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David Brin
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From Hugo- and Nebula-winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays about the near and distant future, as humans and other intelligences encounter the secrets of the cosmos - and of their own existence.
In "The Giving Plague", a virus transmitted by blood donation begins to change humanity. In "Dr. Pak's Preschool", a woman discovers that her baby has been called to work while still in the womb. In "Natulife" a married couple finds their relationship threatened by the wonders of virtual reality. In "Sshhh..." the arrival of benevolent aliens on Earth leads to frenzied madness as humans rush to conceal their secret 'talent'. In "Bubbles" a sentient starcraft reaches the limits of the universe - and dares to go beyond.
What happens when an urban archaeologist discovers a terrible secret under the landfills of Los Angeles? Will there still be a purpose for "biologicals" when cybernetic humans become mighty and smart? Come explore these and another dozen startling and provocative tomorrows with a modern master of science fiction.
©2015 David Brin (P)2016 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you
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2 out of 5 stars
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,209
AD 3580. The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread through the galaxy to over a thousand star systems. It is a culture of rich diversity with a place for everyone. A powerful navy protects it from any hostile species that may lurk among the stars. For Commonwealth citizens, even death has been overcome.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What can I say
- De Randall en 05-08-18
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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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4 out of 5 stars
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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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In the Ocean of Night
- Galactic Center, Book 1
- De: Gregory Benford
- Narrado por: Maxwell Caulfield
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 276
It is 2019. NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy it, he instead discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal….
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1 out of 5 stars
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Like some Space with your Soaps?
- De Bradley en 05-15-12
De: Gregory Benford
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Expendable
- League of Peoples, Book 1
- De: James Alan Gardner
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 137
Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different - and terrible - ways to die.
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3 out of 5 stars
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FU@@ING EXPLORERS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 03-06-15
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Variable Star
- De: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrado por: Spider Robinson
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 463
At his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of interstellar time and space. Now, the Heinlein estate has authorized award-winning author Spider Robinson to expand his outline into a full-length novel. And the result is vintage Heinlein.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Spider WHO
- De Randall en 04-25-09
De: Robert A. Heinlein, y otros
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Beyond the Aquila Rift
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Tom Dheere
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 362
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 364
Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story, mediocre audio book.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-17-12
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Blue Remembered Earth
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 21 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,025
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 931
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 930
Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds holds a well-deserved place “among the leaders of the hard-science space opera renaissance." ( Publishers Weekly). In Blue Remembered Earth, Geoffrey Akinya wants nothing more than to study the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But when his space-explorer grandmother dies, secrets come to light and Geoffrey is dispatched to the Moon to protect the family name - and prevent an impending catastrophe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A surprising and staisfying departure for Reynolds
- De Michael G Kurilla en 07-21-12
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Fleet of Worlds
- 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
- De: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 861
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 610
Fleet of Worlds takes a closer look at Human-Puppeteer (Citizen) relations and the events leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel. Kirsten Quinn-Kovacks is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hurrah!
- De Bruce en 01-25-08
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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The Tar-Aiym Krang
- A Pip & Flinx Adventure
- De: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 848
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 613
Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings - two great golden clouds suspended in space around it. Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers - a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The First of the Flinx and Pip Novels AT LAST!
- De Chris en 01-20-09
De: Alan Dean Foster
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The Draco Tavern
- De: Larry Niven
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 433
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 250
When a tremendous spacecraft takes orbit around Earth's moon and begins sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracts many, including Rick Schumann, who establishes a tavern catering to all the various species of visiting aliens, a place he calls the Draco Tavern. From the mind of best-selling author Larry Niven come 27 tales and vignettes from this interstellar gathering place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Listen
- De D. Arkless en 04-07-07
De: Larry Niven
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Stand on Zanzibar
- De: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 21 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 339
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 299
Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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Accelerando
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 701
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 621
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 622
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hardest of hard SF...
