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Narrated by:
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Sena Bryer
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By:
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Emily Tesh
About this listen
Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023
Hugo Award Nominee
Long-listed, Goodreads Choice Awards, 2023
Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2023
"Sena Bryer delivers a cinematic performance of Tesh's exhilarating space opera. Bryer's full-bodied characterizations—gruff Mags, Kyr's quietly rage-filled squadmates, and a sweetly naïve but powerful alien named Yiso—are so skilled that listeners may wonder if this is a full-cast production. Complete with time slips, a reality-warping artificial intelligence, and epic world-building, this is a gripping, can't-miss listen."—AudioFile
A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner and Crawford Award Finalist Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."—Tamsyn Muir
With three starred reviews!
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.
They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,860
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,573
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,564
After decades hunting wanted offworlders throughout the solar system, Corporate Bounty Hunter Malcolm Graves doesn't bother asking questions. So long as the pay is right, he's the man for the job. And he always works alone. But when a high-profile bombing on Earth has Pervenio Corp clamoring for answers, they force him to team up with a strange, cyber-augmented partner. A young man more interested in statistics than instinct. Their assignment: Track down a suspected group of extremists from Titan who will go to any length to free their moon from the grip of Earth's corporations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Mystery Sci-fi
- By Anonymous User on 02-08-19
By: Rhett C. Bruno
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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark
- By: Lou Anders, Tom Angleberger, Preeti Chhibber, and others
- Narrated by: Catherine Taber, James Arnold Taylor, Corey Burton, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 777
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 690
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 690
An epic clash between the forces of light and dark, between the Galactic Republic and the Separatists, between brave heroes and brilliant villains, the fate of the galaxy is at stake in the Emmy Award-winning animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In this exciting anthology, 11 authors who are also fans of the series bring stories from their favorite show to life. Gathered here are memorable moments and stunning adventures, from attempted assassinations to stolen bounties, from lessons learned to loves lost.
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3 out of 5 stars
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All stories are episodes of animanted clone wars
- By Anonymous User on 08-26-20
By: Lou Anders, and others
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Embers of War
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- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,315
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,209
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,204
From BSFA award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war. The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator has an annoying cadence
- By Anonymous User on 09-20-20
By: Gareth L. Powell
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Deliverance
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- By: M.R. Forbes
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,716
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,703
Caleb is a former Marine Raider and commander of the Vultures, a search and rescue team that's spent the last two years pulling high-value targets out of alien-ravaged cities and shipping them off-world. When his new orders call for him to join 40,000 survivors aboard the last starship out, he thinks his days of fighting are over. The Deliverance represents a fresh start and a chance to leave the war behind for good. Except the war won't be as easy to escape as he thought.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good attempt but poor execution
- By JM2020 on 06-24-19
By: M.R. Forbes
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 162
Earth’s first colony ship finally reaches the target world. The excitement of planetfall is indescribable, but quickly transforms into sick disappointment when they find the atmosphere is a roiling mass of hydrochloric acid, carbon dioxide, and other deadly poisons. They fly onward, seeking better planets. They find them, but none are ideal. The search goes on for a century, then longer still. As they move farther from Earth, aliens discover the intruding ship, and they begin to investigate humanity. They find our species unacceptable.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Uggggh
- By Anonymous User on 09-20-19
By: Wayne Wightman, and others
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- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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When a mine owner thinks that he's above the law and continues to utilize slave labor to keep his mines running, Barnabas, a former Ranger One, must fight for justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If I could I would give 10 stars..
- By Trish R. on 08-05-21
By: Michael Anderle, and others
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Empire of Silence
- Sun Eater, Book 1
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 26 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,520
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,265
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,260
The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Slow start at best....then the story tapers off
- By paul nordquist on 08-21-19
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The Gordian Protocol
- The Gordian Protocol, Book 1
- By: David Weber, Jacob Holo
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Story4 out of 5 stars 233
Doctor Benjamin Schröder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher - chairman of the Castle Rock University history department - and if his life wasn't perfect, it was close. Until, that is the discussion of his star student Elzbietá Abramowski's dissertation on Operation Oz, the Pacific Allies' invasion of Vladivostok, was brutally interrupted. The psychotic episode that turned his entire world upside down struck with absolutely no warning, and it was more terrifying than anything he should have been able to imagine.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Trash
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By: David Weber, and others
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Warden
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- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story5 out of 5 stars 30
When Barnabas discovers one of the biggest players in his sector, he vows to bring them down. But can he handle an entire fleet bearing down on him?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great series..
