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The Number of the Beast
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne, Emily Durante, Malcolm Hillgartner, Sean Runnette, Richard Powers, Tom Weiner
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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The wickedest, most wonderful science-fiction story ever created in our - or any - time. Anything can begin at a party in California - and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction.
When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans - two male, two female - find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, ecstasy, and peril.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was the dominant science-fiction writer of the modern era, a writer whose influence on the field was immense. He won science fiction's Hugo Award for best novel four times.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“One of the grand masters of science fiction.” (Wall Street Journal)
“The most influential science fiction writer of all time!” (Locus)
“[A story] about two men and two women in a time-machine safari through this and other universes. But describing The Number of the Beast thus is like saying Moby-Dick is about a one-legged guy trying to catch a fish.” (National Review)
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- De Sandy R en 06-28-10
De: Frederik Pohl
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Alas, Babylon
- De: Pat Frank
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - “Alas, Babylon.” When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness....
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One apocalypse--hold the zombies
- De Lesley en 01-07-14
De: Pat Frank
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A Hymn Before Battle
- Legacy of the Aldenata
- De: John Ringo
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans - for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!
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Another heads up!
- De Dr. Daniel Chapman en 06-12-14
De: John Ringo
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Marsbound
- De: Joe Haldeman
- Narrado por: Liza Kaplan
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime - they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against.
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- De Wes Parker en 03-19-09
De: Joe Haldeman
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The Unsung Hero
- Troubleshooters, Book 1
- De: Suzanne Brockmann
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor, Melanie Ewbank
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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After a near-fatal head injury, Navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the Navy dismisses the sighting as injury-induced imaginings. In a last-ditch effort to prevent disaster, Tom creates his own makeshift counterterrorism team, assembling his most loyal officers, two elderly war veterans, a couple of misfit teenagers, and Dr. Kelly Ashton.
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- De Kindle Customer (VH) en 06-21-16
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The Deep Blue Good-By
- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 1
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h
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He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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Weekend Warriors
- Sisterhood, Book 1
- De: Fern Michaels
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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Weekend Warriors
- De Ms Mare en 04-04-09
De: Fern Michaels
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Killed at the Whim of a Hat
- De: Colin Cotterill
- Narrado por: Jeany Park
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family. When she is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she’s convinced her career—maybe her life—is over. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies is inexplicably unearthed in a local farmer’s field, Jimm is thrilled. Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered.
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delighted...
- De Bobbie en 08-23-11
De: Colin Cotterill
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The Goliath Stone
- De: Larry Niven, Matthew Joseph Harrington
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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Doctor Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with the use of nanotechnology. But Glyer’s controversial nanites are more than just the latest technological advance, they are a new form of life - and they have more uses than just medical. Glyer’s nanites also have the potential to make everyone on Earth rich from the wealth of asteroids.
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Boring, unbelievable nano junk!
- De GH en 06-27-13
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Family Law
- Family Law Series, Book 1
- De: Mackey Chandler
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
- Duración: 17 h y 27 m
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People love easily. Look at most of your relatives or coworkers. How lovable are they? Really? Yet most have mates and children. The vast majority are still invited to family gatherings and their relatives will speak to them. Many have pets to which they are devoted. Some even call them their fur-babies. Is your dog or cat or parakeet property or family? Not in law but in your heart? Can a pet really love you back? Or is it a different affection? Are you not kind to those who feed and shelter you? But what if your dog could talk back? Would your cat speak to you kindly?
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Excellent story and very probable
- De Jack Daniels en 08-12-18
De: Mackey Chandler
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The Philosopher's Flight
- A Novel
- De: Tom Miller
- Narrado por: Gibson Frazier
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy - an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. Though he dreams of fighting in the Great War as the first male in the elite US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Service - a team of flying medics - Robert is resigned to mixing batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the books for the family business in rural Montana, where his mother, a former soldier and vigilante, aids the locals.
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Brilliant multi layered story
- De Kent Lanigan en 02-21-18
De: Tom Miller
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I Will Fear No Evil
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 18 h y 49 m
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As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.
