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When the aliens arrived on Earth they brought peace. Everywhere they went a wave of calm understanding followed behind. Everyone was happy, everyone was content. The aliens promised to share their technology. Man would be able to reach the stars.
Danial Matson seemed to be the only man on Earth who didn’t fall in line, the only man who saw something darker in their motives.
FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Bone’s sci-fi classic.
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
"Triplanetary" is a science fiction novel by E. E. Smith. The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long human breeding project by the super-intelligences of the Arisians. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their archenemies, the Eddorians. The story cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis, Nero's reign in Rome, World Wars One, Two, and Three.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantasy
- By dewey cavender on 09-13-22
By: E. E. Smith
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Living Space
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Mark F. Smith
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 47
When the technology for twisting to other probability patterns was developed, a grateful Earth solved its overcrowding by sending people to live on Earths where plants and animals never got started. Each family could have its own planet, because there was an infinite number of such alt-Earths available, and the computers never assigned the same one twice. Trouble was - someone else had the same idea!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inter-Dimensional Real Estate
- By Nils J. Rasmussen on 05-25-14
By: Isaac Asimov
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No Name in the Street
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 399
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 342
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Story5 out of 5 stars 338
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent '60s and early '70s displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain - the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A strange and terrible vehicle
- By Darwin8u on 02-07-20
By: James Baldwin
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The Armies of the Night
- History as a Novel, the Novel as History
- By: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left - hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals - came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The last tool left to history
- By Darwin8u on 02-06-19
By: Norman Mailer
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CivCEO
- Accidental Champion Series, Book 1
- By: Andrew Karevik
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 740
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 634
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 634
When Charles Morris is forced into retirement, the old multinational company CEO has to accept that it is all over. The days of running his financial empire have finally come to an end. All because of a stupid heart attack. While Charles is attending a fundraiser, however, something happens and he's transported into a strange medieval world where magic is real and legendary heroes coexist with mythical monsters. Follow him as he builds roads and shops, hires heroes, develops alliances with neighboring villages...but also fights terrible foes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No world building
- By Timothy Dove on 12-19-20
By: Andrew Karevik
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The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8,809
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,581
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,531
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- By Darwin8u on 09-17-15
By: James Baldwin
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His Master's Voice
- By: Stanislaw Lem
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 181
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4 out of 5 stars 148
A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. "I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament...we as the posthumous heirs of Them...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excelent and entertaining
- By Jakub on 01-10-12
By: Stanislaw Lem
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The Doomsayer Journeys
- The Complete Adventures
- By: Steve Wetherell
- Narrated by: CC Hogan
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Fans of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Good Omens - your wait is over! The next ridiculous sci-fi fantasy series from a snarky British guy is here! And now you can experience the complete Doomsayer Journeys Trilogy in one volume!
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5 out of 5 stars
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if you like the hitchhikers guide. this is for you
- By LOKI on 09-12-22
By: Steve Wetherell
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The Fountains of Paradise
- By: Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,314
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,129
Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time: a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 04-30-11
By: Arthur C. Clarke
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The Man Who Used the Universe
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He's a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith's cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies - the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process. Is he after peace, power or pure evil? With enemy starships beginning to amass, we won't have to wait long to find out.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Idolized this book in paper in the 80's
- By Tom on 09-06-24
By: Alan Dean Foster
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The Skylark of Space
- A Pulp-Lit Classic Edition
- By: E.E. "Doc" Smith, Lee Hawkins Garby
- Narrated by: Finn J.D. John
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
In a fortuitous laboratory accident, crack scientist Richard Seaton has unlocked the secret of atomic energy. Now, partnered with his wealthy engineering-genius friend Martin Crane, he's preparing to give the world the gift of limitless, virtually free energy - and of space travel. But others want Seaton's secret for themselves.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So dissapointing
- By D. Wells on 08-30-22
By: E.E. "Doc" Smith, and others
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And There Was Light
- The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
- By: Jacques Lusseyran
- Narrated by: Andre Gregory
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 248
When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the three most important books in my life
- By William R. Stevenson on 12-12-15
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Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
- The Four Lords of the Diamond, Book 1
- By: Jack L. Chalker
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 130
Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four worlds because of unique microscopic symbionts that make it impossible for visitors to leave the Diamond. Seeking a unique solution, each of the four worlds making up the Diamond is sent a person whose mind has been stripped of everything and who is now controlled by an agent of the Confederacy. Lilith is the first planet to be visited.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great series if read in its entirety
- By Onix Harbinger on 08-21-18
By: Jack L. Chalker
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The Star Diaries
- Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
- By: Stanislaw Lem
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4 out of 5 stars 118
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gulliver in Space
- By Joe Kraus on 12-29-18
By: Stanislaw Lem