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By: Natalie Grey, and others
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Crashing Heaven
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- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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A diamond-hard, visionary new SF thriller. Nailed-down cyberpunk ala William Gibson for the 21st century meets the vivid dark futures of Al Reynolds in this extraordinary debut novel. With Earth abandoned, humanity resides on Station, an industrialised asteroid run by the sentient corporations of the Pantheon. Under their leadership a war has been raging against the Totality - ex-Pantheon AIs gone rogue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AIs as a rogue nation
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By: Al Robertson
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Ink and Bone
- The Great Library
- By: Rachel Caine
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,067
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,836
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,830
Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly - but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden. Jess Brightwell believes in the value of the library, but the majority of his knowledge comes from illegal books obtained by his family, who are involved in the thriving black market.
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3 out of 5 stars
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don't give up too soon.
- By Janel on 09-11-15
By: Rachel Caine
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Winter's Rising
- Dystance, Book 1
- By: Mark Tufo
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 831
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 786
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 780
From birth to death, The War is all the citizens of Dystance know. As children it is drilled into their heads that war is the purpose behind all existence. Winter doesn't agree. She's stumbled across remnants of life the way it was before The War began, and now she longs to be as free as her ancestors. With help from her best friend Cedar and the boy she is forbidden to love, Tallow. She believes she can do it. Winter can see a life beyond the Pickets, beyond the constant hunger and the threat of death, beyond the war machine.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable, melodramatic romance.
- By Anonymous User on 03-28-19
By: Mark Tufo
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Inception
- A Near Future Thriller
- By: Jonathan Yanez
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 396
My history is unknown. My present is violent. My future may be more dangerous still. I use my unique skillset in one of the Moon’s many watering holes. Here, miners can spend their hard-earned money to forget that they’re not among the wealthy elite in the paradise colony on Mars. When a known crime boss walks in, events will begin to unfold hinting at a dark past and an even murkier future.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hunh?
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-19
By: Jonathan Yanez
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Interstellar Caveman
- Interstellar Caveman, Book 1
- By: Karl Beecher
- Narrated by: Steve West
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4 out of 5 stars 168
You think you’re struggling to find your place in the universe? Consider poor old Colin Douglass, a terminally ill insurance agent who awakens from centuries in cryogenic freeze to find Earth is a devastated wasteland. Now, he’s being pursued by a homicidal interstellar tourist board, and calculating insurance dividends is as outdated as making stone axes. Sci-fi-hating technophobe Colin seeks a cure for his illness in this strange new galaxy where toilets talk back, and door handles are a long-forgotten relic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hairy knees won't stop Colin!
- By Willis Burns on 11-19-19
By: Karl Beecher
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Nightchaser
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- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 164
Captain Tess Bailey is in deep trouble. She and her crew are on the run, pursued by a tyrant who'll take them dead or alive. Tess's best hope is a tall, dark, and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan, who says he can help her. But his motivations are far from clear. With the dreaded Dark Watch closing in, what Tess and Shade don't know about each other might get them killed, unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other before it's too late.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed review
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-19
By: Amanda Bouchet
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The Age of Ra
- Pantheon, Book 1
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrated by: Andy Cresswell
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Fun but trite
- By Anonymous User on 02-10-21
By: James Lovegrove
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Guardians of the Galaxy
- Collect Them All
- By: Corinne Duyvis, Marvel
- Narrated by: Scott McCormick, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
When the Guardians attempt to evacuate a Kree prison planet and end up in a fight for their lives - what else is new? - they discover their old pal Groot is stretched a little thin. Someone is planting stolen branches of the monosyllabic hero and selling the saplings across the galaxy! The search to find Groot's missing pieces forces the Guardians into an alliance with the unscrupulous Collector, but the real problem is more complicated than he wants them to believe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Same old same old
- By B. Williams on 06-14-21
By: Corinne Duyvis, and others
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The Morcai Battalion
- By: Diana Palmer
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
A ragtag band of humans from the Terravegan colonies fights the Rojok invaders and their ship is destroyed. Rescued by the Centaurian commander of the terror-inspiring Holconcom, the humans must learn to live with their hostile alien counterparts when they are captured by the Rojoks and thrown into the galaxy's most horrible prison camp. The female exobiologist has to save the life of the alien commander in order to save her captain, her comrades, and herself. This is a rocket ride full of action, humor, and sacrifice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pleasantly Surprised
- By Anonymous User on 01-23-08
By: Diana Palmer
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Stupendous Delivery
- By Anonymous User on 07-14-23
By: Kritika H. Rao
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The Calculating Stars
- A Lady Astronaut Novel
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,524
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,097
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Never achieves lift off
- By Anonymous User on 10-01-18
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The Spare Man
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 640
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Story4 out of 5 stars 550
Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic mystery, forward worldbuilding
- By Anonymous User on 10-16-22
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The Water Outlaws
- By: S. L. Huang
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. But then a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully built life away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good listen!
