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Katherine Kellgren
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Connie Willis
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Connie Willis
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In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history.
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London's Blitz. And 17-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can catch up to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyones schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.
BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, author Connie Willis discusses her fascination with WWII and the historic context of Blackout.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Blackout is the first volume of a two-part novel. To find out what happens to the time-traveling historians from Oxford, we invite you to download the concluding volume, All Clear.
Listen to Connie Willis and Carrie Vaughn: A Conversation. And listen to All Clear.©2010 Connie Willis (P)2010 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The Pearl Thief
- De: Elizabeth Wein
- Narrado por: Maggie Service
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From the internationally acclaimed best-selling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder. Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate, and this will be a summer of good-byes. Not least to the McEwen family - Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember.
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Freshwater Pearls and Scottish Plaid
- De Cynthia en 08-14-17
De: Elizabeth Wein
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Secrets of a Charmed Life
- De: Susan Meissner
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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Current day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for decades...beginning with who she really is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden--one that will test her convictions and her heart.
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Rare 5-Star Across the Board!
- De Imamomof4 en 06-14-15
De: Susan Meissner
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Dead Man's Land
- De: Robert Ryan
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
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Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- De L. Gutman en 03-01-18
De: Robert Ryan
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A Duty to the Dead
- A Bess Crawford Mystery
- De: Charles Todd
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his patriotic footsteps, volunteering to serve her country as a nurse during the Great War. In 1916 she promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to a brother. When Bess arrives at the Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his brother's last wishes with surprising indifference.
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Terrific period mystery
- De Anne en 12-04-10
De: Charles Todd
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Velva Jean Learns to Drive
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Niven
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South. Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher.
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If Jenna Lamia reads it, I'll listen to it!
- De Susan en 12-17-09
De: Jennifer Niven
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Daughters of Eden
- De: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrado por: Kim Hicks
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- De XX en 09-11-05
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The Tea Rose
- De: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 28 h y 31 m
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East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.
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Wow. Wow wow wow!
- De I like to shop en 04-26-16
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The Philosopher's Flight
- A Novel
- De: Tom Miller
- Narrado por: Gibson Frazier
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy - an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. Though he dreams of fighting in the Great War as the first male in the elite US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Service - a team of flying medics - Robert is resigned to mixing batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the books for the family business in rural Montana, where his mother, a former soldier and vigilante, aids the locals.
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Brilliant multi layered story
- De Kent Lanigan en 02-21-18
De: Tom Miller
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For Freedom
- The Story of a French Spy
- De: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Narrado por: Carine Montbertrand
- Duración: 4 h y 58 m
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No one would guess that a 13-year-old schoolgirl and singer named Suzanne would become one of France's great heroes. But when the German army occupies her hometown of Cherbourg during World War II, Suzanne learns that there are some things worth fighting for any way she can. Recruited by the French Resistance, Suzanne becomes a spy covertly working for a noble cause. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's historical novel is a captivating tale of courage.
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- De joan en 04-29-19
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When the Tripods Came
- Tripods Series Prequel (Book 4)
- De: John Christopher
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
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The story of The Tripods was the basis of a popular BBC television series in the 1980s, where humanity has been conquered and enslaved by "the tripods", unseen alien entities that travel about in gigantic three-legged walking machines.
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Okay, but doesn’t live up to the main trilogy
- De Dr F en 02-19-23
De: John Christopher
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Doomsday Book
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
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For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure. For Dunworthy, her mentor, it is cause for intense worry about the thousands of things that could go wrong.
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Timely, beautiful, terrible and haunting
- De mudcelt en 11-02-09
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Passage
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A psychologist specializing in near-death experiences, Dr. Joanna Lander has spent two years recording the experiences of those who have been declared clinically dead and lived to tell about it. A new doctor has arrived at Mercy General, one with the power to give Joanna the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Dr. Wright is convinced that the NDE is a survival mechanism and that if only doctors understood how it worked, they could someday delay the dying process.
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interesting listen. Different from her other books.
- De Stuart en 02-10-24
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Among Others
- De: Jo Walton
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
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Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
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Subtle Character Piece
- De Eoin en 09-15-11
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The Road to Roswell
- A Novel
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jesse Vilinsky
- Duración: 14 h
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When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. Odder still, her abductor is far from what the popular media have led her to expect, with a body like a tumbleweed and a mass of lightning-fast tentacles. Nor is Francie the only victim of the alien’s abduction spree.
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Connie Willis must be really losing it
- De Mary E Waitrovich en 07-15-23
De: Connie Willis
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Crosstalk
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 18 h y 45 m
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In a not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure that has been promised to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. So when Briddey Flannigan's fiancé proposes that he and Briddey undergo the procedure, she is delighted! Only, the results aren't quite as expected. Instead of gaining an increased empathetic link with her fiancé, Briddey finds herself hearing the actual thoughts of one of the nerdiest techs in her office. And that's the least of her problems.
