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Freedom's Ransom
- Freedom Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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The survivalist days are over, and the time has come for Botany to find its place in the power struggles of the newly configured universe. As an agricultural planet, rich in resources, Botany has more to offer than the colonists may have thought. A trip to Earth shows Kris and Zainal very dramatically how weakened the home planet is after years of Catteni domination, and how much Earth needs what Botany can give.
Other worlds too have had their wealth skimmed away by the Catteni: the nearby planet of Barevi is little more than a corrupt bazaar, where bits and pieces of Earth's once powerful technology can be traded for grain and mineral ores.
Earth needs food, and the resources to rebuild. Botany needs technology - from solar satellite panels to simple batteries - and, some say, the will to protect itself from being overrun by refugees who may or may not have strength and skills. As alien influence fades, the people of Botany must decide what kind of world they will become.
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Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the prime minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris' blood - and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the Marines.
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Harsh reviews seem undeserved to me
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In the Garden of Iden
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- By: Kage Baker
- Narrated by: Janan Raouf
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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The first novel of Kage Baker’s critically acclaimed, much-loved series, the Company, introduces us to a world where the future of commerce is the past. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus, Inc. One of these is Mendoza, the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden.
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Very different SF, both in performance and tone
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By: Kage Baker
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A Hymn Before Battle
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- By: John Ringo
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans - for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!
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Another heads up!
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The Tar-Aiym Krang
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Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings - two great golden clouds suspended in space around it. Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers - a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip.
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The First of the Flinx and Pip Novels AT LAST!
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Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
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Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire.
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Best Sci Fi Fun anywhere!
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Family Law
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People love easily. Look at most of your relatives or coworkers. How lovable are they? Really? Yet most have mates and children. The vast majority are still invited to family gatherings and their relatives will speak to them. Many have pets to which they are devoted. Some even call them their fur-babies. Is your dog or cat or parakeet property or family? Not in law but in your heart? Can a pet really love you back? Or is it a different affection? Are you not kind to those who feed and shelter you? But what if your dog could talk back? Would your cat speak to you kindly?
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Excellent story and very probable
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Up Against It
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Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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Very old school SF, in ways good and bad
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Beholder's Eye
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- Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell
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They are the last survivors of their race, beings who live on and communicate through energy, who are capable of assuming the shape of any other species. When their youngest member is assigned to a world considered safe to explore, she is captured by the natives. To escape, she must violate the most important rule of her kind, and reveal the existence of her species to a fellow prisoner - a human being. Now her race is in danger of extinction, for even if the human does not betray her, the Enemy who has long searched for her people may finally discover their location.
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Julie E. Czerneda on Audible=WIN
- By Marniac on 08-06-12
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Sten
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The first book in an action–packed new SF adventure series. Vulcan is a factory planet, centuries old, Company run, ugly as sin, and unfeeling as death. Vulcan breeds just two types of native: complacent or tough. Sten is tough. When his family is killed in a mysterious accident, Sten rebels, harassing the Company from the metal world’s endless maze-like warrens. He could end up just another burnt–out Delinquent. But people like Sten never give up.
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THE MASTERPIECE BY JERRY SCIARRIO
- By Professor on 10-31-12
By: Chris Bunch, and others
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Falling Free
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Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
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Don't read this one first
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not like Pern books
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- Lori
- 10-09-17
I love this book
This was a great book! Great narrator. I have listened to it over and over.
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- Kelli S.
- 10-22-22
Worth getting the whole series!
I have come back to this series time and again! Great story and narration! Great read!
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-11-17
Freedom series
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I LOVE Ann McCafrey regardless of the subject of her books. She has a wonderfull imagination and a unique way of expressing it. I get totally hung up on her books and can't lay them down. Its better for me to start a book after work on Friday....
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It keeps you hopping just when you think this will be a good time to stop she starts in again. There were one or two of her books I read straight thru. Glad I started on a Friday.
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- Lawrence E. Lynch
- 04-08-24
Good tie in with previous books
Wished there were more story line about how slaves were rescued on the other worlds and how earth was being improved.
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- Cindy Nelson
- 04-19-17
love it
I wish she had a chance to write one more book in this series. All of her books are wonderful but I like this one a lot. I listen to it a few times a year.
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- katb64
- 08-07-22
I am really sorry to reach 😢 the last book !
I have really enjoyed all of the stories. I wish there was another book in the series.
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- Cynthia M. Moosey
- 01-31-22
End of the series too bad
My second or third time thru this series and I wish it had more. Miss you Anne McCaffery!
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- clearlight2009
- 12-14-23
Anne McCaffrey is a superb author! Like her other books, I have read this series multiple times. Listening was special!
I preferred the narrator for the first 3 books in this series more than the male narrator for the 4th book. His voice inflections and characterizations for the female characters was really annoying.
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- 06-14-16
why was this the end?
I enjoyed this series and was sad to have it end. I did very much enjoy the story and Performance
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- Cheri Clay
- 09-13-21
Continuing story of Earth Prisoner’s on Botany
Quite Appropriate
After the efforts the Earthlings have made to eliminate the Overlords, they are still having difficulties in purchasing much-needed items still being removed from Earth.
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