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The first book in the Galactic Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation series, by one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov
His name was Biron Farrill and he was a student at the University of Earth. A native of one of the helpless Nebular Kingdoms, he saw his home world conquered and controlled by the planet Tyrann - a ruthless, barbaric Empire that was building a dynasty of cruelty and domination among the stars.
Farrill’s own father had been executed for trying to resist the Tyrann dictatorship and now someone was trying to kill Biron. But why?
His only hope for survival lay in fleeing Earth and joining the rebellion that was rumored to be forming somewhere in the Kingdoms. But once he cast his lot with the freedom fighters, he would find himself guarding against treachery on every side and facing the most difficult choice of all: to betray either the woman he loved or the revolution that was the last hope for the future.
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You think you’re struggling to find your place in the universe? Consider poor old Colin Douglass, a terminally ill insurance agent who awakens from centuries in cryogenic freeze to find Earth is a devastated wasteland. Now, he’s being pursued by a homicidal interstellar tourist board, and calculating insurance dividends is as outdated as making stone axes. Sci-fi-hating technophobe Colin seeks a cure for his illness in this strange new galaxy where toilets talk back, and door handles are a long-forgotten relic.
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Hairy knees won't stop Colin!
- De Willis Burns en 11-19-19
De: Karl Beecher
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Winter's Rising
- Dystance, Book 1
- De: Mark Tufo
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
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From birth to death, The War is all the citizens of Dystance know. As children it is drilled into their heads that war is the purpose behind all existence. Winter doesn't agree. She's stumbled across remnants of life the way it was before The War began, and now she longs to be as free as her ancestors. With help from her best friend Cedar and the boy she is forbidden to love, Tallow. She believes she can do it. Winter can see a life beyond the Pickets, beyond the constant hunger and the threat of death, beyond the war machine.
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Unbelievable, melodramatic romance.
- De Lynn A Blankenship en 03-28-19
De: Mark Tufo
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The Circuit
- De: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 28 h y 46 m
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Earth is a dying planet. To survive, humanity founds the Circuit, a string of colonies across the solar system, dedicated to mining resources vital to preserving what remains of mankind. Here there are no heroes or villains, only those willing to do what's necessary to survive. The New Earth Tribunal, a powerful religious faction, has risen to rule the Circuit. They believe a Spirit within the Earth will one day appear and welcome humanity back home.
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If you liked The Expanse, walk away.
- De Anonymous User en 09-25-18
De: Rhett C. Bruno
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Black Phoenix
- De: Wayne Wightman, B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
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Earth’s first colony ship finally reaches the target world. The excitement of planetfall is indescribable, but quickly transforms into sick disappointment when they find the atmosphere is a roiling mass of hydrochloric acid, carbon dioxide, and other deadly poisons. They fly onward, seeking better planets. They find them, but none are ideal. The search goes on for a century, then longer still. As they move farther from Earth, aliens discover the intruding ship, and they begin to investigate humanity. They find our species unacceptable.
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Uggggh
- De JonH en 09-20-19
De: Wayne Wightman, y otros
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Mimic and the Space Engineer Omnibus
- Space Shifter Chronicles, Books 1-3
- De: James David Victor
- Narrado por: Nick Tecosky
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Higgens has the best job in the galaxy. Except for the fact that he’s technically a janitor on a galactic mining vessel. When he discovers an unknown alien species, his world gets turned upside down. He will have to find unlikely allies if he is going to save his new friend and help her build a new home. The Mimic and the Space Engineer boxed set contains the first three books in the Space Shifter Chronicles. If you like fast-paced space adventures with engaging, and quirky, characters, you will love Higgens, Mimic, and their adventures in space.
