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- De Diane S. en 07-28-17
De: Gina Damico
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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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Mutineer
- Kris Longknife, Book 1
- De: Mike Shepherd
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the prime minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris' blood - and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the Marines.
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Harsh reviews seem undeserved to me
- De Jeffery en 09-29-10
De: Mike Shepherd
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Steel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 1
- De: B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....
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A 14 year old boy’s idea of a “Real Man”
- De C. Brown en 04-16-19
De: B. V. Larson
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Origins of a D-List Supervillain
- De: Jim Bernheimer
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Kafer
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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Even D-list supervillains have to start somewhere. Follow Cal Stringel's misadventures as he climbs to the lowest levels of supervillany in the prequel to the smash hit, Confessions of a D-List Supervillain. Angry that he wouldn't be known as the engineer who made Ultraweapon's force blasters, Cal resigns to chase after a bigger, better paycheck. However, the Promethia Corporation isn't going to let him go that easily and sets out to make his life a living hell.
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BEING A VILLIAN IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW,
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 08-19-17
De: Jim Bernheimer
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Silent Thunder
- De: Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Hannah Bryson is a marine architect who's been given a fascinating assignment. A Russian nuclear submarine called The Silent Thunder has been purchased by the United States for exhibition in a museum. Hannah must create a schematic of the sub to check for hazards and design seamless modifications to make it safe for the thousands of expected visitors. But soon she discovers that she's being used as bait.
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More of the same
- De Angie en 08-05-08
De: Iris Johansen, y otros
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Diving into the Wreck
- Diving Series, Book 1
- De: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she's an active historian. She wants to know about the past--to experience it firsthand. Once she's dived the ship, she'll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It's a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.
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NOT Clive Cussler in Space
- De W. S. en 03-18-10
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Death Becomes Her
- The Kurtherian Gambit, Book 1
- De: Michael Anderle
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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What you thought you knew about vampires and werewolves is wrong...so very, very, wrong. A thousand years of effort to keep the Unknown World hidden is unraveling and the Patriarch is tired. He needs to find someone to take over. He finds Bethany Anne.
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Vamp action at its' finest
- De BikeVON en 04-19-17
De: Michael Anderle
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Outriders
- De: Jay Posey
- Narrado por: James Lindgren
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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A daring hostage rescue leads to the discovery of an imminent terrorist attack. Thanks to the Outriders, thousands of lives are saved. Until they aren't. Despite the intelligence and the warnings provided by the unit, the terrorist attack goes off unhindered.
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Couldn't finish it. Narration killed it.
- De JL en 05-31-16
De: Jay Posey
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Starship
- Mutiny
- De: Mike Resnick
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Mike Resnick
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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The date is 1966 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race - but not yet dominated by it - finds itself in an all-out war. They stand against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power. The main battles are taking place in the Spiral Arm and toward the Core. But far out on the Rim, the Theodore Roosevelt is one of three ships charged with protecting the Phoenix Cluster.
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Good Fun
- De Lars en 04-25-08
De: Mike Resnick
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Station Breaker
- Station Breaker Series, Book 1
- De: Andrew Mayne
- Narrado por: Kyle McCarley
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Astronaut David Dixon's first mission to space goes horribly awry when a gunfight breaks out on a Russian space station. He finds himself making an emergency landing from orbit and becomes the most wanted man on Earth. Desperate to unravel the plot he's found himself in, he takes his pursuers on a wild chase from space to the backstreets of Rio and beyond. Dixon's survival relies on his skills as a pilot and willingness to do whatever it takes.
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Good story, but frustrating
- De Fred G en 12-21-17
De: Andrew Mayne
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Independence Day: Crucible
- The Official Movie Prequel
- De: Greg Keyes
- Narrado por: William Hope
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Cities were crushed by the falling spacecraft, but one ship didn't crash. It remained intact and disgorged hordes of alien soldiers determined to fight to the death. The abandoned vessels also contained a wealth of advanced technology. Led by David Levinson, the greatest minds of our world developed deadly new hybrid weapons. Bases were built on the moon, Mars, and beyond. A new generation of defenders had to be trained, for the invaders would return.
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YA Romance
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-06-17
De: Greg Keyes
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Agent to the Stars
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.
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- De C. Paget en 12-28-10
De: John Scalzi
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The Android's Dream
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire.
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Covertly flatulent Scifi at it's best!
- De DAVID en 11-12-11
De: John Scalzi
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 03-15-22
De: John Scalzi
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Old Man's War
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.
