogy, set against the backdrop of World War II, Harry Turtledove, whom Publishers Weekly has called the "Hugo-winning master of alternate SF," wove an explosive saga of world powers locked in conflict against an enemy from the stars.
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A great title poorly presented
- De Magnus en 06-27-12
De: Harry Turtledove
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Eversion
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Harry Myers
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
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An entirely new level of science fiction
- De Possum Bean en 01-08-23
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Revenger
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism...and of vengeance...Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest crew members of the legendary Captain Rackamore's ship, using their mysterious powers as Bone Readers to find clues about their next score. But there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: The fabled and feared Bosa Sennen, in particular. The galaxy is filled with treasures...if you have the courage to find them.
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Great story, crap Mastering/Post work
- De C.Dale en 03-23-17
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Slow Bullets
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur - and for humanity - peace is not to be.
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A great story ruined by narration.
- De Andrew Linke en 06-11-15
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Permafrost
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 4 h y 12 m
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2080: At a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox. 2028: A young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery.
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Not your father's SciFi!
- De Charles M. en 08-23-19
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Disgardium Series # , Disgardium Series Boxed Set
- Books 1-4
- De: Dan Sugralinov, Andrew Schmitt - translated by, Alix Merlin Williamson - translated by
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 48 h
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Includes Class-A Threat, Apostle of the Sleeping Gods, The Destroying Plague, and Resistance.
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- De Patrick en 10-10-21
De: Dan Sugralinov, y otros
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The Prefect
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multifaceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that left 900 people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus.
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Best yet of the Revelation Space series
- De Michael G Kurilla en 04-03-11
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Proxima: Book 1
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Kyle McCarley
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun. How would it be to live on such a world?
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No Sense of Conclusion
- De Lisa Davidson en 04-24-16
De: Stephen Baxter
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Fallen Dragon
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 26 h y 31 m
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In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology. On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation.
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Possibly my new favorite Hamilton novel
- De Samuel en 04-08-17
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Gate Crashers
- De: Patrick S. Tomlinson
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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On humanity's first extra-solar mission, the exploration vessel Magellan, or, as she prefers, "Maggie", discovers an alien artifact. Deciding that finding advanced alien life is too important to ignore, Captain Allison Ridgeway chooses to return to Earth while ordering her crew to reverse engineer technology far beyond anything back home. Meanwhile, at mission control, the governments struggle to maintain the existence of aliens a secret while also combating bureaucracy, the military industrial complex, and everyone else who wants a piece of what could skyrocket humanity into a new technological age.
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Solid Satire
- De Matthew en 03-16-20
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The Dreaming Void
- Void Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 35 m
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AD 3580. The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread through the galaxy to over a thousand star systems. It is a culture of rich diversity with a place for everyone. A powerful navy protects it from any hostile species that may lurk among the stars. For Commonwealth citizens, even death has been overcome.
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- De Randall en 05-08-18
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The Reality Dysfunction
- Night's Dawn Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 41 h y 6 m
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In AD 2600, the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems, and throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace.
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Finally on Audible!! My favorite Hamilton series!
- De Patrick en 04-05-16
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- Andy
- 03-24-16
a great conclusion to the series probably not
what a great book all in its own Kama I can't wait for the next one.
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- Lewis
- 04-26-16
Excellent performance
this was a excellent audio performance paired with a reasonably good conclusion to the trilogy but not the equal of the first or second books
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- Trip Williams
- 05-02-16
5 Stars because I HOPE this series is DONE!
The "ELEPHANTS - IIIIN - SPAAAAACE" (Insert Dramatic Echoing on the word "SPAAAAACE") theme is WAY past "Old" and into the realm of "Getting Ridiculous"....
I've spent some time in Africa, Seen the "Wild Elephants" (not the ones in "preserves"), and there's one sad, but HARD truth, about Africa... "If an Animal Species can't support itself monetarily, with enough money coming in to hire HONEST Game Wardens and to pay for the land they're living on, the animal species has a short time left on earth in Africa" ..."The Great White Hunter" didn't make a DENT in the Elephant Population.. The AFRICANS kill(ed) 99% of the Elephants that are (and have been in the past) killed.
I don't like it, but I don't have to like it, it's "Africa", and they do things "The African Way".... I.E: "No no no no! Absolutely you can NOT go there or see that".. and then 'a little money changes hands', and suddenly you Absolutely CAN "Go There and See That"... WITH transportation, AND a government guide!
