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On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago.
Something is happening to planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to contemplate
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Great Story, Wonderful Listening, But the Editor?
- De George Knight en 07-14-13
De: Greg Bear
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The Engines of God
- De: Jack McDevitt
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy, encoded with strange inscriptions that defy translation. Searching for clues about the Monument-Makers, teams of 23rd century linguists, historians, engineers and archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on a number of planets, uncovering strange, massive false cities made of solid rock. But their time is running out.
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Conceptually intriguing, but uneven writing style
- De Michael G Kurilla en 05-12-11
De: Jack McDevitt
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Gateways
- Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl
- De: Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, y otros
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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It isn’t easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that’s what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, Gateways is a SF event that will be a must-buy for SF readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting edge; from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny.
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Spectacular.
- De Steve Reid en 08-21-15
De: Greg Bear, y otros
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- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Kyle McCarley
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun. How would it be to live on such a world?
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No Sense of Conclusion
- De Lisa Davidson en 04-24-16
De: Stephen Baxter
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The Event
- De: Nathan Hystad
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guides Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.
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Did not inspire me to get the next book.
- De MD en 12-13-18
De: Nathan Hystad
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Up Against It
- De: M. J. Locke
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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Very old school SF, in ways good and bad
- De A reader en 06-19-12
De: M. J. Locke
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Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- De: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrado por: Alessandro Juliani
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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A comment on negative reviews
- De Burns en 09-20-11
De: Stanislaw Lem, y otros
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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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Stations of the Tide
- De: Michael Swanwick
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
- De Robert L. en 03-25-12
De: Michael Swanwick
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In a future wracked by environmental catastrophe and social instability, physicist John Renfrew devises a longshot plan to use tachyons - strange, time-traveling particles - to send a warning to the past. In 1962, Gordon Bernstein, a California researcher, gets Renfrew's message as a strange pattern of interference in an experiment he's conducting.
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An enjoyable book with problems
- De Mike Schultz en 10-26-08
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The Martian Race
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When an explosion of the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle kills four crewmen, the US decides to redirect its energies to near-Earth projects, killing the manned mission to Mars. But tycoon John Axelrod assembles a consortium to fund the project, and he expects to net billions. But a European-Asian airbus will make a similar expedition. Now, the race is on to get to the Red Planet first.
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Loved it!
- De JKO en 05-11-15
De: Gregory Benford
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Heart of the Comet
- De: Gregory Benford, David Brin
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
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Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet, alter its orbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells - that might once have brought life to Earth - begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future - and that of Earth - only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.
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Challenging hard sci-fi with some characterization
- De William Tanksley, Jr. en 08-06-18
De: Gregory Benford, y otros
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The Difference Engine
- De: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.
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Starts strong, falls off
- De Delano en 04-22-13
De: William Gibson, y otros
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- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Kyle McCarley
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The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun. How would it be to live on such a world?
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No Sense of Conclusion
- De Lisa Davidson en 04-24-16
De: Stephen Baxter
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Holy Fire
- De: Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy - if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression...
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Prescient
- De John D. Furber en 12-10-21
De: Bruce Sterling
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Timescape
- De: Gregory Benford
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In a future wracked by environmental catastrophe and social instability, physicist John Renfrew devises a longshot plan to use tachyons - strange, time-traveling particles - to send a warning to the past. In 1962, Gordon Bernstein, a California researcher, gets Renfrew's message as a strange pattern of interference in an experiment he's conducting.
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An enjoyable book with problems
- De Mike Schultz en 10-26-08
De: Gregory Benford
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The Martian Race
- De: Gregory Benford
- Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir
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When an explosion of the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle kills four crewmen, the US decides to redirect its energies to near-Earth projects, killing the manned mission to Mars. But tycoon John Axelrod assembles a consortium to fund the project, and he expects to net billions. But a European-Asian airbus will make a similar expedition. Now, the race is on to get to the Red Planet first.
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Loved it!
- De JKO en 05-11-15
De: Gregory Benford
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Heart of the Comet
- De: Gregory Benford, David Brin
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
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Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet, alter its orbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells - that might once have brought life to Earth - begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future - and that of Earth - only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.
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Challenging hard sci-fi with some characterization
- De William Tanksley, Jr. en 08-06-18
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The Difference Engine
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- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.
