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Quicksilver
- Book One of The Baroque Cycle
- Narrado por: Neal Stephenson (introduction), Kevin Pariseau, Simon Prebble
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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In this first volume of Neal Stephenson’s genre-defying epic, Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson’s award-winning series, spans the late 17th and early 18th centuries, combining history, adventure, science, invention, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale. It is a gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive historical epic populated by the likes of Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV, along with some of the most inventive literary characters in modern fiction.
Audible’s complete and unabridged presentation of The Baroque Cycle was produced in cooperation with Neal Stephenson. Each volume includes an exclusive introduction read by the author.
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With this stunning series opener, Django Wexler leaps to the upper echelon of today’s best fantasy authors. The Thousand Names opens his Shadow Campaigns series with a tale of bloody rebellion that will reshape an empire -- and a world. Captain Marcus d’Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass see their fortunes rise under the command of military genius Janus bet Vhalnich. But Janus’ obsession with the supernatural portends a dire fate for the realm.
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90% battles and 10% character development
- De Kathleen en 11-15-14
De: Django Wexler
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Shadow Raiders
- Dragon Brigade, Book 1
- De: Margaret Weis, Robert Krammes
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 24 h y 50 m
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The known world floats upon the Breath of God, a thick gas similar to Earth's oceans, with land masses accessible by airship. The largest of these land masses are ruled by the rival empires of Freya and Rosia. Magic is intrinsic to the functioning of these societies, and is even incorporated into their technological devices. But now a crucial scientific discovery has occurred that could destroy the balance of power - and change the empires forever.
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- De Keith en 05-31-11
De: Margaret Weis, y otros
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The Half-Made World
- De: Felix Gilman
- Narrado por: Tamara Marston
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared - the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope.
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Terrible Story, Terrible Narrator
- De Aaron en 10-21-10
De: Felix Gilman
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The Architect's Apprentice
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Piter Marek
- Duración: 16 h y 54 m
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In 1540, 12-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history.
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I feel like I should like it more than I do
- De nyog en 04-19-17
De: Elif Shafak
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City of Stairs
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions - until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself - first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it - stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani.
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Something Different
- De Scott S. en 10-17-14
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Varina
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Molly Parker
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives.
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Read it rather than listen
- De Anonymous en 08-31-18
De: Charles Frazier
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Clockwork Angels
- The Novel
- De: Neil Peart - contributor, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrado por: Neil Peart
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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For more than two centuries, the land of Albion has been ruled by the supposedly benevolent Watchmaker, who imposes precision on every aspect of life. Young Owen Hardy from the village of Barrel Arbor dreams of seeing the big city and the breathtaking Clockwork Angels that dispense wisdom to the people, maybe even catching a glimpse of the Watchmaker himself. He watches the steamliners drift by, powered by alchemical energy, as they head toward Crown City....
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ALL AROUND GOOD BOOK
- De Randall en 08-08-18
De: Neil Peart - contributor, y otros
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Wicked
- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- De: Gregory Maguire
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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Heralded as an instant classic of fantasy literature, Maguire has written a wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view. More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil.
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It's not easy being green
- De PangaeaReads en 07-30-08
De: Gregory Maguire
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Jester Leaps In
- A Medieval Mystery
- De: Alan Gordon
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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In 13th century Europe, political turmoil is the order of the day and the Fool's Guild and its agents - jesters, jugglers, and knaves to a man - works behind the scenes to manipulate events, trying to maintain a balance of power. Theophilos, a member of the Guild known by many names, is still recovering from his last mission during which he was severely wounded and nearly lost his life but, in the person of Viola, found himself an apprentice and a wife. But there is no rest for the wicked.
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further entertainment
- De wylie smith en 09-16-24
De: Alan Gordon
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The Bastard
- The Kent Family Chronicles, Book 1
- De: John Jakes
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
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Set against the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to our fledgling nation, this novel of romance and adventure introduces Phillipe Charboneau. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman, Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the men who set our course for freedom. The Bastard is the first volume in the Kent Family Chronicles, a series of novels that details one family's journey in the early years of the American nation.
