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Infomocracy
- A Novel
- By: Malka Older
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 350
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 352
It's been 20 years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At heart, this novel is a political thriller
- By Midwestbonsai on 09-12-16
- Infomocracy
- A Novel
- By: Malka Older
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
The politic system of the future?
Reviewed: 02-13-20
Election drama in an alternate political system.
The author likes long complicated sentences and the narrator skims through the book quickly and not always with the intonation spot on. That was a bad combo. I had to really concentrate all the time.
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105,147
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 96,430
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 96,193
There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ignore the Publisher's Summary! This is Amazing!
- By PW on 04-12-17
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
We are nerds - we are Bob
Reviewed: 12-25-19
Cool concept, good narrater. It’s spect with nerdy references and technical goodies. You don’t have to have studied astronomy and physics... but it helps. Similarly if this is your first encounter with sci-fi you will miss out on some of the jokes.
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The Gate Thief
- Mithermages, Book 2
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Rankin
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,824
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,275
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,291
Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of 13 centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can’t control him - and they can’t control him; he is far too powerful. On Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless - he lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he must still somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North, for when Danny took that power from Loki, he also took responsibility for the Great Gates.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flashes of Great, Ok, and Bad. Overall: Meh.
- By Benjamin on 04-04-13
- The Gate Thief
- Mithermages, Book 2
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Rankin
Great, but not proofread
Reviewed: 01-02-19
I liked the story, but Card really ought to have had it proofread. It was inconsistent with The Lost Gate in too many ways.
<spoiler alert>
In TLG the North family is a hard bunch used to harsh conditions. Card makes this very clear by letting Danny run around barefoot his whole life. He hardly knew what shoes were for. But in TGT he is too footsore to walk barefoot over the gravel on the driveway.
In TLG Card makes an elaborate plot to get Danny a fake birth certificate with “Stone” as his last name so he can enroll high school. So when his high school friend calls him “Danny North” in the start of TGT, I was convinced he was possessed.... but later everyone in the school, including the principal calls him “North”.
And wasn’t the wild gate a one way gate in TLG? I might have that one wrong though.
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An Ember in the Ashes
- By: Sabaa Tahir
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,710
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,018
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,997
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not That Impressed.
- By Brian on 05-01-15
- An Ember in the Ashes
- By: Sabaa Tahir
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
An ember of something big to come
Reviewed: 11-12-18
It’s a story that really caught my interest from the get go. I had a hard time putting it down. It’s beautifully narrated and except for a few all to familiar quirks I found it really interesting.
#Fantasy #Magical #ComingOfAge #TorturedHero #FemaleProtagonist #tagsgiving #sweepstakes
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
- Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- By: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Daniel Everett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 353
Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Profound Read
- By Wally Brewer on 11-16-17
- Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
- Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- By: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Daniel Everett
Something different
Reviewed: 04-23-18
Daniel Everett is an extraordiary man with a extraordinary tale. Meet the Pirahã indians with a cuture so different from anything you ever imagined and a language that has leading linguistic scholars totally baffeled. It's intriguing, funny, exciting and humbling to listen to. Perfect as an audiobook (due to the central role of the Pinahã language... you get to hear it spoken) read by Daniel Everett.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,856
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,546
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,575
Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with “psi” powers—telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man. After his tutelage under a surrogate father figure, Valentine begins his transformation into a kind of messiah.
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4 out of 5 stars
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We live in the world this book made
- By W. Seligman on 02-26-04
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Hippie in a Strange Cult
Reviewed: 03-28-18
The first few chapters were really good, and intriguing. It rapidly went downhill from there. Safe to say, it was the weirdest book I ever finished. Cults like "Heaven's Gate" and "The Family of Love" comes into mind.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,190
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 788
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 790
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry, and particle physics, and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. In the company of some extraordinary scientists, Bill Bryson reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Torn on this one...
- By dj on 02-08-05
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
A short history
Reviewed: 03-16-18
Entertaining, enthilling and thought provoking. However, it's a bit outdated. Science has come a long way in the last few years. We now know Pluto has three moons, not one. And it's not even a planet anymore... (just to mention one thing). The conclusion drawn that life only appeared once in the history of the universe is extraordinary, considering that, as mentioned in the book, we are not even close to have discovered all life on this planet. And we have no idea how much life there is in our own solar system. Mars have fluent water and a few moons can theorerically be teeming with life. According to some estimates there's more planets in the (known) universe then grains of sand in the Sahara desert. We will never know if there's life out there unless we find it, or evidence there of.
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Oathbringer
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Length: 55 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 63,923
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 56,795
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Story5 out of 5 stars 56,695
Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost. The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A mixed bag of brilliance, marred by missteps
- By Leo on 11-24-17
- Oathbringer
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Journey Before Destination
Reviewed: 03-06-18
The characters are as good as always, and the magic system is unique and intriguing. The plot is interesting and there are a lot of subplots, twists and turns which I like. However, the battles are too long and tedious and, as always, the magic is too powerfull and the characters becomes gods. I prefer the first books in the series where the characters discovers there powers but still are mortal... or as Kaladin would put it: Journey before destination!
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Video Game Plotline Tester
- Dark Herbalist Series, Book 1
- By: Michael Atamanov
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,322
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,078
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,075
Would you be prepared to work for free? How would you like to bust your hump for a large corporation 60-plus hours a week without a wage or a single day off for the vague promise of some mysterious perks in the distant future? You'd refuse point blank, wouldn't you? But what if the job in question was playing a state-of-the-art fantasy MMORPG game? And what if this was the only thing you're really good at? Especially considering that your in-game partner is someone really special to you - and this person already lives a virtual life?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Different and Good LitRPG
- By Don Gilbert on 06-15-18
- Video Game Plotline Tester
- Dark Herbalist Series, Book 1
- By: Michael Atamanov
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
MMORPG adventure
Reviewed: 10-23-17
To (fully) enjoy this you really need to have experience from at least one MMORPG, preferably in fantasy settings.
Once started I just couldn't put the audiobook away. I want more.
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Discovery of the Saiph
- Saiph, Book 1
- By: P. P. Corcoran
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 418
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Story4 out of 5 stars 396
The TDF Marco Polo embarks on its maiden voyage outside Earth's solar system, leading to the discovery of an extinct civilization destroyed by orbital bombardment. Deep underground is a mysterious library of alien secrets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Space Opera
- By Michael Jacobi on 07-19-15
- Discovery of the Saiph
- Saiph, Book 1
- By: P. P. Corcoran
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Homogeneous sci-fi
Reviewed: 10-19-17
I like the idea, and the story is not that bad. However it lacks more complex intrigues. This book could easily been three books twice it's size. It's all too easy, and the planets act too homogeneous and act too much as a unit. Where's the resistance? Why do noone question the soundness of the operations? I'll still pick up the next volume though. I want to know what happens next!
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