Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime I

By: Paul Preuss, Arthur C. Clarke

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“[A] combination of mystery and science fiction almost reaching the level of Isaac Asimov’s classic Lije Baley—Daneel Olivaw novels.” —Chicago Sun Times Her code name is Sparta. Her beauty veils a mysterious past and abilities far surpassing those of a normal human. For she is more than human: Sparta is the first product of advanced biotech engineering. But now she is little more than a cipher to herself—crucial memories of the past three years are locked away in the dark recesses of her brain. When the crippled freighter Star Queen arrives at Venus Station with a lone survivor on board, Sparta must risk her life to investigate what really happened during its deadly voyage in space. She must solve this mystery even as she unlocks another—the truth behind her own identity . . . This tautly paced story brings together the genius of Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss, whose work has been described by The New York Times as “Lively, intelligent . . . hard-driving.” Arthur C. Clarke is the world-renowned author of such science fiction classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey, for which he shared an Oscar nomination with director Stanley Kubrick, and its popular sequels, 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, and 3001: Final Odyssey; the highly acclaimed The Songs of Distant Earth; the bestselling collection of original short stories, The Sentinel; and over two dozen other books of fiction and non-fiction. He received the Marconi International Fellowship in 1982. He resides in Sri Lanka, where he continues to write and consult on issues of science, technology, and the future. Paul Preuss began his successful writing career after years of producing documentary and television films and writing screenplays. He is the author of twelve novels, including Venus Prime, Volumes 1, 2, and 3, and the near-future thrillers Core, Human Error, and Starfire. His non-fiction has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Besides writing, he has been a science consultant for several film companies. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Terrible Narration Kills Story

A waste of money. Don't buy this.

The story may be a good one, but the subpar narration ruins it. The voice sounds like a human voice but he(?) seems to be an idiot, not knowing that "Pffffft!" is a sound and instead of making the sound he spells it out.

Also, all the voices sound the same. The male characters even sound the same as the female characters! There is no variation at all.

Terrible!

Amazon apparently saved money by having an AI read this. Well, the AI sucks. Hire a human.

The virtual voice is not very good

There were many mistakes and pronunciation errors. The tone was wrong. And it missed out what would’ve been appropriate emotional reactions but since I’ve wanted to listen to this and this is the only option I had it’s better than nothing.

absolute horrible audiobook

the AI reading this book has done a horrible job it is unlistenable sentences that don't make sense strange pauses in the middle of sentences words that are red completely wrong and don't fit in with the sentence definitely needs to be redone by human reading it Arthur C Clark has made a horrible Choice allowing AI to read this

Terrible “reading” by computer voice

A good story ruined by trying to save money and have an AI generated voice “read” the story. Multiple pauses, mispronunciations and lack of emotion in the computer voice. A complete rip off. Please don’t waste your money on this as I unfortunately did.