The Expert System's Brother

De: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrado por: Shaun Grindell

Duración: 4 h y 2 m

Resumen del Editor

Best-selling British master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky brings listeners a new, mind-expanding science fantasia in The Expert System's Brother.

After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching for meaning. He soon discovers that the life he thought he knew is far stranger than he could even possibly imagine.

Can an unlikely savior provide the answers to the questions he barely comprehends?

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This is excellent sci-fi.

This book was very unique in the sci-fi world. I listen to a lot of sci-fi and I thought this book was great. Narration was great, I was immersed in the story and fascinated the whole time. I highly recommend it.

Still AT

Mr TChaikovsky just keeps coming up with new stories. There were shades of Koli by MR Carey but only shades. Still original. I got used to the narrator.

monotone narrator

barely able to listen to this boring narrator. I had to listen several times to understand what was going on.

Short and sweet - and very good!

I really enjoyed this one. It is short - only about 4 hours. Hopefully there are more to come.

Unexpected brevity, told with gravitas

I approached this book cautiously. This is the third book I've read by Tchaikovsky— the others being Children of Time, and Children of Ruin— but the first outside the Children universe. At 4 hours long, it seemed rather short by comparison. Still, the author is masterful and I couldn't resist.

The Expert System's Brother asks you to shift your perspective from the very beginning and try to envision a world wholly different from our own, and primitive, yet peppered with enough signs of humanity's zenith that a vague sense of dread constantly tugs at the bag of your neck: what happened the the familiar human race?

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys epic adventures, Sci-Fi or otherwise. The grandeur of the world and the epic story behind its tenuous balance are enthralling. The author's perspective on belonging, purpose, knowledge and inheritance are unique, and add up to another great work from a master of science fiction.

Thought provoking

At first I was confused. Were these creatures human or not. It took a while and some perseverance to get to a ripping good yarn.

Good tale, Wish it hadn't been a Volume 1

Accidental outcast slowly learns the world he lives on is not his own. What his culture views as exile is in reality a horrific death sentence. I was never entirely sure they realize that. The main character is a teen, and the combination of his inexperience and the level of cultivated ignorance in this static society is that left me waiting a long time to see if or when he would find out what we quickly deduce. I was afraid the story wouldn't get quite far enough, but it doesn't do that.

Very monotone narrator

I don't know if he was trying to do something intentional with it, but man this narrator ends each and every one of his sentences with the exact same inflection. "Surely," I thought to myself, "Surely he is just getting used to it, if I skip ahead a bit it'll be better" Nope, moved to chapter seven, more than halfway through the book and it is the exact same inflection. I couldn't get past it.

Narration is bizarre

Cool story but really difficult to get through the halting delivery and repetitive inflection of the narration. Listen to a sample first before buying.

not his strongest, but solid

felt short. had time to flesh out a couple characters and a bit of the world, but I didn't have much empathy for anyone or care much about the relationships. I didn't feel engaged with the biplogical life of thia world, but the core science fiction was interesting.