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Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds - alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own - with one perplexing difference. To his astonishment, he was hailed as a wizard and found himself fighting beside a beautiful woman with strange powers against a mysterious warlord as he struggles to solve the riddle of this baffling world.
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This book was doomed to fail
- De Joshua en 11-16-12
De: David Brin
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The First Book of Swords
- De: Fred Saberhagen
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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For a game, the gods have given the world 12 Swords of Power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their possession. But Vulcan the Smith has had his own little joke: the Swords can kill the gods themselves. What started out as Divine Jest has become all too serious as the gods fight to recover the Swords, and mortals discover that the mantle of power is more delicious and more terrible than anything they could have imagined.
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One Of My Very Highest Recommendations!
- De Michael en 02-25-13
De: Fred Saberhagen
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The Age of Ra
- Pantheon, Book 1
- De: James Lovegrove
- Narrado por: Andy Cresswell
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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The Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated all the other pantheons and claimed dominion over the earth, dividing it into warring factions. Lt. David Westwynter, a British soldier, stumbles into Freegypt, the only place to have remained independent of the gods’ influence. There, he encounters the followers of a humanist leader known as the Lightbringer, who has vowed to rid mankind of the shackles of divine oppression. As the world heads towards an apocalyptic battle, there is far more to this freedom fighter than it seems.
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Fun but trite
- De Patrick Quinn en 02-10-21
De: James Lovegrove
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Geomancer
- De: Ian Irvine
- Narrado por: Grant Cartwright
- Duración: 23 h y 48 m
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Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world. Despite the development of battle clankers and mastery of the crystals that power them, humanity is losing. Tiaan, a lonely crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is experimenting with an entirely new kind of crystal when she begins to have extraordinary visions.
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About As Satisfying as Coitus Interruptus
- De Craig G. Clark en 07-26-13
De: Ian Irvine
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Unfettered
- Tales By Masters of Fantasy
- De: Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Jordan, y otros
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim, Marc Vietor, Bronson Pinchot, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 16 m
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You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell to help alleviate those bills—and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. Unfettered is the result: An anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre.
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A TRULY BAD COLLECTION OF DOGS
- De Randall en 12-21-18
De: Terry Brooks, y otros
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The Memory of Trees
- De: F. G. Cottam
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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Billionaire Saul Abercrombie owns a vast tract of land on the Pembrokeshire coast. By restoring the original forest that covered the area before medieval times, he believes he will rekindle the spirits of ancient folklore. But the re-planting of the forest will revive an altogether darker and more dangerous entity - and young arboreal expert Tom Curtis will find himself engaging in an epic, ancient battle between good and evil. A battle in which there can be only one survivor.
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Cottam and Rintoul make a great team!
- De Kolton en 05-23-15
De: F. G. Cottam
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Nightlord
- Sunset
- De: Garon Whited
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 36 h y 49 m
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Eric didn't ask to be a vampire. In fact he didn't even believe in them. Biting your own tongue with your fangs does a lot of convincing. Even so, being a part-time undead isn't as easy as you might think. It can let you hold down a day job, true, but sometimes the night "life" can be more than a little difficult, what with those bloodthirsty urges and predatory instincts kicking in.
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Chapters are out of order!!!!
- De Chris en 11-16-18
De: Garon Whited
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Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire
- De: John August
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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Arlo Finch is a newcomer to Pine Mountain, Colorado, a tiny town of mystery and magic, but he has already attracted the attention of dark and ancient forces. At first he thinks these increasingly strange and frightening occurrences are just part of being in Rangers, the mountain scouting troop where he learns how to harness the wild magic seeping in from the mysterious Long Woods. But soon Arlo finds himself at the center of a dangerous adventure, where he faces obstacles that test the foundations of the Ranger's Vow: Loyalty, Bravery, Kindness, and Truth.
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Fun to listen to.
- De Elizabeth Bourgeois en 11-05-20
De: John August
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Where They Wait
- A Novel
- De: Scott Carson
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a humbling job: writing a profile of a new mindfulness app called Clarity. It’s easy money, and a chance to return to his hometown for the first time in years. The app itself seems like a retread of old ideas — relaxing white noise and guided meditations. But then there are the “Sleep Songs.” A woman’s hauntingly beautiful voice sings a ballad that is anything but soothing — it’s disturbing, and more of a warning than a relaxation — but it works.
