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Dune: The Machine Crusade
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 27 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,358
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,594
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,597
More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. Get ready for Dune: The Machine Crusade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dune - How We Love Thee!
- By J.R. Rich on 10-18-03
- Dune: The Machine Crusade
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Excellent new ideas and continuation, but drop off cliff ending?
Reviewed: 04-18-24
So many people suddenly killed off with little benefit to the overall story or the build up that was in place for each character… I wonder if the feeling of war’s hopeless loss and wasteful squandering of human life and potential is the intentional feeling to create?
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 198,129
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 181,348
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Story5 out of 5 stars 180,795
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Upbeat optimistic doomsday scenario sci-fi
Reviewed: 05-28-23
This story is fantastic. It provides so much detail in exactly the manner expected for this fantastic author. Scientific concepts brought together with imagination and new concepts along with plenty of good science, fiction, aliens and microbes and concepts of what could be. It’s the best example of golden age, sci-fi, born Out of today’s concepts of technology.
Ray Porter is a gift to audible and to narration. I would listen to him passionately read a cereal box or a remote control instruction manual because I am positive It would be absolutely thrilling and entertaining to listen to every minute. Having such wonderful material, read so enthusiastically and with such emotion, made it come alive beyond expectation. Thank you so much everyone who put this together!
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Ghosts of Zenith
- Lost Planet Homicide
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,768
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,543
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,540
On a planet where life is cheap, in a city built on corruption, very few things are considered holy. The Landing Site is one of them. The remains of the century-old habitat pod—which delivered the colonists to the only barely habitable place on the cruel world of Croatoan—has become a monument to the hardscrabble people who somehow survived the unsurvivable. So when blood is shed on that sacred ground, it’s seen as an attack against the entire colony.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always leave ‘‘em wanting more
- By Amazon Customer on 01-23-23
- Ghosts of Zenith
- Lost Planet Homicide
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Good sci-fi, mystery and noir presentation
Reviewed: 04-21-23
I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of this series, anything from Larry is excellently, thought through and will crafted. The narration was excellent. I don’t think we can match Jake Sullivan from the Grimm Noire stories, but this is a good close second!
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
- By: Becky Chambers
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 874
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 871
At the turn of the 22nd century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life. A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system 15 light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds.
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4 out of 5 stars
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"Gay & Lesbian"?!? This is solid Sci-Fi
- By Jennifer on 09-16-19
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate
- By: Becky Chambers
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Science fiction with heart, purpose, and drive to inspire
Reviewed: 01-28-23
Why do you read science fiction? Me, I read it to be ground in the present and dream of what’s possible in the future with technology improvement and human endeavor. This is a story of sci-fi, inspiration, grounded in reality, and encouraging you to dream
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The Paradox Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Rob Hart
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 274
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Story4 out of 5 stars 236
Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. Nothing’s simple at a hotel where the ultra-wealthy tourists arrive costumed for a dozen different time periods, all eagerly waiting to catch their “flights” to the past. Or where proximity to the timeport makes the clocks run backward on occasion—and, rumor has it, allows ghosts to stroll the halls.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sure I'll Guard Your Timestream
- By Charles Elmore on 03-01-22
- The Paradox Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Rob Hart
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Superb Syfy mystery with time, travel, backdrop
Reviewed: 01-22-23
This is a fantastic, entertaining quality mystery, which features, a sci-fi, technology and time travel, related backdrop. An entertaining element is the time travel is not the major focus or tool used within the mystery, it is, however, the backdrop location of the story.
The narration and performance is excellent, one of the best I’ve heard in years. There are points when Her voice gets choked up as the main character is telling you that they are choked up… and it made me tear up from performance and quality intonation.