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Disappointing Heinlein
- De Randall en 03-02-12
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Methuselah's Children
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality…
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A delight to revisit a science fiction classic
- De Anne en 02-16-13
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The Cat Who Walks through Walls
- De: Robert Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions where Lazarus Long still thrives, where Jubal Harshaw lives surrounded by beautiful women, and where a daring plot to rescue the sentient computer called Mike can change the direction of all human history.
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- De Klipper421 en 10-05-12
De: Robert Heinlein
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To Sail Beyond the Sunset
- The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to fans of the New York Times best seller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead.
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Don't Dilly Dally, Dolly
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-17-14
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Sixth Column
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion, and the United States has fallen to a dictatorial superpower bent on total domination. That power is consolidating its grip through concentration camps, police state tactics, and a total monopoly upon the very thoughts of the conquered populace. A tiny enclave of scientists and soldiers survives, unbeknownst to America’s new rulers. It’s six against six million - but those six happen to include a scientific genius, a master of subterfuge and disguise who learned his trade as a lawyer-turned-hobo, and a tough-minded commander....
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The Yellow Peril as it was
- De Thomas Martin en 04-16-12
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Job
- A Comedy of Justice
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist Minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same. Now called Alec Graham, he was in the middle of an affair with his stewardess, Margrethe, and natural disasters kept following them. First, there was an impossible iceberg that wrecked the ship in the tropics; then, after being rescued by a Royal Mexican plane, they were hit by a double earthquake. To Alex, the signs were clear that Armageddon and the Day of Judgment were near.
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OK, So I Get The Joke Already...
- De Vincent Tume en 07-22-09
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I Will Fear No Evil
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 18 h y 49 m
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As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.
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Disappointing Heinlein
- De Randall en 03-02-12
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Methuselah's Children
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality…
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A delight to revisit a science fiction classic
- De Anne en 02-16-13
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The Cat Who Walks through Walls
- De: Robert Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions where Lazarus Long still thrives, where Jubal Harshaw lives surrounded by beautiful women, and where a daring plot to rescue the sentient computer called Mike can change the direction of all human history.
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- De Klipper421 en 10-05-12
De: Robert Heinlein
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To Sail Beyond the Sunset
- The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to fans of the New York Times best seller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead.
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Don't Dilly Dally, Dolly
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-17-14
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Sixth Column
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion, and the United States has fallen to a dictatorial superpower bent on total domination. That power is consolidating its grip through concentration camps, police state tactics, and a total monopoly upon the very thoughts of the conquered populace. A tiny enclave of scientists and soldiers survives, unbeknownst to America’s new rulers. It’s six against six million - but those six happen to include a scientific genius, a master of subterfuge and disguise who learned his trade as a lawyer-turned-hobo, and a tough-minded commander....
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The Yellow Peril as it was
- De Thomas Martin en 04-16-12
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Job
- A Comedy of Justice
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist Minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same. Now called Alec Graham, he was in the middle of an affair with his stewardess, Margrethe, and natural disasters kept following them. First, there was an impossible iceberg that wrecked the ship in the tropics; then, after being rescued by a Royal Mexican plane, they were hit by a double earthquake. To Alex, the signs were clear that Armageddon and the Day of Judgment were near.
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OK, So I Get The Joke Already...
- De Vincent Tume en 07-22-09
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The Man Who Sold the Moon
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Buck Schirner
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Today the moon - tomorrow the stars. The Man Who Sold the Moon: A landmark volume in Heinlein’s magnificent Future History series. D. D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of Space for All Mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the stars....
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- De Chris en 03-30-17
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The Pursuit of the Pankera
- A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin, Jennifer Jill Araya, Richard Ferrone, y otros
- Duración: 21 h y 40 m
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Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda, and Jake are ambushed by the alien "Black Hats" and barely escape with their lives on a specially configured vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) which can travel along various planes of existence, allowing them to visit parallel universes. However, unknown to most fans, Heinlein had already written a "parallel" novel about the four characters and parallel universes in 1977.
