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Patty Jansen
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24 October 2114: the day that shocked the world.
Young diplomat Cory Wilson narrowly escapes death in the assassination of President Sirkonen. No one claims responsibility but there is no doubt that the attack is extraterrestrial.
Cory was meant to start work as a representative to Gamra, the alien organization that governs the FTL transport network, but now his new job may well be scrapped in anger.
Worse, as Earth uses military force to stop any extraterrestrials coming or leaving, as 200,000 extraterrestrial humans are trapped on Earth, as the largest army in the galaxy prepares to free them by force, only Cory has the experience, language skills, and contacts to solve the crime.
But he's broke, out of a job, and a long way from Earth.
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Robin Ballantyne's life is finally coming together. After learning she was pregnant with twins and being abandoned by her irresponsible boyfriend, Adam, she's settling into life as a single mother. But one night, after putting the children to bed, she hears an argument and suddenly, a body falls past her window. Running outside, she finds the body of Paula Carmichael, a renowned activist.
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Rich, developed and unusual
- By Hannah Coale on 02-02-05
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Altered Carbon
- By: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
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In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
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Altered Carbon
- By Jake Williams on 09-22-07
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Layover in Dubai
- A Novel
- By: Dan Fesperman
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Corporate auditor Sam Keller, careful to a fault, has decided to live it up for a change. And what better spot for business-class hedonism than the boomtown of Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slopes of a shopping mall. But when a colleague is murdered during a night on the town, Sam soon finds himself waist-deep in a bewildering, lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, and crooked cops.
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Dubai Dubai Doo
- By itinerant on 02-14-12
By: Dan Fesperman
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Crewel
- Crewel World, Book 1
- By: Gennifer Albin
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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For generations, girls known as Spinsters have been called by Arras' Manipulation Services to work the looms and control what people eat, where they live, how many children they have, and even when they die. Gifted with the unusual ability to weave time with matter, 16-year-old Adelice Lewys is exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen as a Spinster is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. But Adelice isn’t interested.
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Good story
- By abacuscode on 01-12-15
By: Gennifer Albin
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The Bayern Agenda
- Galactic Cold War, Book 1
- By: Dan Moren
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Simon Kovalic, top intelligence operative for the Commonwealth of Independent Systems, is on the front line of the burgeoning Cold War with the aggressive Illyrican Empire. He barely escapes his latest mission with a broken arm and vital intel that points to the empire cozying up to the Bayern Corporation: a planet-sized bank. There’s no time to waste, but with Kovalic out of action, his undercover team is handed over to his ex-wife, Lt. Commander Natalie Taylor.
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tedious
- By itinerant on 03-09-19
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House Immortal
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- By: Devon Monk
- Narrated by: Leslie Carroll
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Matilda Case isn't like most folks. In fact, she's unique in the world, the crowning achievement of her father's experiments - a girl pieced together from bits. Or so she believes. That is, until Abraham Seventh shows up at her door, stitched with life thread just like her and insisting that enemies are coming to kill them all. Tilly is one of thirteen incredible creations known as the galvanized, stitched together beings who are immortal and unfathomably strong.
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Disappointing
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Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, "Dear Amy", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, 15-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a "Dear Amy" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger - a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
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Stunning debut
- By Mystery Maven on 11-18-16
By: Helen Callaghan
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Zodiac: Zodiac, Book 1
- By: Romina Russell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 13 hrs
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Rhoma Grace is a 16-year-old student from House Cancer with an unusual way of reading the stars. While her classmates use measurements to make accurate astrological predictions, she looks up at the night sky and makes up stories.
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Beware the 13th sign!
- By Krista Lemoine on 09-22-16
By: Romina Russell
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Give Me the Child
- By: Mel McGrath
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Dr Cat Lupo aches for another child despite the psychosis which marked her first pregnancy. So when Ruby Winter, a small girl in need of help, arrives in the middle of the night, it seems like fate. But as the events behind Ruby's arrival emerge - her mother's death, her connection to Cat - Cat questions whether her decision to help Ruby has put her own daughter at risk.
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Give Me the Child will give you a heck of a read!
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School for Psychics, Book 1
- By: K.C. Archer
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Teddy Cannon isn’t your typical 20-something woman. She’s resourceful. She’s bright. She’s scrappy. She can also read people with uncanny precision. What she doesn’t realize: She’s actually psychic. When a series of bad decisions leads Teddy to a run-in with the police, a mysterious stranger intervenes. He invites her to apply to the School for Psychics, a facility hidden off the coast of San Francisco where students are trained like Delta Force operatives: It’s competitive, cutthroat, and highly secretive.