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Interesting premise, but I've read better
- De Reviewer en 12-05-20
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The Morcai Battalion
- De: Diana Palmer
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
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A ragtag band of humans from the Terravegan colonies fights the Rojok invaders and their ship is destroyed. Rescued by the Centaurian commander of the terror-inspiring Holconcom, the humans must learn to live with their hostile alien counterparts when they are captured by the Rojoks and thrown into the galaxy's most horrible prison camp. The female exobiologist has to save the life of the alien commander in order to save her captain, her comrades, and herself. This is a rocket ride full of action, humor, and sacrifice.
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Pleasantly Surprised
- De Bruce en 01-23-08
De: Diana Palmer
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Fallen Empire
- Born of Ash Series, Book 1
- De: Marc Alan Edelheit
- Narrado por: John Lee
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After years of catastrophic fighting, the rebellion is over. The First Galactic Empire has fallen. Instead of liberation and a return to democracy, freedom, and a new golden age, humanity has been plunged into darkness. Eighteen years after the Great Fall of civilization, stranded on the wrecked world Asherho, Keira Kane struggles to make her way. Adopted, protected, and raised by former Imperial Marines, Keira has been trained as a mechanic and technician. Her skillset is indispensable to maintaining the decaying infrastructure of her dying planet.
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Don't pay attention to those John Lee haters
- De Ricky Heaston en 08-27-22
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Titanborn
- De: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
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After decades hunting wanted offworlders throughout the solar system, Corporate Bounty Hunter Malcolm Graves doesn't bother asking questions. So long as the pay is right, he's the man for the job. And he always works alone. But when a high-profile bombing on Earth has Pervenio Corp clamoring for answers, they force him to team up with a strange, cyber-augmented partner. A young man more interested in statistics than instinct. Their assignment: Track down a suspected group of extremists from Titan who will go to any length to free their moon from the grip of Earth's corporations.
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Great Mystery Sci-fi
- De Bryan en 02-08-19
De: Rhett C. Bruno
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Foreigner
- Foreigner Sequence 1, Book 1
- De: C. J. Cherryh
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
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The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.
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A Sci-Fi Neville Chamberlain
- De Tango en 07-28-13
De: C. J. Cherryh
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Rift
- De: Nathan Hystad
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone, Flynn Earl Jones, Mark Sanderlin, y otros
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They’ve watched us for centuries through the Rift. They’ve prepared. Invasion is inevitable. The Earth Fleet has known of the Watchers for years, unwilling to share the knowledge with humanity. Now it might be too late. Hidden away from the Fleet, one man is creating a new colony ship destined for the other side of the Rift, but he’s missing a few pieces. Three other people have varied paths to get there. Ace goes from the streets of Earth to the Fleet training facility on the moon. Flint, an ex-Fleet pilot, must decide if a job is worth his life.
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The story didn't end.
- De Amazon Customer en 06-25-20
De: Nathan Hystad
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They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities, and unforeseen risks.
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Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
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Only a few know the terrifying truth - an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun... They know the truth - but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy - but who will believe?These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.
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Jordan McKell has a problem with authority. Unfortunately for him, the iron-fisted authority of the powerful Patthaaunutth controls virtually every aspect of galactic shipping. In order to survive, Jordan ekes out a living dabbling in interstellar smuggling for outlaw concerns that represent the last vestiges of free trade in the galaxy. So when Jordan and his partner, Ixil - an alien with two ferret-like "outhunters" linked to his neural system - are hired by a mysterious gentleman to fly a ship and its special cargo to Earth, they jump at the job.
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I've been waiting a long time for this.
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They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities, and unforeseen risks.
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Thank you
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Valis
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What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
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Life changing
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Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
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Only a few know the terrifying truth - an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun... They know the truth - but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy - but who will believe?These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.
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Jordan McKell has a problem with authority. Unfortunately for him, the iron-fisted authority of the powerful Patthaaunutth controls virtually every aspect of galactic shipping. In order to survive, Jordan ekes out a living dabbling in interstellar smuggling for outlaw concerns that represent the last vestiges of free trade in the galaxy. So when Jordan and his partner, Ixil - an alien with two ferret-like "outhunters" linked to his neural system - are hired by a mysterious gentleman to fly a ship and its special cargo to Earth, they jump at the job.