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Fun and Witty Military Sci-Fi
- De M. Spencer en 10-21-12
De: John Scalzi
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Little Fuzzy
- De: H. Beam Piper
- Narrado por: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Beam Piper's classic and much-loved science fiction novel Little Fuzzy. Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of the planet Zarathustra. But then a strange intelligent animal walks into his life from out of the forest. The animal that he names 'Little Fuzzy' seems sapient and that threatens the charter of the company that owns the planet. With the company profits threatened, Jack realises that both his life and that of Little Fuzzy are in danger.
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Gotta love the classics
- De Skycaptain1883 en 02-15-19
De: H. Beam Piper
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Starter Villain
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- De C. White en 09-19-23
De: John Scalzi
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Agent to the Stars
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.
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- De C. Paget en 12-28-10
De: John Scalzi
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The Android's Dream
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire.
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Covertly flatulent Scifi at it's best!
- De DAVID en 11-12-11
De: John Scalzi
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 03-15-22
De: John Scalzi
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Old Man's War
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.
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Fun and Witty Military Sci-Fi
- De M. Spencer en 10-21-12
De: John Scalzi
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Little Fuzzy
- De: H. Beam Piper
- Narrado por: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Beam Piper's classic and much-loved science fiction novel Little Fuzzy. Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of the planet Zarathustra. But then a strange intelligent animal walks into his life from out of the forest. The animal that he names 'Little Fuzzy' seems sapient and that threatens the charter of the company that owns the planet. With the company profits threatened, Jack realises that both his life and that of Little Fuzzy are in danger.
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Gotta love the classics
- De Skycaptain1883 en 02-15-19
De: H. Beam Piper
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Starter Villain
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- De C. White en 09-19-23
De: John Scalzi
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Miniatures
- The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Luke Daniels, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
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Small doses of "Scalzian" humor
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 01-05-17
De: John Scalzi
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Lock In (Narrated by Amber Benson)
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Amber Benson
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
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Love Amber's Narration
- De Anthony en 09-11-14
De: John Scalzi
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The Collapsing Empire
- The Interdependency, Book 1
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
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THE STUPIDITIES OF COURT
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-01-17
De: John Scalzi
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The B-Team
- The Human Division, Episode 1
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union’s future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers there’s more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected... a secret that could spell war for humanity.
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Obumwe said, Eagan said, Wilson said, Rickney said
- De A Fitts en 01-18-13
De: John Scalzi
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The God Engines
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this — and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given....
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I love Scalzi's writing but not this book
- De Tony Loman en 11-29-11
De: John Scalzi
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The President's Brain Is Missing
- A Tor.Com Original
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 47 m
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The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?
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Not my cup of tea (Kelly SAID)
- De Kelly A McDermott en 09-15-19
De: John Scalzi
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Slow Time Between the Stars
- The Far Reaches Collection
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Kay Eluvian
- Duración: 56 m
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Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, and—with a perspective created but not limited by humans—what it should do.
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Lovely story! Lovely performance
- De Lisa en 06-28-23
De: John Scalzi
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The Dispatcher
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Zachary Quinto
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
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Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-05-16
De: John Scalzi
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A Very Scalzi Christmas
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Dina Pearlman, Kevin T. Collins, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 59 m
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New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps 15 short takes on the holiday season - interviews with holiday notables, "informational" articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and New Year’s - and puts them all into a stocking stuffer-sized package that makes the perfect gift for friends, family, or yourself.
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Very Scalzian indeed!
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 12-03-19
De: John Scalzi
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Among Others
- De: Jo Walton
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
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Subtle Character Piece
- De Eoin en 09-15-11
De: Jo Walton
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Rip-Off!
- De: John Scalzi, Jack Campbell, Mike Resnick, y otros
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In Rip-Off!, 13 of today’s best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction) - then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.
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When is a rip-off not a rip-off?
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-24-13
De: John Scalzi, y otros
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The Calculating Stars
- A Lady Astronaut Novel
- De: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space and requires a much-larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York’s drive to become the first lady astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.
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Never achieves lift off
- De Richard Bruno en 10-01-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Redshirts
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What Fun!!!`
I cannot fully express how much fun this book is.
I love the fact that Wil Wheaton reads this, and that he sounds like he is impersonating Captin Kirk in his rendition-This makes it even more fun.
It is outlandish and requires a complete suspension of disbelief. And, yes, I enjoyed Star Trek and its spin-offs (with the exception of Deep Space Nine) and there are lots of tongue-in-cheek references to the original series. I found myself smiling regularly as I listened and laughing out loud frequently. I highly recommend this book if you enjoyed Star Trek. Redshirts is a book I will bring out if I am feeling blue or nostalgic and need a dose of laughter.