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From fun to addictive
- By Mia on 04-17-18
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Secrets in the Mist
- Skyworld, Book 1
- By: Morgan L. Busse
- Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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In a world where humanity lives in the sky to escape a deadly mist below, Cass’s only goal is survival. That is, until she finds a job on the airship Daedalus as a diver. Now she explores ruined cities, looking for treasure and people’s lost heirlooms until a young man hires her to find the impossible: a way to eradicate the Mist.
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Loved it!
- By Hunter Duran on 04-18-24
By: Morgan L. Busse
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- Kim
- 10-06-16
Great beginning to political space opera series
For me, a good story has to be built on believable characters and character interactions. Seeing Red delivers on those counts, and adds to it with solid world-building and a plot that reads as much as a political thriller as a traditional space opera.
I've always been fascinated by fantasy and science fiction because I enjoy the way asking the question What If allows us to explore the possibility of societies different than our own. In Seeing Red, we get a closer look at the Coldi, an alien human race who have little understanding of the value of fantasies and fiction and who are gentically predisposed toward atheism. I enjoyed the way the author explored the difference between Coldi and Earth humans, while the main character, Cory's, status as a delegate put the focus more on the difficulties inherent in diplomatic relations than on space battles and alien technology.
That isn't to say there's not any action. For a diplomat, Cory has a knack for getting himself in the middle of things, and the book begins when he goes to a meeting with Earth's President, only to be caught in an explosion that leads to said President's demise.
What follows is an underinformed delegate's efforts to hunt down a killer and prevent an interplanetary diplomatic disaster, while questioning his own place in a society where he struggles to fit in, and where all the people he tries to get to cooperate seem determined to think the wors of each other. I could all but feel his frustration, and the way the plot of the novel integrated Cory's personal journey toward acknowledging who he was and what he wanted made for an extraordinarily satisfying listen.
The narrator did a good job, too, taking you into the story without being overly dramatic, and as happens with good audiobooks, I found myself forgetting I was listening to someone read to me and instead, just enjoyed the story.
After reading this book, I went out and bought the rest of the series on Kindle, and if they're ever available for Whispersync, I will be getting the rest of the series on audio as well.
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- Bunty
- 04-13-17
GOOD. WELL WRITTEN AND PERFORMED.
I am glad I gave this series a chance. I find the plot enjoyable and it well narrated/performed by Matthew Lloyd Davies. The voices were easy to differentiate and the female voices were alright. Cory Wilson, the protagonist proved a very intelligent and diligent diplomat who was assigned to Gamma,an alien worlld who at the moment were at odds with Earth. Lots of political intrigues when the president of Earth were assassinated. Cory faced obstructions from everybody even from his Earth who unjustly blamed Gamma for the assassination. Excellent book. I hope more of the series will be be published soon.
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- BritMick
- 06-15-19
Not a bad start
Tthis is the first book of what I am sure will be a enjoyable series of books. On the eve of his appointment as the ambassador of Nations of Earth to the alien gamra, an explosive assassination attempt propels Cory Wilson from Earth to the alien city of Barresh where he must prevent an interstellar war, solve a murder and figure out which of several alien factions is behind it all. Wilson is behind the eight-ball almost the whole time: separated from his alien partner and his fiance, his resources cut off by a suspicious Earth, and caught between the interests of bickering alien governments.
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- Patti
- 11-18-19
Alien Political Conspiracy
This is a very detailed and complex Alien mystery and conspiracy. Corey is in a meeting with the Nations of Earth President before beginning his new job as the Gamra delegate when it all explodes around them. Fear and distrust of anyone different is just as prevalent in the future as it is now. His alien assistant, the son of a prominent Coldi citizen, is detained without real cause. Corey has to figure out who is really behind the attack so he can prevent an Interstellar war but he’s blocked and mislead at every turn with few allies to help him. This isn’t a light little space opera, you have to really pay attention but it’s worth the effort.
The narrator Mathew Lloyd Davies does an excellent job with this complex story. He handles the dialog and action sequences equally well and keeps your attention during diplomatic meetings and explanations of Alien politics and society.
I was given this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-05-17
Had a hard time getting into this one
this was an interesting story my but spent way too much time bouncing around in the protagonists brain. A bit more development of the various races and worlds would have been helpful also.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-15-19
good
I totally enjoyed reading this book. It’s well written and the characters were fantastic. I would suggest this book to my friends that like this sort of genera. this was an excellent book
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- MH20
- 07-11-19
Not for me
This book had a lot of promise. Interesting story, interesting characters, quality narration… I thought I would really enjoy it, but soon into the book the author dropped the F bomb, and another profanity which I knew would only continue based on past experience. Just not for me. Too bad.
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