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Antarktos Rising
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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A phenomenon known as crustal displacement shifts the Earth's crust, repositioning continents and causing countless deaths. In the wake of the global catastrophe, the world struggles to take care of its displaced billions. But Antarctica, freshly thawed and blooming, has emerged as a new hope. Rather than wage a world war no nation can endure, the leading nations devise a competition, a race to the center of Antarctica, with the three victors dividing the continent.
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There is so much going on in this book
- By Midwestbonsai on 03-25-15
- Antarktos Rising
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Another Sci Fi Sermon Uhg
Reviewed: 09-03-24
I bought these books on sale. WOULD return if I could. Great premise almost always devolves into soap box preaching. Like we get it. You are religious . List your crap under religious category not Sci fi.
This book was one of the worst.
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Raising the Past
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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A mammoth, flash frozen in solid ice 10,000 years ago is brought to the surface by a team of scientists. An act of sabotage frees the giant from its icy tomb and reveals the secret held inside: the body of an ancient woman, cloaked in furs, slides out of the mammoth's belly. But it is not the woman that holds the team's attention - it is the object she is clutching: a device created by an advanced civilization.
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Disappointing
- By Christopher J. Ward on 01-09-12
- Raising the Past
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Its Sci Fi not Sunday School
Reviewed: 08-24-24
Another typical starts out with a cool Sci Fi premise only to devolve into a platform for Robinson to foist his religious beliefs onto listeners. Sigh...
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The Didymus Contingency
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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If you could go back in time...and witness any event...where would you go? When Dr. Tom Greenbaum faces that question after successfully discovering the secret to time travel, he knows the time, place, and event he will witness: the death and failed resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dr. David Goodman, Tom's colleague and closest friend follows Tom into the past, attempting to avert a time-space catastrophe, but forces beyond their control toss them into a dangerous end game.
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Not what I expected at all.
- By Wesley on 12-17-13
- The Didymus Contingency
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Bible sermon disguised as scifi. VERY religious
Reviewed: 09-25-23
If I wanted to relive the days of religion and fairy tales being forced fed to me via the guise of a science fiction story
I would join any of "new age" cult religions.
I respect a persons right to believe what they want
I don't like being deceived into purchasing a book whose premise is time travel only to find out the actual story is to substantiate the story of the bible... I will not purchase any Robinsons "origins" series as I feel they are all going to be thinly disguised sermons . I will be requesting a refund for this one
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A Rational Zombie
- By: Virlyce
- Narrated by: Mare Trevathan
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
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The world ended. A zombie apocalypse broke out. The main character is already dead.
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Honestly this was a unique take on the zombie apocalypse
- By Phillip on 05-26-20
- A Rational Zombie
- By: Virlyce
- Narrated by: Mare Trevathan
What a snoozefest..
Reviewed: 08-17-23
Great concept.. suuupppperr boring writing, narration, execution ... just a snoozefest. Then it ends.
gather all the bad reviews and you'll find they are being generous
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- Stories of Tomorrow
- By: Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, Amor Towles, and others
- Narrated by: Evan Rachel Wood, Rosa Salazar, Jason Isaacs, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward. Featuring stories by Andy Weir, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, N. K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, and Blake Crouch; with narration by Evan Rachel Wood, David Harbour, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar.
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Very weird ride
- By John W on 02-15-20
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- Stories of Tomorrow
- By: Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, Andy Weir, N. K. Jemisin
- Narrated by: Evan Rachel Wood, Rosa Salazar, Jason Isaacs, David Harbour, Steven Strait, Janina Gavankar
Boring. Pretty sure all are excerpts from Tumblr
Reviewed: 08-07-22
These stories are not "thought provoking" as I am sure the authors intended.
Just a boring 8 hours of snowflake entitlement . I promise you'll find more riveting thought provoking stories and ANY social media platform where people feel compelled to be noticed , validated , given a voice by being a hot sloppy mess and vomiting that diatribe all over the internet
The narrators are mostly female and cannot do a male voice at all
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Jurassic Dead Box Set
- By: Rick Chesler, David Sakmyster
- Narrated by: Andrew Tell
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
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Now available in one collection, the Jurassic Dead omnibus includes all three novels in the action-horror trilogy: Jurassic Dead, Jurassic Dead, Book 2: Z-volution, and Jurassic Dead, Book 3: Ctrl-Z. An Antarctic research team studying an underground lake discovers something far more amazing: perfectly preserved dinosaur corpses. After one thaws and wakes ravenously hungry, it becomes apparent that, like life, death will find a way. Billionaire visionary and megalomaniac William DeKirk has plans for these dinosaurs....