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I've been waiting a long time for this.
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Hunger: The Complete Trilogy
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The world’s food supply grows aggressively, occupying every inch of earth, no matter how inhospitable. World hunger is averted. Humanity flourishes. RC-714 is digested, absorbed…and passed on. The Change affects small fast-breeding mammals first. They multiply with the same aggressive speed as the ExoGen plants, but an insatiable hunger drives them to violence. A war between species breaks out. When RC-714 reaches humanity, along with every other large creature on the planet, civilization implodes.
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Get ready to get your ESG score doubled
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Apocalypse: Regression, Book 1
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As humanity is taking its final breath, facing extinction from a myriad of monsters, the last three people on earth are creating a final chance for the hero to go back in time and stop the apocalypse. However, before the hero can enter the chronomancer portal to the past, she and the portal's creator are both killed, leaving only the weak assistant to carry on their dream of saving the world. Will Nick be able to right the wrongs done to him, and prepare the hero for the world to come?
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pleasant surprise
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School for Psychics, Book 1
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Teddy Cannon isn’t your typical 20-something woman. She’s resourceful. She’s bright. She’s scrappy. She can also read people with uncanny precision. What she doesn’t realize: She’s actually psychic. When a series of bad decisions leads Teddy to a run-in with the police, a mysterious stranger intervenes. He invites her to apply to the School for Psychics, a facility hidden off the coast of San Francisco where students are trained like Delta Force operatives: It’s competitive, cutthroat, and highly secretive.
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From fun to addictive
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The Black Elfstone
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Across the Four Lands, peace has reigned for generations. But now, in the far north, an unknown enemy is massing. More troubling than the carnage is the strange and wondrous power wielded by the attackers—a breed of magic unfamiliar even to the Druid order. Fearing the worst, the High Druid dispatches a diplomatic party under the protection of the order’s sworn guardian, Dar Leah, to confront the mysterious, encroaching force and discover its purpose.
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The Cat Who Saved Books
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Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for — or rather, demands — the teenager’s help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners.
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Transports you to fantastical realities…
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Roman History
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Appian of Alexander was a Greek historian who lived at the height of the Roman Empire during the first half of the 2nd century AD, having been born around AD 95 and died about AD 165. Very little is known about him beyond what he reveals about himself, along with the fact that he lived in Alexandria. He was a Roman citizen and held several senior-level public offices, both in Alexandria and in Rome.
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Another Epic Title by Charlton Griffin!
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The End of Eternity
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The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will. You had to be special to become an Eternal. Andrew Harlan was special. Until he committed the one unforgivable sin - falling in love. Eternals weren’t supposed to have feelings. But Andrew could not deny the sensations that were struggling within him. He knew he could not keep this secret forever. And so he began to plan his escape.
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Amazing story. Audio quality could be better.
- De NM en 09-02-20
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Under a Tell Tale Sky
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A massive solar flare. A devastating global blackout. Amid the pandemonium, a ship loaded with fuel faces the ultimate threat: mutiny. The desperate captain will do anything to maintain order while he races to get his precious cargo to the safety of homeport, but time is running out. On land, in cities without power, violence rules the streets as society crumbles into chaos.
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Very entertaining.
- De Andybob60 en 10-18-19
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Deathtrap
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The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an alien legion to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap.
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What a great spinoff!
- De Cliff en 05-13-19
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Black Sun
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- De: Owen Matthews
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It is the dawn of the 1960s. In order to investigate the gruesome death of a brilliant young physicist, KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin must leave Moscow for Arzamas-16, a top-secret research city that does not appear on any map. There he comes up against the brightest, most cutthroat brain trust in Russia who, on the orders of Nikita Khrushchev himself, are building a nuclear weapon with 3,800 times the destructive potential of the Hiroshima bomb.
