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It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. When he awakens, Carver works to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a web of conspiracy that spans the nation.
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Can’t believe there aren’t more reviews
- De Emily McDonald en 01-24-18
De: Jonathan Moore
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Manhattans and Murder
- The Murder, She Wrote Mysteries, Book 2
- De: Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain
- Narrado por: Beth Porter
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Promoting her latest books brings best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher to New York for Christmas. Her schedule includes book signings, chat-show appearances, department store shopping...and murder. But it all begins with a sidewalk Santa staring at Jessica with fear and recognition.
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- De Dorise en 02-01-19
De: Jessica Fletcher, y otros
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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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The Intercept
- A Jeremy Fisk Novel, Book 1
- De: Dick Wolf
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Days before the July Fourth holiday and the dedication of One World Trade Center at Ground Zero, an incident aboard a commercial jet flying over the Atlantic Ocean reminds everyone that vigilance is not a task to be taken lightly. But for iconoclastic NYPD detective Jeremy Fisk, it may also be a signal that there is much more to this case than the easy answer of this being just the work of another lone terrorist. Fisk suspects that the event might also be a warning sign that another scheme has been set in motion.
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Page turner
- De Katherine en 12-31-12
De: Dick Wolf
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Shadow and Light
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Rabb
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade.
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Masterful
- De Buzz en 03-25-11
De: Jonathan Rabb
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The Gem Thief
- De: Sian Ann Bessey
- Narrado por: Aubrey Warner
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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As jewelry designer for one of the most prestigious jewelers in the world, Gracie Miller completed a particularly stunning piece: a custom setting for a large diamond. But when her billionaire client Mrs. Katsaros comes to have a minor issue with the setting repaired, Gracie is horrified to realize it is not the ring she created. Someone has forged her design, and the priceless diamond is gone. Mrs. Katsaros has no desire to bring media attention to the jewelry heist, so she recruits her nephew, Quinn, and his FBI agent friend, Steve, to do some sleuthing off the record.
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Good story, worth a listen.
- De V. Fortner en 08-01-21
De: Sian Ann Bessey
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- De: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, y otros
- Narrado por: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
- De Sean en 03-05-16
De: Cory Doctorow, y otros
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Gutshot Straight
- De: Lou Berney
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he's got only two problems: he's too nice a guy for the life he's led and not nice enough for any other. So he says yes when he's asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable pakhan of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles.
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A whole lotta fun.
- De Richard Delman en 04-12-12
De: Lou Berney
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The Name of the Star
- Shades of London, Book 1
- De: Maureen Johnson
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it’s the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city - gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific work of Jack the Ripper in the autumn of 1888. Soon “Rippermania” takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect.
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Paranormal Ripper-Related YA
- De Amy en 08-05-14
De: Maureen Johnson
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Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
- De: Vendela Vida
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a stand-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, and soon she's inhabiting the actress' skin off-set, too - going deeper into the Casablancan night and further from herself. And so continues a strange and breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further and further away from the person she once was.
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Moving On
- De KP en 07-17-15
De: Vendela Vida
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Dating Dead Men
- De: Harley Jane Kozak
- Narrado por: Deanna Hurst
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating 40 men in 60 days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado - a state-run mental hospital - and is taken hostage by a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the Mob.
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Another Stephanie Plum
- De Don en 08-30-12
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Short Squeeze
- De: Chris Knopf
- Narrado por: Deanna Hurst
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Meet smart-aleck Southampton attorney Jackie Swaitkowski. Her business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that she finds herself working on something bigger, and more dangerous, than real estate.
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Great Listen - Good Series
- De Patricia en 02-15-10
De: Chris Knopf
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Idoru
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful - to certain people. Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo,Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo,Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the idoru - the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo.
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The narrator made me turn this off in 10 seconds
- De Rob en 12-02-18
De: William Gibson
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Distrust That Particular Flavor
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary best sellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly 30 years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture.
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- De anonymous en 10-24-22
De: William Gibson
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The Difference Engine
- De: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.
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Starts strong, falls off
- De Delano en 04-22-13
De: William Gibson, y otros
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The Peripheral
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do - a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her.
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Worst Narration Ever
- De Tristan G R Wall en 05-29-15
De: William Gibson
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Archangel
- De: William Gibson, Michael St. John Smith
- Narrado por: Josh Hurley, Victor Bevine, Elizabeth Jasicki, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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The year is 2016. Not our 2016. Theirs. Earth is dying, the result of a worldwide nuclear holocaust caused by America’s dictatorial President-for-Life Lewis Henderson, a man who will use any means necessary to maintain power and survive. Enter: The Splitter. A machine capable of splitting off an exact replica of Henderson’s world. A world where the cataclysmic events causing its destruction have yet to occur. That world is ours.