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- De Arthur W. Smart en 06-21-20
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Time Enough for Love
- The Lives of Lazarus Long
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 23 h y 30 m
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Time Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History series. Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries, his love for time ultimately causing him to become his own ancestor. Time Enough for Loveis his lovingly detailed account of his journey through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Using the voice of Lazarus, Heinlein expounds his own philosophies, including his radical ideas on sexual freedom.
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- De Candis en 08-27-16
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Revolt in 2100
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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After the fall of the American Ayatollahs (as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land) there is a Second American Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a land with Liberty and Justice for All.
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Heinlein's Future History
- De ShySusan en 05-30-12
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Time for the Stars
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. There’s a problem though—because the spaceships are slower than light, any communication between the exploring ships and Earth would take years.
Tom and Pat are identical twin teenagers. As twins they’ve always been close, so close that it seemed like they could read each other’s minds.
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My First Heinlein
- De DJM en 01-27-11
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Starman Jones
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Max Jones, a practical, hard-working young man, found his escape in his beloved astronomy books. When reality comes crashing in and his troubled home life forces him out on the road, Max finds himself adrift in a downtrodden land - until an unexpected, ultimate adventure carries him away as a stowaway aboard an intergalactic spaceship.
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A typical Heinlein Juvenile
- De Got My Book en 08-22-08
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The Door into Summer
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach, but then Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the "long sleep": suspended animation for 30 years.
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- De Greg en 04-05-09
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Citizen of the Galaxy
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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In a distant galaxy of colonized planets, the atrocity of slavery is alive and well. Young Thorby was just another bedraggled orphan boy sold at auction, but his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be. Adopting Thorby as his son, Baslim fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must find his own way in a hostile galaxy. Joining with the Free Traders, a league of merchant princes, Thorby must find the courage to live by his wits and fight his way up from society's lowest rung.
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Good nostalgia; pretty good YA sci-fi
- De Mark en 06-18-18
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Friday
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Friday, a secret courier, is thrown into an assignment under the command of her employer, a man she knows only as "Boss." She operates from and over a near-future Earth in North America, a vulgar and chaotic land comprised of dozens of independent states. In America's disunion, Friday keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions as she conquers one calamity and scrape after another.
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Almost A Perfect, This Time.
- De Dave Worley en 12-02-08
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Expanded Universe, Vol. 1
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Robert A. Heinlein has been hailed as one of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of all time, and Expanded Universe (presented in two volumes) offers the perfect collection of his works to provide listeners with true insights into his uniquely creative mind.
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Old friends spoiled by poor narration
- De Gary en 06-07-21
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Double Star
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he’s shanghaied to Mars. Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war.
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Hugo Award Well Deserved. A+
- De Margaret Pierce en 07-27-20
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The Puppet Masters
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery
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- De Jon en 04-25-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Number of the Beast
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- Holdfast
- 05-05-15
Well worth the re-read!
This fits in well with Heinleins other later works. I first read it a long time ago, possibly when it came out.
It is the story of four or five people. They are all very clever but also impressively individualistic (selfish) and have some rather bizarre personal politics .
On fact, all of Heinleins books show his politics to be right wing and libertarian, in the US usage of the term.
As a child, I never noticed the politics of this excellent story and would recommend it.
You might benefit from having read some of his earlier books first though.
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- Debra M. Miller
- 05-02-15
Would have been 5🌟in Performance as well...
But those aren't the voices I hear when I read it. Heinlein is minimally dated, until you realize his historical records of the future are from a different universe.
Great fun.
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- Craig
- 02-24-14
Wonderful voice actors until the last chapter
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
As long as you DO NOT LISTEN to the last chapter, you'll be very happy.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Hilda--a true force of nature, funny, sexy, smart, and fierce.
Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators’s performances?
For the four main characters, yes. For the creature that voiced Jubal Harshaw, not in a million years. It will takes years of therapy to undo the damage that man did to my brain. He made Jubal Harshaw sound like Frank Zappa's Thing-Fish.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Print: The final chapter is the only sore spot for me. The book is quite wonderful, and the World as Myth concept is highly engaging.
Audio: Loved the 4 main characters. The second I heard the voice for Jubal, I wanted to hit my iPhone with a brick until it stopped making that horrible noise. I cannot describe how utterly AWFUL and ridiculous he sounded.
