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The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.
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- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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A scientist's claim that he's found the secrets of the universe's origin encoded in DNA sparks a race against time to uncover the truth in this fast-paced thriller of science and faith, power and murder, loss and redemption.
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good unique story. Narrator was not great
- De Demetri en 09-25-16
De: Bruce Buff
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Queen of Angels
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, murdered eight people, then disappeared. Three people want to find him: an aspiring writer, an embittered scientist who wants to use him, and a policewoman who needs to put him in custody before the Selectors, a vigilante organization, get to him first.
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fantastic, a whole new experience on audio
- De Tungsten en 04-02-16
De: Greg Bear
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Stand on Zanzibar
- De: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 21 h y 16 m
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Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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Invasion
- Alien Invasion, Book 1
- De: Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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They are coming. The countdown has begun. First visible only as blips on a telescope image, the discovery of objects approaching from Jupiter's orbit immediately sets humanity on edge. NASA doesn't even bother to deny the alien ships' existence. The popular Astral space app (broadcasting from the far side of the moon and accessible by anyone with Internet) has already shown the populace what is coming.
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"terrible, absolutely terrible"
- De Andre M. Nel en 08-02-18
De: Sean Platt, y otros
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Variable Star
- De: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrado por: Spider Robinson
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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At his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of interstellar time and space. Now, the Heinlein estate has authorized award-winning author Spider Robinson to expand his outline into a full-length novel. And the result is vintage Heinlein.
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Spider WHO
- De Randall en 04-25-09
De: Robert A. Heinlein, y otros
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Expendable
- League of Peoples, Book 1
- De: James Alan Gardner
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different - and terrible - ways to die.
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FU@@ING EXPLORERS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 03-06-15
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The Medusa Chronicles
- De: Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter - and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. But he is no longer himself. Instead he has been changed into an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable.
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Almost stopped listening. Glad I didn't.
- De cek en 08-21-16
De: Stephen Baxter, y otros
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Planetfall
- De: Emma Newman
- Narrado por: Emma Newman
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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More than 20 years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided alone. Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment - and harboring a devastating secret.
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You want different? Here it is!
- De Townsend en 11-09-15
De: Emma Newman
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Fleet of Worlds
- 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
- De: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Fleet of Worlds takes a closer look at Human-Puppeteer (Citizen) relations and the events leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel. 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.
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Hurrah!
- De Bruce en 01-25-08
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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The Post-Human Omnibus
- Books 1-4
- De: David Simpson
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 24 h y 54 m
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Before he was Oldtimer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor,sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history, a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world's first strong artificial intelligence.
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Man, I really wanted to like this book
- De Consumer en 04-29-15
De: David Simpson
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The Every
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- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
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Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?
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The narrator sounds like he works for the Every!
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A Hundred Thousand Worlds
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Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago - leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars.
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100 1000 Worlds
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Last and First Men
- De: Olaf Stapledon
- Narrado por: Stephen Greif
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One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930, Last and First Men is full of pioneering speculations about evolution, terraforming, genetic engineering and many other subjects.
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Quite impressive for 1930
- De Michael G Kurilla en 07-28-13
De: Olaf Stapledon
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The Years of Rice and Salt
- De: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
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It is the 14th century, and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been - a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.
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Robinson's best; Pinchot's usual excellence
- De Alex Levine en 05-13-15
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Gateway
- De: Frederik Pohl
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Robert J. Sawyer
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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
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De: Frederik Pohl
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Reamde
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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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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Not perfect, but worth a listen.
- De ShySusan en 10-01-11
De: Neal Stephenson
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The Every
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Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?
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The narrator sounds like he works for the Every!
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A Hundred Thousand Worlds
- De: Bob Proehl
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
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Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago - leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars.
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100 1000 Worlds
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Last and First Men
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One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930, Last and First Men is full of pioneering speculations about evolution, terraforming, genetic engineering and many other subjects.
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Quite impressive for 1930
- De Michael G Kurilla en 07-28-13
De: Olaf Stapledon
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The Years of Rice and Salt
- De: Kim Stanley Robinson
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It is the 14th century, and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been - a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.
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Robinson's best; Pinchot's usual excellence
- De Alex Levine en 05-13-15
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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
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Reamde
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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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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Not perfect, but worth a listen.
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Burning Chrome
- De: William Gibson
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William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of the most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.
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abstract art
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-05-14
De: William Gibson
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An Excess Male
- A Novel
- De: Maggie Shen King
- Narrado por: James Chen, Tim Chiou, Elaine Kao
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find wives. China's One Child Policy and its cultural preference for male heirs has created a society overrun by 40 million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than 25 percent of men in their late 30s will not have families of their own. An Excess Male is one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a state that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering.
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Enjoyable
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The Last Day
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Hunter Murray
- Narrado por: Gemma Whelan
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow the planet's rotation to a stop. Now, one half of the globe is permanently sunlit, the other half trapped in an endless night. Ellen Hopper is a scientist living on a frostbitten rig in the cold Atlantic. She wants nothing more to do with her country after its slide into casual violence and brutal authoritarianism. Yet when two government officials arrive demanding she return to London to see her dying college mentor, she accepts—and begins to unravel a secret.
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Don’t fall for the high rating
- De Jesse Rapaport en 07-11-20
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Jumper
- De: Steven Gould
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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What if you could go anywhere in the world, in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you do?Davy can teleport. To survive, Davy must learn to use and control his power in a world that is more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But mere survival is not enough for him. Davy wants to find others like himself, others who can Jump.