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Starts strong, falls off
- De Delano en 04-22-13
De: William Gibson, y otros
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- De: Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Kyle McCarley
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The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun. How would it be to live on such a world?
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No Sense of Conclusion
- De Lisa Davidson en 04-24-16
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Holy Fire
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In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy - if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression...
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Prescient
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Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but the arrival of the 300-kilometer long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and scientists are unable to decide how to use this knowledge.
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Am Epic Original SciFi Read Worth Your Time...
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The Forge of God
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On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago.
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Great Story, Wonderful Listening, But the Editor?
- De George Knight en 07-14-13
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More Than Human
- De: Theodore Sturgeon
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In this genre-bending novel, among the first to have launched sci fi into literature, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. Together, they may represent the next step in evolution - or the final chapter in the history of the human race. As they struggle to find whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging.
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- De Dion en 01-16-10
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The Mote in God's Eye
- De: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
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The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre. No lesser an authority than Robert A. Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read".
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A great read!
- De J. Rhoderick en 02-12-10
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Schismatrix Plus
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Acclaimed science fiction luminary and a godfather of the genre’s remarkable offspring - cyberpunk - Bruce Sterling carries readers to a far-future universe where stunning achievements in human development have been tainted by a virulent outbreak of prejudice and hatred.
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Sci-fi should be weird but...
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The Sunborn
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Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another starship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the frozen ammonia shore of Pluto's methane sea, Shanna has discovered intelligent creatures thriving in the -300° degree temperatures.
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I'm cranky this wasn't better
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De: Gregory Benford
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Inherit the Stars
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The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair, and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn’t know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50 thousand years old - and that meant this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed.
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IT'S TIME FOR LUNCH
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De: James P. Hogan
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Cyteen
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The saga of two young friends trapped in an endless nightmare of suspicion and surveillance, of cyber-programmed servants and a ruling class with century-long lives – and the enigmatic woman who dominates them all.
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Lord of Light
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Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.
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How could a performance be so wrong?
- De 1st World Problems en 05-29-22
De: Roger Zelazny
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Dauntless
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The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century—and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who’s emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief… Captain John “Black Jack” Geary’s legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic “last stand” in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation.
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Straightforward Action Based Science Fiction
- De David A en 07-07-22
De: Jack Campbell
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Pandora's Star
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: John Lee
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The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some 400 light-years in diameter, contains more than 600 worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over 1,000 light-years away, a star...vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears.
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Great Epic Scifi
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Revelation Space
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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Defeated
- De Eoin en 07-15-12
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre In the Ocean of Night
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- Jeffery
- 04-25-14
A bit slow paced for my taste.
What did you like best about In the Ocean of Night? What did you like least?
Good: Very interesting ideas, it seems well through through. I had to listen in bits.
Bad: Very slow paced and many times over analytical. I got bored at times, but the book had my rapt attention at other times. If I find a time where none of my other series have a new book out or I'm looking for something slower paced, I might buy the next book.
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- George Kalev
- 11-18-22
Be careful listening at the very end...
The author gives some spoilers about book 2 when he begins talking at the end of the story, itself.
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- W.
- 02-25-14
Not what I expected
Would you consider the audio edition of In the Ocean of Night to be better than the print version?
Haven't read the print version
Has In the Ocean of Night turned you off from other books in this genre?
No. I've read and enjoyed a number of similar "intercept the alien craft" titles. This one seemed a bit disjointed.
What about Maxwell Caulfield’s performance did you like?
Easy to listen to
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
No. it was very difficult to identify with any of the characters and the scenes seemed very superficial.
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- Loraki
- 04-22-15
A Jewel in Benford's Crown
Gregory Benford is one of sci-fi's famous "Killer Bees." These hard science fiction writers are my favorites. But it has been years since I had read Benford 's "Great Sky River" series of novels, and I had forgotten much of this first book. Listening to it, I found his writing style a little bit irritating! He often gets carried away and writes long, flowery descriptive phrases. It's like he's trying to fulfill a quota of words, rather than just tell a good story. People don't talk like he writes! At least none that I have ever known. But I like the plot and the characters! The story gets bogged down a little in places but overall is interesting and leaves the reader wanting more. I especially like the parts where Nigel explores the first alien ship and where he has to deal with the bureaucrats who are more afraid of an alien presence than they are fascinated and curious! I also like all the details about the "snark!" I'm looking forward to the next book in the series! This one has mystery, romance, conflicts, philosophical musings, and portents of doom. What's not to like?! Especially if you enjoy the writing style!