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It doesn't work like that.
- De Joel en 10-31-16
De: Connie Willis
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Bellwether
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennett O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But a series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questions - with the unintended help of the errant, forgetful, and careless office assistant Flip.
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Pattern Recognition" Meets "Office Space
- De Pam en 07-04-12
De: Connie Willis
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Doomsday Book
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 26 h y 20 m
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For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure. For Dunworthy, her mentor, it is cause for intense worry about the thousands of things that could go wrong.
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Timely, beautiful, terrible and haunting
- De mudcelt en 11-02-09
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Passage
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Erin deWard
- Duración: 31 h y 6 m
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A psychologist specializing in near-death experiences, Dr. Joanna Lander has spent two years recording the experiences of those who have been declared clinically dead and lived to tell about it. A new doctor has arrived at Mercy General, one with the power to give Joanna the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Dr. Wright is convinced that the NDE is a survival mechanism and that if only doctors understood how it worked, they could someday delay the dying process.
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interesting listen. Different from her other books.
- De Stuart en 02-10-24
De: Connie Willis
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Among Others
- De: Jo Walton
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
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Subtle Character Piece
- De Eoin en 09-15-11
De: Jo Walton
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The Road to Roswell
- A Novel
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jesse Vilinsky
- Duración: 14 h
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When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one. Odder still, her abductor is far from what the popular media have led her to expect, with a body like a tumbleweed and a mass of lightning-fast tentacles. Nor is Francie the only victim of the alien’s abduction spree.
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Connie Willis must be really losing it
- De Mary E Waitrovich en 07-15-23
De: Connie Willis
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Crosstalk
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 18 h y 45 m
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In a not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure that has been promised to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. So when Briddey Flannigan's fiancé proposes that he and Briddey undergo the procedure, she is delighted! Only, the results aren't quite as expected. Instead of gaining an increased empathetic link with her fiancé, Briddey finds herself hearing the actual thoughts of one of the nerdiest techs in her office. And that's the least of her problems.
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It doesn't work like that.
- De Joel en 10-31-16
De: Connie Willis
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Bellwether
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennett O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But a series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questions - with the unintended help of the errant, forgetful, and careless office assistant Flip.
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- De Pam en 07-04-12
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Uncharted Territory
- A Novel
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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Findriddy and Carson are two explorers sent to Boohte to survey the ridges and scrub-covered hills of the planet. Back home, their adventures are followed by countless breathless fans, but the reality is far less romantic as they deal with dust, nitpicking regulations, and uncooperative aliens. Teamed with a young intern whose specialty is mating customs, and a native guide of indeterminate gender, the group sets out for a previously unexplored sector of the planet.
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Passed the betchel test
- De James Nicholson en 02-05-20
De: Connie Willis
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The Winds of Marble Arch
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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Tom, an American, is in London for a conference when he begins to experience unusual forces in the Underground. Is it an easily-explained phenomenon - or ghosts from Britain's past?
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Hugo award winner
- De Katherine en 07-09-12
De: Connie Willis
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The Calculating Stars
- A Lady Astronaut Novel
- De: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space and requires a much-larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York’s drive to become the first lady astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.
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Never achieves lift off
- De Richard Bruno en 10-01-18
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A Lot Like Christmas
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss, L. J. Ganser, Lori Gardner, y otros
- Duración: 22 h y 16 m
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No one could ask for a better present than a collection of Connie Willis Christmas tales. These are amazing stories, representing all the best of the Connie Willis experience: true Christmas gifts to her many fans. They are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both send up and embrace many of the best Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare).
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Very, Very Long Stories
- De Dave en 01-18-20
De: Connie Willis
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Hominids
- The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 1
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist Mary Vaughan, promptly identifies and warmly receives Ponter. Solving the language problem and much else is a mini-computer, called a Companion, implanted in the brain of every Neanderthal. But it can't help his fellow scientist back in his world, Adikor Huld, when the authorities charge Adikor with his murder.
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Scicen Fiction Can Be Literature
- De Scott en 08-10-09
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Lincoln's Dreams
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Carolyn Jania
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure. On long-silenced battlefields their relationship blossoms—two obsessed lovers linked by unbreakable chains of history, torn by a duty that could destroy them both.
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Good story, unfortunate narration
- De Kathryn en 01-06-24
De: Connie Willis
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The Windup Girl
- De: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
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Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.
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Good and also Frustrating
- De txkimmers en 11-16-09
De: Paolo Bacigalupi
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A Fire Upon the Deep
- De: Vernor Vinge
- Narrado por: Peter Larkin
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.
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What a wild, wacky, awesome book!