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A Mixed Bag
- De Psychoprofessor101 en 12-27-21
De: Scott Carson
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In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond
- In Search of the Sasquatch
- De: John Zada
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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On the central and north coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, containing more organic matter than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. The area plays host to a wide range of species, from thousand-year-old western cedars to humpback whales to iconic white Spirit bears. According to local residents, another giant is said to live in these woods.
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Not a relatable book
- De RJK en 07-14-19
De: John Zada
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Scythe
- De: Neal Shusterman
- Narrado por: Greg Tremblay
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life - and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe - a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
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Teenage Thumbs up
- De Lila Reading en 04-01-17
De: Neal Shusterman
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Forgotten Pages: A Prequel Novelette
- Star Child: Places of Power, Book 0
- De: Leonard Petracci
- Narrado por: Will M Watt
- Duración: 1 h y 56 m
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For generations, a nameless man has been passed down through Cane's family - one who never seems to age, remembers the stories of old, and knows the depths of men's hearts. On the outside, Cane's family appeared to be simple fishermen. Yet when he turned 18 and his life entwined with the nameless man forever, Cane learned they were far more than he could imagine. And as they are hunted while pursuing hidden secrets, Cane's life enters turmoil, where nothing is clear.
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The World Building
- De Esrael Rosales en 04-07-24
De: Leonard Petracci
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One man—visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D.—has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming.
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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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Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil - all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long, Taylor's house is bombed, his every move followed, he's adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI's most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate.
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kinda meh
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Polostan
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
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Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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I love Neal, but Good lord... ugh!
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Interface
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In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise. There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers.
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Interface
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Termination Shock
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Reamde
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Not perfect, but worth a listen.
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Zodiac
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Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil - all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long, Taylor's house is bombed, his every move followed, he's adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI's most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate.
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kinda meh
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Polostan
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
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Anathem
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Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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I love Neal, but Good lord... ugh!
- De SpiderGrrl en 10-08-19
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Interface
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In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise. There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers.
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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Odd narrator choice
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Cryptonomicon
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....
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Two thirds through and quit
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In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
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Be aware of what you're getting into
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The Diamond Age
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Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.
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The rock could use a bit more polishing
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De: Neal Stephenson
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Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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A solid sci-fi novel
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The Big U
- De: Neal Stephenson
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The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". But if you want to know Stephenson was doing 20 years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring 30-year-old junior Casimir Radon.
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Bad first novel by great writer
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De: Neal Stephenson
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The Cobweb
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When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college townall the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what its producing is a very nasty bug.
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Et tu, Neal?
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Sinner
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A severed head and a cry of “Witchcraft!” start a frenzied witch hunt in a sleepy German village. When her dead husband’s severed head appears on her doorstep, a local woman is charged with practicing heretical rituals. It is up to the knights to discover the truth behind the brutal murder before the torches are lit and the woman is burned at the stake. Their task proves daunting, though, as the townspeople have their own long-buried secrets and sins that they want to keep hidden - even if it means allowing the sacrifice of an innocent woman.
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New Found Land: The Long Haul
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Imagine two worlds at war. In one, citizens with jetpacks and ray guns have colonized Venus. In the other, magic reigns supreme, and history turns on swords and spells. Now imagine they have just discovered a third world. Our world. Our timeline of rideshare apps and strip malls is about to become the newest battlefield in the long war between science fiction and fantasy.
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You'll like this if you liked The Zeta Family.
- De Tory Thai en 06-12-21
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The Starship and the Canoe
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Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son, George, a brilliant high-school dropout, lives in a tree house and is designing a giant kayak to explore the icy coastal wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
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Excellent Story - Captivating, Poignant, Educational
- De Anonymous User en 11-25-20
De: Kenneth Brower, y otros
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The Clockwork Rocket
- De: Greg Egan
- Narrado por: Adam Epstein
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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In Yalda's universe, light has mass, no universal speed, and its creation generates energy. On Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting light into the dark night sky. And time is different: An astronaut might measure decades passing while visiting another star, only to return and find that just weeks have elapsed for her friends. On the farm where she lives, Yalda sees strange meteors that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed...
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Good Egan Hard SF story near ruined by the narator
- De James en 09-08-16
De: Greg Egan
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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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
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- Josh
- 06-22-19
Beautiful technomythology
I very much so loved this story. Every sentence of every chapter held my interest and I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. Neal Stephenson creates such wonderful worlds and lets us the readers, or listeners, explore and enjoy them. I highly recommend this book.
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- Ted B.
