D. Francis
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Diaspora
- De: Greg Egan
- Narrado por: Adam Epstein
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 447
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 401
Behold the orphan. Born into a world that is not a world. A digital being grown from a mind seed, a genderless cybernetic citizen in a vast network of probes, satellites, and servers knitting the Solar System into one scape, from the outer planets to the fiery surface of the Sun. Since the Introdus in the 21st century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous Story, Disappointing Performance
- De Ben en 12-08-13
- Diaspora
- De: Greg Egan
- Narrado por: Adam Epstein
Very Deep Sci-fi and Physics
Revisado: 05-06-24
A higher level physics version of Three-body Problem or The Martian and a great story behind it. People almost scared me off complaining about the narration but I didn’t find it a problem at all.
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- De: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrado por: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,539
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,373
This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but feels incomplete
- De Chris en 09-02-21
- Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- De: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrado por: Dr. Anna Lembke
Not about dopamine
Revisado: 04-01-23
This didn’t go into the science of dopamine at all and was more of a primer on addiction for people who know nothing about addiction.
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New Found Land: The Long Haul
- De: Austin Grossman, Neal Stephenson, Sean Stewart
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Evans, Elizabeth Jasicki, Graeme Malcolm, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,622
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,477
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,469
Imagine two worlds at war. In one, citizens with jetpacks and ray guns have colonized Venus. In the other, magic reigns supreme, and history turns on swords and spells. Now imagine they have just discovered a third world. Our world. Our timeline of rideshare apps and strip malls is about to become the newest battlefield in the long war between science fiction and fantasy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You'll like this if you liked The Zeta Family.
- De Tory Thai en 06-12-21
Disconnected story and over-produced audio
Revisado: 08-19-21
There were a few gems in the dialog that were entertaining but I felt the story was disconnected overall. Many scenes had way too much “atmosphere” background noise for me to understand what was going on. And I found the accents over the top and un believable.
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Timequake
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Arthur Bishop
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 382
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 336
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 335
According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Arias only make hopeless situations worse
- De Darwin8u en 12-28-17
- Timequake
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Arthur Bishop
Great story with disappointing narration
Revisado: 12-01-17
The narrator appears to not have understood the text and mispronounced many words. There was an earlier version of the audiobooks read by Lawrence Pressman that was excellent but can only be found on CD now.
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Thrawn (Star Wars)
- De: Timothy Zahn
- Narrado por: Marc Thompson
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 36,406
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33,119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 33,034
In this definitive novel, listeners will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nice To Have Thrawn Back, But...
- De Michael Hicks en 09-06-17
- Thrawn (Star Wars)
- De: Timothy Zahn
- Narrado por: Marc Thompson
Great and complete story
Revisado: 06-23-17
Zahn again shows his mastery of the Star Wars universe slipping this story into the well known setting of the rise of the rebellion. I enjoyed the believable tactical insights and space battles.
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Influx
- De: Daniel Suarez
- Narrado por: Jeff Gurner
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,758
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,017
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,025
Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they've been working toward for years: A device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics - the crowning achievement of a career. Grady expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. The Nobel Prize. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Solid to Silly to Inane
- De Craig en 05-15-14
- Influx
- De: Daniel Suarez
- Narrado por: Jeff Gurner
Flawed Characters
Revisado: 03-12-14
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Although Suarez touched on some interesting technological trends, I thought this book is more like Kill Decision than his first two great books. I found the main character deeply unlikable and the humble scientists who would introduce themselves as "the man who perfected..." I found completely unbelievable.
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