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The Forge of God
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 711
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 634
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Story4 out of 5 stars 636
On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago.
Something is happening to planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to contemplate
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Wonderful Listening, But the Editor?
- By George Knight on 07-14-13
- The Forge of God
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Apocalyptic Sci-Fi at its best.
Reviewed: 05-22-23
This is a long one, perhaps a little too long for some but it's not without merit. You get to know the people so that when the end comes you feel it.
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War of Honor
- Honor Harrington, Book 10
- By: David Weber
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 35 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,012
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,669
No one wanted another war. Thomas Theisman didn't. Not after risking his life to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety's reign of terror and restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution. Baron High Ridge didn't. The Prime Minister of Manticore was perfectly happy with the war he had. No one was shooting anyone else at the moment, and his government could continue to milk all those "hostilities only" tax measures for their own partisan projects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oh my God, it's slow!
- By Aaron Sher on 03-13-13
- War of Honor
- Honor Harrington, Book 10
- By: David Weber
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Setting things up.
Reviewed: 06-16-21
This book does a nice job of setting things up for the next part of the saga. It's a little slow and ponderous but thats just me.
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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 619
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Story4 out of 5 stars 617
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction - cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Peter Kenny makes the book worthwhile
- By Jacobus on 12-24-10
- Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Overrated
Reviewed: 03-10-20
Alarm bells should have been raised about the Culture series for me when in the at least two decades the series has had to seep into pop culture that I've never heard any praise heaped on its stories. Turns out there is a reason for that. Scenery porn and verbal diarrhea dominates this work. No likeable characters anywhere and plodding pacing makes this writing as fascinating as listening to paint drying maybe even constituting a form or audible torture. The only hint at redeeming quality in this work was the narrator who brought his best to book but even his delightful skill couldn't save this dumpster fire of book from going into the annals of obscurity. Save yourself the trouble and read a wiki about this series. It's more interesting.
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The Dune Audio Collection
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Frank Herbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 91
Read by the author, this compilation of key excerpts from the brilliant Dune trilogy is melded with connective text written by Frank Herbert specifically for these recordings. Includes selections from Dune: The Banquet Scene, Sandworms of Dune, The Battles of Dune, and The Truths of Dune: Fear Is the Mind Killer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Listen at 3/4 Speed!!
- By The Jay on 07-12-18
- The Dune Audio Collection
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Frank Herbert
A Rare Insight
Reviewed: 03-02-19
Here we get to delve a little into the mind of Frank Herbert and his ideas around parts of his opus, Dune. If you were ever curious what the man would sound like reading excerpts of his own work and commenting on it then look no further.
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God Emperor of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,452
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,641
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,632
More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost as good as the original
- By Joel D Offenberg on 12-03-09
- God Emperor of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
A Story to Drown In
Reviewed: 10-30-18
A true sequel to Dune, God Emperor of Dune is not afraid to turn everything we had known before on its head while staying true to the spirit of the original.
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The Fall of Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,362
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,154
In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hyperion is FALLEN, am I too to fall?
- By Darwin8u on 06-15-12
- The Fall of Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
The Story Concludes and Continues?
Reviewed: 05-07-18
Not as novel in the format it tells itself in as Hyperion the story is good however I miss the performers from the first book with only the overall narrator from the first book still here. He does a remarkable job though and I give him full props. But still minus one star for the absence. I look forward to the next part in this story.
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Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25,214
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21,437
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,477
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Shrike Awaits. Enter The Time Tombs...
- By Michael on 10-13-12
- Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine
One of the Bests for a Reason.
Reviewed: 04-10-18
I was a bit worried when I started this book by the references to other works but in the end the story could survive the numerous Google searches and still impressed me to no end.
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