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Detective Mike McCabe moved from a top homicide job with the NYPD to Portland, Maine, to leave his failed marriage and suspicions of wrongdoing behind, and to find a more peaceful life for himself and his 13-year-old daughter. But the small New England city is not nearly as safe as he thought. On a warm September night, a missing high school athlete is found dead in a scrap-metal yard, her heart removed from her body with surgical precision. As outrage over the killing spreads, a young businesswoman disappears while out on a morning jog.
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Is It The Story? Or Its Telling? Hmmmm...
- De Ted en 12-01-15
De: James Hayman
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Triggers
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
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On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience - but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not his memories.
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Fun Read
- De Ron en 04-04-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Cove
- FBI Thriller #1
- De: Catherine Coulter
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 11 h
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The Cove is a quaint little postcard town made up only of old folk who sell the World's Greatest Ice Cream - a secret recipe that brings lots of tourists into town.
Into The Cove comes Sally Brainerd, daughter of murdered Amory St. John, of Washington, D.C., seeking sanctuary, and FBI Special Agent James Quinlan, who's undercover and after her. He's got a murder to solve, and he believes she's the key. But is she really?
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- De bookish327 en 08-19-12
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Mistress of Justice
- De: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well.
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Pathetic! I wasted a credit!
- De Wayne en 06-28-18
De: Jeffery Deaver
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Charley's Web
- De: Joy Fielding
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Charley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. She's spent years building an emotional wall against scathing critics, snooty neighbors, and her disapproving family. But when she receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, a young woman serving time on death row for the murders of three small children, her boundaries slowly begin to fade. Jill wants Charley to write her biography so that she can share the many hidden truths about the case that failed to surface during her trial.
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not the norm
- De D. Mains en 02-04-09
De: Joy Fielding
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Near Death
- A Thriller
- De: Glenn Cooper
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Milan, Italy, today. It is the most serious crisis that the world has ever faced. Bewildered, young and old, believers and atheists are asking all the same distressing questions: What will they do now that the greatest dream of humanity has turned into a nightmare? What will happen when the countdown clock winds to zero?
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Not quite dead...yet
- De Matthew en 11-24-15
De: Glenn Cooper
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Last Rituals: A Novel of Suspense
- Thora Gudmundsdottir, Book 1
- De: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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At a university in Reykjavík, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police waste no time in making an arrest, but the victim's family isn't convinced that the right man is in custody. They ask Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, an attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. It isn't long before Thóra and her associate, Matthew Reich, uncover the deceased student's obsession with Iceland's grisly history of torture, execution, and witch hunts.
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- De Dr. William J. Kass en 07-22-16
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A Dangerous Road
- Smokey Dalton, Book 1
- De: Kris Nelscott
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee’s black community. He has almost no interaction with the white hierarchy, even though they exist only blocks away. So he’s surprised the day a white woman walks into his Beale Street office. Laura Hathaway has sought him out because he’s a beneficiary in her mother’s will, and Laura wants to know why. So does Smokey. He’s never heard of the Hathaways, but his search will take him on a journey that will change everything he’s ever known.
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Interesting Slice of US History...but Ponderous
- De Rancher en 12-18-13
De: Kris Nelscott
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The Man from Primrose Lane
- De: James Renner
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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A mind-bending, genre-twisting debut novel. In West Akron, there lived a reclusive elderly man who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family; all over town, he was known only as The the Man from Primrose Lane. And on a summer day in 2008, someone murdered him.
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- De Lulu W. en 07-18-12
De: James Renner
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Death at La Fenice
- Commissario Brunetti Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Donna Leon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role.
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Hercule Poirot in Venice...!!!
- De Emil Grancagnolo en 10-09-22
De: Donna Leon
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Starplex
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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Twenty years after the discovery of artificial wormholes launches Earth space exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that soon threatens the station with intergalactic war.
