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Last Call
- By: Tim Powers
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 502
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4 out of 5 stars 432
Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player 20 years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in 10 years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powers is Under-represented on Audible
- By tim on 01-18-11
- Last Call
- By: Tim Powers
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Powers Rocks
Reviewed: 04-01-11
Tim Powers is neither sci-fi nor fantasy (at least no in any conventional sense), he writes very interesting stories where impossible things happen. In Last Call, he's mixing cold war spy stories with old school middle eastern mythology, and pulls it off brilliantly. Pinchot would not be my first choice for this book but he does a very good job.
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Moving Mars
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: Sharon Williams
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 96
Mars is a colonial world governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, brave, and intelligent, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of Earthly powers to keep the best inventions for themselves. The young Martians - the second and third generation born on Mars - have little loyalty to Earth and a strong belief that their planet can be independent.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible quality audio recording
- By J. S. Harbour on 10-27-16
- Moving Mars
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: Sharon Williams
Good book, odd recording
Reviewed: 04-01-11
The story is interesting. As usual in a hard science fiction book, there's a fair amount of discussion of technicalities, but it's very interesting. Bear's writing style is a bit mechanical, he is in no way a prose stylist and his characters are a bit on the stiff side, but both are used well to drive the story. My only complaint is the recording itself. It sounds like it's been compressed to within an inch of its life, it occasionally sounds like its being read by a computer. It's also muffled sounding like it was first recorded on cassette. It's not horrible but its annoying, particularly if you listen on headphones.
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