- De Noah Smith en 06-20-10
De: Vernor Vinge
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Falling Free
- Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
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Don't read this one first
- De Carol en 02-20-13
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The Best of Connie Willis
- Award-Winning Stories
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss, Jessica Almasy, Mia Barron, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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Here are the greatest stories of one of the greatest writers working in any genre today. All ten of the stories gathered here are Hugo or Nebula award winners - some even have the distinction of winning both. With a new Introduction by the author and personal afterwords to each story, plus a special look at three of Willis' unique public speeches - this is unquestionably the collection of the season, an audiobook that every Connie Willis fan will treasure.
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An index for locating stories
- De Ruth Green en 11-29-14
De: Connie Willis
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The Fifth Season
- The Broken Earth, Book 1
- De: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
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The Nay-Sayers are Wrong.
- De Steve Groves en 02-10-20
De: N. K. Jemisin
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- De: Kate Wilhelm
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready. Using their enormous wealth, the family had forged an isolated post holocaust citadel. Their descendants would have everything they needed to raise food and do the scientific research necessary for survival. But the family was soon plagued by sterility, and the creation of clones offered the only answer.
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Great read!
- De Jack en 06-19-07
De: Kate Wilhelm
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- Holly C. Salley
- 02-12-10
Enthralled
Connie Willis delivers another fabulous book. Part of her charm is that her books are written in a sort of Victorian style. She is the most decorated Sci/fi fantasy writer of all time. Other quality Fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman have similar styles. If you are looking for a space cowboy traditonal sci-fi novel then you will be disappointed. If you hate her style that is too bad for you. However, the Nebula and Hugo award panel disagree. This one may not win best novel of the year but it is worth listening to or actually reading.
It is engrossing. Only bad thing about it is that I have to wait until Fall fot the next half.
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- motown
- 08-30-10
Great Book, but cliffhanger
I have listened to other Connie Willis books and LOVED them (Bellweather, To Say Nothing of the Dog) so I thought I would listen to this one too. It is a fantastic book and I can't wait for All Clear to be published so that I can listen to the end of the book. It should be out October 2010. I thought the narrator was really good. The history of the Blitz is fantastic. The characters (particularly Mike) do go on a bit about "changing history" but that is really my only complaint. I think that it will get better reviews after All Clear comes out and one is able to listen to the entire story without waiting for a year.
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- DJM
- 10-11-12
I'd Listen Again (but with reservations)
I liked these books, but don't start the first one unless you are prepared to listen to the second. I would listen to these books again sometime which is my primary standard for any written or audbile book. I go back to the stories I like to walk around in the world the author created. Willis created characters that I liked, that I cared about and that, overall, acted believably.
All that said, I think that these books could have benefited from better editing. Willis, at times, becomes very tedious describing the characters' angst over changing time or each others' welfare. In the second, all clear, there are stream of consciousness sections of characters who have suffered traumatic injuries and who can't keeep events and times separated. Although generally well done, these started to get so tedious that I wanted to slap some sense into the character. However, since I wanted to slap the character instead of the author, I guess Willis did a good job suspending disbelief.
The narration is superb.
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- jessie
- 08-04-11
couldn't do it
I know that by writing this I am a shame to English majors everywhere, but I couldn't stand this novel. I listened to seven hours before I finally flung my headphones across the room and screamed, "What in the world is going on? What is this book even about?"
So, if you are already a Connie Willis fan, jump in. You'll find more of the same. If you were on the fence with other Willis novels, this one is not going to please you. Her prose is fantastic, but, like always, her plots are mysterious and/or nonexistent.
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- David
- 10-17-11
Tested my patience
The premise of this novel is fantastic, and the overall plotting is extremely well-constructed. But I found the writing itself disappointingly turgid and almost gave up several times.
There are some novels that work in print but don't work as audiobooks. I think I would have loved "Blackout" in print, because in print you can skim-read, and this is an extremely skimmable book. I say that because Connie Willis's style is functional rather than stylish, and is unbearably long-winded: she spins out some mildly amusing comic sequences ad nauseum until the joke is worn thin, and the novel contains endless scenes in which characters think through their predicaments and then work logically through every possible solution in minute detail. This would be fine in print, but when you have to listen to Every. Single. Word. it becomes achingly slow and repetitive.
Another thing that bugged me was the empty characterization. The world of 2060s Oxford has no characteristics at all; all we're told is that Oxford University has invented time travel; apparently nothing else in this future world is worth mentioning. Similarly, our time-travelling students have no backstories: they're just generic Oxbridge types who are functions for kickstarting the plot. And in the 1940s section, the Londoners all behave like stereotypical figures from old movies about the pluckiness of Brits. I felt as though the author had gotten her knowledge of Britain largely from Brideshead Revisited and Ealing comedies.
