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Elizabeth Bear
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4 out of 5 stars 93
The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
- By Robert L. on 03-25-12
By: Michael Swanwick
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Carousel Tides
- Archer's Beach, Book 1
- By: Sharon Lee
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 190
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4 out of 5 stars 150
Kate Archer returns home in search of her missing grandmother Bonny, and to serve as guardian of the town's amusement park until her return… only the carousel animals are really exiles from the faerie world. And not the nice kind of exiles either - no, these are hardened criminals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Narrator, Good Book
- By Rose on 12-05-10
By: Sharon Lee
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Fool's War
- By: Sarah Zettel
- Narrated by: Parisa Johnston
- Length: 19 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In this New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a strange new life form threatens all of humanity, and only a fool would stand in its way. Katmer Al Shei has done well with the starship Pasadena, cutting corners where necessary to keep her crew paid and her journeys profitable. But there are two things she will never skimp on: her crew - and her fool. For a long space journey, a certified Fool’s Guild clown is essential, to amuse, excite, and otherwise distract the crew from the drudgeries of interstellar flight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing characters. Amazing story. I loved it.
- By E. Brown on 12-08-18
By: Sarah Zettel
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Titans
- By: Edward W. Robertson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Story4 out of 5 stars 205
Rob Dunbar is the world's best history professor. And with good reason: he's been alive for 3,000 years, keeping his existence a secret since before the days of Athens. But a stranger named Baxter has a better use for Rob's vast expertise. Baxter's looking to found a mining company in the Asteroid Belt. In exchange for Rob's help, he'll try to unravel the mystery of Rob's origin. As they're getting their outfit off the ground, they come under covert attack by HemiCo, a powerful Mars-based corporation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Adam on 09-29-16
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Company Town
- By: Madeline Ashby
- Narrated by: Cecelia Kim
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 124
They call it Company Town - a city-size oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bioengineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig - making her doubly an outsider as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Different
- By J.G. Brandt on 01-16-17
By: Madeline Ashby
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Three Parts Dead
- By: Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Claudia Alick
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 998
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 901
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Story4 out of 5 stars 898
A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, but the narrator was off
- By John on 07-27-14
By: Max Gladstone
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Starflight
- By: Melissa Landers
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Story4 out of 5 stars 217
Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. The outer realm may be lawless, but it's not like the law has ever been on her side. Still, off-world travel doesn't come cheap; Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than expected
- By Jessica Jones on 04-17-16
By: Melissa Landers
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The Many Selves of Katherine North
- By: Emma Geen
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
Kit has been projecting into other species for seven years. Longer than anyone else at ShenCorp. Longer than any of the scientists thought possible. But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps, she isn't alone.... Since she was 12, Kit has been a phenomenaut, her consciousness projected into the bodies of lab-grown animals for the purpose of research.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull and Dragging
- By Penny on 06-02-16
By: Emma Geen
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Stolen Time
- By: Danielle Rollins
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
Seattle, 1913. Dorothy spent her life learning the art of the con. But after meeting a stranger and stowing away on his peculiar aircraft, she wakes up in a chilling version of the world she left behind - and for the first time in her life, realizes she’s in way over her head. New Seattle, 2077. If there was ever a girl who was trouble, it was one who snuck on board Ash’s time machine wearing a wedding gown - and the last thing he needs is trouble if he wants to prevent his terrifying visions of the future from coming true.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring!
- By Kindle Customer on 06-06-21
By: Danielle Rollins
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Rising Darkness
- Game of Shadows, Book 1
- By: Thea Harrison
- Narrated by: Sophie Eastlake
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 617
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Story4 out of 5 stars 560
In the hospital ER where she works, Mary is used to chaos. But lately, every aspect of her life seems adrift. She's feeling disconnected from herself. Voices appear in her head. And the vivid, disturbing dreams she's had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He's handsome, enigmatic, and knows more than he can say. In his company, she slowly remembers the truth about herself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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3.5 STARS A COMPLICATED SCI-FI THRILLER
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 04-24-13
By: Thea Harrison
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Echopraxia
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrated by: Adam J Rough
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Story4 out of 5 stars 559
It's the eve of the 22nd century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence. Daniel Bruks is a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- By Taylor Lewis on 12-21-15
By: Peter Watts
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Control Point
- Shadow Ops
- By: Myke Cole
- Narrated by: Corey Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 384
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 343
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 353
Myke Cole is an expert at ratcheting up suspense and delivering pulse-pounding adventure that leaves audiences breathless. In Shadow Ops: Control Point, the world has seemingly gone mad. People are waking up with magical powers, such as the ability to raise the dead or call forth storms. The only thing staving off a plunge into chaos is the Supernatural Operations Corps, headed by Oscar Britton. But when Oscar exhibits a power of his own, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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2 out of 5 stars
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get on with it
- By Eugene on 05-15-12
By: Myke Cole
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Trail of Lightning
- By: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,467
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,049
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,041
The sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse have destroyed most of the planet…yet out of these waters, Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation, has been miraculously reborn. Listen along as Tanis Parenteau's impeccable narration, capturing the rhythms of Navajo speech, fully envelopes you into the Sixth World. Trail of Lightning follows our heroine as she walks the land alongside gods, heroes of legend, and monsters alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The person you hire when the heroes fail
- By Cynthia on 08-09-18
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The Survivors
- By: Kate Furnivall
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 160
Germany, 1945. Klara Janowska and her daughter, Alicja, have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home. But when Klara recognises a man in the camp from her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. He knows exactly what she did during the war to save her daughter. She knows his real identity. What will be the price of silence? And will either make it out of the camp alive?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really interesting
- By Karen on 11-10-18
By: Kate Furnivall
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Hunger Makes the Wolf
- By: Alex Wells
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 94
The strange planet known as Tanegawa's World is owned by TransRifts Inc, the company with the absolute monopoly on interstellar travel. Hob landed there 10 years ago, a penniless orphan left behind by a rift ship. She was taken in by Nick Ravani and quickly became a member of his mercenary biker troop, the Ghost Wolves. Ten years later, she discovers that the body of Nick's brother out in the dunes. Worse, his daughter is missing, taken by shady beings called the Weathermen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sci-Fan-Western
- By Shawn on 03-22-18
By: Alex Wells
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 02-05-24
Sci-fi hodge-podge
Elizabeth Bear’s Undertow is a mashup of multiple sci-fi themes as well as almost bordering on fantasy. The setting is a planet taken over by a corporation that has ‘hired’ the native sentients, managing a classical ‘company town’ structure. There is insurrection afoot with hired guns ferreting out the rabble rousers. The native sentients have an aquatic origin.
Bear’s mashup is a bit hard to track and the conjuring ‘thingy,’ involving control of probability was strained. The narration is decent with adequate character distinction.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-29-18
good!
one of the best sci-fi I've read in a while. very creative, and an interesting take on an idea we used to bounce around in college. fun!
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