A Blessing of Unicorns
Sub-Inspector Ferron Mysteries, Book 2
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Elizabeth Bear
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A new science fiction mystery featuring Sub-Inspector Ferrin, from two-time Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear.
A woman has vanished. She reported her disappearance in advance.
In the Bangalore, India, of the 2070s, a young woman who is internet-famous enters an empty police station and tells the virtual assistant that her life is in danger. When she disappears out of her own apartment, it's up to Police Sub-Inspector Ferron and her partner to determine whether a crime has even been committed. In a world of enhanced tech and extreme interconnectedness, can someone truly disappear?
To find the answers, Ferron will need to enter a braver, newer world of virtual reality - and deal with the small matter of a herd of tiny, vicious unicorns.
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- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Ben Miles, Jonathan Bailey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Time travel meets history in this Audible Original drama. When Max, a recent ancient history graduate, is offered a mysterious job at St Mary's Historical Research Institute, she quickly comes to realise this isn't any old stuffy research library. At St Mary's the historians don't just study the past - they revisit it. What begins as an academic exploration of events, such as the Peterloo Massacre, takes a dark and dangerous turn, and the historians of St Mary's soon learn that it's not just history they're fighting....
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Might be tough for longtime series fans
- By Lora Feeley on 05-20-17
By: Marty Ross
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The Youngbloods: Family Demons
- By: Gwenda Bond, Kami Garcia, Sam Humphries
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Lee Osorio, Amber Dekkers, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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The Youngbloods are a mafia-like demon family, sent as a sinister advance team to prepare Earth for an infernal invasion. But when something goes wrong, the demon invasion never comes and the Youngbloods are stuck on crappy Earth with the worst creatures in the world—each other. Petra Youngblood is the family’s hunter. Her job: to track and kill the annual human sacrifice that keeps the Youngbloods immortal. Otherwise, they will crumble to dust. But as Petra is hunting down this year’s sacrifice, a man named Killian Irons, she breaks the first demonic rule.
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Can’t wait for release of next in series!
- By What do you do with 1 on 06-23-23
By: Gwenda Bond, and others
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Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark
- By: Stephanie K. Smith
- Narrated by: Karla Crome
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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Tourmaline Larou lives an idyllic life of learning by day and partying by night. An aspiring poet, her future promises nothing less than brilliance. Then, Vignette Stonemoss walks through the door, and Tourmaline’s world is upended. As she struggles to understand the effect this stranger has on her, Tourmaline and her fellow fae face a looming threat from the human world. War is on the horizon, and their very existence is at stake. And Tourmaline will discover whether love will save her - or destroy her.
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Lesbian Fae Poetry meanderings
- By Ed Pegg Jr on 10-04-19
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Self Help
- By: Ben H. Winters
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Ron Perlman
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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Jack Diller is just one more struggling actor on the road to nowhere. He’s got an agent who barely remembers his name, his ex-girlfriend has hooked up with a Silicon Valley dude, and the milk in his fridge is so far past its sell-by date it’s historic. The only way Jack can scrape together a bare existence is by delivering food to exactly the types of successful people he wishes he could be. Then, one day, a very strange audiobook shows up on his phone.
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Entertaining and slightly thought provoking, overall humorous
- By Jaxon on 05-30-22
By: Ben H. Winters
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Junkyard Cats
- Shining Smith, Book 1
- By: Faith Hunter
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets. This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining - warning her of a coming attack.
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Would be a great story, if most of it wasn't missi
- By Amazon Customer on 01-11-20
By: Faith Hunter
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In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns
- Sub-Inspector Ferron Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Bear
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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Fifty years hence, in the sleek modern city of Bangalore, a scientist working on revolutionary bioengineering techniques has been discovered inside his own locked home, his body converted into a neat toroidal package of meat. It's up to Police Sub-Inspector Ferron to unearth the victim's complicated past and solve the crime, despite the best efforts of the mastermind behind the murder, aliens beaming signals from the Andromeda Galaxy, her overbearing mother, and the intricacies of dealing with the only witness - an adorable parrot-cat.
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Entertaining with a good narrator
- By Anonymous User on 10-15-20
By: Elizabeth Bear
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Just One Damned Thing After Another
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Ben Miles, Jonathan Bailey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Time travel meets history in this Audible Original drama. When Max, a recent ancient history graduate, is offered a mysterious job at St Mary's Historical Research Institute, she quickly comes to realise this isn't any old stuffy research library. At St Mary's the historians don't just study the past - they revisit it. What begins as an academic exploration of events, such as the Peterloo Massacre, takes a dark and dangerous turn, and the historians of St Mary's soon learn that it's not just history they're fighting....
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Might be tough for longtime series fans
- By Lora Feeley on 05-20-17
By: Marty Ross
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The Youngbloods: Family Demons
- By: Gwenda Bond, Kami Garcia, Sam Humphries
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Lee Osorio, Amber Dekkers, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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The Youngbloods are a mafia-like demon family, sent as a sinister advance team to prepare Earth for an infernal invasion. But when something goes wrong, the demon invasion never comes and the Youngbloods are stuck on crappy Earth with the worst creatures in the world—each other. Petra Youngblood is the family’s hunter. Her job: to track and kill the annual human sacrifice that keeps the Youngbloods immortal. Otherwise, they will crumble to dust. But as Petra is hunting down this year’s sacrifice, a man named Killian Irons, she breaks the first demonic rule.
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Can’t wait for release of next in series!
