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5 out of 5 stars
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A MUST READ or LISTEN
- By Taryn on 01-23-16
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Queen of Angels
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, murdered eight people, then disappeared. Three people want to find him: an aspiring writer, an embittered scientist who wants to use him, and a policewoman who needs to put him in custody before the Selectors, a vigilante organization, get to him first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic, a whole new experience on audio
- By Tungsten on 04-02-16
By: Greg Bear
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Starfire
- By: B.V. Larson
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,636
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,419
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,419
On June 30, 1908, an object fell from the sky, releasing more energy than a thousand Hiroshima bombs. A Siberian forest was flattened, but the strike left no significant crater. The anomaly came to be known as the Tunguska Event, and scientists have never agreed whether it was the largest meteor strike in recorded history - or something else. Alien artifacts have been uncovered since the 1908 event, and a new star drive is discovered.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Het
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 04-09-17
By: B.V. Larson
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Vulcan's Forge
- By: Jack Du Brul
- Narrated by: Adams Morgan
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 352
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 321
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Story4 out of 5 stars 320
Beneath the Pacific Ocean, a volcano surges upward, carrying in its fiery heart a mineral more powerful than uranium. When the volcano breaks the ocean’s surface, America and other nations will battle to control what is known as Vulcan’s Forge, a source of limitless, clean, nuclear power.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WTH???
- By Kindle Customer on 09-15-20
By: Jack Du Brul
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Man Plus
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Robert J. Sawyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 97
Roger Torraway watched in horror as the monster lurched, toppled over and died. Project Man Plus had gone suddenly and drastically wrong. The race to colonize Mars was too important, too costly, and America was already too committed, for plans to be scrapped. They would have to make a new Martian. And Roger Torraway was it, candidate for the endless surgery, operation after painful operation, that would enable him to survive on that faraway planet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More timely now than ever
- By Sandy R on 06-28-10
By: Frederik Pohl
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The Lives of Tao
- By: Wesley Chu
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 731
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 662
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Story4 out of 5 stars 663
When out-of-shape IT technician Roen wakes up and starts hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumes he’s losing it. He isn’t. As of last night, he has a passenger in his brain - an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Over the millennia his people have trained human heroes to be great leaders, to advance our species at a rate far beyond what it would have achieved on its own. Split into two opposing factions - the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix - the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not funny, just a lot of fighting
- By Julie W. Capell on 09-19-15
By: Wesley Chu
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Stand on Zanzibar
- By: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Story4 out of 5 stars 287
Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- By Darryl on 03-24-14
By: John Brunner, and others
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center #1
- By: Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,394
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,221
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,225
A terrorist bomb explodes during a South Korean celebration of the anniversary of the election of its first president. Alarms are raised in Washington. No one is claiming responsibility. The first suspect is North Korea. Could it be making a power play against South Korea and unification? If so, how will the U.S. respond? Paul Hood, Director of the Op-Center, must answer these questions. The Op-Center, a largely autonomous new agency which takes on the government's toughest security problems, is only six months old, and has never been given a foreign crisis until now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen
- By Aaron Kynaston on 08-18-11
By: Tom Clancy, and others
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Independence Day: Crucible
- The Official Movie Prequel
- By: Greg Keyes
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 265
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4 out of 5 stars 246
Cities were crushed by the falling spacecraft, but one ship didn't crash. It remained intact and disgorged hordes of alien soldiers determined to fight to the death. The abandoned vessels also contained a wealth of advanced technology. Led by David Levinson, the greatest minds of our world developed deadly new hybrid weapons. Bases were built on the moon, Mars, and beyond. A new generation of defenders had to be trained, for the invaders would return.
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4 out of 5 stars
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YA Romance
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-06-17
By: Greg Keyes
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The Fourth Awakening
- By: Rod Pennington, Jeffery A. Martin
- Narrated by: C. J. Crit
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4 out of 5 stars 40
Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration will keep you awake..
- By Matthew on 02-11-13
By: Rod Pennington, and others
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The Abyss Beyond Dreams
- Chronicle of the Fallers, Book 1
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,741
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,402
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,401
The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel - self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intersection of the Void and Commonwealth - Super
- By C. Hartmann on 10-30-14
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Without Warning
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 471
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 325
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Story4 out of 5 stars 326
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a miles-high energy wave cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico. In a moment, 99 percent of the U.S. population has been wiped from the face of the earth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Language in book is a bit over the top.
- By John R. Dritenbas on 07-07-10
By: John Birmingham
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Wrath & Righteousness
- By: Christopher Stewart
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 53 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 251
It was the last peace, the great peace, the deep breath before the storm. The Golden Age was closing and the heavens paused and waited for the long plunge ahead. Some people saw it coming. But they were few. The first episode of this geopolitical thriller sets up the start of an epic battle between Light and Darkness. Taking listeners from Saudi Arabia to Israel to Washington D.C. and Chicago, Wrath & Righteousness is a frightening, torn-from-the-headlines peek into the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!!!!
- By Readyforthekeys on 05-14-15
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Sudden Threat
- Threat, Book 1
- By: A. J. Tata
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 170
In December 2001, CIA paramilitary operative Matt Garrett is mysteriously pulled from Pakistan as he closes in for the kill of Al Qaeda senior leadership and is reassigned to a low-profile mission in the Philippines. But as he sifts through the wreckage of a downed U.S. C-130 cargo plane in the tangled jungle, he finds a dead U.S. Special Forces paratrooper who is not supposed to be there. Matt is quickly thrown into a contest of wits and resiliency in the uncharted rainforests of Mindanao.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lots of action with a very weak plot
- By Wayne on 11-19-17
By: A. J. Tata
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- Jules
- 02-03-17
Sexist and Elitist
"That's a good idea. Why don't you be our secretary and write that down?" (chapter 33) That seems to be the role of women in this book: secretaries, breeders, and accountants. The men have the hard science and leadership roles. A minute later, the same man asks women to ferret out gossip in hair salons and obstetrician offices. I couldn't read any further.
In one conversation, two characters discuss putting contraceptives in the general water supply, then discuss how their wives want more kids right away. The message is clear, from that and other dialogue: only the elite should be allowed to procreate. The rest of the population are drains on welfare and other resources.
The science is shoddy, too.
This book has an interesting premise and ideas, but I can't get past the author's predjudices. I recommend avoiding this book.
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