Oh, and kudos to the narrator for a fine job!
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 03-11-14
Slow start to a longer story arc
Benford's In the Ocean of Night is the 1st installment of a 6 part series originally published in the 1970's. The significance is that the theme deals with alien contact and machine intelligence so the story has a primitive quality today that comes naturally from inherent limitations of its perspective of that time. The story centers around an astronaut who discovers an alien artifact believed to be an errant comet about to strike Earth. He next identifies another alien artifact as it enters our solar system a few years later and makes contact with the onboard AI. Finally, he is brought in to investigate what appears to be an alien artifact buried on the moon after an apparent thermonuclear device that may be another alien artifact on Earth detonates. Against this background, there is a religious movement with unclear motives that comes to dominate politics.
While quite popular in its day, probably due to its unique take on alien first contact, the tale suffers from underdeveloped characters. While the main character seems mostly adrift, supporting characters get extremely short shrift that makes their motivations and reactions quite uninterpretable. The fascination with BigFoot may have also been unique to the time period when the book was written which does not gel well today. By the end, it just wasn't clear what the author was trying to relate and the conclusion was far from satisfying. As an intro to a longer story arc, this is a disappointing appetizer.
The narration is good with a solid range of voices and good pacing with a tone suitable for the overall tenor of the tale.
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- Michale
- 07-19-12
Very Different from "Hunger for the Infinite"
After listening to the novella by Gregory Benford, "Hunger for the Infinite," I was intrigued and ready for more of the same universe. This novel is very different. It is very slow moving and for much of the first half focuses strictly on main character Nigel and his "triad" relationship with Alexandria and Shirley. I was hoping for a little more science fiction, but patiently listened through Nigel's ups and downs with his lady loves. The lingering back story seems to be Nigel's struggle to over come politics within NASA and finally discover something real and true about the universe.
I was waiting for the "science fiction" part to dominate the "dramatic" part, and it doesn't really happen until the end of the first half. The creepy robots of Benford's novella have not shown up yet in Nigel's world, but he begins to get a sense of their presence. The entire novel is a build up to the idea that robotic life dominates the universe and that organic life is rare. My favorite character in the novel is actually the "snark", an automated craft that has been sent by these as of yet unseen robotic forces, to sniff out organic life. The snark does not know why it exists but only behaves as it has been programmed to behave. In its discussions with Nigel, there are some of the most interesting passages of the book. The snark drifts eternally through the "ocean of night" and finds its only fulfillment through learning about organic life forms.
I was disappointed that this novel was so different from "Hunger for the Infinite," but I enjoyed it anyway. Its slow and thoughtful, with no real gripping action or suspense, but contains some captivating musings about mankind and our relationship to the universe. I will continue with the series to see where it leads.
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- Michael
- 07-02-12
A Grand Opening For An Epic Series
What made the experience of listening to In the Ocean of Night the most enjoyable?
I have to confess that I've read Benford before, and his writing efforts are consistently very good reading/listening. In this case, I accidentally read Great Sky River first a number of years ago, and it is a strong hard tech scifi read that sweeps you along to its great conclusion. That being said, I walked into this audiobook listen with high expectations, and wasn't disappointed! It reads different, because it takes place prior to the third book, and is in a completely different environment. So, it was a great experience, and my expectations were well met. Thanks, Benford, for a solid scifi series I already knew was great before I started the very first book.
What was one of the most memorable moments of In the Ocean of Night?
I won't answer this question. I don't often give away parts of a good read. This is a great series, so I'll plead the fifth on this one.
What does Maxwell Caulfield bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He's a good narrator, but I'll want to hear his performance on the rest of the series, and then I'll update this review. It's only fair to give him his proper due.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
An unending galactic war is about to begin, and it waits...for YOU.
Any additional comments?
Enjoyable. Well paced. Strong plot. Solid character development. Captivating story. Nuff said. Get the audiobook.
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- thomas
- 10-21-15
I Enjoyed This 70's Sci Fi
If you could sum up In the Ocean of Night in three words, what would they be?
Nigel the Curmudgeon
What was one of the most memorable moments of In the Ocean of Night?
Trying not to give it away...what happens to one of the main characters after she dies....