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Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-23-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Terminal Experiment
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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An experiment has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. One will test life after death; another, immortality. The third one is the control unit. But now all three have escaped from Hobson's computer into the worldwide electronic matrix. And one of them is a killer.
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Incredible
- De David en 05-19-08
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Illegal Alien
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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When a disabled spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, seven members of the advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world. Then a popular scientist is murdered, and all evidence points to one of the Tosoks. Now, an alien is tried in a court of law -and there may be far more at stake than accounting for one human life.
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This is It.
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-11-13
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Golden Fleece
- De: Robert. J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Aboard Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close - there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply accept her death. He must know the truth: Was it an accident, or did she commit suicide? When Aaron discovers the truth behind her death, he is faced with a terrible secret - a secret that could cost him his life.
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Just ok
- De Simone en 05-18-16
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Quantum Night
- De: Robert. J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from 20 years previously - a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.
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PHILOSOPHICAL ZOMBIE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 12-02-17
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Far-Seer
- The Quintaglio Ascension, Book 1
- De: Robert. J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. But when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed forever- for what he sees will test his faith...and may save his world from disaster!
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Definitely Original!
- De Simone en 08-30-16
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Starplex
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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Twenty years after the discovery of artificial wormholes launches Earth space exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that soon threatens the station with intergalactic war.
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Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-23-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Terminal Experiment
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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An experiment has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. One will test life after death; another, immortality. The third one is the control unit. But now all three have escaped from Hobson's computer into the worldwide electronic matrix. And one of them is a killer.
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Incredible
- De David en 05-19-08
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Illegal Alien
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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When a disabled spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, seven members of the advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world. Then a popular scientist is murdered, and all evidence points to one of the Tosoks. Now, an alien is tried in a court of law -and there may be far more at stake than accounting for one human life.
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This is It.
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-11-13
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Golden Fleece
- De: Robert. J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Aboard Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close - there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply accept her death. He must know the truth: Was it an accident, or did she commit suicide? When Aaron discovers the truth behind her death, he is faced with a terrible secret - a secret that could cost him his life.
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Just ok
- De Simone en 05-18-16
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Quantum Night
- De: Robert. J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from 20 years previously - a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.
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- De Jim "The Impatient" en 12-02-17
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Far-Seer
- The Quintaglio Ascension, Book 1
- De: Robert. J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. But when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed forever- for what he sees will test his faith...and may save his world from disaster!
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Definitely Original!
- De Simone en 08-30-16
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Flashforward
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. At the end of those moments, when the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.
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- De Phelix_da_Kat en 07-23-08
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Factoring Humanity
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphering the message. Her estranged husband, Kyle, is working on the development of artificial intelligence systems and new computer technology utilizing quantum effects to produce a near-infinite number of calculations simultaneously.
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Novel alien first contact
- De Michael G Kurilla en 05-28-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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WWW: Wake
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jessica Almasy, Jennifer Van Dyck, A. C. Fellner, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math - and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes.
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A Great, if Incomplete, Concept
- De Seth H. Wilson en 04-14-09
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Rollback
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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Thirty-eight years ago, Dr. Sarah Halifax earned worldwide fame by deciphering a radio transmission from an unknown intelligence reaching out from deep space. Now 87, Sarah receives news that, at long last, a new signal has been received, and her services are desperately needed once again.
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Main plot - Tiresome; Subplot - Cool!
- De Old Hippy en 04-29-11
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Triggers
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience - but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not his memories.
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- De Ron en 04-04-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Downloaded
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Brendan Fraser, Luke Kirby, Vanessa Sears, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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In 2059, two vastly different groups of people portrayed by the compelling trio of Brendan Fraser (Academy Award winner), Luke Kirby (Emmy Award winner), and Vanessa Sears (Dora Award winner) undergo cryonic suspension. While their bodies are frozen, their minds, still active and awake, are uploaded into a massive quantum computer. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.
