Timothy J. Stevens
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Species Seventeen
- Humanity's Leap, Book 1
- By: C.S. Garrand
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27
The artifact we found on Vesta changed everything. Sure, we were able to patent the new technologies we managed to reverse engineer, and make a hefty sum. But we could never have anticipated where these discoveries would eventually lead. The board of directors still wants to see what we come back with, but those of us on the ship know that there's something far more significant than Hegemony credits out here. And we have to do it right by humanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding sci fi adventure!
- By TampaTrips on 02-21-25
- Species Seventeen
- Humanity's Leap, Book 1
- By: C.S. Garrand
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
Great New Science Fiction
Reviewed: 06-16-25
Excellent story by an Author new to me. The performance makes the book even better. On to book two!
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The Earth Epsilon Wars: Publisher's Pack
- By: Terrance Mulloy
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 518
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 517
Arriving home after a harrowing tour of duty on a hostile alien world, USC Sergeant Matt Reeves has just learned the enemy - an insidious humanoid species known as the Wraith - may be preparing to attack Earth again. With much of Earth still in ruins, and its military forces stretched beyond capacity fighting an interstellar war, there is no way mankind could survive another invasion. Enter The Emissary Program. Matt learns the USC have been secretly experimenting with time travel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wait!
- By Sapper3273 on 03-04-20
- The Earth Epsilon Wars: Publisher's Pack
- By: Terrance Mulloy
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Great Series
Reviewed: 06-09-25
Mr. Mulloy is a new author to me but I am glad I found him and this series. Mr. Pinchot is fabulous, as always.
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Classified Planet: Turongal
- The Darvel Exploratory Systems, Book 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Tess Irondale
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 340
In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen!
- By Lily S. Thomas on 08-18-21
- Classified Planet: Turongal
- The Darvel Exploratory Systems, Book 1
- By: S.J. Sanders
- Narrated by: Tess Irondale
Excellent Story
Reviewed: 06-01-25
Very well written and superbly performed. What a great start to, what I hope will be, a cool new series. Well thought out world building and novel social constructs. TA, you two.
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The Portal
- Portal to Xibalbá, Book 1
- By: Brandon Q. Morris, Tim L. Rey
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez, Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
After years of hard work, Tyler built his IT Security company into a massive success. He trusted his people and now it was time to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Everything was perfect until an unexpected discovery. Should they go through the Maya portal? Adriana's small diving instruction shop is popular enough with the tourists for her to scrape out a living, but it's not the life she expected. When she got the call, it seemed impossible. Wasn't Xibalbá a myth? In a fantastic world of danger and possibility, two people want to discover the truth, but for entirely different reasons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most Excellent Yarn
- By Timothy J. Stevens on 03-27-25
- The Portal
- Portal to Xibalbá, Book 1
- By: Brandon Q. Morris, Tim L. Rey
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez, Gary Tiedemann
Most Excellent Yarn
Reviewed: 03-27-25
Fresh approach to speculative fiction. Good story, great narration and one of the authors has actually spent enough time in Quintana Roo to learn about it.
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The Naked God
- Night's Dawn Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 48 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,101
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,929
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,926
Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle, the kind that hasn't been seen by humankind for 600 years; then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Storytelling in a league of its own
- By Michael G Kurilla on 08-09-17
- The Naked God
- Night's Dawn Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
Excellent Series
Reviewed: 03-15-24
Thank You Mr. Hamilton for the incredible world, all the relatable characters and an engaging yarn.
That you Mr. Lee for making the world come alive and for bring the characters to life within that world.
All those distinct voices switched at incredible speeds, don’t know how you do it Sir but many thanks for doing so.
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Magicians of the Gods
- The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,687
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,944
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,932
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Brilliant" is an understatement.
- By Brian on 11-13-15
- Magicians of the Gods
- The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
A must listen for all humans!
Reviewed: 12-13-23
Graham Hancock has, once again, provided us with a glimpse of what our planet’s earliest history likely entailed.
With compelling narratives and real heart he shares with us the fruits of research that he and his wife Santha have gathered over years of travel and photo documentation. If you are not yet hip the work of the Hancocks, the Shochs and the others in the business of questioning academia’s ossified world. Then do yourself a favor and open up your mind. It is a journey you will never regret.
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Level Five
- Killday, Book 1
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,583
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,088
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,083
In Level Five, the debut near-future thriller by Nebula Award winner William Ledbetter, AIs battle for dominance, and nanotechnology is on the loose. And all that stands in the way of the coming apocalypse is a starry-eyed inventor who dreams of building a revolutionary new spacecraft and an intelligence agency desk jockey faced with the impossible choice of saving her daughter - or saving the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Techno thriller? Or hard science fiction? Either way, it’s excellent!
- By Martin L. Shoemaker on 07-22-18
- Level Five
- Killday, Book 1
- By: William Ledbetter
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Great Book Great Series
Reviewed: 12-12-23
Mr. Ledbetter has given us a fresh new world, populated with compelling and believable characters. I look forward to future work from him. Mr. Andrew’s brings these characters to life, seemlessly switching between them. I highly recommend this book and series.
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Night of Sorrows
- War God, Book 3
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 24 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 408
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 357
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Story5 out of 5 stars 355
Graham Hancock, an expert in ancient civilisations and author of the nine million selling Fingerprints of the Gods, and expert, too, on the use of hallucinogens to achieve higher states of consciousness, brings these two interests together in the final volume of the War God trilogy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's Graham Hancock!* It's great.
- By Ludwig on 01-26-18
- Night of Sorrows
- War God, Book 3
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
Excellent Series!
Reviewed: 11-25-23
I didn’t know that Graham Hancock wrote fiction until I found this series.
I have enjoyed his non-fiction works for decades. It turns out that his historical fiction is every bit as good.
I highly recommend these books. You won’t be disappointed.
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First of My Kind, 2nd Edition
- By: Marc Stevens
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 836
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 770
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 771
First of My Kind is the story of Nathan Myers, a Missouri farm boy who, through a chain of events that happens halfway across the galaxy, finds his way from the seat of his Grandfather's tractor to the command of a starship from a lost super race. Nathan will tell you in his own words about the life and death struggles he encounters on his journey. He will tell you about the humor, peril, and pain of his galactic education.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Main character has 6th grade personality
- By Ron A. Parsons on 08-18-18
- First of My Kind, 2nd Edition
- By: Marc Stevens
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
Excellent Book!
Reviewed: 10-11-23
Mr. Stevens has written a great first book for what I hope will be a a great series. Mr. De Ocampo performed narration of every character, including some switching between them, even in the fastest scenes. I love the whole concept of this story and it’s implications for future stories. I recommend this book to all space opera fans.
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Embers of War
- By: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,217
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,212
From BSFA award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war. The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator has an annoying cadence
- By Hilmi S Alkindy on 09-20-20
- Embers of War
- By: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek
A most excellent listen.
Reviewed: 09-11-23
Mr. Powell has created a new world, full of great characters that struggle with their pasts and strive toward better futures. In short, they are messy persons, very much like us. They get to fly around the galaxy, though. May I be the first to request that the hopper mission to Andromeda be pursued in some future work? Thanks for the wonderful ride, Sir!
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