Have you listened to any of Maxwell Caulfield’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No I haven't but he did a good job.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Probably not
Any additional comments?
This is a great start to a series that the author wrote over the span of more than 20 years. As a 1970's novel it is tied to that era, which is not a bad thing. I plan on listening to the rest of the books in the series. Good solid space opera.
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- Gyula Mészáros
- 09-02-14
I wish I liked it
When I purchased this title I made a mistake: I didn't check the date of the first publication. The audio book was published in 2012. Into one third of the story I started to suspect that the original book is older than my daughter, and later my suspicion was confirmed by mention of microfilms used in 2034. I should have known better to check the reviews more thoroughly before buying it. In the Ocean of Night was born in 1972. Almost as old as me. It's not that I'm against old books, but I pick them only if I want to be nostalgic. Otherwise I prefer books of this century.
The story, however, started well, right into hard science fiction, astronauts discovering an alien artificial asteroid. Just what I wanted. But then the author made me jump fifteen years, to arrive into the daily life of the astronaut who made the first contact. The family setup was interesting, I must say, a blossoming triangle of a man and two woman, enjoying the threesome love-life. Besides that, a family drama unfolded in front of me, with the sadness of one of the partners having cancer. Oh, as a subplot, some slow development happened concerning an alien automated spaceship called Snark passing by. But not much.
The story seemed to speed up when the Snark started to communicate through a medical implant, and resurrected the said partner. I thought "yes, real science-fiction, finally". It didn't last long, though. The alien spaceship left the Solar system running from a missile. Why, of course the US government had to shoot at it, it's standard Hollywood procedure.
Then there was the wreck of another alien spaceship on the moon, which almost caused the death of the character who stumbled in its shield by chance. Space accident. Fight for life. Good stuff. But then jump again, and now I was discovering the alien ship's computer. Oh, the ship lowered its shield sometime in between, but I never learned how and why. Anyway, there was the promise of hard sci-fi again. But what I really got was description of dull images downloaded from the alien computer. Boring. I wondered why the scientists didn't go exploring the ship. Yes, they told me that it was dangerous, and they had plenty of time, it wasn't going anywhere. Serious? It was an alien ship, for god's sake!
And then came Mr Itchino (I hope I spell it right after hearing), who went to play being a hermit in the woods on the hillside. But only after that I had to listen to all the wonders of singing birds and landscapes he was amazed of. Did I mention boring? After an agonizingly long time he finally learned about the secret of the mountain: Bigfoot existed. No kidding. Mr Grave saw them, they shot at him with their laser gun.
By this time I listened to the audiobook at x1.25 speed to get over it quicker. I still had my hope that there will be an amazing ending. False hopes.
Mr Walmsley suddenly was sucked into the alien computer, and the aliens told him everything he wanted to know, and he told me some of it. While chopping wood on the hill. For Mr Itchino. In an elevated mental state. All of these spiced with a high literature writing style, which was odd, because it didn't match the previous part of the book.
I almost forgot to mention the religious sect of the New Sons. I'm still wondering what was the author's purpose with them.
I found the cover copy misleading. In the Ocean of Night promised me so much, but definitely failed to deliver. John Scalzi would be able to write this story in thirty pages, and still find the room for a little sarcastic humour of his.
Some reviewers say that the next books in the series are better. I wouldn't know. I won't buy them. I go to listen to an Alastair Reynolds book instead.
The narrator did an excellent job, certainly I would listen to books he reads.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-12-23
Interesting premise, very poor author.
The skeleton of the plot is good. Which is why I purchased the book. The writing, though, very poor. The author tries to be descriptive, overly so. As I read, I noticed that he uses two to three adjectives to describe every. single. thing. Like some sort of pseudo poetry only it's bad. It gets to the point that I couldn't find myself immersed in the story.
The main character isn't likable. Not in a flawed character sence, he's just a jerk. I found myself not caring about his musings (which again, are over wordy) and thinking about something else.
The side plots seem pointless. The main character's wife and their joint lover were useless color to the plot. It seemed like the author needed to fill pages for his editor.
Lastly, the reader. Why he chose to give one of the main characters a western/southern/rural accent when he couldn't be consistent is beyond me. Each time he read in the character's voice, it sounded different to the point where it was difficult to tell who was speaking.
In the end, it cost me kne credit to realize this author is not worth reading.
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