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- De Amazon Customer en 10-27-23
De: Robert J. Sawyer
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Frameshift
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- David S.
- 04-08-13
Great story, but very emotionally taxing
I love pretty much all of Robert J. Sawyer's books. I like this optimistic take on the future of humanity, and the way his books usually have a lot of fascinating ideas combined with characters that I really care about. I've read most of his books at least three or four times.
This book was also really good, but I don't think I've ever re-read it after one physical book read and one listen to this audiobook version. It's just too draining to read. The suffering the main character (Pierre Tardivel) goes through is very gripping. It's like what the main character suffers in FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON, but even worse in several ways -- Pierre has a wife and child, his affliction is something that real people go through, he will eventually die from his disorder, etc, I just can't deal with it. Eventually, though, I hope to be able to read this one again, not least because I now do bioinformatics and so a lot of the subject matter will probably be even more interesting to me now.
And I'm glad that I read it through in the first place, too. I highly recommend it to everybody interested in genetics, telepathy, insurance conspiracies, Neanderthals, Nazi hunting, and science fiction in general.
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- Nathaniel
- 05-11-16
Engaging and Thought Provoking
A fascinating, if highly coincidental, look into theoretical genetics from both the past and the future.
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- Harriet
- 04-15-12
Not my favorite Sawyer~
Frameshift seems to diverge from Robert Sawyers other novels. It is a good book, but my least favorite of his novels. Parts of it were exceptional but it seemed to skip around a lot and took too long to tie the story lines together. I almost gave up about 2 1/2 hrs into it...but because it was Sawyer I stuck with it. The the last 3rd is pretty good and deals with similar subject matter as many of his other novels. Probably will not listen more than once. Good but not Great!
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 05-24-14
Storyshift
The great thing about Sawyer is that he never writes a bad book. This is my 11th and some are better then others, but none are boring and none of them do not fail to engage your brain. This book published in 1979, one year after Terminal Experiment, seems a little on the amateurish side when it comes to writing style. The beginning of the book, after the murder attempt, starts out in a Nazi concentration camp. It is interesting stuff and Sawyer does tie it into the rest of the story, but it does seem to be written for sensationalism. It gives the story kind of a jerky motion. There are some moments that seem a little beyond believe in the eyes of the listener. There is one big moment that is crucial to the rest of the story, where my inner voice said, "That's stupid, they would not do that." the reason given is money. It is a poor excuse and the plot lies heavily on it.
The story has lots of genetics, Nazi's and opinions. The kind of stuff that Sawyer always has in his books and the kind of stuff I love. Sawyer is never afraid to let his opinion known and often takes lots of grief over it. In this book he gets pretty preachy. I like an author who takes a stand, even when I don't agree and sometimes he takes the less politically correct stand, which has probably hurt his book sales.
My favorite Sawyer is Illegal Alien, followed by The Terminal Experiment and then by Flash Forward. You may want to skip Red Planet Blues and W.W.W. Wake.
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- Craig
- 06-03-14
Montreal NOT Paris
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
Please. Please ! PLEASE redo the narrative with a Quebec French accent instead of the Parisian French accent !The narrator's portrayal of Montrealer, Pierre Tardivel, with a European French accent was distracting to the point of irritation.
Any additional comments?
Otherwise, the story and its telling were both reasonably well done.
This punch at hard sci-fi probably won't ring anyone's bell, but it feels like R.J. Sawyer is at least trying to go beyond the comfort zone he established with the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy.
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- Virtual DD
- 11-28-15
Enjoyable, but a bit slow at times
Several great parts of the plot carried the story. Really enjoyed the narration. More could have been done with the main character's daughter (I won't give away a plot spoiler).
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- Holzholländer
- 05-28-12
Shift gears
What did you love best about Frameshift?
As in more books of sawyer there is the critical note of a Canadian towards the USA. As European I do understand where he comes from. As part of the story, the US private health insurance system is under fire. Additionally there are some more story lines to make this listen really juicy
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The point where the parents figure out the origin of their daughter Amanda.
