
Moving Mars
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Narrated by:
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Sharon Williams
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By:
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Greg Bear
Mars is a colonial world governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, brave, and intelligent, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of Earthly powers to keep the best inventions for themselves.
The young Martians - the second and third generation born on Mars - have little loyalty to Earth and a strong belief that their planet can be independent. The revolution begins slowly, but matures to its inevitable conclusion.
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Critic reviews
- Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1996
"It all adds up to a blowout of a book, perhaps the best of the recent Mars novels, and certainly one of the best sf novels of the year." (Publishers Weekly)
"Moving Mars is an accomplished, thoroughly mature novel that should be placed at the top of anyone's `to be read' stack." (Science Fiction Age)
"Stunning and remarkable invention and extrapolation." (Kirkus Reviews)
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Great story/book. I've heard it several times
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The audio performance is very good with alot of effort to emulate voices in suits, remote communications,etc. Overall, I really enjoyed this story.
Great book and performance
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that some parts of it sounds like they duct taped a phone to the inside of a dry toilet bowl and closed the lid and had the narrator perform the story on the other end of the phone while the engineering team recorded the muffled sounds that came out of the toilet bowl after they echoed off the bathroom walls.
The story is particularly creative, the science is relatively solid given the speculative nature of the narrative's future.
Even though the audio was pretty much a minor crime against the humanities (*smirk emoji*), the story itself was the enjoyable brainy read I've come to expect from GB.
Darwin's Radio is still my favorite but I've enjoyed everything else he's written. Audio issues aside, I've enjoyed this novel at least as much as any other GB novel I've read/listened to. <<== grade school grammar teachers from the 70's, I just ended a sentence with a preposition, deal with it - it's proper English. LOL. (Not that I care about grammar so much - I'm a descriptivist that leans towards a linguistic anarchism - I just love seeing natural born sentences ending with a preposition in the wild and hope to provide sanctuary from prepositional genocide executed by editors & others still pedaling 18th century hokum & Latin infatuations.)
Should you listen to this audiobook - ummm - that's a crapshoot. Had I known how gods awful the recording was, I'd have just bought the ebook & read it. In all honesty - until they can fix the audio, Audible shouldn't even offer it for sale. I consider it a waste of a credit. And even if it was only a dollar, I'd have to think hard about wasting my dollar. The audio is atrocious.
Audio is a concert of flatulence. Great story.
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Bad accents
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Narration was monotone. the accents were actually kind of offensive. I am Chinese and when I heard the stereotypical "Chinese accent" i cringed. Although it was only one instance that I remembered, it's enough to leave an unpleasant impression.
Great story, terrible audio
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That being said, it's one of my favorite stories from my favorite writer of science fiction, Greg Bear. Just read the book on the Kindle and skip this audio recording! Unless Audible can replace it with a version that has higher fidelity.
Amazing book scuttled by terrible audio recording
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Good book, terrible audible
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Bear focuses on many themes common in planetary colonization with plenty of backstabbing and double dealing. In particular, variable distances between Mars and Earth plays a pivotal role in shaping the action. Earth is focused on maintaining hegemony while Mars is split among the status quo, Mars first, and an integrated triple. Although science plays a pivotal role, the sci-fi elements do not overwhelm the tale.
The narration is superb with excellent character distinction and overall smooth pacing.
When you just can't get along with the neighbors
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Digital artifacts in audio
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