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Lot's of fun
- De Katherine en 03-12-13
De: Steven Gould
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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
De: Connie Willis
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Ubik
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
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Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time.
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Holy sh*t
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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Extracted
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- De: RR Haywood
- Narrado por: Carl Prekopp
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In 2061 a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in his past. But his good intentions turn catastrophic when an early test reveals something unexpected: the end of the world. A desperate plan is formed: recruit three heroes, ordinary humans capable of extraordinary things, and change the future.
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Fast-Food Science Fiction
- De Kurt Schwoppe en 04-07-17
De: RR Haywood
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Ninth City Burning
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Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it - until we discovered we could wield the power, too. Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines.
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Really Tuff Read/Listen
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The Dying Game
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- De: Asa Avdic
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The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the six other candidates react to the news that a murderer is among them.
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Couldn’t stop listening
- De Cherilyn Parsons en 02-22-18
De: Asa Avdic
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Ringworld
- De: Larry Niven
- Narrado por: Tom Parker
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.
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Genuinely Creative
- De Kennet en 05-25-03
De: Larry Niven
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1Q84
- De: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Duración: 46 h y 45 m
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....
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WOW, WOW, WOW.
- De Amanda en 11-06-11
De: Haruki Murakami, y otros
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Friday
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Friday, a secret courier, is thrown into an assignment under the command of her employer, a man she knows only as "Boss." She operates from and over a near-future Earth in North America, a vulgar and chaotic land comprised of dozens of independent states. In America's disunion, Friday keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions as she conquers one calamity and scrape after another.
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Almost A Perfect, This Time.
- De Dave Worley en 12-02-08
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Permutation City
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- SciFi Kindle
- 02-26-15
Moral dilemmas of digitalization
This exploration of digital consciousness is heavier on the philosophy than hard SF, although enough near-future exposition and tech is provided to support the premise: supercomputers allowing for digitization of living minds. Once that platform is established, Egan is free to play with all the high concept questions that result from a physics-free playground subject to will and desires. In the virtual environments that these uploaded consciousnesses inhabit, every sensation and perception can be modified to the individual’s tastes, as can those tastes and indeed- the individual’s own personality. The story’s drama comes, in part, from characters altering their very selves to accommodate circumstances. Additional moral questions come into play when system-generated additional personalities are introduced to provide community, and when intelligent life evolves from scratch in the VR and begin to seek their own origin. When these intelligences come into conflict with one another, or with the outside world, where the same computer resources are in demand for improving life for the billions of our reality, additional dilemmas ensue. All in all, the novel does a great job extending the trope and giving it the full examination it deserves, although it’s a bit weak on the characters or action.
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- Educated Parent
- 07-16-23
Horrendous Narration Ruins Any Story
Narrator rendered it impossible to continue, returning. Story up to point of departure was very interesting.
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- Matthew Mitchell
- 12-10-21
narrator was distractingly bad
narrator's tone and delivery were mostly flat but inconsistent, with a noticable amount of mispronunciation, and extremely poor non-English accents.
i listened anyway because I enjoyed the story.
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- Frederick Lutz
- 12-10-23
Terrible narrator.
Very interesting story spoiled by a narrator that sounds like a mix between an old generation computer voice simulator and Christopher Walken.
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- Jacob
- 08-31-18
disturbingly monotonous voice-actor
This novel deserves better. I could scarcely bear a minute of it, despite the fact that this is one of my favourite books.
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- Petter
- 06-14-24
Just great
If you like to ponder the nature of consciousness and simulation theory this is a must read.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 04-21-19
Math and physics collide to create a universe
Greg Egan's Permutation City is an early attempt to offer the potential for "uploading" oneself into a virtual world. With sufficient computing power, which is always limiting, scanning an individual, allows for their existence in this virtual world. The relative slowness of this existence limits its utility for all but the super-rich as well as the terminally ill. Against this backdrop, a plan, that appears initially as a scam, concerns creating a virtual world unencumbered by speed or limited by computing power. What begins as a demonstration of virtual reality as a mechanism for evolution offers the possibility of unlimited existence as well as universal collapse.
Egan plays off the simple computer game of life to add more computing power and complexity to offer a more realistic virtual world. Underlying this thesis is that math and physics are essentially equivalent such that any mathematically consistent universe construction that can exist will exist once created. As such, once complexity reaches a critical level, a self sustaining universe is possible. At the same time, Egan suggests that alternative viewpoints on the underlying structure of the universe can cause problems if those differing viewpoints are each mathematically consistent.
The narration is reasonable with a decent range of characters and gender distinction. Pacing is a bit on the slow side.
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- jimlkport
- 01-05-20
Narration is unbelievably poor!
I now realize I should have believed the other reviews. The narration is terrible, stopped listening after an hour, fast forwarded to later chapter, not any better. Returned the book and got a refund.
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- Nicholas Adams
- 01-11-22
Curious story, abysmal narrator
Narrator is godawful. He used the exact same cadence for nearly every sentence, and once you notice it, it’s all you hear. Also, perhaps the worst Australian accent I’ve ever heard in my life. I’m sorry, this narrator should do some reflecting on his performance here. Perhaps take some notes.
Listen to Revelation Space or the culture novels instead. The narrators of those are just exquisite. Read this one in hard-copy.
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- Sean B.
- 11-03-22
Deep creation.
There was a lot of very deep construction of foundational physics but the structure was difficult for audio.
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