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An Amazing Tale
- De will en 11-06-13
De: John Jakes
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Way of the Wolf
- The Vampire Earth, Book 1
- De: E. E. Knight
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel, E. E. Knight (Introduction)
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine.
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Its what you expect, and thats not a bad thing.
- De Kevin McLaughlin en 11-26-08
De: E. E. Knight
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Far North
- A Novel
- De: Marcel Theroux
- Narrado por: Yelena Schmulenson
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
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Spellbinding!
- De Joan en 01-14-10
De: Marcel Theroux
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Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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I love Neal, but Good lord... ugh!
- De SpiderGrrl en 10-08-19
De: Neal Stephenson
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Cryptonomicon
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 42 h y 44 m
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....
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Two thirds through and quit
- De Joshua en 06-20-16
De: Neal Stephenson
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Reamde
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 38 h y 29 m
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations - whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon).
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- De ShySusan en 10-01-11
De: Neal Stephenson
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Termination Shock
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 22 h y 54 m
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One man—visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D.—has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming.
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The Men Who Shoot at Feral Hogs
- De Kindle Customer en 12-02-21
De: Neal Stephenson
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The Diamond Age
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.
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- De Tango en 05-19-13
De: Neal Stephenson
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Seveneves
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
- Duración: 31 h y 55 m
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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- De Josh Mitchell en 05-30-15
De: Neal Stephenson
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Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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- De SpiderGrrl en 10-08-19
De: Neal Stephenson
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Cryptonomicon
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 42 h y 44 m
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....
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Two thirds through and quit
- De Joshua en 06-20-16
De: Neal Stephenson
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Reamde
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 38 h y 29 m
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations - whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon).
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- De ShySusan en 10-01-11
De: Neal Stephenson
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Termination Shock
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 22 h y 54 m
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One man—visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D.—has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming.
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The Men Who Shoot at Feral Hogs
- De Kindle Customer en 12-02-21
De: Neal Stephenson
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The Diamond Age
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.
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- De Tango en 05-19-13
De: Neal Stephenson
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Seveneves
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
- Duración: 31 h y 55 m
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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- De Josh Mitchell en 05-30-15
De: Neal Stephenson
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Interface
- De: Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 25 h y 16 m
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In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise. There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers.
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Interface
- De Dianne en 08-14-10
De: Neal Stephenson, y otros
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Zodiac
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil - all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long, Taylor's house is bombed, his every move followed, he's adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI's most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate.
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- De L P SCHUTT JR en 05-14-20
De: Neal Stephenson
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
- Narrado por: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 27 m
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From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
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Exceptional voice cast, unconventional format
- De Jesse en 07-03-17
De: Neal Stephenson, y otros
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Sinner
- A Prequel to the Mongoliad
- De: Mark Teppo
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 1 h y 38 m
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A severed head and a cry of “Witchcraft!” start a frenzied witch hunt in a sleepy German village. When her dead husband’s severed head appears on her doorstep, a local woman is charged with practicing heretical rituals. It is up to the knights to discover the truth behind the brutal murder before the torches are lit and the woman is burned at the stake. Their task proves daunting, though, as the townspeople have their own long-buried secrets and sins that they want to keep hidden - even if it means allowing the sacrifice of an innocent woman.
De: Mark Teppo
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Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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- De Brent en 02-05-03
De: Neal Stephenson
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Calico
- De: Callie Hart
- Narrado por: Ramona Master
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Port Royal, South Carolina, was my home. I was born there. I fell in love there. And I nearly died there. I never thought I'd go back. Now, after so many years, I have to return to bury the man who made my life a living hell. Some nights, I used to cry myself to sleep, praying my father would die. Other nights were different. Other nights, there was him. Callan Cross.