- 07-29-19
Disappointing work from an author I usually love
I really wanted to like this book, as I love several of his previous works, to include REAMDE, the nominal predecessor to this story. There were just too many plot holes for me to suspend disbelief this time around. If you haven't read Stephenson before, I recommend you go read Snow Crash, Seveneves, and REAMDE instead of this one.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-01-22
starts sci-fi transitions to pure fantasy
Stevenson's imagination fully unleashed develops a whole new world on par with LOTR. I only wish it was longer.
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- Spencer
- 07-04-19
I wept
This is a long book. This isn't a long book as far as other Neil Stephenson books go but get ready for a journey, literally. I very much enjoyed the story Arc where the book essentially circles back and closes the loop. The performance was perfect and at 1.5 speed it worked quite well. I highly recommend reading the previous book in this series Reamde as if introduces a lot of character development but in the end it's not necessary. this is sci-fi mixed with fantasy to perfection.
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- webtraverser
- 01-14-22
I guess not for everybody …
but definitely for me. I got this audiobook when it first came out but only recently got around to listening. I actually hadn’t heard too much about its reception but my nephew, a big Stephenson fan who also had given me the hardback copy as a gift, had told me they it had not been received very well. I can see that by the reviews here this appears to be the case.
Not for me though. This is one of my favorite Stephenson book; Anathem and the Diamond Age being the other two. I like the way Stephenson builds worlds and I feel like he did very good job with this one. The book takes many different turns much like Reamde (which I also liked very much) but it has ideas like Anathem. I loved the “techno thriller” parts and was very interested in what he did with the simulated “afterlife”.
I won’t say “highly” recommend because it appears to be an acquired taste, if you like long meander meaty books about ideas than you might like Fall; or, Dodge in hell
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- Bjorn
- 08-28-19
Different, but I liked it
I wish the entire story line together made a bit more sense, but the thought of how an electronic afterlife could work is interesting.
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- Laura
- 07-21-20
Book 1 is great, the next 2 Books are a grind
I've read everything that Neal Stephenson has published. I consider Cryptonomicon to be his best work. I really enjoyed "Book 1" of this 3 book, 888 page story. Book 1 is what I would call classic NS. Great science, and great storytelling, with a sprinkling of dry humor. Books 2 & 3 which follow our meat space heroes into digital space are written as a fable. To me the stories were not interesting and I only ground through them for the occasional update from meat space.
I would give Book One 5 stars, and Books Two and Three 2 or 3 stars.
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- D. Lalande
- 07-03-19
Fantasy
I struggled through to the finish. I love the other books from Neal Stephenson's but this one was too much fantasy for my tastes.
If this is your first Neal Stephenson book and you didn't like it, try his other books before you decide if you like his writings.
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- T. Tree Walker
- 08-24-19
Among his best, cryogenics mythos and epic fantasy in one.
I love everything Neal ever wrote except I couldn’t get through Reamde, sadly. Fall or Dodge in hell was a huge relief to have NS back in all his glory, reincarnating Dodge from this world to the next as lord of all things and, you may ask, how could that go so very wrong? Epic exploration of of post meatspace world and the very human problems that ensue.
Loved the narrator except his Australian accent which made me laugh every time - think Schwarzenegger then Scottish then Afrikaan.
Overall a great audiobook with much to contemplate afterward.
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- Dr. Curmudgeon
- 07-24-19
This is Stephenson's Dhalgren
Some people think that might be a compliment. I'm not one of those people.
In short, the story runs too long, is wildly predictable, and the allegories are paper thin.
"Gee, this sub-plot sure sounds familiar. I [don't] wonder what happens next!"
There are lots of really cool ideas sprinkled around the novel. Unfortunately, nothing ever comes of them. What does happen is that somewhere around a third of the way in, we are introduced to "another place." Around half-way, it's split evenly between the two places, but by the end of the book, it's almost entirely the other place. The other place has tons of potential, which like the first place, isn't really realized. Mostly it's a place where Stephenson tells age old stories
What I liked was him taking a SciFi trope and turning it on its head, resulting in almost literally hellish results. What I didn't like is that the restrictions placed on interaction between the two worlds was explained away too easily, and I really didn't buy it at all,
It was nice to revisit some familiar characters from Reamde, but it would have been nicer if the visit was much shorter.
I would be really hard to recommend this book. Stephenson does stick to his strengths in the content, but it basically doesn't do much. Of course, if you really liked Dhalgren, or at least really like taking the long way to everything, then go for it.
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