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  • Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

  • Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, Book 1
  • De: Peter F. Hamilton
  • Narrado por: John Lee
  • Duración: 30 h y 58 m
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (106 calificaciones)

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Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

De: Peter F. Hamilton
Narrado por: John Lee
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Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton.

Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.

Thousands of years later, the Centauri Cluster has flourished. The original settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials and divided themselves into powerful Dominions. One of the most influential is that of the Crown Celestials, an alliance of five great houses that controls vast areas of Centauri. As arkships continue to arrive, the remaining humans and their descendants must fight for survival against overwhelming odds or be forced into serving the Crown Dominion.

Among those yearning for a better life is Finn, for whom Earth is not a memory but merely a footnote from humanity’s ancient history. Born on one of the Crown Dominion worlds, Finn has known nothing but the repressive rule of the Celestials, though he dreams of the possibility of boundless space beyond his home.

When another arkship from Earth, previously thought lost, unexpectedly arrives, Finn sees his chance to embrace a greater destiny and become a Traveler—one of a group of brave heroes dedicated to ensuring humanity’s future by journeying into the vast unknown of distant space.

©2024 Peter F. Hamilton (P)2024 Random House Audio
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Engaging and detailed storytelling

Ahhh... another Peter F. Hamilton creation. Loved it! Great character arcs, setting and continuity that completely immerses the reader into the story. John Lee's excellent and dynamic narration is icing on the cake.

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Very long, too many characters and subplots

Almost 1000 pages and the story is… to be continued. The ending was not satisfying. It did not wrap up the story. I was not sufficiently ranged to read book 2, and so there it is. On the plus side, the universe is compelling enough to explore in shorter novels. I just don’t care where the story arc goes from here.

I was listening to the novel as an audiobook so I kept googling for an index of character as I lost track of who is who and needed reminders. There is a dramatic persona chapter in the beginning but it is not practical as a character lookup.

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Outstanding

This was utterly fantastic. A return to the complexity and intrigue of Pandoras Star. HIGHLY recommend and John Lee was amazing as always.

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The complexity of the story and the characters

Not John Lee best performance. Sometimes it was hard to distinguish which character was talking because they sounded a little too similar.

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Great book

Super cool tech and interesting alien culture and drama. Also illustrates deep time well with the true storyline stretching tens of thousands of years.

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Great

Another great from Hamilton. John Lee is the absolute best narrator there is. Can not recommend more!!!!

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Cool concepts but poor execution and narration

Exodus tackles some really cool sci-fi concepts, particularly the effects of time dilation, which is not something I typically see done well in scifi. But here the author makes it work for the plot quite well.

This book is a very slow burn. The story spends a lot of time world building (for future books and an upcoming video game), but my god does it drag on. It doesn’t really pick up until about two-thirds of the way in, and when it's a 31 hour long book that means quite a bit of patience.

The main storyline in the first 2/3 of the book is kind of weak, while the secondary plots are more engaging, although the author does a good job converging them at the end. The main characters, Finn and Ellie, I found rather uninteresting and not even that likeable. The romantic relationships were poorly developed and pretty unconvincing. They just came out of left field. That is unless I missed something due to the lackluster narration.

As for the narrator, I don't mind his delivery or cadence, but the problem is he only has about three distinct voices. That becomes a problem when the characters start to blend together because there are so many to keep track of. The book has many abrupt switches between points of view, and this combined with the narrator’s lack of voice variation, make it hard to follow who’s who at times.

Because of this narration, this is not a book to be listening to casually. I had to pay as close attention to this book as if I were reading Plato or Aristotle. So not only is the book bloated, but you have to be listening very closely or you will completely lose the plot. A different narrator would have made the experience smoother.

Decent novel, but when it's 31 hours long I was hoping for a bit better. On the bright side, the book has a solid ending that sets up the sequel nicely. So there's potential for the next one to be better. Despite my quibbles, I will continue the series. I might just have to buy a physical copy if it's the same narrator though.

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A new Universe

Get Ready for a wild adventure in the far future. A super story read by a brilliant narrator. The start of a new series. Wow

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Lots of Worldbuilding

A massive amount of Worldbuilding for the first half of the novel. not really my kind of thing, but I expected it since I knew this was setting up for a game and potentially future books. I felt like they worked up two of the primary characters - Finn and Ellie really well, only to have them languish for the last twenty percent of the book. they're the only two I really cared a out, and I was sad to not spend more time with them.

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Hamilton back at it in top form

I really enjoyed the story and the writing but John Lee's naration is often cringe-worthy and his inflections always unnecessary.

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