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It was that transitional time of the world when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed only with fairy voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic, there yet remained one last untouched place - the small forest of Ealdwood - which kept the magic intact and protected the old ways. And there was one who dwelt there, Arafel the Sidhe, who had more pride and love of the world as it used to be than any of her kind.
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mysterious, authentic, beautiful
- By B. Mertz on 12-09-18
By: C. J. Cherryh
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Ammonite
- By: Nicola Griffith
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet's deadly virus had killed most of the original colonists - and changed the rest irrevocably. Centuries after the colony had lost touch with the rest of humanity, the Company returned to exploit GP, and its forces found themselves fighting for their lives. Afraid of spreading the virus, the Company had left its remaining employees in place, afraid and isolated from the natives.
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Women Are People
- By DC on 11-17-20
By: Nicola Griffith
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Gate of Ivrel
- Morgaine, Book 1
- By: C. J. Cherryh
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space Gates of a vanished but not forgotten alien race. In their time, long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds—not from villainy but from folly, from tampering with the strands that held a universe together.
Now the task was to uproot these Gates, destroy their potency for mischief, take horror out of the hands of the few who hungered for power by misuse of the Gates.
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Disapointed
- By Ang R. on 03-21-14
By: C. J. Cherryh
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A Door into Ocean
- By: Joan Slonczewski
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
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The Sharers of Shora are a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future. They are pacifists, they are highly advanced in biological sciences, and they reproduce by parthenogenesis - because there are no males. Conflict erupts when a militaristic neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world and sends in an army.
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Only Lesser Races produce Males
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-05-13
By: Joan Slonczewski
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A World Out of Time
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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Do you know how people get old?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-13-12
By: Larry Niven
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The Snow Queen
- By: Joan D. Vinge
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space.
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A magnificent performance of an old favorite
- By Nancy on 07-31-12
By: Joan D. Vinge
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The Demolished Man
- By: Alfred Bester
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises.Terrorized in his dreams by The Man with No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence.
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It needed the visuals of the paper book.
- By Traci L. Brennan on 05-15-18
By: Alfred Bester
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Tau Zero
- By: Poul Anderson
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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This science fiction novel describes the epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine. From practically the very first minute, Tau Zero sets scientific realities in dramatic tension with the very real emotional and psychological states of the travelers, exploring the effect of time contraction due to traveling at near-light speed on the human psyche. This tension is a dynamic that Anderson explores with great success over the course of the novel, as 50 crewmembers settle in for the long journey together.
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Not What I Hoped For
- By Audio Audits on 12-22-16
By: Poul Anderson
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Falling Free
- Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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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
- By Carol on 02-20-13
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- Sandra L. Jacob
- 04-20-12
OMG, I was so excited to see a C.J. Cherryh book!
What did you love best about Cyteen?
It's hard to say what I like best about this wonderful book. I had already read it, but was as swept up in the incredible tension of the psychological drama as I was when I read it. Cherryh is my absolute favorite SciFi author and I've read about 3/4 of her books. This one is one of my all time favorites. It blends bioengineering and psych management with wonderful characters, drama, political intrigue into an un-put-downable story.
Now all Audible needs to do is add Regenesis and all of the Foreigner series and I will be in seventh heaven.
What did you like best about this story?
I loved Arianne Emory and Justin Warrick best. Their complex relationship makes for great drama. The politics and ethical issues of bioengineering are fascinating and the behind the scenes power struggles are superbly wrought.
Have you listened to any of Gabra Zackman and Jonathan Davis ???s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I've listened to Gabra Zackman before and it was when I did a search for books she's narrated that I found Cyteen. She's a superb narrator. I'm sure I've also listened to Jonathan Davis' narrations, but I don't remember. He played a minor role in this one, only reading the introductions to each chapter.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes! It made my heart pound and touched me both.
Any additional comments?
Please, please, Audible: give us more Cherryh!
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- James
- 08-06-19
An Alternative Universe's Alternative Universe
One of the joys of sci-fi is the ability to imagine and inhabit other universes and ways to live. It's something that the best writers do with intriguing stories and imagination.
