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Ben Bova
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Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources - and time. It is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth’s millions. Altair VI is one such planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world into one where the human race can survive.
Star probes long ago informed Earth that Altair VI had a flourishing ecology with one very tough beast at the top of the food chain, one that will have to be dealt with before the human colony ships arrive. The beast is not only tough, it is as smart as a man.
Holman is faced with a soul-wrenching decision - for to make Altair VI habitable for humans, all native life must die.
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Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings - two great golden clouds suspended in space around it. Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers - a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The First of the Flinx and Pip Novels AT LAST!
- De Chris en 01-20-09
De: Alan Dean Foster
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On Dragonwings
- De: Lucy D. Ford
- Narrado por: Tyler Thompson
- Duración: 10 m
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General2 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 4
After a hard day of labor in Thornheath, Leolin returns home, hoping to catch a glimpse of dragons flying by.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mislead to a passable short story
- De Shopping Dad en 01-01-25
De: Lucy D. Ford
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Building Harlequin's Moon
- De: Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
The first interstellar ship, John Glenn, fled a solar system populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn’s crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir in hopes of creating a utopian society that will limit intelligent technology, but by some miscalculation they have landed in the wrong system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent - but needed to be twice as long
- De DAVID en 10-11-12
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Firstborn
- StarCraft: The Dark Templar Saga, Book 1
- De: Christie Golden
- Narrado por: Christie Golden
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Jake Ramsey - an unassuming yet talented archaeologist - has been given the chance of a lifetime. Hired to investigate a recently unearthed Xel'Naga temple, he knows this latest assignment will open up whole new possibilities for his career. Yet when Jake discovers the remains of a long-dead protoss mystic, his hopes and dreams are irrevocably drowned in a flood of alien memories. Bonded to the spirit of the dead protoss, Jake has become the sole inheritor of the protoss' total history - every event, every thought - every feeling.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Christie Golden doesn't have a wide enough range
- De Chad Dye en 04-30-19
De: Christie Golden
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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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General3.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 277
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Like some Space with your Soaps?
- De Bradley en 05-15-12
De: Gregory Benford
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End of an Era
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
Paleontologist Brandon Thackery and his rival, Miles "Klicks" Jordan, fulfill a dinosaur lover's dream with history's first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth's gravity is only half its 21st-century value and dinosaurs that behave very strangely. Could the slimy blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!
- De Simone en 07-08-16
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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A World Out of Time
- De: Larry Niven
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,403
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,246
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,260
After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Do you know how people get old?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-13-12
De: Larry Niven
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Time Salvager
- De: Wesley Chu
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 693
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 628
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 629
Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thrilling time-traveling adventure full of twists.
- De Daniel en 11-13-15
De: Wesley Chu
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A Thousand Words for Stranger
- Trade Pact Universe, Book 1
- De: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
This debut science fiction novel is the story of Sira--a woman on the run from the law, from her own people, and from an unknown figure determined to use her for his own ends. Her memory taken from her by a stasis block, she must stay free long enough to regain both her identity and the full use of her telepathic powers. The price of failure may not only be the loss of her own future, but that of her entire race.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another GREAT Czerneda book!
- De GraphicsChyk en 12-11-12
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 137
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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3 out of 5 stars
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FU@@ING EXPLORERS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 03-06-15
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Vitalis Omnibus
- De: Jason Halstead
- Narrado por: James Killavey
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Mysterious blackouts left Kira with precious few memories of events in her life, never mind those worth sharing. Somewhere in those blank spots she acquired skills - skills she was hard pressed to explain. But those skills got her a job as the new navigator for the Rented Mule, a transport ship that plied the Rim Systems at the very edge of human civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moral of the stoty is...
- De Rachel en 10-22-14
De: Jason Halstead
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The Post-Human Omnibus
- Books 1-4
- De: David Simpson
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 24 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,157
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,155
Before he was Oldtimer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor,sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history, a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world's first strong artificial intelligence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Man, I really wanted to like this book
- De Consumer en 04-29-15
De: David Simpson
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Queen of Angels
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, murdered eight people, then disappeared. Three people want to find him: an aspiring writer, an embittered scientist who wants to use him, and a policewoman who needs to put him in custody before the Selectors, a vigilante organization, get to him first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic, a whole new experience on audio
- De Tungsten en 04-02-16
De: Greg Bear
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The Golden Queen
- The Golden Queen, Book 1
- De: David Farland
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Insectoid Dronons have slain the queen Semarritte, throwing into chaos the ten thousand worlds over which she reigned. Desperate to save mankind, Lord Veriasse, Semarritte's near-immortal consort, has created a new queen: Everynne, cloned from her dead mother. Born to rule, Everynne instead is on the run, often only one planet ahead of advancing forces of the invaders, who recognize that Everynne is a powerful rallying point for threatened humanity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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KISS ME QUICK BIRDS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-16-14
De: David Farland
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Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
- The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
- De: Brian Daley
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Sci Fi Fun anywhere!
- De A. Foxter en 07-07-15
De: Brian Daley
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The Awakening
- Broken Worlds, Book 1
- De: Jasper T. Scott
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
Darius Drake is desperate to save his daughter, Cassandra. So desperate he's willing to risk their lives in cryo-sleep to give her a future. But the dark, freezing vault where he wakes up is nothing like the luxurious Florida hospital he remembers. Everything about this place is alien to him, even the language. Little does he know how alien it really is. Darius and his daughter go exploring their new surroundings with a few others from the cryo pods, and they soon discover frozen, mutilated bodies everywhere.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Alien/Predator/Star Wars mashup
- De Leonidas Karr en 08-28-18
De: Jasper T. Scott
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Winds of Altair
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Chavous Camp
- 10-03-16
Before Avatar was Altair
Ben Bova released Winds of Altair in 1983, many years before Avatar would become a movie, yet this is such a similar story, and so exceptionally done, that you can hardly mention one without the other.
Bova combines a tale of morality and ethics in a species vs species conflict between humans who can't go home and a planet full of potentially sentient beings that do not want them there. Combine that with one of my true favorites as a narrator, Stefan Rudnicki, and you have an audiobook that will hook you and hold on to you from the first word to the last. Definitely worth a listen.
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- Read4Life
- 08-27-21
A classic Bova. Intriguing & Enjoyable
Certainly one of his more enjoyable books, in which you can see the parts borrowed by other perhaps better known stories. Rudnicki, as usual, provides a thoroughly enjoyable performance.
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