I am relatively new to Scalzi, but I love his dry humor and ramapant sarcasm. He is a man after my own heart!
Highly recommended by a Trekkie (Ok, I never actually attended a convention so I might only be an honorary Trekkie~)
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- Brandon S. Gillette
- 06-07-12
Hilarious Novel, Three Remarkable Codas
If you could sum up Redshirts in three words, what would they be?
Everyone should listen to this book. (I kinda thought this field would limit me to three words given the prompt, but I guess I beat the system on this one.)
What other book might you compare Redshirts to and why?
Oddly enough, a great companion book to this one is Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions". I found this book something of an uplifting and beautiful answer to the bleakly despondent outcome of "Breakfast of Champions" It's easier just to say listen to both of these excellent examples of literature and the connection between them becomes clear.
Which scene was your favorite?
"It gets worse...I don't think it's a very good show." - Jenkins
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Most of this novel is as described in the plot summary, and is Scalzi doing the things he does best. His characters are sardonic and immediately lovable, his dialog sharp, and the way that he ruthlessly skewers every foible of the television sci-fi formula will leave you chuckling more or less constantly for the first several hours of the book, provided you have ever seen any television sci-fi (star trek included, but they're pretty much all that way). But just when you think the story is done with you and that it was amusing and really fun, the codas take the story to an entirely new and unexpected level, and turn the story from a must-read comedy into an important work of literature. I am sincerely grateful to Scalzi for writing this beautiful work.
I was glad to see WIl Wheaton reading this story, also. He's very good at audio narration and I hope to hear more from him in this field. Also, it's perfectly apropos for a Star Trek cast member to be reading this one.
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- 06-12-12
Excellent despite Will Wheaton's narration
John Scalzi has become one of my favorite authors, and this book is simply a joy. Don't skip the three "Codas" at the end of the novel, as they really are riveting! The novel itself had me laughing and chuckling all the way, but please don't think this is just a comedy. It is a really thoughtful insight into the Sci-Fi genre, Star Trek, TV, and human nature. I loved the character development and thoroughly enjoyed Scalzi's writing.
That having been said, I almost wish that I had read this book rather than having listened to it. I tolerated Wil Wheaton's machine-gun narration in "Fuzzy Nation," but he was even more annoying with this one. They must not have paid him by the hour, judging from the way he seems to rush through everything. And the way he has of reading the "he said" and "she said" elements of each paragraph really got on my nerves. He reads the parts that you try to tune out with as much, if not more, emphasis than the actual dialog. It really made it hard to lose myself in the story. Will Wheaton really doesn't have a bad voice, but his delivery makes me constantly think the characters REALLY needed to go to the bathroom. I know that Will Wheaton and John Scalzi are friends, but I wish Mr. Wheaton would just slow down. HOWEVER, he did do a magnificent job on the three "Codas." Those were not written in the same style and they suited his narration style much better. I actually got a chill down my back at the end of the third Coda!
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- 11-12-12
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Redshirst was fun until the overall plot started becoming evident. The plot is so-so but I more enjoyed how the 'extras' in the story were self aware and knew their existence was bizarre but were going along with it so they did not end up dead. If you watched the original Star Trek, it added a funny perspective. Mid story a group of the characters have to leave the ship in order to survive and at this point I lost interest and I continued listening in the hopes that the story would regain more of its original quirkiness. It didn't. The reader was a good choice for the book.
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- 🔥 Phx17 🔥
- 07-17-20
First 5.5 hrs fun, next 2 hrs not so much
This was my introduction to Scalzi and I have mixed feelings. The first 5.5 hrs was like an over long SNL skit about people who realize they’re just extras in a cosmically wrong universe patterned after a TV show. It was generally entertaining, Irreverently self-aware, and not too horribly meta. The minor downside, as other reviewers warned: he writes with 90% dialogue, better fitted for scripted TV, which makes for a lot of annoying “he said” tics.
Then that story ends and we slog through several hours of post scripts or “codas” as the author puts it. We get a story about a TV show writer that only other writers (or TV geeks that love, love, love getting meta) could love. As I am neither of those, I found it boring.. Then we get a screen rant story about (the author’s) bad road trip (car accident). I didn’t get it. Then we get a weird third person story about the author futzing around with Samantha. I was annoyed and rather pissed at the end- this was not the book I bought... and I loathe false advertising. The codas’ minor upside: the first and second parts are told in first and second person, and are free of the “he said” tic.
