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Firestar
- Firestar Saga, Book 1
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 31 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's summary
It is the dawn of the 21st century, and America is in trouble. Public schools breed apathy and ignorance, and politics has become the art of the quick fix. There is one woman, though, who has both the vision and the money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley van Huyten, heiress to one of the great American fortunes, founds an educational subsidiary called Mentor Academies and begins to subcontract public school systems in order to raise a new, less cynical generation. But her clandestine program is much larger than that: it also includes the founding of a private space program, the eventual construction of an orbital power station, and the revival of technological innovation on Earth.
Firestar is a chronicle of private enterprise and individual initiative—the story of one woman’s quest that becomes the focus for a whole new world. Mariesa’s program lets teachers strive to teach, hires astronauts who have no government space program to fly for, and provides productive outlets for the idealistic desires of the rich and powerful—at least those who remain sane enough to have such desires in the face of a crumbling America. And it just might work.
Michael Flynn lives in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is the winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award and was a Hugo nominee for Eifelheim.
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In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical-physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't. Why? What was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?
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Poignant, Profound, Absorbing and deeply moving.
- By Andrew on 09-03-07
By: Michael Flynn
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The Intrepid Saga: Books 1-3 & Orion War: Destiny Lost
- Aeon 14, Book 1
- By: M. D. Cooper
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 40 hrs and 10 mins
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Tanis is looking forward to a long journey in stasis before arriving at the newly terraformed world of New Eden. New Life. New Start. Getting a berth on the Intrepid is her ticket out of the Sol System. But nothing proves easy for Major Tanis Richards. Nothing is at it seems. What should be a simple trip is fraught with danger and filled with adventure. An array of forces seek to stop the Intrepid - no matter the cost, or lives lost. From competing corporations, to stellar eco-terrorists, no one wants the Intrepid to arrive at New Eden.
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Boring
- By lance on 03-23-20
By: M. D. Cooper
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The January Dancer
- By: Michael Flynn
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized, interstellar human civilization that the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer, pirates take it, rulers crave it, and all will kill, if necessary, to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.
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Excelent space opera
- By Donaithnen on 02-15-09
By: Michael Flynn
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Captain Quasar: The Complete Series
- By: Milo James Fowler
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Captain Quasar is out of time. Pursued by vengeful Goobalob toll collectors, savage Arachnoid bounty hunters, and formidable Amazonians, Captain Bartholomew Quasar must do whatever he can to keep the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude out of harm's way. All in a day's work - except time is not on his side. Torn from the present to relive his past, he vows to keep mistakes from occurring the second time around. But is he doomed to repeat history? Or can he erase his regrets?
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Unexpected Entertainment
- By Justin Souther on 10-27-24
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Toy Soldiers
- Books 1-6 Box Set
- By: Devon C. Ford
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 38 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Disorder and chaos ravage London when thousands are contaminated by the accidental discharge of an experimental bioweapon. The disease robs its hosts of rational thought, giving them a singular desire - find more living flesh to infect.
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Tell us yanks what you REALLY think of us! lol
- By Jim on 08-27-21
By: Devon C. Ford
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The Octopus: A Story of California
- The Epic of the Wheat Series, Book 1
- By: Frank Norris
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
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Like the tentacles of an octopus, the railroad in California reached out across the state, grasping everything of value in the state. Based on the bloody Mussel Slough Tragedy - a conflict between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad - The Octopus is a stunning novel chronicling the twilight of the frontier West. A depiction of the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers, and the ranchers’ League. The book emphasizes the control of “forces” - such as the power of railroad monopolies - over individuals.
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Beautifully written but not for the faint of heart
- By Jeremy H Doxsee on 03-21-23
By: Frank Norris
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Eifelheim
- By: Michael Flynn
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical-physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't. Why? What was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?
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Poignant, Profound, Absorbing and deeply moving.
- By Andrew on 09-03-07
By: Michael Flynn
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The Intrepid Saga: Books 1-3 & Orion War: Destiny Lost
- Aeon 14, Book 1
- By: M. D. Cooper
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 40 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Tanis is looking forward to a long journey in stasis before arriving at the newly terraformed world of New Eden. New Life. New Start. Getting a berth on the Intrepid is her ticket out of the Sol System. But nothing proves easy for Major Tanis Richards. Nothing is at it seems. What should be a simple trip is fraught with danger and filled with adventure. An array of forces seek to stop the Intrepid - no matter the cost, or lives lost. From competing corporations, to stellar eco-terrorists, no one wants the Intrepid to arrive at New Eden.
