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Narrado por:
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Peter Kenny
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Iain M. Banks
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The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks, and military action.
The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him toward his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.
The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.
Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction.
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- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
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In 1943, when the United States learns that Germany is on the verge of a deadly innovation that could tip the balance of the war, the government turns to an unlikely source for help: the nation’s top science fiction writers. Installed at a covert military lab within the Philadelphia Naval Yard are the most brilliant of these young visionaries. The unruly band is led by Robert Heinlein, the dashing and complicated master of the genre. His “Kamikaze Group,” is tasked with transforming the wonders of science fiction into science fact....
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Pulp Perfection!
- De Jim N en 08-31-12
De: Paul Malmont
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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
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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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Best Sci Fi Fun anywhere!
- De A. Foxter en 07-07-15
De: Brian Daley
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Stormbreaker
- The First Alex Rider Adventure
- De: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Parker
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out.
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Okay action story held up by an great narrator
- De Mary Fan en 08-13-13
De: Anthony Horowitz
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The Forge of God
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago.
Something is happening to planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to contemplate
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Great Story, Wonderful Listening, But the Editor?
- De George Knight en 07-14-13
De: Greg Bear
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Void Star
- De: Zachary Mason
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Tristan Morris, Sean Pratt, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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Not far in the future, the seas have risen, and the central latitudes are emptying. But it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor.
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if you're That Guy
- De Zachary en 06-18-17
De: Zachary Mason
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Dead Man's Land
- De: Robert Ryan
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
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Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- De L. Gutman en 03-01-18
De: Robert Ryan
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The Ninth Rain
- The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Jen Williams
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 20 h y 6 m
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Jen Williams, acclaimed author of The Copper Cat trilogy, featuring The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost and The Silver Tide, returns with the first in a blistering new trilogy. The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.
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Couldn’t put it down!
- De Renae en 09-09-22
De: Jen Williams
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Gravity's Rainbow
- De: Thomas Pynchon, Frank Miller - cover design
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 37 h y 21 m
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- De Jefferson en 07-04-16
De: Thomas Pynchon, y otros
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InterWorld
- De: Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves
- Narrado por: Christopher Evan Welch
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
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Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces: armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.
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A good listen
- De Gurmukh en 10-31-07
De: Neil Gaiman, y otros
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The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad
- De: Felix R. Savage
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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Fletcher Connolly hasn't got a lot to lose. Since he and half the galaxy signed on to the rat race of the technological relics trade, Fletch has come to terms with the idea that he will join the ranks of unlucky explorers that perish light years from home without a dime to his name. But bankruptcy is a great motivator. With friends and family counting on him to strike it rich, Fletch embarks on an unwilling quest for alien treasure.
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I wanted to love this book, but I did like it
- De wag more en 07-26-18
De: Felix R. Savage
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Excession
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the Affront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed.
De: Iain M. Banks
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The Algebraist
- Culture
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
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It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.
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Surprisingly meh
- De Ryan en 05-19-24
De: Iain M. Banks
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Transition
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
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There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?
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Finally an Iain M. Banks book on audible...
- De Kurt en 10-29-09
De: Iain M. Banks
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The Quarry
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.
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By Iain Banks, not Iain M. Banks
- De Reader X en 05-19-18
De: Iain M. Banks
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Matter
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.
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Don't Buy this Abominable Abridgement
- De Jim Sabshin en 05-06-12
De: Iain M. Banks
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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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Excession
- De: Iain M. Banks
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Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the Affront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed.
De: Iain M. Banks
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The Algebraist
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- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 19 h y 21 m
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It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.
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Surprisingly meh
- De Ryan en 05-19-24
De: Iain M. Banks
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Transition
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organization with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?
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Finally an Iain M. Banks book on audible...
- De Kurt en 10-29-09
De: Iain M. Banks
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The Quarry
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.
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By Iain Banks, not Iain M. Banks
- De Reader X en 05-19-18
De: Iain M. Banks
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Matter
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Toby Longworth
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.
