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Stephen Baxter
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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 - and (in this fiction) - the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. The "substellar point", with the star forever overhead, is a blasted desert, and the "antistellar point" on the far side is under an ice cap in perpetual darkness. How would it be to live on such a world? Yuri Jones, with a thousand others, is about to find out.
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Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.
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Great story, mediocre audio book.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-17-12
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The Ark
- Children of a Dead Earth, Book 1
- De: Patrick S. Tomlinson
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
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Humankind has escaped a dying Earth and set out to find a new home among the stars aboard an immense generation ship affectionately named the Ark. Bryan Benson is the Ark's greatest living sports hero, enjoying retirement working as a detective in Avalon, his home module. The hours are good, the work is easy, and the perks can't be beat. But when a crew member goes missing, Bryan is thrust into the center of an ever-expanding web of deception, secrets, and violence.
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Nearly there
- De Michaela en 05-11-16
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Up Against It
- De: M. J. Locke
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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Very old school SF, in ways good and bad
- De A reader en 06-19-12
De: M. J. Locke
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In the Ocean of Night
- Galactic Center, Book 1
- De: Gregory Benford
- Narrado por: Maxwell Caulfield
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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It is 2019. NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy it, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal….
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Like some Space with your Soaps?
- De Bradley en 05-15-12
De: Gregory Benford
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Legacy
- A Prequel to Eon
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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In this prequel to Eon, Greg Bear continues to explore the possibilities presented by the asteroid Thistledown, a remnant of a lost human civilization. The Way is a tunnel through space and time that leads to other worlds, some more like planet Earth than Earth itself. It is perhaps the most formidable discovery in Thistledown and with it come disputes as to the nature of the Way and how it should be used. The Way can be reached only through Axis City, the only space station of Thistledown.
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Barely related to Eon and Eternity
- De David A. Kingston en 02-21-15
De: Greg Bear
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Semper Mars
- Book One of the Heritage Trilogy
- De: Ian Douglas
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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The Year is 2040. The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves. Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war.
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GOT SH@T UP HIS CHAMBER
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-15-17
De: Ian Douglas
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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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Veiled Alliances
- A Prequel Novella to the Saga of Seven Suns
- De: Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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This audiobook shows the origin of the green priests on Theroc, the first Roamer skymining operations on a gas-giant planet, the discovery of the Klikiss robots entombed in an abandoned alien city, the initial Ildiran expedition to Earth, the rescue of the generation ship Burton and the tragedy that leads to sinister breeding experiments. Veiled Alliances is an excellent starting point for readers new to the Saga, as well as an unforgettable adventure for fans of the series.
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Start with Book One
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-05-14
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Expendable
- League of Peoples, Book 1
- De: James Alan Gardner
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different - and terrible - ways to die.
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FU@@ING EXPLORERS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 03-06-15
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Starfire
- De: B.V. Larson
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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On June 30, 1908, an object fell from the sky, releasing more energy than a thousand Hiroshima bombs. A Siberian forest was flattened, but the strike left no significant crater. The anomaly came to be known as the Tunguska Event, and scientists have never agreed whether it was the largest meteor strike in recorded history - or something else. Alien artifacts have been uncovered since the 1908 event, and a new star drive is discovered.
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Het
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-09-17
De: B.V. Larson
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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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Hardest of hard SF...
- De DLee en 11-24-14
De: Charles Stross
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Voyage
- The NASA Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 24 h y 45 m
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An epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events, Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.
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Borrrring
- De Robert en 09-11-21
De: Stephen Baxter
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Fortress Sol
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Frankie Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to eke out his life until he was worn out, all in the name of maintaining the defense of the Solar System. But when her desperate attempt to flee with her 2 year old failed, she took a desperate step to save him. She cut off his hand. Decades later, Rab has been spared the physical hardships he can no longer endure, and is now based on the Mask, the all-encompassing structure which hides the Solar System from alien eyes.
