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Fleet of Worlds
- 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Kirsten Quinn-Kovacks is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from.
A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core has unleashed a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy. The Citizens flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with them.
Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer. Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for any possible dangers in the Fleet's path - and uncover long-hidden truths that will shake the foundations of worlds.
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"For three and a half decades, nobody's done it better than Larry Niven." (Steven Barnes)
"Great storytelling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven, and his finest work is the Ringworld series." (Orson Scott Card)
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For the better part of five decades, Jerry Pournelle's name has been synonymous with hard-hitting science fiction. For the first time, all of Pournelle's best short work has been collected in a single volume. Herein you will find over a dozen short stories, each with a new introduction by editor and longtime Pournelle assistant John F. Carr, as well as essays and remembrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers.
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Mostly good
- De Jeff G en 04-07-21
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The Draco Tavern
- De: Larry Niven
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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When a tremendous spacecraft takes orbit around Earth's moon and begins sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracts many, including Rick Schumann, who establishes a tavern catering to all the various species of visiting aliens, a place he calls the Draco Tavern. From the mind of best-selling author Larry Niven come 27 tales and vignettes from this interstellar gathering place.
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A Great Listen
- De D. Arkless en 04-07-07
De: Larry Niven
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Dream Park
- De: Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign called "The South Seas Treasure Game". As in the early role-playing games, there are dungeon masters, warriors, magicians, and thieves. The difference? At Dream Park, a futuristic fantasy theme park full of holographic attractions and the latest in VR technology, they play in an artificial enclosure that has been enhanced with special effects, holograms, actors, and a clever story line. The players get as close as possible to truly living their adventure.
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Role-playing to death. What is real? What is fake?
- De The Super-duper Amazing Silver Golem en 12-27-17
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Inferno
- De: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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After being thrown out of the window of his luxury apartment, science-fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of Hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the nine circles of Hell, led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures.
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Dante done in the 70's
- De R. Reed en 04-09-09
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Lucifer's Hammer
- De: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 24 h y 32 m
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The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
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Good story from front to back
- De DJM en 07-30-09
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Riverworld Saga, Book 1
- De: Philip José Farmer
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose—innocent or evil—of the Riverworld....
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Great concept, dated writing.
- De Battaglia en 08-04-11
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Sundiver
- The Uplift Saga, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?
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good, but flawed
- De J Michael en 04-16-08
De: David Brin
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Gateway
- De: Frederik Pohl
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
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A human-focused SF classic
- De Ryan en 12-05-13
De: Frederik Pohl
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Destiny's Road
- De: Larry Niven
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destiny’s rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite. The Cavorite deserted the original interstellar colonists, stranding them without hope of contacting Earth. Now, descendants of those pioneers have many questions about the Road, but no settler who has gone down it has ever returned. For Jemmy Bloocher, a young farm boy, the questions burn too hot - and he sets out to uncover the many mysteries of Destiny’s Road.
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This is no Lucifer's Hammer
- De As happy as a monkey with two bananas in his hands en 07-21-14
De: Larry Niven
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Between Planets
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Don Harvey is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. When his parents abruptly summon him away from school on Earth to join them on Mars, he has no idea he's about to be plunged into deadly interplanetary intrigue. But the ship Don is traveling on is unexpectedly diverted to Venus, where the colony has launched a revolution against Earth's control.
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Like a breath of fresh air
- De MikeFarr en 03-28-17
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The Gods Themselves
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Only a few know the terrifying truth - an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun... They know the truth - but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy - but who will believe?These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.
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Asimov's Best Stand Alone Novel
- De thomas en 09-02-14
De: Isaac Asimov
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Fleet of Worlds
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- G. Parish
- 05-02-16
Not bad...
This is a prequel set in the Ringworld universe. It does have interesting stories that are layered in complex and surprising ways. Having said all of that I rarely connected to the characters and was not seriously drawn into the book at any time. I would only suggest buying this one if it was on sale.
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- Nelson
- 08-03-08
Good writing; not-so-good listening
When I read a book, I visualize the locations and the characters and... their voices. When I'm lucky, the person narrating the book will let me hear and imagine the story without imposing their own personality.
Sadly, this presenter's voice didn't match my expectations. While he has an impressive, "big", deep voice, his tendency to prolong the final word of every other sentence was at first distracting, then just an annoying drawl.
Or, as he might have said it, "...then just an annoying drawwwlll..."
The focus should be on the storytelling, not the storytellerrr.
