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  • Earthrise: 2176

  • By: J. C. Gunn
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Earthrise: 2176

By: J. C. Gunn
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

The Year is 2166: To the people of Earth, the universe seemed to be a very lonely place. Astronomers had discovered tens of thousands of planets and many had indications of organic life. SETI had been searching for signals for over 200 years. There had been a few tantalizing bits of radio or radar energy received but nothing was ever proven to be of intelligent origin.

But there was an alien civilization out there, in fact, many of them linked together in a Web of Worlds. They were watching us quietly, carefully and patiently. It had long been the prime directive of the Web that no developing civilization be contacted until that civilization made it into interstellar space on their own and that always took time, lots of time. Most civilizations took 1,000 years or more to go from steam to the atom and none had made it from the atom to an FTL drive in less than 10,000 standard years, so there was plenty of time to watch the Earth...

What would happen if a beautiful engineer and a brilliant physicist accidentally discovered an artificial gravity field which would make a faster than light drive possible?

This is a story of grand adventure and discovery about Earth's First FTL Starship, but does not contain any space battles, lazer blazers or bug-eyed aliens in the ventilation system. It is a high tech science fiction story with a diverse cast of fun and intriguing characters.

Earthrise: 2176 is the first novel in the Earthrise Series.

This title uses virtual voice narration

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Meh!

Who knew that Faster Than Light Communication and Travel could be made so routine and bureaucratically tedious. And alien first contact would be rendered so routine. Let's not even discuss the narration. It's done by an AI. Grover Gardener you have nothing to worry about.

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Painful AI narration-horrible

Good story-painful to listen to. AI voice was flat and unaffected. Would have been much better if read by a human.

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interesting story

the AI reading of the story made it a very boring listen. no inflection or pitch change used by the best audiobook readers. it sometimes made it difficult to tell which character was talking.

I liked the quick progression from gravametric communication to star drive and soon to first contact. sometimes all in one book is nice with out having to milk a trilogy out of it.

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Promising but fails to deliver.

Promising basics surrounding this story. but the narrative creates two dimensional characters. reader sounds like a teenager forced to read from a history textbook in class

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Great store but AI narration distracting

Great story line good character development but AI narration distracting some aspects inconsistent but easy to overlook

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