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Permafrost

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
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A Locus Award Finalist for Best Novella

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.

2080: At a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox.

2028: A young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head...an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own - one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one.

Does she resist...or become a collaborator?

©2019 Alastair Reynolds (P)2019 Macmillan Audio Fiction Hard Science Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Time Travel Surgery
Unique Time-travel Concept • Tight Plotting • Perfect Narration • Wonderful Protagonists • Complex Storyline
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Most believable time travel scenario ever! Narrator was terrific. Perhaps I missed it somewhere in there, but what did the note say in the altimeter?
Really great, highly recommended.

Wow

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This is an excellently imagined time travel story. Don't let the 4hr length dissuade you from purchasing it! I have read it twice and recall the story and characters frequently, due both to the author's characters and the narrator bringing life to them.

Such an outstanding book!

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This was a great choice, even though it’s in the short side. It’s based on mind-bending paradoxes caused by crude time travel. Really gets you thinking.

A superb short story

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I really hate time stories. I only got this because I really like Alastair Reynolds.

It was done well, had a fresh approach, got me invested right when it ends.

Too short, but done well.

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I have read everything he has ever written so I feel I have literally "paid" my dues to finally write a critical review.
we certainly know he can write great novels and while he has developed a fascinating Mcguffin,
the character development and the storyline development is way below his standards. it almost feels like a writing for hire project.

not my favorite Alastair Reynolds

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A time travel story that actually seems logical and makes the science realistic. Beautifully performed. The only negative is that is it relatively short.

Great short sci-fi from a master storyteller

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I really like this genre of shorter but high-concept scifi.

I've read books with similar plots but this one one still really enjoyable.

short but fun

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I was a bit worried at the beginning with the narrator, but I guess she was just warming up. Turned out to be one of the better performances I've heard in the end. Once she found her stride and I got used to the accent.

And of course, another excellent story from Reynolds: if a little short. A sign of a good story. I left wanting more.

Excellent work

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I didn’t want it to end...How does it turn out after the seeds are recovered?

I loved this...

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Loved it... I it's a thinker as in you better concentrate to follow along,

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