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John Lee
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Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera.
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise.
But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.
Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths....
As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.
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A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur - and for humanity - peace is not to be.
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A great story ruined by narration.
- By Andrew Linke on 06-11-15
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Empire in Black and Gold
- Shadows of the Apt, Book 1
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
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The Lowlands’ city states have lived in peace for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization. Yet that peace is about to end. A distant empire has been conquering neighbours with highly trained soldiers and sophisticated combat techniques. And the city states are its desirable new prize. Only the ageing Stenwold Maker – spymaster, artificer and statesman – foresees the threat, as the empires’ armies march ever closer. So it falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of the cities’ leaders.
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A hidden gem in Epic Fantasy
- By Blaise Ancona on 12-14-20
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Shards of Earth
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space.
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Not sure what the point was [Spoilers]
- By C. Andrew Hessler on 08-27-21
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Halting State
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.
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2 Smart Books Well Worth the Listen - Great Reader
- By C. Hartmann on 01-08-12
By: Charles Stross
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House of Suns
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.
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Science fiction in Deep time
- By A reader on 05-12-10
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Alien Clay
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?
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Super good!
- By Jessi on 11-26-24
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Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
- Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, Book 1
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 30 hrs and 58 mins
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Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.
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The 2024 Six Star Winner !
- By C. Hartmann on 09-22-24
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Light Chaser
- By: Peter F. Hamilton, Gareth L. Powell
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Amahle is a Light Chaser—one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories. But when she listens to the stories sent down through the ages, she hears the same voice talking directly to her from different times and on different worlds. She comes to understand that something terrible is happening, and only she is in a position to do anything about it. And it will cost everything to put it right.
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Life is lonely with only Instagram collars
- By Michael G Kurilla on 07-10-22
By: Peter F. Hamilton, and others
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- Chris H
- 04-24-19
Too arcane this time
This left too much to interpret, and the post script Drew the story we had been told into question. I hate unreliable observer syndrome. Tell me the story, but don't then tell me you lied to me.
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- Sean E Rosenberg
- 05-02-18
Well rounded and fresh
Mr Reynolds has delivered a story with well developed and interesting characters and a completely fresh story in the revelation space universe. I can't wait for the next installment. Where will prefect Dryfus end up next? Will we find out more about the melding plague? A wild New turn?
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- Joseph
- 02-27-23
Great police drama in a sci-go setting
Incredibly detailed, complex, twisting plot, you don’t get much better than this for science, fiction or crime drama.
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- Ryan
- 07-23-23
Awesome
Everything he writes is amazing. This one is so so so so so so good.
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- Matthew J. Bennett
- 02-11-18
Good story, narrator hurts it.
If you could sum up Elysium Fire in three words, what would they be?
Hot Headed Children
What was one of the most memorable moments of Elysium Fire?
When the children realized what they were
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator, John Lee, has a very bad habit of modulating the volume of his voice- he consistently reduces the volume through a sentence- starting loud and getting quieter almost always. If listening in a noisy environment, (like a car) this can mean missing content. This is definitely not the only book where he has done this- It was *FAR* worse in 'Pandora's Star' - it is enough that If I see the book is narrated by Mr. Lee, I hesitate a little.
In every other respect Mr. Lee's performance is exemplary- the characters are performed distinctly and consistently. I make the mention only so that he can improve future performances.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Forgetting isn't perfect
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- Mowrind
- 04-23-18
Strong story in the Glitterband
Some things remain unclear to me after this listen, but that's usually the case with Glitterband stories. John Lee's voicings are sometimes inadequately differentiated, but his unique, crisp elocution is strong compensation for that. As usual with Reynolds, the story is intelligent, though I remain skeptical of the pure democracy notion.
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- Beep-Boop
- 12-26-18
Terrific
I am a big fan of Alastair Reynolds work and Elysium Fire is no exception.
As with his other works, the author slowly teases out the threads from a densely woven narrative, allowing your anticipation and imagination to become engaged and consumed by the breadcrumbs he has so deftly placed in your mind.
As usual, the performance of John Lee can not be overstated as being tremendously rich and thoroughly complimentary to the work.
While this book (as with all AR books I've read to date) possesses the essential ingredients for a good sci-fi story, it is with the addition of self consistency, though provoking world building, and the underpinnings of strong storytelling that separate the good from the great in this genre, and Elysium Fire delivers on all counts.
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- Ollie@TheStoneCloud
- 02-03-18
Another awesome story from Mr. Reynolds
I really loved and enjoyed the story, and the narration from Mr. Lee was excellent.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-18-22
Loved it!
I really like this deep dive into the height of the Glitter Band. The rest of RS shows us the fallen and rotten future, but the tech in this story is fantastic 😍
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- Anonymous User
- 10-23-24
Nestled into a larger satisfying setting
Alistair Reynolds is clearly becoming an even better writer as he goes along. I’ve enjoyed all the RS books and stories but where some of them suffer from a lack of clearly established worldbuilding “rules” which make them hard to grasp early on, this series has been steadily showcasing an improved ability to craft immersive settings that *make sense* while also containing interesting character narratives. For the middle book in a trilogy especially, this was great listening.
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