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- Diego Matas
- 06-12-23
Known Space just got very interesting
I have been listening to Known Space series from World of Ptavvs, and this book feels like the nucleus of the series, bringing all the details of the past books together. However, it is soon to say something.
My mother tongue is not English, but the narrator is easily intelligible.
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- R. Hoffman
- 10-21-20
A great story.
Loved it. I is compelling to learn how manipulative the puppeteers are, and they seem to live forever.
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- S
- 05-13-08
Another great peace of SF
Niven’s known space universe is one of the most vivid and compelling SF settings ever devised never failing to entertain and provoke flights of fancy. Ringworld is a must for any one interested in SF or just good writing.
Fleet of worlds goes back to the beginning and brings a new thread to the rich tapestry this rich tapestry of tails and characters.
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- Colin
- 10-30-12
200 years before, but 42 years after its sequil
So if you dont know thi sis a prequel of sorts for the book "Ringworld - 1970" by the same author so you might have read that some years ago, if not then even though its 42 years old (as of Oct 2012, did we survive past Dec 21st 2012 lol) its not dated that much if at all, I am 30 years old and I dont like much of anything older than the 90's when it comes to entertainment but I suggest you read Ringworld after these 4 books that take place 200 years before.
There is a problem I will note right off, the narrator is someone to get used to and he really trails off with the end of words like "world" is "woorllldd" and it takes a while to get used to that - also there is another major problem with the pronunciation of the name of a, well, not major character but not a minor one either since when he comes up in the 3rd book hes back in a semi-major roll - the name is "Baedeker" but in this book its pronounced as "bed-a-ker" but in the latter books its pronounced as "beta-ker" - also aliens called "Gw'oth" pronounced as "gwa-auth" becomes "guat-ta-oth" or something like that, this is stupid and if the cause was that they were pronounced incorrectly in this the first book then in the next ones where its changed it needs to be mentioned in a forward by the reader.
Now with that out of the way, the review.
This book and the ones that follow it all pretty much follow a story that although it changes it will lead up to the discovery of the ringworld which is awesome - in this book you are introduced to the characters that the story will follow for the following 3 books and learn that one of the "races" isnt what it thinks it self to be.
Humans from a colony star-ship find out the truth behind there history, even that fact that they are called "humans" - there ship was captured by the "Puppeteers" and the survivors were in gene banks and were implanted into the living humans left and the babies were told a lie when they grew up, but the truth is found out and then things get good.
Without giving much away here the humans are looking for Earth and will do anything to find it, they break into secure places and all sorts of cool things that are made easier by the fact that the puppeteers are not very good at security and easily scared so they get away with lots after they are found out.
Read this and the 3 that follow, then go on to "Ringworld - 1970" and I guarantee you wont believe that Ringworld was written in 1970 because it feels just like these books which are only a few years old
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 01-03-23
Dastardly Puppeteer doings
Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M Lerner is the opening offering in a five volume series set in Niven's 'Known Space' universe. The Puppeteers are moving their worlds away from the exploding galactic core. There are two parallel plots running simultaneously. The Puppeteers had previously intercepted a human spacecraft with human embryos. They subsequently have ‘raised’ the humans as a sort of ‘semi-slave’ race. One woman suspects that they are not being fully truthful with them and pursues that investigation. At the same time, Nessus is running an operation to hamper Earth’s efforts to locate the Puppeteer home world. Also introduced is the discovery of a new intelligent species, the Gw’oth.
Lerner and Niven craft a compelling and engaging tale that fleshes out the strange and bizarre behaviors of the Puppeteers. The detective work on the part of the humans to ferret out their own origin story is well executed. Finally, the political machinations of both the Puppeteer and Earth bureaucracy are well outlined.
The narration is well done with excellent character distinction.
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- Bruce
- 01-25-08
Hurrah!
I only need one word to review this book: Puppeteers!
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- BJW
- 10-28-13
Excellent
If you could sum up Fleet of Worlds in three words, what would they be?
Excellent Detailed Unique
What did you like best about this story?
The characters are very deep and they become favorites
Which character – as performed by Tom Weiner – was your favorite?
HE does a great job with all of them.
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- Edward
- 01-04-09
Lacks the fire of the old stuff
Fills in some of the gaps from Crashlander and other Niven Known Space stories. A bit slow and less complex than I am used to. Only reason I gave it 4 stars was the fact that it exists - first Known Space thing I have seen in a while.
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