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Narrated by:
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David DeVries
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Kristin Kalbli
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By:
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David Brin
The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, best-selling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War- an epic novel set 50 years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world.
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What made the experience of listening to Earth the most enjoyable?
The narration was great the characters came alive.What other book might you compare Earth to and why?
Accelerando by Charles Stross, it's a strong view of a possible future.Any additional comments?
I'm just got done re-reading David Brin's "Earth" written in 1989 after a 15 year break to see how well it holds (the Audible version with a nice short story at the end that takes place in the same universe). In some of the sub-plot lines, he talks about the leaders with Swiss bank accounts? Check A world linked by computers and camera's recording everything done by the people? Check. Ice melting? Check. Earthquakes next to the coast taking out nuclear power plant? Check. The cost of connecting to the world wide web dropping to less then the cost of gas and food? Soon. Clearly he has a good inner line on projecting what could go on in the near future, check him out of you're looking for a good read.David has an inside line on the future
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What did you love best about Earth?
the connections it made for me about how the world works; social; economic and physicalWhat other book might you compare Earth to and why?
Kim Stanley Robinson "2312" except on a universal paletteHave you listened to any of David DeVries and Kristin Calbley ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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wish it wasn't over.....great science fiction, characters and facts
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Brin uses the device of starting each "part" with a series of repeated chapter titles like "Earth," "Space," etc. Many of these are non sequiturs, and confusing.
The characters get a bit hard to follow, and he pretty deep into characters that don't have much impact on the plot. When some side characters do interesting things, they often don't ever get explained. For instance one saves animals from an impossible situation, but _how_ is never revealed, nor does the event have any relevance to the plot. Neither does that character have much relevance to the plot.
People fall in love, but nobody shows passion, or any emotion, except jealousy. Sex, of any, is only vaguely hinted at.
The narrators are just barely good enough to tolerate, and their (or the director's?) work interferes with the character development. Several characters voices sound the same. Worst of all, the lead female protagonist has an unattractive man's voice with a strong Kiwi accent. He may have explained why a New Zealander is captain of an American space shuttle, I don't recall, but it has nothing to do with the plot. Weird.
Tying up those loose ends that actually do get tied up takes at least an hour, and is free of either surprises or action.
I'd return this book, but I have a lot of unused credits and Amazon recently started cancelling credits after so many months, which violates the contact I signed up for
Anyhow, I'm done with Brin.
Enjoyed it, but it goes slow too often (3/2020)
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always surprised
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Two readers
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long but good it drags at times....the ideas prese
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Great story, poor narration
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Like Final Fantasy in real life.
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A truly remarkable re-imagining of our planet used as a trick to go deep into the theories on how to preserve our dear earth.
I loved it in paper and wanted to listen to it, I was mostly happy about this version too.
Milestone
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