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Stefan Rudnicki
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Ben Bova
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The final completed novel by Ben Bova
Intergalactic explorer, venture capitalist, and Casanova Sam Gunn may be gone, but his legacy lives on in his son, Sam Gunn Jr.
In his first-ever adventure, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father’s left-behind mission of interplanetary enterprising. He soon learns his father’s shoes are tough to fill, but he is up for the task. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his unique mark everywhere he ventures. Soon, however, this trip through the universe takes a dangerous turn when Junior lands on Saturn and learns about a recent scientific discovery that will change everything, possibly forever.
Will he be able to save the universe and live up to his father’s name? Take an unforgettable ride through space in master sci-fi author Ben Bova’s exciting novel!
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,273
Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the prime minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris' blood - and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the Marines.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Harsh reviews seem undeserved to me
- By Jeffery on 09-29-10
By: Mike Shepherd
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Coyote
- A Novel of Interstellar Exploration
- By: Allen Steele
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Allen Steele
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 845
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 531
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Story4 out of 5 stars 541
The crime of the century begins without a hitch. On July 5th, 2070, as it's about to be launched, the starship Alabama is hijacked - by her captain and crew. In defiance of the repressive government of The United Republic of Earth, they replace her handpicked passengers with political dissidents and their families. These become Earth's first pioneers in the exploration of space...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poorly read
- By Amazon Customer on 09-09-08
By: Allen Steele
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Queen of Angels
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, murdered eight people, then disappeared. Three people want to find him: an aspiring writer, an embittered scientist who wants to use him, and a policewoman who needs to put him in custody before the Selectors, a vigilante organization, get to him first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic, a whole new experience on audio
- By Tungsten on 04-02-16
By: Greg Bear
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The Fourth Awakening
- By: Rod Pennington, Jeffery A. Martin
- Narrated by: C. J. Crit
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4 out of 5 stars 40
Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration will keep you awake..
- By Matthew on 02-11-13
By: Rod Pennington, and others
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The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe
- By: Conor Lastowka
- Narrated by: Eliza Skinner, Janet Varney, Al Yankovic, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 424
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Story4 out of 5 stars 378
Kara Everglades has just finished her first year of high school and is longing for an adventure. So far, her only option is an invitation from some upperclassmen to watch them race a bunch of bullfrogs in a ditch. Her grandfather, Cornelius Everglades, is a family legend (and a loose cannon), who founded his own island micronation. Unfortunately, the rest of the world refuses to acknowledge it. When Cornelius shows up at Kara’s door needing her help and promising an adventure, Kara agrees to go along with his far-fetched plan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly entertaining, great listen
- By Leslie Braitsch on 01-17-19
By: Conor Lastowka
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The Tar-Aiym Krang
- A Pip & Flinx Adventure
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 844
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 604
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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!
- By Chris on 01-20-09
By: Alan Dean Foster
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In the Garden of Iden
- A Novel of the Company, Book 1
- By: Kage Baker
- Narrated by: Janan Raouf
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 191
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 191
The first novel of Kage Baker’s critically acclaimed, much-loved series, the Company, introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus, Inc. One of these is Mendoza, the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very different SF, both in performance and tone
- By A reader on 10-21-11
By: Kage Baker
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Lockstep
- By: Karl Schroeder
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
When 17-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he' s orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when Toby wakes again, he' s surprised to discover a thriving planet, a strange and prosperous galaxy, and something stranger still - that he' s been asleep for 14,000 years. Welcome to the Lockstep Empire, where civilization is kept alive by careful hibernation. Here cold sleeps can last decades and waking moments mere weeks.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Great Idea, Poorly Served
- By D. M. ROBISON on 04-01-14
By: Karl Schroeder
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Up Against It
- By: M. J. Locke
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 123
Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very old school SF, in ways good and bad
- By A reader on 06-19-12
By: M. J. Locke
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Falling Free
- Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,293
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,816
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,823
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't read this one first
- By Carol on 02-20-13
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The Sheriff of Yrnameer
- A Novel
- By: Michael Rubens
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Story4 out of 5 stars 151
Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out of be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun, Light-hearted SF
- By Martin Moore on 08-30-09
By: Michael Rubens
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The Engineer Wizard
- The Genie and the Wizard, Book 1
- By: Glenn Michaels
- Narrated by: Commodore James, Jordan Byrne, Bennett Cousins, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 120
Paul Armstead is your average American senior citizen and electrical engineer. He's 61 years old, unremarkably unattractive, and a self-proclaimed science fiction nut. He's lived the American dream in drab, typical fashion. So how does he end up fleeing from one end of the world to the other, dodging government dragnets; evil, nightmarish monsters known as the Oni; good wizards; bad wizards; beautiful women; spies; and wizardly spells? Well, it is entirely the genie's fault....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hurry up with the 2nd one!
- By Brody T. on 08-30-16
By: Glenn Michaels
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Freedom's Landing
- Freedom Series, Book 1
- By: Anne McCaffrey
- Narrated by: Susie Breck
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,054
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 854
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 858
It's the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth's population. Thousands are herded onto slave ships headed for the intergalactic auction block. Kris Bjornsen is captured in Denver on her way to her college classes and wakes up on the primitive planet Barevi.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Books poor Narration
- By Robin on 01-25-09
By: Anne McCaffrey
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Midshipman's Hope
- The Seafort Saga, Book 1
- By: David Feintuch
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 289
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4 out of 5 stars 262
When a hideous accident kills the senior officers of the UNS Hibernia, it leaves a terrified young officer to save 300 colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship on a 17-month gauntlet to reach the colony of Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue or reinforcement, Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair, exhaustion, and guilt. He must conquer malfunctions, mutiny, and an alien horror beyond human understanding. And he must save lives, and take them - in the name of duty.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Writing, Decent Story
- By Striker on 09-13-15
By: David Feintuch
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The Engines of God
- By: Jack McDevitt
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 612
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 484
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Story4 out of 5 stars 490
Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy, encoded with strange inscriptions that defy translation. Searching for clues about the Monument-Makers, teams of 23rd century linguists, historians, engineers and archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on a number of planets, uncovering strange, massive false cities made of solid rock. But their time is running out.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Conceptually intriguing, but uneven writing style
- By Michael G Kurilla on 05-12-11
By: Jack McDevitt
What listeners say about Sam Gunn Jr.
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- Paul
- 12-06-22
Fun Story in the Grand Tour
Sticking Gunn Jr into major events in the Grand Tour and coming to grips with being "That Sam Gunn's son" made for a very enjoyable story all be if fast paced. You will be missed Ben Bova but never forgotten. As for the narration you can never go wrong with anything narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Michael in NJ
- 02-26-23
Another fine audiobook!
The was another great story. Sam visits many of the locations from the grand tour and encounters several reoccurring characters.
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