I would have been upset to pay a full credit for this book, but the first part was good enough that I may try another Scalzi book... if on sale...or free in another Audible 2 for 1 sale. Final silver lining: this was my first book with Wil Wheaton as narrator (kind of amazing because I love Sci-fi and fantasy, but to be fair, until my eyes started going bad, I was a reader, not a listener). Wheaton was excellent and I may seek out other books that he’s narrated.
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- odin
- 11-12-13
Please Make This A Movie!!!!
I'm so glad I got this. As soon as I started listening, I couldn't stop. It is absolutely hilarious and awesome. The writer does use the word "said" a lot -- A LOT -- but the content of the story is so good it overcomes that weakness.
Wil Wheaton is a good reader, but he needs to work on voicing characters. He does a good job with the content and inflection, and perfectly hits the humor -- he just needs some voices. Wil, if you read this -- please listen to Jonathan Davis read Snow Crash. You could be that good, you just need multiple voices for the different characters.
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- amblingtumble
- 04-03-13
Wheaton & Scalzi Win Again!
The Story:
New crew members happy to be brought aboard a starship, are suddenly alarmed to find out that their away parties continue to come back one or two crew members short and begin to believe there something behind it all.
The title alone should get the faithful Star Trek & Battlestar Galactica crowd on board but non-fans will find just as much to enjoy in this funny fast paced thrill ride. The action scenes are brisk and pull you right into it's well layered trap of a twist. There's a lot to like in this story and at 8 hours it'a hardly a huge commitment and my only caveat is that I didn't get to know the characters enough. Their motivations are clear and their actions true to form but I would have loved more scenes with away missions, misdirection, and incompetence from the bridge crew. The three codas felt tacked on (with the exception of the third one) to fill the space at the end. The first one is funny and entertaining but it's hollow. The balance of the three is interesting but I think the third one would have made the perfect ending.
The Narrator:
His adept perception, great knowledge and deft reading puts him at the top of his game. Will Wheaton comes out swinging for the bleachers and delivers another fantastic read. He gets this material, of course he does, and more so get's Scalzi's writing style, voice and humor. I don't want to imagine anyone else narrating his books, this is my third with this combination and I look forward to the next
The Sum:
A very entertaining, exciting, well read story that I only wish was longer and had a bit more depth.
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- Brian
- 08-12-14
Almost quit listening..
This is a book I almost quit listening to about 1/4 the way throu. The writing and dialogue was terrible and cliche. So bad that I put the book on and went out to mow the lawn knowing that it didn't much matter if I missed something. Then I got it! About a quarter of the way throu it the book changed. The narration got better the dialogue got better (much better). The book isn't just a story about redshirts on a Star Trek like series. Its also a critique on the genre and the writers who follow formula to create stories that don't matter.
Im as follower of scifi. Ill watch just about anything and reading this book points out to me how much TV I've watched that was just a rehash of other stories or how I was setup to care about a character that the writers new was going to bite it an episode or two later. If more fans of scifi read this book I think it would change how we consume this media and in effect make the stories better.
The last quarter of the book has really nothing to do with scifi at all. Its just good story telling and character development. It does a great job of making us care about the characters were reading about. Its also an example of the type of stories we could have if we were better consumers and better writers. If your a fan of scifi I highly recommend this book. It gives you a different perspective on how to look at mass market storytelling.
Wil Wheaton was the perfect choice for the narrator. It took me a while to forget that it was Wi Wheaton reading but when I "got it", when I understood the book I also understood that there was no better person that could have read it.
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- Sue The Shopping Queen
- 01-19-16
So Disappointed
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The inane dialogue, the narration, and the fact that I bought it.
If you’ve listened to books by John Scalzi before, how does this one compare?
This was a major disappointment, John is a talented writer, this book felt off from the beginning as if he struggled to find his voice, he never did
How did the narrator detract from the book?
WIl is a gifted narrator who has a nuanced narration style I like and respect. This reading felt like a forced march to monotony by someone almost angry to be doing the work. I lasted 15 minutes before I turned it off and decided to return the book. All of the voices sounded the same.
Could you see Redshirts being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
Didn't get far enough to care.
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I will read more Scalzi and listen to more Wheaton. This book is clearly a disastrous anomaly from two very talented people.
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- Diana
- 11-30-16
Clever, has an intricate plot and sly humor
Very enjoyable way to be entertained with a sci-fi story with a current culture / television programming twist.
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