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Amorph
- De: Chené Lawson, N.K. Jemisin
- Narrado por: S T A R R (Busby), Chris Attoh, Amanda Turen, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
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A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.
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SciFi to the max
- De Ebony en 02-18-25
Garbage
Revisado: 04-24-25
The story feels like it was written by a teenager making it up as they went along, writing the first thing that comes to mind. This gets much worse once the character gets into cyberspace, and we encounter nonsensical concepts like storms made of data. Might appeal to children.
I think the narrator is trying to sound 20 years younger than she actually is, and she's mostly good at it, but sometimes she slips up and uses her normal voice, which is very jarring.
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Gun Runner
- De: Larry Correia, John Brown
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he’d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away. Now, Jackson Rook is a criminal, a smuggler on board the Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel. His latest mission: steal a top-of-the-line mech called the Citadel and deliver it to the far-flung planet Swindle, a world so hostile even the air will kill you. The client: a man known only as the Warlord.
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Agree with Others
- De LivinInKY en 02-04-21
- Gun Runner
- De: Larry Correia, John Brown
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Decent
Revisado: 02-27-25
This feels like a novel that was churned out without a lot of thought. World and character building are decent, narrator is suitably decent.
This was clearly intended to be the start of a series, but it isn't. There are no sequels.
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The Downloaded
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Brendan Fraser, Luke Kirby, Vanessa Sears, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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In 2059, two vastly different groups of people portrayed by the compelling trio of Brendan Fraser (Academy Award winner), Luke Kirby (Emmy Award winner), and Vanessa Sears (Dora Award winner) undergo cryonic suspension. While their bodies are frozen, their minds, still active and awake, are uploaded into a massive quantum computer. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.
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Poor writing- agenda piece
- De Amazon Customer en 10-27-23
- The Downloaded
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Brendan Fraser, Luke Kirby, Vanessa Sears, Colm Feore, Andrew Phung, full cast
Very good
Revisado: 01-12-25
The first ten minutes or so are awful, but push past it. after that, the story gets fascinating and engrossing. However, it loses some steam near the end when the writer starts trying to fit as many philosophical problems into the story as they can. Still highly recommended for fans of sci-fi.
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The Forest of Lost Souls
- A Novel
- De: Dean Koontz
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortuneteller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow.
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Wasn’t for me
- De Shannon Patton en 09-28-24
- The Forest of Lost Souls
- A Novel
- De: Dean Koontz
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
Insultingly dumb climax
Revisado: 01-08-25
It's an enjoyable listen until you get to the climax and all the pieces come together. Then you realize how incredibly outlandish the plot is. The climax, if summarized in two sentences, would sound so utterly juvenile and cliche that you'd think a child dreampt it up.
One of the themes at the end of the story is that 'wind power is bad and will destroy the environment and collapse the country's economy.' This is such a clumsy and heavy-handed message (Koontz figuratively slaps us in the face with it, without providing any supporting facts) that it seems like this book was likely financed by an energy company with an agenda to turn public opinion against wind power.
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The Signal
- De: Eric Buchman, Gabriel Urbina, Sarah Shachat
- Narrado por: Paget Brewster, full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 39 m
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Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?
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Great listen.
- De Vanessa en 12-07-24
- The Signal
- De: Eric Buchman, Gabriel Urbina, Sarah Shachat
- Narrado por: Paget Brewster, full cast
Great acting, good story
Revisado: 01-06-25
The story starts out as a very exciting investigation, but loses steam in the second half. I enjoyed it overall.
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7 Hours to Die
- De: James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski
- Narrado por: Sarah Paulson, Patina Miller, Mel Rodriguez, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
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Kidnappers grabbed Jenna in broad daylight, right in front of her children and their horrified classmates. Her family was issued an insane ransom demand: $25 million in cash and jewels, payable by the end of the school day, otherwise they’ll never see her again. As Jenna’s mother scrambles to gather the money, detectives Mo Butler and George Ortega follow the trail of the kidnappers, which will lead them through a sordid landscape of jealous lovers, broken dreamers, and twisted schemers. But every second counts, and there’s one thing Jenna Wade doesn’t have: very much time.
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This was such a fun Quick listen
- De Mdc en 10-08-24
- 7 Hours to Die
- De: James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski
- Narrado por: Sarah Paulson, Patina Miller, Mel Rodriguez, Dan Stevens, full cast
Cheesy, poorly written
Revisado: 01-06-25
The story was clearly written by an amateur whose only knowledge of police procedure comes from watching bad TV shows. The writing and acting are both cheesy overall, though some actors try to be serious, creating an inconsistent tone. The narrator is MUCH louder than everything else. I also can't stand the way the narration is written or acted.
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The Worthing Saga
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 18 h y 34 m
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It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful, they lived their lives at the rate of one year every 10. Some created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put into motion. It allowed interstellar empires to be built.
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Early Work of a Master
- De Lisa en 04-28-05
- The Worthing Saga
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Masterpiece
Revisado: 09-11-24
I'm surprised I haven't heard of this OSC novel before because it's phenomenal. I suspect that many more recent works have drawn inspiration from it.
Scott Brick was an excellent choice for narrator and fits the story very well. However, after the main story concludes, there are several short stories narrated by the various narrators that do the Ender's Game series, and they range in skill from decent to absolutely terrible. I don't understand how some of these hacks keep getting paid to narrate.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 03-15-22
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
Loads of fun
Revisado: 09-11-24
Great story with plenty of humor, and Wil Wheaton nails it as always. May offend conservatives.
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Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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Another banger from Tchaikovsky
- De J. C. Amos en 06-09-24
- Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Excellent
Revisado: 09-11-24
Great story, and had me cracking up in many places. Tchaikovsky is a masterful author, and a fantastic narrator. Highly recommend this novel.
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Treason
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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Lanik Mueller is a "rad" - radical regenerative - a freak who can regenerate injured flesh...and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. On a planet without hard metals, or the means of escape, iron offers the promise of freedom through the chance to build a spacecraft. But it is a promise which may never be fulfilled, as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination.
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Entirely enjoyable
- De Barry S. Sharpnack en 11-12-09
- Treason
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
More magic than sci-fi
Revisado: 07-06-24
Much of this is in an odyssey format, where the main character travels from place to place, with Card doing some world building at each place. It reeks of "making it up as he goes along."
Midway through the book, Card gets bored and introduces magic. He throws in the phrase "carbon chains" a few times in what must be the laziest attempt at making magic sound vaguely scientific that's ever been written, but it's 100% magic.
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