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Don't Buy this Abominable Abridgement
- De Jim Sabshin en 05-06-12
De: Iain M. Banks
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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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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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Beyond Reason
- Using Emotions as You Negotiate
- De: Roger Fisher, Daniel Shapiro
- Narrado por: Roger Fisher, Daniel Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h
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Emotions matter. Whether negotiating with an angry boss or an outraged teenager, emotions can derail you. Properly treated, however, they can help you achieve the results you want. This book shows you how.
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Terrific
- De George en 04-16-06
De: Roger Fisher, y otros
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Strivers Row
- De: Kevin Baker
- Narrado por: Thomas Anthony Penny
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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Summer 1943. Harlem is a never-ending carnival in the second year of the war. Yet underneath the glitter, its black residents remain second-class citizens, and the neighborhood is a tinderbox, waiting for a match.
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A Magnificent Narration
- De Bernard en 04-16-15
De: Kevin Baker
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Murder at Raven's Edge
- An English Village Mystery, Book 1
- De: Louise Marley
- Narrado por: Christopher Bonwell
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Handsome, grumpy local policeman Ben Taylor doesn't believe in coincidences, and he doesn’t think mysterious newcomer Milla Graham is as innocent as she seems. Why is she really here in Raven’s Edge, and how come she keeps turning up at his crime scenes, causing trouble? Can he solve this murder case without losing himself–or his heart–to the rather distracting Miss Graham?
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Didn’t want it to end!
- De J. L. Fishler en 05-12-24
De: Louise Marley
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Glory and the Lightning
- A Novel of Ancient Greece
- De: Taylor Caldwell
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 24 h y 53 m
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Born in the Greek city of Miletus, Aspasia was destined for a life of tragedy. Her wealthy father vowed to abandon any female child, so Aspasia was secreted away, educated independently of her family, and raised as a courtesan. She discovered at an early age how to use her powers of intellect as ingeniously as those of the flesh. Ensconced in the Persian harems of Al Taliph, she meets the man who will change her fate: Pericles, the formidable political leader, statesman, ruler of Athens, and Aspasia’s most cherished lover.
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If you know anything about Ancient Greece this is
- De Cela S en 05-08-20
De: Taylor Caldwell
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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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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 Many-Colored Land
- Volume 1 of the Saga of Pliocene Exile
- De: Julian May
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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This is a spellbinding tale woven of equal parts epic and myth - with a liberal dash of hard science fiction. When a one-way time tunnel to Earth’s distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each sought his own brand of happiness. But none could have guessed what awaited them. Not even in a million years....
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About time - I hope we get the rest of Julian May
- De Jon en 12-12-10
De: Julian May
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Gateway
- De: Frederik Pohl
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
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A human-focused SF classic
- De Ryan en 12-05-13
De: Frederik Pohl
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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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Echopraxia
- De: Peter Watts
- Narrado por: Adam J Rough
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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It's the eve of the 22nd century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence. Daniel Bruks is a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational.
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A Must Read
- De Taylor Lewis en 12-21-15
De: Peter Watts
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A Fire Upon the Deep
- De: Vernor Vinge
- Narrado por: Peter Larkin
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.
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What a wild, wacky, awesome book!
- De Noah Smith en 06-20-10
De: Vernor Vinge
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- Darden H.
- 04-04-23
LISTEN TO THIS BOOK TWICE!
The way this story unfolds offers a totally unique and brilliant experience that really blew me away. There are many moments where the story feels disjointed, or that you missed an important piece of information early on that's being referenced as background knowledge. towards the final quarter of the story though, things really start to click into place as more information is revealed. The end brings everything together, and will rock you.
If you immediately start the book over again, scenes that worked in a metaphorical sense initially will take on new and more in depth meanings. I fully believe the author intended the readers to read the book again after finishing it the first time- It offers an entirely new, beautifully deep experience once you start with the whole picture already revealed.
The fact that the author was even able to come up with such a complex narrative concept, and to employ it with such skill and emotional depth absolutely boggles my mind. What an incredible experience, and please, PLEASE finish it twice!
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- Michael Lyons
- 09-23-17
Best Culture novel I’ve read yet.