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THEIRS WAS A BEAUTIFUL TRAGEDY OF LOSS AND LOVE
- De CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 en 12-02-17
De: Callie Hart
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Corvus
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Detlef Bierstedt
- Duración: 39 h y 49 m
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Der neue SciFi-Bestseller von Erfolgsautor Neal Stephenson. Als Richard Forthrast, genannt Dodge, überraschend früh verstirbt, erfüllen seine Angehörigen seinen letzten Willen: Er hatte verfügt, dass sein Gehirn konserviert werden soll, bis die Technologie es eines Tages ermöglicht, die Daten seines Bewusstseins zu erfassen und hochzuladen. Viele Jahre später gelingt es dank eines komplexen Verfahrens tatsächlich, Dodge digitales Leben einzuhauchen.
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The Cobweb
- De: Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college townall the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what its producing is a very nasty bug.
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Et tu, Neal?
- De Richard en 06-16-11
De: Neal Stephenson, y otros
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Error
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Detlef Bierstedt
- Duración: 45 h y 53 m
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Es ist nur ein Spiel. Aber es geht um sehr viel Geld. Und für manche bald um ihr Leben...
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great storry! fantastically narrated!
- De Anonymous User en 06-16-17
De: Neal Stephenson
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Amalthea
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Detlef Bierstedt
- Duración: 34 h y 27 m
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Der Mond explodierte ohne Vorwarnung und ohne erkennbaren Grund. Die Uhrzeit würde man später als A+0.0.0 oder schlicht Null bezeichnen... 05:03:12 Weltzeit. Die Stunde Null. Nach der Explosion des Mondes wütet über Jahrtausende ein Meteoritensturm, der die Erdoberfläche in eine unbewohnbare Wüstenei verwandelt. Um die Menschheit vor der Auslöschung zu bewahren, schickten die Nationen der Erde eine Flotte von Archen ins All. Der Asteroid Amalthea, der ursprünglich zu Forschungszwecken an eine internationale Raumstation angedockt worden war, soll der Kolonie als Schutzschild dienen. Doch das Leben im Weltraum fordert einen hohen Tribut, und die meisten Menschen sterben, bis schließlich nur noch sieben Frauen übrig sind, um eine neue Zivilisation zu begründen.
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The Starship and the Canoe
- De: Kenneth Brower, Neal Stephenson - foreword
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son, George, a brilliant high-school dropout, lives in a tree house and is designing a giant kayak to explore the icy coastal wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
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Excellent Story - Captivating, Poignant, Educational
- De Anonymous User en 11-25-20
De: Kenneth Brower, y otros
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The Big U
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". But if you want to know Stephenson was doing 20 years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring 30-year-old junior Casimir Radon.
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Bad first novel by great writer
- De clint en 01-03-21
De: Neal Stephenson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Quicksilver
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- S. Jones
- 09-12-10
Absolutely Fascinating
I couldn't stop listening. Although I'm not a science buff and didn't understand much about science, I enjoyed Stephenson's rich and detailed portrayal of a bygone era - and one that is the backdrop of much historical fiction. I loved the way he played with time by depicting his character Daniel Waterhouse backward and forward - as a young man destined for the new world and an old man going back to the old world. By ordinary standards, Waterhouse is brilliant; by the standards of his peers (Isaac Newton, Godfrey Leibniz) he is ordinary. Having just finished listening to "The Three Musketeers" and Captain Blood," this novel fit right in - about the same time and with many of the same political figures. It is worth mentioning that Quicksilver is the "prestory" to other novels in the cycle, not entirely an independent novel in its own right. Stephenson is a great storyteller and has a wonderful sense of humor. Narrator Simon Prebble is excellent - as usual. I'm completely hooked.
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- Robert Yeager
- 10-01-10
Good, just good
I found the historical and philisophical aspects of the book interesting, but it gets rather boring. It is like hanging out with my geek-friends who don't have a life, only their work. I was looking forward to intrigue and wow, this just didn't have it.
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- Mariluz
- 08-05-18
TV Series Fodder
As with all of Neal Stephenson's books, I got to the end and wished there was more. Luckily, in this case, there is!