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Cool Idea; Passes The Time
- By Daniel Delgado on 11-13-17
- Jurassic Dead Box Set
- By: Rick Chesler, David Sakmyster
- Narrated by: Andrew Tell
Mindless Farce
Reviewed: 06-20-22
So if you expected War and Peace from a title like Jurassic Dead .. well you are obviously as brain dead as the characters.
The plot concept is new , has possibilities. Sadly the writer just doesn't have the talent to carry it off.
Narration is pretty okay.
Book two you feel like maybe the writer may have taken a class or two and he starts to get it together.
Book three is comprised mostly of recap situations. Towards the end we get new info by then you have fallen asleep or otherwise moved on.
A massive amount of story line is suspiciously similar to Jurassic Park series.. only the names have been changed to get away with outright copycat writing.
All in all this was a sale book and a box set so you get what you pay for.
IF I had spent a credit on it I would be getting that credit back
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Bacchanal
- By: Veronica G. Henry
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It’s a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she’s a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she’s a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza’s ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger than herself, Eliza finds a new home. But the Bacchanal is no ordinary carnival. An ancient demon has a home there too.
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Wow! What a ride!
- By Macncheezex3 on 07-27-21
- Bacchanal
- By: Veronica G. Henry
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Pretty entertaining.
Reviewed: 06-20-22
Not an OMG you must listen but fairly entertaining. The narrator does a respectful job with the multitude of characters ..
It was good back ground story
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You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News
- Shocking but Utterly True Facts
- By: Cracked.com
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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You're going to wish you never got this audiobook. Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in. Think you're going to choose whether or not to buy this book? Scientists say your brain secretly makes all your decisions 10 seconds before you even know what they are.
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Buenas fabulas de humor
- By Cynthia on 10-27-14
- You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News
- Shocking but Utterly True Facts
- By: Cracked.com
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Wow! So entertaining!
Reviewed: 06-20-22
If all history were taught in this format the world would be SO much better educated.
What a book. The writing is funny, sardonic, informational in a " No shit?" way. Great stuff
Johnny Heller really delivers it. One of his better performances . You will laugh out loud. Find yourself rewinding to make sure you heard that little fact correctly.
Buy it, listen, enjoy.
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.
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Not my cup of tea
- By NorthernPerson on 04-21-20
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Super fun! Great narration : )
Reviewed: 06-02-22
Great book. A bit dated feeling which lends to its charm. Not an excellent book. You wont be dying to know what happens next. But enjoyable and super fun. Easy listen.
The narrator does a great job. As a rule women just don't pull off doing male voices.
Bahni Turpin does a respectable job with this. I think her narration made the book a bit better than the writing actually is?
Any who .. if you like old school vamp with a twist and southern charm you'll enjoy this book.
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Ruins of the Earth
- Ruins of the Earth, Book 1
- By: Christopher Hopper, J. N. Chaney
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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A secret buried in the Antarctic. A puzzle unsolved for thousands of years. And a Brooklyn-born master gunnery sergeant who's royally pissed that he has to babysit the researchers sent to figure it all out. But when Patrick "Wic" Finnegan finally sees what the team has uncovered, he can't believe his eyes, nor is he prepared for the violence to come. Soon, the portal opens and unleashes a storm of unbridled fury upon humanity.
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I really wanted to like this.
- By Jeremy Korpi on 04-06-21
- Ruins of the Earth
- Ruins of the Earth, Book 1
- By: Christopher Hopper, J. N. Chaney
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Even R.C Bray can't save this one!
Reviewed: 04-02-22
The issue with this story is the lack of a story. The author delivers one sentence of story for every 6-8 paragraphs of over descriptive military wanna be porn.. and it is soooo poorly written. Like maybe a 12 year old pre puberty?
It is really bad..... Boring.... Inaccurate on a epic level of fail...
R.C Bray literally could make a economics class bearable.. he is really just that fantastic which is why we were able to endure the two hours we did.
It just goes from bad to a level of geesus this is unbearable.
No matter the "deal" just pass on this one.
Well unless you are a 12 year old boy with delusions of military grandeur that knows squat about anything realistically done in the military... well in combat at least.
If this author has any military experience I guarantee it was behind a mop, in a kitchen, etc..
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