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Boring
- By lance on 03-23-20
By: M. D. Cooper
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The January Dancer
- By: Michael Flynn
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized, interstellar human civilization that the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer, pirates take it, rulers crave it, and all will kill, if necessary, to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.
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Excelent space opera
- By Donaithnen on 02-15-09
By: Michael Flynn
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Captain Quasar: The Complete Series
- By: Milo James Fowler
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Captain Quasar is out of time. Pursued by vengeful Goobalob toll collectors, savage Arachnoid bounty hunters, and formidable Amazonians, Captain Bartholomew Quasar must do whatever he can to keep the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude out of harm's way. All in a day's work - except time is not on his side. Torn from the present to relive his past, he vows to keep mistakes from occurring the second time around. But is he doomed to repeat history? Or can he erase his regrets?
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Unexpected Entertainment
- By Justin Souther on 10-27-24
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Toy Soldiers
- Books 1-6 Box Set
- By: Devon C. Ford
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 38 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Disorder and chaos ravage London when thousands are contaminated by the accidental discharge of an experimental bioweapon. The disease robs its hosts of rational thought, giving them a singular desire - find more living flesh to infect.
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Tell us yanks what you REALLY think of us! lol
- By Jim on 08-27-21
By: Devon C. Ford
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The Octopus: A Story of California
- The Epic of the Wheat Series, Book 1
- By: Frank Norris
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Like the tentacles of an octopus, the railroad in California reached out across the state, grasping everything of value in the state. Based on the bloody Mussel Slough Tragedy - a conflict between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad - The Octopus is a stunning novel chronicling the twilight of the frontier West. A depiction of the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers, and the ranchers’ League. The book emphasizes the control of “forces” - such as the power of railroad monopolies - over individuals.
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Beautifully written but not for the faint of heart
- By Jeremy H Doxsee on 03-21-23
By: Frank Norris
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Voyage
- The NASA Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Stephen Baxter
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 24 hrs and 45 mins
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An epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events, Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.
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Borrrring
- By Robert on 09-11-21
By: Stephen Baxter
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Sleeping Gods Boxed Set
- Books 1-2
- By: Ralph Kern
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell, Jeffrey Kafer, Michael Kramer
- Length: 29 hrs and 46 mins
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Includes books one and two in the Sleeping Gods series: Endeavor and Erebus.
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As a set, it was so so
- By Sarah Bellew on 08-30-21
By: Ralph Kern
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Blood Music
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream.
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THOUGHT UNIVERSE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-01-15
By: Greg Bear
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The Abyss Beyond Dreams
- Chronicle of the Fallers, Book 1
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 28 mins
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The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel - self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics.
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Intersection of the Void and Commonwealth - Super
- By C. Hartmann on 10-30-14
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Steel Beach
- Eight Worlds, Book 2
- By: John Varley
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
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Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored, restless, suicidal - and so is the computer that monitors their existence.
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Top notch writing; Voice actor needs some work
- By Dale R. on 09-06-21
By: John Varley
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Revelation Space
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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Defeated
- By Eoin on 07-15-12
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The Field of Fight
- How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies
- By: Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, Michael Ledeen
- Narrated by: Lt. General Michael T. Flynn
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn is blunt and urgent. This book aims to inform the American people of the grave danger we face in the war on terror—and will continue to face—until our government takes decisive action against the terrorists that want nothing more than to destroy us and our way of life.
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The Field of Fight!
- By Billy f Allen on 07-25-16
By: Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, and others
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Too Like the Lightning
- Terra Ignota, Book 1
- By: Ada Palmer
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
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Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.
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Outstanding story, if a bit inaccessible at times
- By Ron Lubovich on 10-15-16
By: Ada Palmer
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The Rift
- By: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
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It starts with the dogs. They won’t stop barking. And then the earth shrugs - 8.9 on the Richter scale. It’s the world’s biggest earthquake since Lisbon in 1755, and it doesn’t hit California or Japan or Mexico, but New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. Seismologists had predicted the scope of the disaster - but no one listened. For hundreds of miles around, dams burst, engulfing entire counties in tidal waves of mud and debris. Within minutes, there is nothing but chaos and ruin from St. Louis to Vicksburg, from Kansas City to Louisville.