Any additional comments?
The voice actor for Jubal--Tom Weiner?--should be forever banned for this performance.
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- Ross Bradley
- 12-23-14
Very interesting ideas, but hard to finish.
The story started off interesting, and the idea of multiple universes in this context was unique. That aspect of the story was very enjoyable, however, the end of part three and all of part four have no drama. The story devolves into a polygamous sex orgy that I did not find either enjoyable or purposeful. It is nice that the multiple different stories of Heinlein are merged in this story, but nothing meaningful or resolute comes from it, other than that they are all now husbands and wives in the Long family and have lots of sex with each other.
The several different narrators gives the audio performance a nice touch, and it keeps things interesting until the latter part of part three and into part four. At that point, only a change in the story could save things. The Cat That Walks Through Walls makes more sense now though, which is nice. I'm a fan of Heinlein, but this book just didn't do much for me.
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- jchafin
- 04-16-24
Too many narrators reading this book
I remember reading this as a kid and I was looking forward to listening to the audiobook.
My biggest issue was the multiple narrators. An interesting idea but poor execution. The idea is to have a different narrator for each character POV section, I guess so each character would have their own voice. The problem is that each character ends up having multiple voices. When Zeb is the POV all characters have voices created by the narrator of that section, when it is Hilda's POV section is read by a different female narrator all characters have a voice created by that narrator and so on.
It would have been better to have each character POV narrator be the voice for that characters dialogue throughout the book. What we ended up with is a hodgepodge of multiple narrators reading each characters dialogue differently.
Very confusing. Not sure I will finish or if I even recommend this narration. Maybe they will try and do it over but probably not.
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- Dan Burtt
- 08-12-24
Better be a fan
Clever ideas that would have been more fun if I were more familiar with the author.
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- big_jim_ok
- 10-12-15
Don't start here...
The performance is interesting, with the round-robin of narrators reading the chapters as told from the various characters' points of view, and the narrators do very good jobs, but it's ultimately Heinlein himself who lets us down. The concept of the story is good, but the story itself is just a hot mess. Jerry Pournelle once said that Heinlein's biggest problem was that he became too big to edit, and this story is proof of that statement.
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- The Kindler
- 12-02-17
What is really Real?
This isn't the most thought provoking Heinlein book but the concept of interdemensional traveling is fun. It begs the question of what is real? is everything real and fleshed out or just a figment of our collective imagination. Beautifully told if a little wordy at times. Some parts do last longer than enjoyable but over a solid place in the Heinlein canon especially with some of his other stories and how they connect.
My only real gripe was the number of narrators. It was hard to follow who was talking when they each added their own flair to each character and made it hard to connect then at times.
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- Leonidas Karr
- 10-20-19
It didn't age well.
I read this book almost 40 years ago in my teens. Now, it seems completely vain and vacuous. I guess you really can't go home again. As for the narrators, they do not complement each other well. Some are acceptable but most lack any talent whatsoever.
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- David
- 02-12-14
Confusing Reading Style
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes. Interesting Idea of the universe are put forward. But let down by it's presentation
What did you like best about this story?
The idea of "free" time space travel, and what could be out there.
Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators’s performances?
Which narrator! This is my big problem with this book there are many narrators and they change each chapter. This makes it very hard to follow who is who, as the whole reading style changes. The narrators ranged from very good to comical. Over all the male narrators did a better job than the female ones, as the women speaking as males were not as believable.BTW is this question even grammatically correct? "narrators' performances". Sorry just a question, I've always had problems with genitive in english
Was The Number of the Beast worth the listening time?
For this recording, Listening time NO.But I would attempt it again with a single male narrator. Or just pick up the book and read it myself.
And I know now to stick to early Heinlein work.
Any additional comments?
The story read as if it was out of the 50s or 60s. it's really hard to believe it was written and published around 1980. There is a lot of "our dear husbands", and "now were married". Then later in the book the story drops into FKK, wife swapping and finally into incest. I personally think this is not Heinlein at his best (or anywhere close to it). However I really like the basic premise of mathematics bridging worlds and times and imagination.
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