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Peter Kenny
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Iain M. Banks
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From New York Times bestselling and modern master of science fiction, Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art is the acclaimed collection of Banks's short fiction.
“Banks is a phenomenon...writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.”–William Gibson
This is a striking addition to the body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.
“Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth.”–New York Review of Science Fiction
“[Banks] can summon up sense-of-wonder Big Concepts you've never seen before and display them with narration as deft as a conjuror's fingers."–scifi.com
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
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Acclaimed science fiction luminary and a godfather of the genre’s remarkable offspring - cyberpunk - Bruce Sterling carries readers to a far-future universe where stunning achievements in human development have been tainted by a virulent outbreak of prejudice and hatred.
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Sci-fi should be weird but...
- De Ryan H. en 02-11-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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The Quarry
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.
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By Iain Banks, not Iain M. Banks
- De Reader X en 05-19-18
De: Iain M. Banks
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Diaspora
- De: Greg Egan
- Narrado por: Adam Epstein
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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Behold the orphan. Born into a world that is not a world. A digital being grown from a mind seed, a genderless cybernetic citizen in a vast network of probes, satellites, and servers knitting the Solar System into one scape, from the outer planets to the fiery surface of the Sun. Since the Introdus in the 21st century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software.
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Fabulous Story, Disappointing Performance
- De Ben en 12-08-13
De: Greg Egan
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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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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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Almost stopped listening. Glad I didn't.
- De cek en 08-21-16
De: Stephen Baxter, y otros
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A View from the Stars
- Stories and Essays
- De: Cixin Liu
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.
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Heard it in the Morning is epic!
- De eR en 11-25-24
De: Cixin Liu
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Century Rain
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber.
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One of John Lee's best performances
- De DAVID en 07-24-10
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Hyperion
- De: Dan Simmons
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 44 m
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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The Shrike Awaits. Enter The Time Tombs...
- De Michael en 10-13-12
De: Dan Simmons
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Dangerous Visions
- De: Harlan Ellison
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Simon Vance, Steven Jay Cohen, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 33 m
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A landmark short story collection that put the more character-based New Wave science fiction on the map, Dangerous Visions won several prestigious awards and was nominated for many others. This now-classic anthology includes thirty-three stories by thirty-two award-winning authors, over half of whom have won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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Pre-Star Trek pre-Star Wars brilliance!
- De Darrell James en 06-29-24
De: Harlan Ellison
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Alien Clay
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Ben Allen
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?
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Super good!
- De Jessi en 11-26-24
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Blood Music
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just how his actions will change the world.
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THOUGHT UNIVERSE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 08-01-15
De: Greg Bear
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The Book of Elsewhere
- A Novel
- De: Keanu Reeves, China Miéville
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner, Asia Kate Dillon, China Miéville, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as “B.” And he wants to be able to die. In the present day, a U.S. black-ops group has promised him they can help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself. One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own.
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Confusing at first but quite amazing
- De Brett en 07-27-24
De: Keanu Reeves, y otros
not the best of the culture novels.
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Additionally the authors attempt to explore the Culture from the perspective of modern Earth is unfulfilling.
I recommend skipping most of the first half of the book.
I'm only halfway through the book, I am unsure if you should also skip the second half.
most of the first half of the book is lackluster and unrewarding to sit through.
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some good. some eh!
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Terrible compared to the preceding books
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Great(but missing final chapter)
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ps. can’t wait to hear The Algebraist all over again!!
Great read by a great narrator
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The narration was clear and good overall.
Not high Culture
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Audio is too quiet
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Finally
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Brilliant
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