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Bigotry on Parade
- By cp on 08-20-19
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Alliance Space
- Alliance-Union Universe Series
- By: C. J. Cherryh
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 21 hrs and 51 mins
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This omnibus volume contains two Alliance-Union novels, Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna.
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Loved the books
- By willaim moomaw on 04-23-21
By: C. J. Cherryh
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The Quantum Series, Books 1 - 3
- By: Douglas Phillips
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Kirby Heyborne, Traci Odom
- Length: 33 hrs and 50 mins
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Daniel Rice is a government science investigator whose specialty is solving seemingly intractable problems through scientific inquiry. But Daniel's intellectual strength is sorely tested by the bizarre realities he finds in the quantum world. Extra dimensions of space trap the unwary, probability replaces cause and effect, and time isn't what anyone imagined. The other side of the mirror is a place full of dangers, but it's also somewhere a dedicated scientist can uncover secrets that connect humans with something greater.
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Yes, there was a reason why this was on sale.
- By James Borders on 11-23-20
By: Douglas Phillips
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AL:ICE Boxed Set
- Books 1-4
- By: Charles Lamb
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 42 hrs and 2 mins
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Includes books one through four in the AL:ICE series: AL:ICE, AL:ICE-9, AL:ICE: Resurrection, and AL:ICE: Space War.
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Creepy Naughty Sunday School Junkfood
- By tosbanzai on 02-22-21
By: Charles Lamb
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- Provo
- 11-17-12
good but not great
Good story but no real pop, excitement or action. Light on the intrigue and have on technical but it kept me hanging on till the end. I don’t know if I stayed with it because I truly enjoyed it or because I was waiting and hoping for the action to begin.
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- Anne D.
- 12-03-14
I loved it, some might not.
Overall I thought this book was wonderful. However, it's not jam packed with action and deals primarily with the dream of space, relationships between people, as well as business and government, which can admittedly get a little dry from time to time. I thought the interplay of characters was well done and in particular I loved Flynn's play of language. For me, it was a delight to listen to.
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- E. Ellingson
- 02-08-17
More Drama than Science
The story has many actors and focuses on their interactions, making it drama set in the near future (or alternate recent past at this point). The drama itself is kept to realistic levels, which mean that problems often get worked out without a climatic confrontation. It was well written and well read, but for me ended up too mundane for my taste.
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- Anna Elder
- 03-03-23
Good Book!
After enjoying Eifelheim, thought I’d give this series a go. I am looking forward to Rogue Star!
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- MaryJo
- 03-19-15
A little too much soap opera
Not a bad story, performed well. I suppose all stories have their personal touch, but this was a people story, not a space story. I think if you want excitement and action, this is not very good, but if you want a people story, you should like this.
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- Technik
- 03-25-15
Good but a bit pulpy
Want to know what 2009 was supposed to be like as seen from the 1996? An interesting and entertaining book but not going to blow you away. At times it fancies itself to be Atlas Shrugged in space which comes across a bit heavy handed and immature. I am not sure if it is its age showing or just a lack of imagination but this book plods forward at an predictable but entertaining pace.
I guess in the 90s everything pretty much always worked out and not much ever changed.
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- Alexander Mcconaughey
- 05-07-13
Incredible Epic
What did you love best about Firestar?
Unbelievably well executed story of humanity beginning to reach for the stars.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Ned is a jock pilot who knows what is truly important.
What about Malcolm Hillgartner’s performance did you like?
He makes the characters come alive. I feel like I'm standing in a room with them hearing them speak.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It evokes a feeling that we as humanity can truly do anything. It also is a refreshing look on the modern education system with a true grasp of the problems my generation is creating in the modern work force.
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- sanwizard
- 01-11-18
like listening to a painting. Nice work of art.
Great narration, and great story combines together to take you away from your everyday life, and think of the stars.
Some of the deepest characterization of any book bar Heinlein's Lazarus Long.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-18-22
Endless
Great idea but overlong, and far too much soap opera. Too much class warfare as well.
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- Jane Mcdowell
- 05-16-14
Ayn Rand Lite
The book is too long and ponderous. There is a little bit of science fiction and a lot of other stuff. I am 3/4 of the way through this book and it feels like it will never end. From my viewpoint because it's not set very far into the future the author gets bogged down into a lot of today's geopolitics and socioeconomic woes that really isn't all that interesting to me.
Mr. Flynn did a much better job with Eifelheim, which is another Audible selection, and a standalone SF novel set in the present.
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