Since I don't like historical fiction, I didn't think I'd like this book, but it isn't really historical fiction. At the same time, it isn't an alternate past either. The genre for this book is unique. It tells a big picture story of major past motivations that makes history finally make sense. Characters from the past are no longer cardboard cutouts in my mind. Thanks to Stephenson, they are now real people with social alliances, quirks and values that would naturally lead to their actions recorded in history books.
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- w.rose
- 06-27-12
Love History Love Science
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend it to any friend who loves science and history
What did you like best about this story?
The details the author provides and how he sets the scenes
What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
The narrator is good
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
One of my favorite parts was in the first half when the main character is in Massachusetts.
Any additional comments?
It took me a long time to listen to this book...which provides value. There is a lot of detail and period changes, but it is so worth the listening.
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- P. J. Sedgwick
- 10-18-19
I like the characters but no plot to this story
I like the characters but there is no plot to this story. I am hoping the payoff must come in later books and this was to develop some characters.
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- Isaac Horn
- 04-13-18
Little Slow, But Necessary
Where does Quicksilver rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This was probably one fo the harder books to get through, if only for the long meandering story. But it a necessary foundation piece.
Has Quicksilver turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, historical fictions can be a difficult read but Neal Stephenson does an excellent job of keeping git well grounded and interesting.
Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?
Enoch is a thread through out this series and his mysterious origins, and operations are well captured.
If you could rename Quicksilver, what would you call it?
Prequel. Because it set the stage for the 7 books to come.
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- J.W.
- 04-01-13
Stephenson makes you earn it...
I suspect Neal Stephenson to deliberately start his books slow. Very slow, agonizingly slow. I suspect he wants only the brave to finish his books. The deserving ones. Any one of his books will get mixed reviews by people who gave up. People who did not want to push through. But if you do...the reward is so wonderful, so enriching. Mixing fact with fiction, actual history with fictional adventures can be so rewarding. Neal Stephenson is the kind of history teacher you wish your children to have. One that creates a story that sucks you up and leaves you wanting more. Mostly he finds a link with binary history and weaves it ever so gently into his stories. For those who stay and listens this story brings a wealth of information and enjoyment. But only start this if you are willing to follow the epic journey to it's end.
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- Heady
- 09-22-10
LOVED IT!
I really loved this book...and the sequels...I'm up to the third one and I find them all big fun! It's going to be one of those series that I will be sad to have it finish. I look forward to my commute time so I can catch up on my listening. I guess I'm a bit of a girl-geek who loves history...maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much. It reminds me of the Ken Follet books about the middle-ages, which I enjoyed as well!
Also learned a valuable lesson -- I shouldn't put too much stock in reviews, since this book got such bad ones and if I'd read those before I bought the book I might not have.
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- Jerry Hilts
- 02-04-11
WARNING
This is not "Quicksilver" the first volume of the three volume Baroque Cycle.
This is "Quicksilver" the first *book* of the first volume. The first printed volume, also conveniently called "Quicksilver", contains "Quicksilver", "King of the Vagabonds", and "Odalisque". Theses are separate purchases on Audible.
So, other than being a bit disappointed to find out that I bought "Quicksilver" instead of "Quicksilver", it's a quite enjoyable story. If you're a science geek like me, you'll enjoy the fictionalized account of Newton, Hooke, Leibnitz and other key players in this key point our history.
The audio quality and narration is also particularly good, though the Dutch, German and French accents all sound a bit similar.
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- Ted
- 08-24-10
Definitely good.
Here's the deal: when I work on projects around the house I like to listen to audiobooks. This book is ideal because Simon Prebble has an amazing voice, and the book is nice and long. I had read the book so it was easy for me to follow along. If you want constant action, this isn't for you. The action scenes are few and far between, and Stephensen puts long, boring dialogs in all of his books which is when I hit x2. Otherwise, just be patient and you'll be hooked. Eventually.
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