- De DLee en 11-24-14
De: Charles Stross
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Methuselah's Children
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,803
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,606
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,612
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality…
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delight to revisit a science fiction classic
- De Anne en 02-16-13
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Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
- The Four Lords of the Diamond, Book 1
- De: Jack L. Chalker
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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
- De Onix Harbinger en 08-21-18
De: Jack L. Chalker
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- De: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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HAND DANCING
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-30-15
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Existence
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,200
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,071
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,063
Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will its universe envelop you?
- De Andreas Henriksson en 07-20-13
De: David Brin
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River of Time
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
The River of Time brings together 12 of David Brin's stories, including "The Crystal Spheres", which won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 1985. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe. Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book
- De Pernicious en 05-26-16
De: David Brin
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Glory Season
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Claire Christie
- Duración: 25 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life. As a half-caste var, she must leave the clan home of her privileged half-sisters and seek her fortune in the world. With her twin sister, Leie, she searches the docks of Port Sanger for an apprenticeship aboard the vessels that sail the trade routes of the Stratoin oceans. On her far-reaching, perilous journey of discovery, Maia will endure hardship and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates and separation from her twin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not bad, but definitely not Brin at his best.
- De Steven en 11-17-15
De: David Brin
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Kiln People
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Andy Caploe
- Duración: 23 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 181
In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember. But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Premise, Disappointing Execution
- De Michael en 07-25-13
De: David Brin
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Sundiver
- The Uplift Saga, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,264
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 970
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 980
For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?
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3 out of 5 stars
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good, but flawed
- De J Michael en 04-16-08
De: David Brin
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The Practice Effect
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Andy Caploe
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds - alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own - with one perplexing difference. To his astonishment, he was hailed as a wizard and found himself fighting beside a beautiful woman with strange powers against a mysterious warlord as he struggles to solve the riddle of this baffling world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book was doomed to fail
- De Joshua en 11-16-12
De: David Brin
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Existence
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,200
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,071
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,063
Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will its universe envelop you?
- De Andreas Henriksson en 07-20-13
De: David Brin
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River of Time
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
The River of Time brings together 12 of David Brin's stories, including "The Crystal Spheres", which won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 1985. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe. Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book
- De Pernicious en 05-26-16
De: David Brin
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Glory Season
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Claire Christie
- Duración: 25 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life. As a half-caste var, she must leave the clan home of her privileged half-sisters and seek her fortune in the world. With her twin sister, Leie, she searches the docks of Port Sanger for an apprenticeship aboard the vessels that sail the trade routes of the Stratoin oceans. On her far-reaching, perilous journey of discovery, Maia will endure hardship and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates and separation from her twin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not bad, but definitely not Brin at his best.
- De Steven en 11-17-15
De: David Brin
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Kiln People
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Andy Caploe
- Duración: 23 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 181
In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember. But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Premise, Disappointing Execution
- De Michael en 07-25-13
De: David Brin
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Sundiver
- The Uplift Saga, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,264
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 970
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 980
For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?
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3 out of 5 stars
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good, but flawed
- De J Michael en 04-16-08
De: David Brin
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The Practice Effect
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Andy Caploe
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds - alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own - with one perplexing difference. To his astonishment, he was hailed as a wizard and found himself fighting beside a beautiful woman with strange powers against a mysterious warlord as he struggles to solve the riddle of this baffling world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book was doomed to fail
- De Joshua en 11-16-12
De: David Brin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Otherness
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- Chris
- 12-17-18
Feh..
Brim speaks on Life, the Universe and Everything. Not what I was looking for. Shame on me.
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- Maksim
- 06-01-17
Highly recommend! A true gem!
This is truly a great reading. Each story is rich with ideas. These ideas are fresh , profound and scientific, not some fairy tales. And despite being idea oriented stories have live vivid characters that are interesting to follow. This is by far one of the best collections. On par with Far Futures and Carbide Tipped Pens.
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- Meg
- 07-25-17
Meta-Phosphoric!
Like a phosphorus grenade, David Brin's Otherness use traditional thoughts and metaphors to light the way in changing my very thoughts on the way I think. Thank you, David!
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