The reader does an superb job of covering lots of different accents, and her treatment of the Cockney evacuees is particularly delightful. She speaks at a good pace that helps overcome the novel's plodding style at times. However, her use of a cut-glass upper class accent for the main narration is a mistake; it makes for a strident and headache-inducing listen. And occasional mis-pronunciations cause irritation ("she walked down the parsage and put on her gars marsk" - erm, no, not even in 1940s England....)
In summary, the clever plotting and the inherently entertaining premise of "Blackout" kept me fighting through to the bitter end, as I did genuinely want to know what happened next. It was a struggle through, and I'll be buying the next instalment to read in print at the airport, where it belongs.
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- Jessica
- 01-03-14
Intriguing history of WWII
Would you consider the audio edition of Blackout to be better than the print version?
Did not read the print version
What did you like best about this story?
The book transported me to the day to day life of British citizens during the Blitz in WWII and how resilient they were.
Have you listened to any of Katherine Kellgren and Connie Willis ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Katherine Kellgren is a fantastic narrator and an excellent choice for this story, especially the voices of Alf and Binnie, the incorrigible evacuee children.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Trapped in the Blitz!
Any additional comments?
Many reviewers said this story dragged, but I never found that to be an issue. For me it was interesting throughout and gave an unusual perspective on WWII London, through the eyes of a visitor from the future.
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- Beth
- 05-03-13
Another wonderful time travel book by Connie Willi
Would you listen to Blackout again? Why?
Yes--I've already read it twice, and listened once--I love this series.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Blackout?
Well, severally, but together: when the historians realize something is wrong and they can't get home.
Have you listened to any of Katherine Kellgren and Connie Willis ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I listened to Katherine Kellgren on "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and I found this just as enchanting as that one.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes...but it's about a thousand hours long, so I had to only listen during my commute. :D
Any additional comments?
I highly recommend this series by Connie Willis for EVERYBODY to read: starting with Doomsday Book (based in the future and in medieval times), and then read "To Say Nothing of the Dog (based in the future, during WWII, and WWI/the roaring twenties)," "Blackout," and "All Clear" (both based during WWII).
Not only does Ms. Willis do her research thoroughly--mixing true historical fact in with the fiction of her novels--she does it in a way that makes you want to run right out and start learning about those particular time periods because they are so fascinating.
Now, if only "Passages" could be made into an Audible book. :)
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- Csaba Turkosi
- 08-26-16
Dreadfully repetitive, frustrating story
Three of the most incompetent time travelers speculate about why their poorly planned mission has gone down the drain... for hours and hours and hours on end.
I refuse to spend 5 more seconds on this time-wasting piece of drivel.
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- Double_J
- 03-13-13
A novel of English manners - with time travel.
This one barely squeaks into the sci-fi category through it's use of time-traveling historians. Sounds weird I know, but the historian conceit is really just a mechanism to allow the author to write about England circa world war II.
I wouldn't chalk this one up as a total waste of time, but it's probably not what a lot of sci-fi readers are looking for, especially if they were steered to the novel via it's reputation as a Hugo award winner.
In general, I felt that "Blackout" was more a novel of English manners a la "Jane Eyre", than a science fiction story. It's relatively slow-moving - nothing really happens for the first third of the novel - and spends the bulk of its time focused on character relationships and some pretty mundane situations (e.g., job hunting, traveling with problematic children on a train, the struggles of wrapping parcels).
It's not horrible by any means and is fairly well written - it just wasn't what I expected and didn't really fit my taste.
The audiobook itself was very well narrated and sound is of excellent quality. In fact, I think that the quality of narration is the only thing that kept me going through this book. Had I been reading this one instead of listening, I'm pretty sure I would've stopped well before the halfway point.
A word of warning - be warned that a purchase of "Blackout" pretty much necessitates the purchase of "All Clear" as well. It's really one novel split into two halves.
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- Brian
- 01-02-14
As close as you can come to real time travel
What about Katherine Kellgren and Connie Willis ’s performance did you like?
The performance is masterful. All the various voices and accents come across superbly.
Any additional comments?
Connie Willis's time travel novels are always impeccably researched (in fact, it's probably one of the reasons she doesn't publish more often), so getting immersed in this story, and the characters she creates, is about as close as we can come as a modern audience to experiencing what London was like during the Blitz. It's not just in the period details, though . . . it's in the way she breathes life into her minor characters, how they go about their business despite a nightly rain of bombs falling out of the sky, and how their plights just MATTER because they might as well have been real people . . . that's the amazing strength, and the charm of "Blackout": just your average everyday ordinary heroics.
But don't be fooled. "Blackout" isn't merely a history lesson. It's also a cracking good story, and I can't wait to listen to the concluding volume "All Clear."
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