This book is a departure in one important way. It's analog, not digital.
By that , I not only mean the dated technology of "tapes" and paper printouts. I mean the whole idea of creating a future built on the manipulation of minds and creating artificial humans- not from mechanical robots and supercomputers, but from biology and psychology. The interesting thing is that the development of digital technologies that has defined the era after this book was written is only one way it could have gone.
Imagine a world where biology and medical advances came at the same rate as digital advances came in our own world. A world where the actions of the mind are as well understood as the actions of electronic circuits are in our time.
That's Cyteen.
Granted, you could also look upon these advances as a new form of slavery, and that subtext animates this work. Where does advancement become control, and when does safety equate to subjugation.
A very interesting story, well worth exploring and thinking about.
Bravo!
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- Sapere Aude
- 05-06-20
Great book & narrator. Wish they'd do the sequel!
I loved this book with it's unique premise of what if human behavior could be programmed from birth and the character of Ari. The narrator has a great voice that really gave the book depth. I wish there was an audiobook for the sequel, Regenesis. I read that on Kindle but I really missed Gabra Zachman's performance!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-07-17
surprisingly good to listen to.
Much better the second time round to listen to. When the plots made more sense.
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- Nancy Long
- 06-06-18
ToI Deep Scientically
Too repetitive and some of the words didn't make sense the way they used them. I just couldn't really get into it.
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- Rocky
- 03-30-16
reader wonderful
took a while to get into the story but the reader drew me in wonderfully
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- troy
- 05-20-12
This is a Heavy Book (lovely too)
Every now and again you read a story at the right time in your life. Stuff was going on around me, and this story gave me perspective. It's wonderful when SciFi can help and inspire in the non-fiction world.
I am avoiding talking about the plot or the characters, because I don't want to give anything away.
The world building that takes place in this novel is astounding. It fully fleshes out a universe where sustainable economic systems work... sometimes you run into stories where planets only have one theme or purposes, like in Star Trek TNG - Risa the pleasure planet full of vacation resorts. This book actually makes sense.
I wouldn't have thought a story full of psychologists would be worth while, but Cherryh does an outstanding job.
This novel is definitely worth finishing.
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- Lisa
- 05-23-12
Sci-Fi at its best!
I'm generally not a reader of sci-fi, but murder and intrigue set 3 thousand years in the future caught my attention. The detail of the story is extraordinary. What a marvelous imagination this author has! I want to hear more, but this is the only one of Ms. Cherryh's books currently available.
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- Timothy
- 12-08-15
Just didn't seem to get to a point
What did you like best about Cyteen? What did you like least?
The idea of the story was good, but it just
didn't seem to fill out. Characters came and
went with no particular significance
Would you ever listen to anything by C. J. Cherryh again?
Maybe
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Yes
Was Cyteen worth the listening time?
No
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- Maxine Borcherding
- 07-12-16
No sequel!
What did you love best about Cyteen?
I have always thought that Cyteen was one of Cherryh's greatest works, but there are few of them that I do not thoroughly enjoy. The only problem is that Audible hasn't published the sequel- and I need to know what happens next!The characters are flesh and blood and the action takes place within a history and context that make sense. The storyline stands on its own, but is more enjoyable, I think, if a reader has already read or listened to the previous novels detailing the Company wars, and the experiment on Gehenna.But I need to know- was only one person responsible for Ari Senior's murder, or were others involved as well? What will happen to Jordan? We need the sequel: Regenesis !!!!
Who was your favorite character and why?
Justin Warlck- who had to overcome so very much and who seems finally to have found his place. Will it give him the safety and security that he has been denied since he was 17, or will politics both inside and outside of Resune continue to threaten him?
What does Gabra Zackman and Jonathan Davis bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Great job on the narration- voices of individual characters different enough and consistent enough to make them instantly recognizable.
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Any additional comments?
If you are a fan of Cherryh, you will love this book. Every bit as well developed as the Foreigner series, and with that jolt of an ending like Cuckoos Egg.
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