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Sould be marked as Young Adult
- De JamesS en 03-13-25
De: Stephen Baxter
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Edges
- Inverted Frontier Series, Book 1
- De: Linda Nagata
- Narrado por: Nicole Poole
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization - those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties - have all fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars
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Cool book read by TTS
- De Anonymous User en 06-23-20
De: Linda Nagata
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The Thousand Earths
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Caitlin Shannon, David Monteith
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller—beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back—but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up about the challenges which are coming. A mission which will take him five million years to complete. Not only is Hackett exploring unknown space, but he will return to a vastly different time.
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Another Epic Hard Sci-Fi Novel from Baxter
- De Jeff Koeppen en 11-09-22
De: Stephen Baxter
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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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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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Voyage
- The NASA Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 24 h y 45 m
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An epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events, Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.
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Borrrring
- De Robert en 09-11-21
De: Stephen Baxter
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Fortress Sol
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Frankie Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to eke out his life until he was worn out, all in the name of maintaining the defense of the Solar System. But when her desperate attempt to flee with her 2 year old failed, she took a desperate step to save him. She cut off his hand. Decades later, Rab has been spared the physical hardships he can no longer endure, and is now based on the Mask, the all-encompassing structure which hides the Solar System from alien eyes.
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Sould be marked as Young Adult
- De JamesS en 03-13-25
De: Stephen Baxter
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Edges
- Inverted Frontier Series, Book 1
- De: Linda Nagata
- Narrado por: Nicole Poole
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization - those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties - have all fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars
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Cool book read by TTS
- De Anonymous User en 06-23-20
De: Linda Nagata
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The Thousand Earths
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Caitlin Shannon, David Monteith
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller—beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back—but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up about the challenges which are coming. A mission which will take him five million years to complete. Not only is Hackett exploring unknown space, but he will return to a vastly different time.
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Another Epic Hard Sci-Fi Novel from Baxter
- De Jeff Koeppen en 11-09-22
De: Stephen Baxter
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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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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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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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The Long Earth
- A Novel
- De: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Michael Fenton-Stevens
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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The Western Front, 1916. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? Madison, Wisconsin, 2015. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some say mad, others allege dangerous - scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curious gadget.
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A scratching Post for Schrödinger's cat
- De Tim en 07-03-12
De: Terry Pratchett, y otros
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Starfish
- Rifters Trilogy Series, Book 1
- De: Peter Watts
- Narrado por: Gabriel Vaughan
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew - people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater - down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.
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An excellent story, but only half of it
- De Casey en 02-12-20
De: Peter Watts
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World Engines
- A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey
- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Penelope Rawlins, Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 17 h y 21 m
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In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns...By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps.
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- De R. Carlson en 07-04-24
De: Stephen Baxter
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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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The Hole
- Hard Science Fiction
- De: Brandon Q. Morris
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.
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Just OK. Won't repeat it. Won't do more this auth.
- De R. Frazier en 07-02-20
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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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Chain of Command
- De: Frank Chadwick
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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Lieutenant Sam Bitka, US Naval Reserve, is getting used to civilian life when he is called back to active duty. Tensions between Earth and the alien Varoki are on the rise, and Sam is assigned as tactical officer aboard the deep space destroyer USS Puebla. Dispatched to the distant world of K'tok to protect human colonists, he wants nothing more than to serve out his active duty time and get back to his civilian life. But when the Varoki launch a crippling surprise attack against the Earth coalition fleet, Sam finds himself suddenly in command of the USS Puebla.
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Not well written and terrible narration
- De Deanne Morgan en 02-03-20
De: Frank Chadwick
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Time's Eye
- A Time Odyssey, Book 1
- De: Stephen Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind - until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline.
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I expected better from these two
- De Kennet en 06-04-08
De: Stephen Baxter, y otros
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Stars and Bones
- De: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrado por: Rebecca Norfolk
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly.