- By What do you do with 1 on 06-23-23
By: Gwenda Bond, and others
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Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark
- By: Stephanie K. Smith
- Narrated by: Karla Crome
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
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Tourmaline Larou lives an idyllic life of learning by day and partying by night. An aspiring poet, her future promises nothing less than brilliance. Then, Vignette Stonemoss walks through the door, and Tourmaline’s world is upended. As she struggles to understand the effect this stranger has on her, Tourmaline and her fellow fae face a looming threat from the human world. War is on the horizon, and their very existence is at stake. And Tourmaline will discover whether love will save her - or destroy her.
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Lesbian Fae Poetry meanderings
- By Ed Pegg Jr on 10-04-19
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Self Help
- By: Ben H. Winters
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Ron Perlman
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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Jack Diller is just one more struggling actor on the road to nowhere. He’s got an agent who barely remembers his name, his ex-girlfriend has hooked up with a Silicon Valley dude, and the milk in his fridge is so far past its sell-by date it’s historic. The only way Jack can scrape together a bare existence is by delivering food to exactly the types of successful people he wishes he could be. Then, one day, a very strange audiobook shows up on his phone.
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Entertaining and slightly thought provoking, overall humorous
- By Jaxon on 05-30-22
By: Ben H. Winters
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Junkyard Cats
- Shining Smith, Book 1
- By: Faith Hunter
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets. This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining - warning her of a coming attack.
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Would be a great story, if most of it wasn't missi
- By Amazon Customer on 01-11-20
By: Faith Hunter
What listeners say about A Blessing of Unicorns
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- Marc Guillotte
- 06-01-22
A strange near future sci fi myatery novel.
It might not be my normal cup of tea, and I doubt a 50 plus white male reader is the demographic they were expecting, but I felt the premise and a few world building aspects of this story were excellent. I mostly lile a near future post apocolypse story that was optomistic. We survive a near end of the world in the near future. That was refreshing. Loved the tone and consiatancy of voice, there was all that internal identity conflict the regualr audience ans likely the author craves but annoys me but it didnt detract from the action and furthered character developement instead of being trite drivle. great job. will correct spelling on my computer when I get home.
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- Boots
- 10-22-20
Very Enjoyable
I really enjoyed this unique story - well written, excellent narration. Wasn't sure what to expect - I found the story compelling from the beginning. Thanks much.
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- Elisabeth Carey
- 11-13-22
Ferron confronts a tricky mystery & her own issues
Sub-Inspector Ferron and her partner get a relatively rare summons to, not come to police headquarters, but to join an immersive virutal reality replay of a citizen's recent visit. A virtual reality influencer star came in to report that she is being stalked online by someone threatening her with death if she goes online. And if she doesn't go online, of course she can't do the influencer work that provides her livelihood. It's not just an empty threat; another influencer, her close friend, was getting similar threats and has now disappeared.
But by the time Ferron and her partner get back to the station, the woman who had originally accepted protective custody has changed her mind and left, believing the stalker could have hacked the police computer system. When they go looking for her, they find, instead, a herd of tiny, bio-printed unicorns.
When they go looking for the other missing young woman, they find another herd of tiny, bio-printed unicorns. Both herds have to be taken to the exotics section of Animal Control, and then they have to get back to figuring out the significant connections between the two young women, the connections that will lead to the person who has either killed or kidnapped them. It strikes Ferron that among all the different sponsorship items they had received to feature in their online activities, each of the women had received very expensive bioprinters. And a herd of tiny, bio-printed unicorns is about the same mass as an adult woman.
It's not long before she has a new line on the investigation, an unpleasant realization she'll have to venture into the artificial reality world of these young influencers, and an even more unpleasant new argument with her mother--whose high-quality archive of all her online AR adventures Ferron has stopped paying for because she simply couldn't afford it. The complications of her family life intertwine with her dislike of AR, her complicated relationship with her mother and with the rest of her family in the kin-block she lives in, and a painful encounter with her own weaknesses.
In two novellas, Ferron has done an impressive amount of character growth. It's an intriguing mystery, solid world-building, and solid character development, too.
Recommended.
I bought this audiobook.
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- Jaelle
- 01-27-21
Well done
I very much enjoyed this science fiction novella and appreciate that it was one on the Audible “included with your subscription”titles. The story is refreshingly different and the main characters are well drawn. It piqued my interest in other titles in this series.
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- Ivy E Lonnen
- 03-06-21
Quit complaining
The narrator’s voice matched the story perfectly. The story was cute, and I very much enjoyed the world building. It felt like a very likely future.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-05-20
A pleasant surprise
A well written and well read work of insightful fiction. Some elements are outstanding both in construction and presentation. well worth the time.
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- M. Hamilton
- 12-11-20
Fun story
Cute and well done. But missing how the detective really got to figure things out. Just kind of jumped to the solution in the end without really developing the detective' s thought process.
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- 3Bonny
- 03-17-21
very fun! good narrator!
enjoyed this very much . excellent and inventive setting. excellent characters too, with the kind of operational stories that make me want to hear what happens next.
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- Nikita
- 10-25-20
Interesting Story.
the narrator sounds like she has an Indian accent. I dont understand why everyone is complaining. She narrates quite well. and the story is fine. cute little short that takes place in the not so distant future.. very centered around virtual reality.. I enjoyed it.
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- BizzyB23
- 01-16-21
Very unique and fun
This was a really fun, witty story with clever world-building. I enjoyed it while stuck in quarantine, a nice change from darker fiction. I could listen to the narrator's clear, lilting voice all day.
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