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great story
- De Christiane Warren en 03-11-25
De: Owen Matthews
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The Walking Dead: Rise of The Governor
- De: Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
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Following in the footsteps of the New York Times best-selling graphic novels and the record-breaking new television show, this debut novel in a trilogy of original Walking Dead books chronicles the back story of the comic book series greatest villain, The Governor.
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Editor didn't do his job...
- De JohnInNC en 12-12-11
De: Robert Kirkman, y otros
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Visiones de robot [Robot Visions]
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- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Raúl Llorens
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Isaac Asimov, creador de la palabra robótica, nos ofrece treinta y seis relatos cortos y ensayos sobre robots, que resumen todo su preclaro pensamiento sobre el desarrollo futuro de esta ciencia.
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Wow! Altamente recomendable.
- De Amazon Customer en 02-23-22
De: Isaac Asimov
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Stars, Like Dust
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- Caden
- 07-27-23
Asimov at his weakest
The beginning of this book is not very great, I really liked the last 3rd or so but it's not nearly as good as Foundation or Robots. If you love asimov, give it a try but don't get your hopes too high.
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- Adayam mirsky
- 04-13-24
Still very very good.
This trilogy was written more then 70 years ago, but although a bit scientifically inaccurate it’s still very gripping. Excellent narrator.
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- Michael
- 05-20-24
Enjoyable but jumbled and overstuffed ending
Was really enjoying the first half but felt like the last sections just got dense with new characters, twists, new planets, etc that made it feel listless and incoherent at times.
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- james richardson
- 10-01-20
good listin
good listin. love issac 's work. make sure you enjoy this listin. you will not be sorry.
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- Blake
- 04-14-22
poorly written female characters but ok themes
the female characters were written very poorly with no idea of women in mind. they were mere pawns to the story of men in space that were literally fucked to get points across. other than that it was your typical space mystery with some southern politics and ideals.
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- Subway
- 12-09-23
Early work that launched one of the greats
Good example of some of the earliest work from Asimov. Not as polished as his later books, but you can see the promise and the seeds of greatness within it. From these stories came one of the greatest careers in science fiction.
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- Nathan
- 04-21-24
Isaac Asimov was a master
It is amazing to me that this was written in 1950. I became lost in some of the intrigue and family relationships... but it was still entertaining. It's fun to see how faster than light travel is possible but the calculations for it are still done by hand using tables and formulas from physical books. Even when Asimov passed away in 1992 did he yet realize the degree to which computers would change pur lives? Did he know that most who accumulated books for their knowledge in 1992 would no longer do so in 2024? In this Era in which technology's impact on our lives is changing so rapidly we have even more to learn from science fiction. It is perhaps the greatest genre.
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- SW CORNER
- 04-17-24
Great book hasn't aged too well
I loved this book when I first read it, about 50 years ago. It hasn't aged well, and, even Asimov corrected a small technical mistake in the epilogue.
The basis of the story, a young aristocrat caught up in galaxy-wide intrigue, is solid. However, the literary conventions of popular fiction in 1950 were such that, even a truly great author like Isaac Asimov included many contemporary tropes (a profoundly obsolete level of sexism, and juvenile romantic subplot) that seem silly, and distracted from the storyline. On top of that, the emotional outbursts and elitist attitudes of the protagonist make it harder to identify with him, even by the time the story has resolved.
I would probably enjoy an update of this plot, with the frequent improbable logic kinks worked out, and the tech updated to what we understand today, along with the dated misogynist and aristocratic posturing removed.
Jon Lindstrom did a good job of narration. I never had a moment when I believed it could have been improved.
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- Mackenzie Mendes Melo
- 06-03-21
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The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight.
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- Kent Barnett
- 11-29-23
Should have read it sooner…
So, I now know the reason why all roads lead to Asimov. Where all of it came from and the Empire.
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