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Painfully mediocre
- De lexluthier en 08-25-22
De: Gareth L. Powell
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The Dead Worlds
- The Adam Cain Saga, Book 1
- De: T.R. Harris
- Narrado por: Perry Daniels
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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You've heard of him. He's Adam Cain, the alien with an attitude. Now he's back...in a series of new adventures as a badass human, showing the galaxy who's the boss. Accompanied by his buddies Riyad Tarazi and Sherri Valentine, Adam is struggling to make ends meet on a distant tropical world running Capt. Cain's Bar & Grill. The problem: They picked the worst place in the galaxy to run a legitimate business...smack dab in the middle of lawless Dead Zone. Comprised of a hundred dead worlds, The Zone is a gold-rush-like region of salvagers, pirates, and scoundrels.
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- De cdaniels en 11-13-24
De: T.R. Harris
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A Hole in the Sky
- Arkship Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Klett
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Sixteen-year old Hazel lives in the Daedalus, a starship that is flying in search of a new world. The ship has been traveling for 500 years, searching for a world to settle in after having to abandon its last world. Everyone on board Daedalus lives a very simple existence in farming villages. The age of machines supplying their needs was lost during a mutiny 500 years ago.
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What happened?
- De Trip Williams en 03-24-21
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- Kelly
- 10-13-15
Bland
I love SciFi, but nothing about this book snatched my attention. Maybe the next book in the series will grab me and this book was just a precursor.
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- 02-04-17
complex and cohesive
complex and cohesive, I loved the long time scale of the story and interstellar scope.
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- Zovo Arcnor
- 04-05-24
Baxter is the SF master.
World building, character arcs, cosmic themes, and writing style make this another 5 star novel. The narration was excellent.
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- Anthony Drouin
- 01-28-21
Engaging and couldn’t stop listening
This is my first audio book and it was a little hard to get used to it. But once I did, I couldn’t stop, I had to know how this ended. The story is gripping and the science is exciting. My only gripes are: it skips ahead in time a little too much and the relationships between the primary characters are a bit lackluster. Otherwise a very fun read.
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- Matt C
- 12-02-15
Great book!
Great book! If you liked Spin or The Long Earth, I think you will like this.
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- M. G. Clausen
- 09-02-16
Gripping, pulls you along
The ending felt like an unexpected traverse into a different genre of Sci Fi, but lovely otherwise. Baxter nicely opened my imagination with multiple types of characters that could exist in the future, while tying the plot together well enough that it didn't feel like a forced data dump of ideas. The performance is excellent.
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- Greyflood
- 12-04-14
Baxter's Best
What an incredible journey this book is. It's not at all what I was expecting it to be when I started it. It is, I think, Baxter's finest book yet in a career of incredible hard sci fi adventures.
I have been reading Baxter for about 15 years, starting with his Xeelee sequence, and have been a fan ever since. I felt some of his more recent work, like the Long Earth trilogy, were vastly inferior to what he'd done in the past, and others, like the Flood/Ark duology, were so mind-numbingly depressing as to be almost not worth reading. But Proxima is just what I needed from Baxter: a perfect blend of hard sci fi adventure and discovery, with the undertones of vast cosmic machinations you'd expect from vintage Baxter works.
The story has a rich palette of characters, more than any I can remember in any of his recent works. Baxter has been criticized for having very limited characterization, which I think is a somewhat fair assessment, but this book featured a host of distinct, three-dimensional characters with very different perspectives, motivations, and backgrounds. The main character is Yuri Eden, a man sent on a one-way trip to Proxima, the nearest star to our solar system, along with a crew of rag-tag ne'er-do-wells, to colonize the planet in preparation for future human expansion. Think the British colonization of Australia with convicts, only in space. Things...don't go smoothly as you might expect.
