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Narrated by:
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Maxwell Caulfield
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Justine Eyre
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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Lavie Tidhar
About this listen
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.
Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn’t supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delia’s husband, Levi, goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer.
The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. In Hartley’s novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?
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In 1946, a young Ruth begins building a new life in Palestine, haunted by the death of her family in Europe and driven by youthful ideals in a land hostile to her presence. Her sister, Shoshana, survives in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and joins her in Palestine, but dreams of escaping to distant America. Her lovers, Dov and Israel, die in war, and her children try to serve the land Ruth bled for, only to find their own tragic ends or means of escape.
By: Lavie Tidhar
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Central Station
- By: Lavie Tidhar
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris' ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap in to the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik - a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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why does this sound like a 1950's radio broadcast
- By Kyle on 10-26-16
By: Lavie Tidhar
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Unholy Land
- By: Lavie Tidhar
- Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 59
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When pulp-fiction writer Lior Tirosh returns to his homeland in East Africa, much has changed. Palestina - a Jewish state established in the early 20th century - is constructing a massive border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in the capital, Ararat, is at fever pitch. While searching for his missing niece, Tirosh begins to act as though he is a detective from one of his own novels. He is pursued by ruthless members of the state's security apparatus while unearthing deadly conspiracies and impossible realities.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Which reality is real?
- By Michael G Kurilla on 10-17-20
By: Lavie Tidhar
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The Spaceship Next Door
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrated by: Steve Carlson
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,447
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,001
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,999
When a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, everyone realized humankind was not alone in the universe. With that realization everyone freaked out for a little while. Or almost everyone. The residents of Sorrow Falls took the news pretty well. This could have been due to a certain local quality of unflappability, or it could have been that in three years the ship did exactly nothing other than sit quietly in that field, and nobody understood the full extent of this nothing the ship was doing better than the people who lived right next door.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another fun Sci Fi read with an Excellent Reader!
- By bluestatereader on 12-30-16
By: Gene Doucette
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- Jayna Locke
- 06-01-24
Confusing, difficult to follow book
Wonderful reading voices rescue this extremely hard to parse story that alternates between multiple time periods, perspectives, and realities. The science fiction aspects seemed very weak to me, leaning on bizarre narratives involving a creature made of bees, and various notions around black holes and notions of God and the universe. I really wanted to like this book, yet I found myself increasing the speed to get through it and was relieved to be done, which is never how I want to experience a book.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 12-11-23
Quest for a mythical pulp novel
Lavie Tidhar’s The Circumference of the World is an unusual that is more about sci-fi than actually being sci-fi itself. A mathematician with an atypical upbringing (South Sea Island childhood), as well as a sci-fi obsessed mobster are both in search of a legendary, but mythical pulp novel called Lode Star. The mathematician’s husband goes missing and she employs a face-blind book dealer to search for the book. Along the way, the life and times of the alleged author are displayed.
Tidhar creates an engaging tale that nevertheless doesn’t seem to hold together. The mythical author seems an amalgam of both L Ron Hubbard and Robert A Heinlein. Throughout the text there are numerous references to much of the sci-fi literature from the golden age (much of which would be classified as pulp). There’s also a story within the story that seems to align with the mathematician’s life.
The narration is reasonable with two narrators. Character distinction is good, and the pacing is brisk making for a quick listen.
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