For another 10USD per day, you can hire people to haul your gear, set up tents, DOUBLE-Boil your water, and cook your food (tip, make SURE the cook washes their hands, and that the plates, utensils and cups are 'Bleached and BOILED', AND that they Cook your meal VERY VERY 'WELL DONE!')... "No" simply means "Not until we get a small 'gratuity' for allowing you to do whatever it was you wanted to do"
I can't wrap my mind around how Mr. Reynolds can write some books that are SO DEEP and FANTASTIC, and then write about "ELEPHANTS - IIIIIN - SPAAAAAACE".
Sorry, but EVERYTHING I've seen firsthand about Wild Elephants tends to lead me to the belief that they are kinda like "not-smart Horses" in the Brain department... Like Horses, You can always tell exactly what an elephant is going to do... "Whatever goes through their little Elephant/Horse Mind at that EXACT SECOND".
The whole "Flying around in a Cessna with a herd of Smart Elephants in a hidden Section of a Generation ship" takes MUCH more than just "Suspending reality 'since it's Sci-Fi'".
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- 02-18-16
Reads like it's lacking plot revisions
There's something admirably simple about this trilogy, especially when you zoom out and look at the romantic bird's eye view, but something about its storytelling method just doesn't sit right with me.
The trilogy was rendered for us as a long string of montages between rather sparse events. Time and attention went into every scene, but it's all just characters standing around, with no ability to act on what little information they have. Subplots spring up everywhere, and turn out to be completely pointless as soon as the story moves on. The only result is that the character personalities are colored just slightly. Even the events that are at the heart of the story come off strangely. A transmission sent across 70 lightyears just for fun apparently, a sabotage plot that exists for essentially no reason, and of course the centerpiece of the whole series, Poseidon itself, completely ignored by the cast, even at the culmination of events.
The only reason the story has any purpose at all is because Eunice's character regularly forces narrative on the reader in the form of random conjecture, covering topics such as the Watchkeepers, Poseidon and its wonders, what the Endbuilders's must have intended for the universe, their solution to a universe-scale issue, what Poseidon must represent for other species. As a reader, it's all so hollow that you start to see through it rather quickly.
This story, most of all, communicated the uniqueness of everyone's relationships with other characters, and there are a couple of magnificent scenes that were likely At the core of Reynolds's vision for the story, and yet somehow all of the characters come up short in my view. They all say the predictable thing. They all complain in the expected manner. They offer each other perfectly reasonable but highly mundane comforts. They seem to act and think in a contextual vacuum, as if every scene was written independently, somehow only vaguely influenced by events that literally just took place.
When the story is somehow most vulnerable and begging for plot advancement, it's given to us in some supremely bizarre anti-"deux ex machina", something that puts a wrench in the whole story just so that the story should go where Reynolds imagined it should. Mpose's role, Kanu's ship damaged around Poseidon, the use of nanomachinery, the sabotage plot, Eunice's ability to send a message across 70 ly of space and yet can't produce a signal strong enough to contact a ship in the same system, Eunice's alarmingly selective loss of memory any time she might actually be useful... all of it exists just to give texture to something that is frankly quite boring. These are all just loose ends that I guess Reynolds thought there was no reason to tie back into the story, and none of the characters seem to notice.
As a fan of Reynolds, I don't begrudge him the time and effort that he put into this trilogy. The idea for the whole thing must have been infectious, consuming his attention. Now that he's finished it, I'll be happy to see him turn to other stories.
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- Connie J. Cooper
- 03-30-22
Reynolds has a different kind of brain...
than do most of us, I believe. I've never read someone who gets "alien" so...alien-y...yet so utterly believable. This is the 3rd in the series. Strongly recommend reading in order.
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- GUGLHUPF
- 09-17-23
It's not the story - it's the narrator
I need to return this. This narrator is horrible. Cannot stand her. She is OK with the main characters, but the rest is like childrens book witches. Horrible. Combine that with a slow story and I am out. Sorry.
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- Tascius
- 03-02-16
First two books are great but...
The first two are great, introducing great ideas but the third feels like filler.
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- Roger Jenkins
- 06-14-16
Great Book
Loved the book. Great addition to an already interesting story. As usual, Reynolds's inclusion of real, hard science into his narrative creates a realistic, believable world for his readers (or listeners) to get lost in. Adjoa Andoh's voice lends depth and feeling to the characters inhabiting the story, making them real, feeling individuals that listeners can empathize with. A truly great story.
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- Cory Abdalla
- 02-24-23
Amazing hard sci fi
Alastair Reynolds is one of the great sci fi writers of our time. Highly recommend
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- Steven
- 02-28-16
Another brilliant story from Reynolds
Reynolds has become my all-time favorite sci-fi writer, for good reason. This book continues to follow the Akinya family as they make history. It's a book you can't stop listening to.
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