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964
- The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America
- By: Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and others
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, L. J. Ganser, Richard Ferrone
- Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,497
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,295
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,294
This book contains 26 of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the men and women who have shaped the body and heart of modern science fiction; their brilliantly imaginative creations continue to inspire and astound new generations of writers and fans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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CHAPTER LIST to Help Find Stories
- By Lance on 06-07-18
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964
- The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America
- By: Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg - editor
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, L. J. Ganser, Richard Ferrone
An excellent collection of SciFi’s best
Reviewed: 04-17-22
Several of my favorite stories that made me fall in love with SciFi as a youth!
The nine billion names of God
Flowers for Algernon
Nightfall…
And many new ones I’ve not read elsewhere
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Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
- By: A. Lee Martinez
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,960
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,731
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,731
Emperor Mollusk. Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth. Not bad for a guy without a spine. But what's a villain to do after he's done... everything. With no new ambitions, he's happy to pitch in and solve the energy crisis or repel aliens invaders should the need arise, but if he had his way, he'd prefer to be left alone to explore the boundaries of dangerous science. Just as a hobby, of course. Retirement isn't easy though.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hilariously wacky!
- By KH on 04-09-12
- Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
- By: A. Lee Martinez
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
Couldn’t finish… that’s rare
Reviewed: 02-08-22
The voice actor was fairly entertaining I enjoyed his different voices and his inflection. His intonation for women however may have been harder to separate from the flat writing. Surprised it wasn’t as bad as it felt it was.
If this was a junior novel and for light entertainment it might pass, but for a mature reader looking for some depth of plot or science fiction concepts, or entertaining witty banter, This did not produce. Similar to other reviews, I felt that sentences and paragraphs were added simply to move the story along was nothing new or interesting provided.
This would probably make an entertaining coloring book.
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A Gift of Time
- By: Jerry Merritt
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,331
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,248
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,225
When Micajah Fenton discovers a crater in his front yard with a broken time glider in the bottom and a naked, virtual woman on his lawn, he delays his plans to kill himself. While helping repair the marooned time traveler's glider, Cager realizes it can return him to his past to correct a mistake that had haunted him his entire life. As payment for his help, the virtual creature living in the circuitry of the marooned glider, sends Cager back in time as his 10-year-old self.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Gift of Time is a Gift!
- By As happy as a monkey with two bananas in his hands on 12-07-17
- A Gift of Time
- By: Jerry Merritt
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Time travel stories of heart and warmth
Reviewed: 11-01-21
This was an enjoyable story to spend time within. Moving around in the characters descriptions and spending time with each of the characters has been a relaxed, pure joy of storytelling, emotions, and development.
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The Freeze-Frame Revolution
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 968
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 853
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Story4 out of 5 stars 852
How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code - and unavoidable casualties.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow motion revolution
- By Michael G Kurilla on 11-04-20
- The Freeze-Frame Revolution
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Superb new era science fiction
Reviewed: 09-21-21
Putting together a first person narrative can be a challenging task for an author to keep exciting, driving, and this was a gripping story beginning to end.
The narrator‘s performance with emotion and pause and inflection showed that they are a master of narrative arts. They not only read the story multiple times to prepare, their emotions showed that they performed it - and they were that character delivering the story to you!
This goes in my top five greatest stories I’ve listened to in audible in years.
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Children of Ruin
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,662
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,629
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,608
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Not ideal for audiobook format
- By bogmonkey on 01-08-20
- Children of Ruin
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
Please for the love of everything enjoyable about audiobooks re-record this novel
Reviewed: 07-24-21
I am barely an hour into this excellent sci-fi story by a favorite author with a charming, still favorite narrator.
However if I have to hear her miss pronounce cephalopod one more time I’m going to crawl out of my moving car and throw myself into traffic!
Kef-a-lo-pod.
?????!!!!?????!!!!!
Is there no editor? No quality control who checks behind an audio recording on audible originals and exclusives?
The random word mispronounced by intelligent narrator‘s is forgivable and understandable with the volume material that they record, however if it’s a major character species which is mispronounced repeatedly throughout the novel it’s going to grates on someone’s nerves!
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