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- De Colin Turner en 08-16-18
De: William Gibson, y otros
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Burning Chrome
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Dennis Holland, Kevin Pariseau, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of the most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.
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- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-05-14
De: William Gibson
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Idoru
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful - to certain people. Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo,Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo,Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the idoru - the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo.
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The narrator made me turn this off in 10 seconds
- De Rob en 12-02-18
De: William Gibson
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Distrust That Particular Flavor
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary best sellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly 30 years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture.
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A nice look under the hood of William Gibson's min
- De anonymous en 10-24-22
De: William Gibson
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The Difference Engine
- De: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.
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Starts strong, falls off
- De Delano en 04-22-13
De: William Gibson, y otros
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The Peripheral
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do - a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her.
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Worst Narration Ever
- De Tristan G R Wall en 05-29-15
De: William Gibson
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Archangel
- De: William Gibson, Michael St. John Smith
- Narrado por: Josh Hurley, Victor Bevine, Elizabeth Jasicki, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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The year is 2016. Not our 2016. Theirs. Earth is dying, the result of a worldwide nuclear holocaust caused by America’s dictatorial President-for-Life Lewis Henderson, a man who will use any means necessary to maintain power and survive. Enter: The Splitter. A machine capable of splitting off an exact replica of Henderson’s world. A world where the cataclysmic events causing its destruction have yet to occur. That world is ours.
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- De Colin Turner en 08-16-18
De: William Gibson, y otros
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Burning Chrome
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Dennis Holland, Kevin Pariseau, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of the most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.
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- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-05-14
De: William Gibson
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Thin Air
- A Novel
- De: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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From the author of the award-winning Altered Carbon, which is now an exciting new series from Netflix. On a Mars where ruthless corporate interests violently collide with a homegrown independence movement as Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power, Hakan Veil is an ex-professional enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that's made him a human killing machine. But he's had enough, and all he wants is a ticket back home - which is just what he's offered by the Earth Oversight organization, in exchange for being the bodyguard for an EO investigator.
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Turns out there is life on Mars
- De Gilbert en 10-26-18
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The Forever War
- De: Joe Haldeman
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?
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A classic.
- De John en 09-24-08
De: Joe Haldeman
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Cryptonomicon
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 42 h y 44 m
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....
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Two thirds through and quit
- De Joshua en 06-20-16
De: Neal Stephenson
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The Diamond Age
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jennifer Wiltsie
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.
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The rock could use a bit more polishing
- De Tango en 05-19-13
De: Neal Stephenson
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Snow Crash
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.
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A solid sci-fi novel
- De Brent en 02-05-03
De: Neal Stephenson
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Roadside Picnic
- De: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Olena Bormashenko - translator
- Narrado por: Robert Forster
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty", something goes wrong.
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Gritty, resonant sci-fi classic
- De Ryan en 02-14-13
De: Arkady Strugatsky, y otros
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Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- De: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrado por: Alessandro Juliani
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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A comment on negative reviews
- De Burns en 09-20-11
De: Stanislaw Lem, y otros
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Ubik
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time.
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Holy sh*t
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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Alien: Covenant Origins
- The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film
- De: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrado por: Tom Taylorson
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is a make-or-break investment for the corporation - and for the future of all mankind. Yet there are those who would die to stop the mission. As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch.
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Great narrator, lackluster writing
- De Tobie en 06-28-18
De: Alan Dean Foster
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Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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I love Neal, but Good lord... ugh!
- De SpiderGrrl en 10-08-19
De: Neal Stephenson
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The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.
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A Vivid Dramatic Accounting
- De Jean en 11-11-16
De: H. W. Brands
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Quicksilver
- Book One of The Baroque Cycle
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Neal Stephenson (introduction), Kevin Pariseau, Simon Prebble
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
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Be aware of what you're getting into
- De David en 12-16-11
De: Neal Stephenson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Zero History
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- Joshua Kim
- 06-10-12
Gibson's Amazing Zero History
Gibson's most famous quote (which I'm sure he's tired of by now) is, "the future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed". If Gibson's next book is to be on higher education he would not find a better place to start his research than at EDUCAUSE.
Zero History, the 3rd book in Gibson's Bigend trilogy, is about fashion (or anti-fashion), military contracting, inflatable spy drones, and much else. If you read Pattern Recognition and Spook Country (and if you have not you should), I'm betting that Zero History is already on your reading device. If you are not a Gibson reader you should become one.
What would Bigend, the multimillionaire founder of the viral advertising / cool hunting agency Blue Ant, want to know about higher education?
In Pattern Recognition, Blue Ant is described this way:
"Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geographic than multinational, the agency has from the beginning billed itself as a high-speed, low-drag life-form in an advertising ecology of lumbering herbivores."
Perhaps in the next book, Gibson will have Bigend create a similarly nimble and agile university. Or perhaps he will advise existing institutions on how to become more like Blue Ant.