Any additional comments?
If this does not make you think you have missed the point
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- Simone
- 02-15-15
Great Story / TERRIBLE narration!
In my opinion, Robert Sawyer is terrific. Every book is a hit every time.
This time however, I have a lot to complain about – but it’s not directed at Sawyer, it’s regarding the narration. Absolutely the WORST interpretation of a French Canadian accent I have ever heard. Hands down.
I live in Montreal, I do speak French, I am surrounded on a daily basis with French Canadians speaking English. This guy obviously never set foot in Quebec! His accent is so comically bad that it’s doing this otherwise compelling story a huge disservice. Really, it’s distractingly bad. (At the risk of being perceived as a lunatic, I even wrote to Robert Sawyer about it in case he has some sort of creative control over these things for future books).
French Canadians ‘tok da en-glish like diss’. I promise you ‘Zay do not zound lika zizz’ ... (if you will allow me a tangent, they don’t speak English, they talk English. They don’t make decisions, they take decisions. They don’t turn off the light, they close the light. But those details are not related to their accent, and I can understand how Sawyer would not want to include a lot of phraseology that only a small percentage of readers would understand)
If you aren’t Canadian or if you just don’t know what a Quebecois accent sounds like then you probably weren’t distracted. If like me, you are Quebecois – then you were annoyed and irritated the entire way through.
When a French Canadian speaks English, The = da. This = Diss. They drop Hs when they should be there, and add them where they shouldn’t be, for example:
I am happy to see you = “I am appy to see you”
How are you = “Ow are you”
It’s so hot outside = “It’s so ott hhoutside”
Happy Birthday = “Appy Birdday”
Can I ask you a question = “Can I hhask you a question”
That guy always thinks he’s right = “Dat guy hhalways tinks ee is right”
Is that her book over there = “is dat err book hhoe-verr derr”
I won’t even get into examples of how they put the emphasis on the wrong syllable, more towards the end of the word – naturally where it would be in French.
All this to say, the story was excellent but the narration disappointed me immensely.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 09-18-17
Speculative fiction with a bit of sci-fi
Robert J Sawyer's Frameshift is temporally fixed in its present day, the late 90's around the ongoing science of sequencing the human genome as well as the inevitable passing of left-over WWII Nazi war criminals. The plot centers around a young scientist with a terminal genetic disease pushing back the frontiers of science while also in the middle of Nazi war criminal hunt, a corrupt health insurance misusing client genetic data, and an amoral boss who foists an unethical genetic experiment on the man. The potential impacts, both good and bad of the emerging science of personalized genetic information is on display, but as with any emerging technology, when seen from the perspective of time, conceptual naivete seems somewhat quaint a couple decades onwards.
The actual sci-fi elements are rather sparse, limited mainly to an unusual frameshift mutation that allows for telepathic powers in a single individual which ends up being crucial for much of the plot. DNA based paternity / fraternity assessment was well established by this time and so was not even speculative at the time of its release. The recreation of a Neanderthal is a bit unrealistic as a full complement of intact chromosomes would be impossible. Even Jurassic Park fudged this detail with chimeras. Finally, the notion that a government would award custody of a child produced by an unethical, unauthorized science experiment to an institution because of DNA origin is a bit far fetched. More likely, the Tardevilles would have received one hefty settlement in exchange for silence. Lastly, security guards at an insurance company would not be shooting at the police or department of justice officials (why would they even be armed?). All that said, the plot is engaging, complex, and richly crafted to maintain suspense with a reasonable smattering of red herrings along the way to qualify as a respectable mystery thriller.
The narration is well done, especially given the necessity for a French accent by the main character.
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- WoofManTom
- 04-09-20
French vs. French-Canadian
Good story, great suspense and characters, but the reader obviously knows no French-Canadians. His accent was Parisian if anything, and that's being charitable.
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