From this point, Baxter launches into a deeply complex bit of world-building, creating an interplanetary human society in the twenty-second century, which has survived the calamitous "jolts" of climate change and are faced with a cold war between the two economic superpowers of the time, the U.N. and China. Realistic physics and space travel mechanics abound, as usual for Baxter. On Proxima itself, Baxter imagines a rich world where life evolved very differently from on Earth, but also more similarly than it ought to have. Mysteries build upon mysteries as the colonists of Prox seek to survive and cope with their situation, while back in the solar system, shocking discoveries are made on Mercury.
The story kept me in suspense most of its run time. Baxter has greatly evolved his craft of storytelling. He avoids cliches deftly and brings one unexpected twist after another with each chapter. You'll never believe where things ultimately end up by the book's end. And underneath all the human drama is the looming presence of something far greater and far more disturbing. Events on Prox, and in the solar system, haven't happened by chance. What it all means is not resolved by the end of the novel. Rather, it ends on multiple cliffhangers with only a glimmer of the vaster things to come. This is the first book in a series of at least two, so don't go into it expecting everything to get wrapped up. Nevertheless, you will find yourself unable to stop listening as the plot drives further and further toward its conclusion. I cannot wait for book two, Ultima.
If you're a fan of Baxter, this is a no-brainer to get. It's his best work in years, and shows his evolution as a writer, thinker, and story-teller. If you're new to Baxter, you could hardly ask for a more accessible, exciting, and relevant hard sci fi novel to start on. It's easily the best sci fi book I've read this year, and perhaps in the last several.
The narrator is fantastic. His native accent is British, but he can do thoroughly convincing American and Australian accents effortlessly. His Hisapnic accents aren't quite as polished, but they're also not as frequent. His reading of the material was perfect: serious, sometimes grave, with excellent inflection and diction. I loved his performance and will be looking forward to hearing him again on other books, especially the next book in this series, I sincerely hope.
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- SciFi Kindle
- 01-29-15
Wins on both concepts AND character levels
This well-structured space opera manages to deliver both a engaging character-driven drama as well as some jaw-dropping wonders of an alien BDO (Big Dumb Object). Baxter tells a multi-narrative story from various character perspectives over a lifetime, and divides the action across two star systems.
One protagonist, a press-ganged colonist named Yuri Eden, is dragged across interstellar space to be abandoned on a hostile new world to establish a human foothold along with a scattering of other unwilling exiles. Their story of survival over several decades brutally demonstrates both the dangers of human psychological isolation as well as an unfamiliar and alien environment. There is some interesting and exotic biota, although he keeps it to only three or four varieties, which I was engaged enough to have wanted more. A good deal of research and calculation must have gone into determining what the conditions of such a world must be, and Baxter goes into convincing depth of detail describing weather, geology, etc.
Where I thought the story really shined, however, was in the other main narrative back on the Earth, where a catastrophic conflict is brewing between two power blocks. A physicist named Stephanie Kalinski finds herself caught in between the two as the alien artifacts she’s spent her career studying become the central prize that they are contesting. Neither the miracle alien power source nor the alien wormhole gateway are all that unique in SF literature, but Baxter introduces an unexpected twist when Stephanie’s first encounter with one of the artifacts generates a full-grown twin sister, complete with an altered history and memory of this new character for all but Steph herself, who alone recalls her sister-less past timeline. This mid-story twist came quite unexpected, and is among the many teased mysteries left for the subsequent series installment(s) to further address.
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- Lisa Davidson
- 04-24-16
No Sense of Conclusion
Even a series novel should be able to stand alone on its own merits. This book left way too many people, themes, and plot twists hanging. After giving the story more than 17 hours of my life, I experienced a dramatic let-down. I feel disappointed for getting involved in the first place. Just as the characters betrayed each other, the entire story betrays the reader with an unworthy ending. It ran out of fuel--and I don't know if I want to put this much energy into book two.
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- Winston
- 03-18-16
Very good first in a series
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I liked the story though it did seem to skip an explanation or two. Hope the second book is at least as good. I had a very hard time remembering that is was daylight ALL the time. I can't imagine that....
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