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Service Model
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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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
- By J. C. Amos on 06-09-24
- Service Model
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
wonderfully creative work
Reviewed: 06-27-24
exceptional story plot with vivid characters and loads of humorous twists. well worth the effort.
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Heechee Rendezvous
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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After millennia had passed, Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy (an alien culture that fled to the relative safety of a black hole) - in particular an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft. Robinette Broadhead, who had led the expedition that unlocked the many secrets of Heechee technology, is now forced once more to make a perilous voyage into space - where the Heechee are waiting. And this time the future of Man is at stake....
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Not as good as the first two
- By Randall on 11-10-18
- Heechee Rendezvous
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Heeche smeechee
Reviewed: 06-20-24
I wish I could praise this work. I really do, but I can't do it, not honestly anyway. This sequel is filled with relentless story padding and annoying foreshadowing that tip off the reader early on that there's a multivolume sequel in the offing. The problem is by the time you wade through it, you're very unlikely to give much of a damn about the Heechee or any of the other of the story characters. Consequently, I'm done with it.
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Shards of Earth
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space.
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Not sure what the point was [Spoilers]
- By C. Andrew Hessler on 08-27-21
- Shards of Earth
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
well worth the listen!
Reviewed: 01-17-24
Brilliant and creative with a host of memorable characters and captivating plot development. Can't wait to start the second volume!
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The Redemption of Time
- A Three-Body Problem Novel
- By: Baoshu, Ken Liu - Translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction.
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This is a tough one.
- By A. on 07-19-19
- The Redemption of Time
- A Three-Body Problem Novel
- By: Baoshu, Ken Liu - Translator
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
Not too bad for fan fiction.
Reviewed: 05-16-21
Baoshu does a capable job, but the work is still fan fiction at best.
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