This is the fourth Culture novel I’ve listened to and is now my favorite. The order I read the books so far have been ‘A Player of Games’, ‘Consider phlebas’, ‘Surface Detail’ and now ‘Use of weapons’. This book is truly unique compared to the others I have read in the way that the characters are developed and in Peter Kenney’s excellent performance. I highly recommend this book but only for folks that have read atleast one Culture novel previously so that you are familiar with GSVs, SC, etc.
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- Andrew D Bauer
- 05-18-21
Interesting
Fascinating storyline. Uniquely told. Amazing culmination with a very unexpected plot twist. Makes you think
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- Alan Meigs
- 04-28-21
Wow, rough start, then eventually wow.
I look forward to reading it again to reassess my opinion but right now it is amongst the best I've read.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-27-17
Awesome but might be better read than listened to
Due to the complexity of this book and the style of jumping around it may be better to read than listen. In saying that it was wonderful and the Peter Kenny's reading was excellent.
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- Mitchel
- 11-21-19
One of the greats
I have listened to this three times now. It is a beautiful, devastating story. Peter Kenny is by far my favorite narrator for Iain m banks. Highly recommended, although probably not the best book to introduce you to the culture novels.
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- Joshua Bremer
- 09-26-23
Requires full concentration throughout
Good story, but not a fan of the dueling timelines every other chapter. Because it tells two different stories in different time periods, it requires complete focus to fully understand everything when it ends. Least favorite book in the series and I will now be taking a break from it. Unlike the previous books, you can’t listen to this one while doing other things if you expect to grasp the story.
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- SciFi Kindle
- 05-16-13
Amazing Character Portrait
After over twenty years, this still holds up as a Sci-Fi masterpiece character study into the dark soul of its protagonist, a mercenary named Cheradenine Zakalwe. At first, the unusual story structure of two asynchronous story lines, alternating between the present and an episodic sequence of thirteen key moments in Zakalwe's past (revealed in reverse chronological order), can be confusing. However, it quickly clarifies, and is an absolutely ingenious way of examining the roots of the character's motives, phobias, and mannerisms in such a way that maximum surprise is extracted at each 'reveal'. Of course, as you've guessed from the profession of Mr. Zakalwe, there is no shortage of action throughout, and a good deal of James Bond 007 (I'm picturing Daniel Craig, not the other blokes). The biggest lost opportunity here was to explore, in the book's many settings and locales, some truly alien cultures, philosophies, and biologies, but sadly we see only a large collection of human civilizations in various stages of technological development. At least Gene Roddenberry slapped some prosthetic facial adornments on his humanoid aliens! Nevertheless, the story succeeds in elevating character over deus ex machina; no easy feat considering the persistent omnipotence of the Culture standing behind the mercenary, but here kept at a welcome arm's length, maintaining a high-stakes identification between the reader and the protagonist.
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- Dan B
- 08-03-20
Not quite as good as Banks' other Culture novels
This was an entertaining story and I just love Bank's presentation of the Culture. So, needless to say, this is a great story in that tradition. However, I haven't read a huge number of the Culture novels (I think just "Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas"), and "Use of Weapons" didn't seem quite up to those.
It felt like it only really colored in the characterization of the main character, Zakalwe. In fact, you could say the entire book was essentially devoted to fleshing out his character. Diziet's character is really only there as a foil or straight-person for Zakalwe, and Skaffen-Amtiskaw gets even less book time. Several other characters are portrayed as seen through his eyes, but he is the only full character.
Unfortunately, I didn't really enjoy his character a lot, and I felt like the great reveal at the end was heavily and obviously foreshadowed, if not in the specific details, certainly in outlines of what happened. Add into that the narrative structure choice of interleaving two storylines, one proceeding forward in time and one proceeding backward in time, and I struggled to enjoy the plotline.
The narration by Peter Kenny was excellent, he brings the perfect tone to the Culture series!
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- ZenDada
- 09-04-16
Never for a second guessed this was coming!
The story of a man - an assassin, really - but a man who wanted to do the right thing. Died a lot. Had a lot of amnesia. Struggled to remember.
Had a phobia of chairs. Small white chairs.
I never saw the ending coming. I'm in tears. I'll read this again in print. And cry again.
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