- By Kristi Bach on 10-19-23
By: S. L. Huang
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Light from Uncommon Stars
- By: Ryka Aoki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 896
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 894
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: To escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awesome with a few hitches.
- By Levi Fay on 10-01-21
By: Ryka Aoki
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The Mars House
- A Novel
- By: Natasha Pulley
- Narrated by: Daniel de Bourg
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January’s life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger—a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January’s job choices, housing, and even transportation are dictated by this second-class status, and now a xenophobic politician named Aubrey Gale is running on a platform that would make it all worse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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there is no cliffhanger ending
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-24
By: Natasha Pulley
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Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
- By: Wole Talabi
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Shigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers of his few remaining believers to maintain his existence long enough to find his next drink. When he meets Nneoma, a sort-of succubus with a long and secretive past, everything changes for him. Together, they attempt to break free of his obligations and the restrictions that have bound him to his godhood and navigate the parameters of their new relationship in the shadow of her past. But the elder gods that run the Orisha spirit company have other plans for Shigidi.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting fictionalized African spiritual
- By Anonymous User on 12-29-23
By: Wole Talabi
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
- By: Malka Older
- Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity’s exodus from Earth. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.
By: Malka Older
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Linghun
- By: Ai Jiang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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From acclaimed author Ai Jiang, follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. to the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick population that refuses to let go. This edition includes a foreword by Yi Izzy Yu, Translator of The Shadow Book of Ji Yun, the essay "A Ramble on Di Fu Ling & Death" by the author, and two bonus short stories from Jiang: "Yǒngshí" and "Teeter Totter."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memories of home
- By Anonymous User on 10-05-24
By: Ai Jiang
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- Eran Hadad
- 04-25-23
Wow!
Sooo many emotions! loved it. the first few chapters were slow but it pays off!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-28-23
Main character
I’ve never had a main character piss me off as much as the one in this book… gawddaamn she’s hard headed
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- Erika Yochum
- 03-10-24
Epic!
I was captivated from the start. The narration was perfect. I wanted to be in the world Tesh magically created
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- L. M. Harvey
- 05-05-23
Great listen
Thought it seemed like a YA coming of age where the first protagonist’s lesson was too obvious and likely to follow the same old path but ended up going deeper and all the characters had nice arches. Great narration.
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- Rich L
- 10-05-23
Not bad, not great
As mentioned in other reviews the narrator was excellent. Story, not so much. It kept my attention and I don’t regret spending the credit. Is it anywhere near the top 10 of my sci-fi reads? Hardly
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- Ethosian
- 12-16-23
Annoying narration, story wasn't really for me
The biggest problem for me was the narrator, who often pauses between each clause, drawing things out way too long. On the other hand, I've rarely heard a narrator who is as good at differentiating voices so it's easy to tell who is talking.
The story wasn't really for me, kind of a Handmaid's Tale meets gay romance parallel universes drama. It seemed to me that the protagonist seemed too negative and surly to actually like.
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- D Smith
- 01-31-24
Outstanding!
Great, novel story with a really relatable main character. I loved that I couldn’t predict what would happen, and there was a subtle morality that also I appreciated.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-24
A Riveting Masterpiece. Brava, Emily Tesh
A Riveting Masterpiece: ‘Some Desperate Glory’ by Emily Tesh
“Some Desperate Glory” by Emily Tesh is, by far, one of the most original, insightful, and engaging books I have read in a long time. It ranks right up there with the works of Ann Leckie and Tamsyn Muir. Tesh has crafted a narrative that holds up a mirror to our own mindsets, revealing the flaws in our unexamined beliefs.
Throughout the story, I experienced profound cognitive dissonance alongside the main character. Each section of the book surpassed the last in depth and intrigue. The portrayal of a woman so disconnected from her feelings due to lifelong indoctrination is both powerful and poignant. Confronted with reality—or rather, realities—she is forced to question everything she has been taught.
I am eager for all my friends to read this book so that we can unpack and discuss the numerous nuances together. It has been a long time since a book has engaged and intrigued me to this extent. Well done, Emily Tesh!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-24
Exciting and thought provoking
Complicated characters in difficult situations. Believable science fiction with real relationships. I will listen to this audiobook a few times to catch everything it has to offer.
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- KBaum
- 09-18-24
Complex and engaging.
Incredibly compelling voice acting of a main character who truly changes over the course of the novel. The story is viscerally real even when it makes you question the nature of reality and humanity.
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