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Red Rising
- Written by: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
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The Greatest Narrative Experience
- By Joe Marshall on 2018-08-29
- Red Rising
- Written by: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Don’t know why I waited so long
Reviewed: 2023-10-31
Powerful story from beginning to end. The anger, pain, triumph was felt in every word. I’m usually into hard sci-fi, most sci-fi out there (to me) is just stories set in space… but not this. This takes story to a greater height. This is Hunger games, survivor, lord of the flies, breaveheart all wrapped into one.
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Children of Memory
- Children of Time, Book 3
- Written by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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When Earth failed, it sent out arkships to establish new outposts. So the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive on Imir, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then strangers appear, on a world where everyone knows their neighbour.
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Weird
- By Kindle Customer on 2024-09-16
- Children of Memory
- Children of Time, Book 3
- Written by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
Very hard to follow
Reviewed: 2023-10-14
And you don’t know why until near the end and it may leave you dissatisfied. Felt like there was a lot of “filler” to flesh out the whole book. Regardless the deep exploration of the nature of sentience was rewarding and no doubt there will be a fourth and I will eagerly listen despite this review.
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The Apollo Murders
- Written by: Chris Hadfield
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
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1973. A final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to breaking point back on Earth. Houston flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis must do all he can to keep the NASA crew together, while staying one step ahead of his Soviet rivals. But not everyone on board Apollo 18 is quite who they appear to be.
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Is there anything he CAN’T do??
- By Cameron Britton on 2021-11-17
- The Apollo Murders
- Written by: Chris Hadfield
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
The reality was real
Reviewed: 2023-05-13
What I appreciated most was that it defied the written in stone, predictable, science fiction story arch. It was based in reality and was presented as if you were an omniscient observer with a front row seat to an actual historical event. Andy weir real, but real-er
The reality was real. It was nice for a change.
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Project Hail Mary
- Written by: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Riveting Story!
- By Maggie Irwin on 2021-05-10
- Project Hail Mary
- Written by: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
What I’ve been waiting for.
Reviewed: 2021-08-10
It is amazing how the author can take believable science and turn it into an amazing story. I couldn’t stop listening.
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Heaven's River
- Bobiverse, Book 4
- Written by: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
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Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender’s fate - whatever the cost. But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob’s descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore.
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I hope this story never ends
- By André on 2020-09-25
- Heaven's River
- Bobiverse, Book 4
- Written by: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Bob always delivers
Reviewed: 2020-10-09
And so does Dennis and Ray!
Heavens river has a different pace and tone than other stories in the bobiverse but I appreciate the exploration the author undertook, as it still had all the juicy science bits we love about this world. Keep the adventures of bob coming!
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The Three-Body Problem
- Written by: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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Very interesting read
- By Chris Conrod on 2020-09-14
- The Three-Body Problem
- Written by: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Hesitant but relieved!
Reviewed: 2020-09-29
Hesitant due to the frame of non western point of reference, but so glad I tried!
Slow burn but savoury! Hard science at its best!
Great story, can’t wait to start the rest! Sure wish Luke Daniels did the whole series though.
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Children of Ruin
- Written by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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Thousands of years ago, Earth’s terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity’s great empire fell, and the program’s decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it’s been waiting for them.
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Fantastic sequel to "Children of Time"
- By Blythe on 2019-08-18
- Children of Ruin
- Written by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
the sci-fi intelligent minds crave!
Reviewed: 2019-08-07
a bit hard to follow but completely forgivable seeings how the author is juggling REALISTIC: interspecies, interinteligences, inter-everything - language, culture, biological and technical barriers. truly hope there will be a third!
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The New Frontiers Series Boxed Set
- The Ship, NFI, and NEO
- Written by: Jack L Knapp
- Narrated by: Tom Lennon
- Length: 33 hrs and 20 mins
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This boxed set contains 3 complete science-fiction novels. This is science-fiction at its best - future engineering, intrigue, first contact. It’s a space opera like none you’ve experienced before. The audiobooks will keep you listening late into the night, and you won't be able to stop....
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95% Poor dialogue, 195% laughable narration
- By Alana on 2018-05-14
- The New Frontiers Series Boxed Set
- The Ship, NFI, and NEO
- Written by: Jack L Knapp
- Narrated by: Tom Lennon
95% Poor dialogue, 195% laughable narration
Reviewed: 2018-05-14
Before I slam this series, I will state the good. It had an interesting story foundation with believable science,
realistic space travel economics and the fallout from such technilogical revolutions.
The bad:
- Since nearly the entire story is told through dialogue you get to know how every character takes their coffee, the temperature its at when they drink it, what blend it is and and how the person offering it is feeling about coffee at that moment. Seriously at least one entire hour out of this 30 hour story is about coffee... I turned it into a game while listening... lost count after 150 or so.
- Entire chapters are dedicated to the assembly of a single component device, with every single wire, nut, screw and access panel accounted for... however, major plot conclusions are passed over without a single thought and in most cases; without a proper conclusion, clearly not important to the author.
- The author uses "anyways" in moving dialogue forward as often as a nervous speaker says "um". Every character says it at least once during each and every piece of dialogue they have.
The really bad:
- An educated, respectable and sympathetic character legitimately uses the word "retard" in relation to a disabled child. It wasn't done ironically, in jest, or in proper or emotional context. Never been offended by that word before but I was in this story's context.
- Once again, since this is ALL dialogue between many different characters, with varying genders, nationalities and personalities, a very strong narrator is required, I would have settled for a mediocre one. Accents were laughable (and EXTREMELY inaccurate), women's voices were cringe worthy and most of the time you could only tell who was talking by putting what they were saying into context.
- Last but not least, there is an entire chapter that repeats the narrators different takes during recording. He can be heard clearing his throat and chastising his reading errors before making a second and even third attempt... personally, I thought this was HILARIOUS!
- No climax build up, no conclusions, and no satisfaction. Each book just ends with a weak cliff hanger attempt and you're left with a confused, disappointed feeling of "really? Thats it?"
I endured the entire three book series to give a proper review... Do not purchase unless you're stuck in solitary confinement with nothing else but this three part series and a teen vogue magazine.
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