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- MasterAnimator
- 03-26-23
great!
another in gibson’s catalogue that defines tech in ways imaginary
and not, Truthfully this trilogy is one i revisit often, superb.
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- Makros
- 06-08-18
Not as good as Spook Country
The story was quite slow-moving the first two-thirds. Character development to be charitable, but no forshadowing at all about what conflict might arise. Set in Europe, with Gibson's signature flair for detailed narration.
About the narrator: Robertson Dean has a wonderful voice.
But the story: Basically an epilogue continuation of Spook Country, with Milgrim on center stage. His character redeemed after a lengthy rehab center. Only read this if you are a complete-ist fan of William Gibson.
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- AustinBird
- 05-12-23
Artfully written but boring
If this wasn’t the 3rd and final in a series, I would have stopped reading halfway through.
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- Aaron
- 09-11-10
Bigend needed a little more Blomkvist
The Bigend trilogy could have been a smarter version of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - essentially this is that series if Delillo (circa White Noise) had been at the keyboard. They are both fun and sharp, but what one lacks in sticky insights the other lacks in action, and each (like the reader) suffers a bit. Bigend is a great idea for a character, but there isn't much "there there" - HH's endless soul searching is fatiguing and Milgrim (who ought to be a little more like Bourne, imho) just comes across as muddle minded. All that said, it is filled with good stuff about what would best be characterized as a long rumination on the nerd hive mind. If you are interested in memes, gear/fashion fetish culture and corporate design espionage, this is the only game in town.
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- vardelda
- 07-08-23
Just skip this one
Look, I love Gibson and habitually read everything he writes. I first read this a few years ago and thought it poor, but figured maybe I missed something. Now, a few years later just confirming - it's not good. Typical Gibson feel but poor - not just aimless and boring - story line with a great deal of extraneous, irrelevant detail that just highlights how he wanders a long path through little interesting to find absolutely nothing in the end.
Seriously, do yourself a favor and just skip this one. Or, if you're of a mind, hunt down his editor for this book and slap them - hard. Because even the greatest writers need someone to honestly tell them when it's not working.
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- Erin t
- 10-07-10
good reading, not very good book
The narration is quite good, but this book needs editing. I have been a fan of Gibson for most of my life, and I quite liked the first of his recent books set in the present day, Pattern Recognition. But the second one was less interesting , and this, the third in the series, has every character speaking almost exactly alike, constantly asking each other to explain things that were just explained in the narration, and way, way too much detail. The color and texture of every object in the book is noted. And if you're not that into fashion, you're going to find the whole premise mystifying. Anyway, l recommend Pattern Recognition instead.
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- Timothy
- 06-15-15
Not quite as good as Pattern Recognition, but better than Spook Country
A fitting end to the Bigend Trilogy. The members of The Curfew are more real. The prose are just excellent.
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- John
- 06-23-15
Gibson has won me over. Excellent series
William Gibson has now floated into my top five authors in audiobooks. Amazing ability to spin a tale, develop characters, make a scene come to life and all with an interesting plot that keeps you coming back for more. Though this book is probably the weakest of the trilogy, it still is a solid 5 star, Only wish I could get my hands on all of Gibson's books on audio. Word of advice, start with book one of this trilogy. I used Wikipedia for gibson to tell me the order of books of the trilogy.
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- Scott Feuless
- 09-07-21
Best of the three
I really enjoyed the book. No, it's not "about fashion." Fashion is just part of the setting. It's about how people think, about marketing and about why people want what they want and do what they do. It's about how the term "secret brand" can exist without being an oxymoron. It's about what's interesting, and it's interesting itself. So, for all of that, plus the cleverness of Gibson's prose, I recommend the book. There were a couple little things that bugged me, which is why I didn't give it 5 stars. The characters in the story are almost all very privileged, very smart, very given to communicating with short bursts of words. Nobody worries about where their next meal is coming from. They work without knowing how much they'll be paid or when. They just do what's in front of them if it seems interesting. That seems to be as true for the main character as it is for less consequential characters that have fairly menial service "jobs." I can understand that people like that exist in the world, but not in such a commonplace way that there would be so many in the same story, unless this is some kind of semi-utopian world where that's become the norm, something that you'd want the author to devote at least a sentence to. It gives the whole thing a feeling of airy unreality. <Minor spoiler ahead> The other thing is that the main character, Hollis, stops being interesting as soon as her boyfriend shows up. Even though he's basically an adrenaline junky that does stupid things for a living, he's somehow very smart, capable, connected, blah, blah, blah like all the others and just takes over. He gives commands without so much as a "please," and she just does what he says. You can write it off as her being in love and relieved to see him, but it just doesn't quite jive with the independence she showed all the way through the beginning of the story, and it bugs me when characters seem to suddenly shift like that without adequate justification. Anyway, good book, well written, and my objections sound worse than they are.
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