Jay Barnes
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Neuromancer
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.
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Story? Classic. Narrator? Ugh.
- By Sage on 11-11-14
- Neuromancer
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Must read!
Reviewed: 06-21-23
So much of this novel appears to be cliche, but that's because everything after borrowed from this! Nearly perfect from iconic start until the finish. Can we get the narrators to research certain technical terms tho? In one scene, an EMP weapon is used. Instead of saying the commonly accepted E-M-P, they chose to make it a word, 'emp.' A minor nitpick from an otherwise amazing production!
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Have Space Suit - Will Travel
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon. The consolation prize was an authenticspace suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell wonit, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own tothe stars. But "one day" comes sooner than he thinks when he tries the suit on in his backyard - and finds himself worlds away, a prisoner aboard a space pirate's ship.
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Wry humor obliterated by inept reading
- By Scott on 07-10-14
- Have Space Suit - Will Travel
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
Heinlein's last Juvenile...
Reviewed: 04-30-23
...if he ever even appreciated that label! Certainly this was written for a teenage audience, but RAH never shied away from copious technical details or hard issues. Interesting that his next published work was 'Starship Troopers,' which somewhat contradicts elements found in the later parts of this novel. This is not only a great adventure, but fills the reader with classic sci-fi wonder, even if some of the details are now dated. Wonderful performance by the narrator! Time to check out more of Heinlein's early stuff.
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The Pursuit of the Pankera
- A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Jennifer Jill Araya, Richard Ferrone, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
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Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda, and Jake are ambushed by the alien "Black Hats" and barely escape with their lives on a specially configured vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) which can travel along various planes of existence, allowing them to visit parallel universes. However, unknown to most fans, Heinlein had already written a "parallel" novel about the four characters and parallel universes in 1977.
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Stupid production
- By Arthur W. Smart on 06-21-20
- The Pursuit of the Pankera
- A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Jennifer Jill Araya, Richard Ferrone, Bernadette Dunne
The number of the best! (sic)
Reviewed: 11-18-22
A neat sidequel to Heinlein's Number of the Beast. Wish the performers from that recording had returned, but these folks did well. The story has a more satisfying finish, and brings the characters to new places, in more ways than one.
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Leave the World Behind
- A Novel
- By: Rumaan Alam
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe.
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I knew people wouldn’t like it
- By BookLover on 10-15-20
- Leave the World Behind
- A Novel
- By: Rumaan Alam
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Where's the beef?
Reviewed: 10-12-22
Great, fast paced story, if you like more questions than answers. This deserves either a sequel or sidequel for more tidbits.
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Iron Sunrise
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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Planet Moscow is vaporized by an unnatural star explosion, prompting those who escaped to counterattack the likely culprit - planet New Dresden of the neighboring system. But New Dresden wasn't to blame, and as worlds go to war, an unseen enemy labors to destroy the universe itself.
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Great follow-up novel
- By Daniel O. Buchholz on 05-10-12
- Iron Sunrise
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: George Guidall
Meow!
Reviewed: 04-21-22
Narrator makes several obvious mistakes, this one needs re-recording. Great story though, and want more from these characters and worlds!
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Sandworms of Dune
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
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Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine.
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You'll buy it anyway
- By Amazon Customer on 09-19-07
- Sandworms of Dune
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Worms!
Reviewed: 12-18-21
Lack of pauses between chapters made some of the transitions confusing. Fun story though!
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