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George Guidall
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Greg Bear
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Emanuel Goldsmith, a famous poet, murdered eight people, then disappeared. Three people want to find him: an aspiring writer, an embittered scientist who wants to use him, and a policewoman who needs to put him in custody before the Selectors, a vigilante organization, get to him first.
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By: Stephen Baxter, and others
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Singularity Sky
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion?
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Gonzo giggleworthy geekitude
- By Noah Smith on 11-11-10
By: Charles Stross
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Bridging Infinity
- By: Jonathan Strahan - editor
- Narrated by: Michael Welch, Suzie Athens, Michael Rahhal, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Bridging Infinity puts humanity at the heart of these vast undertakings - as builder, as engineer, as adventurer - reimagining and rebuilding the world, the solar system, and even the entire universe. This continuation of the award-winning Infinity Project anthology series features bold new stories from Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Gregory Benford, Zachary Brown, Pat Cadigan, Kameron Hurley, Scott Lynch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Hannu Rajaniemi, Allan Steele, and many more.
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An excellent collection of very good science fiction stories many of which have a humorous tone.
- By Misha on 01-13-25
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The Cretaceous Past
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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When a Tyrannosaurus rex suffers pain from meat trapped between its enormous teeth, a nearby colony of ants risks entering the great creature's maw to make their own repast from the remains of the dinosaur's most recent meal. From this humble beginning, over the course of millennia, a symbiotic civilization achieves amazing advances, facing dangers and exploiting opportunities at every turn.
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Maddeningly Accessible
- By Makelessnoise on 01-07-22
By: Cixin Liu
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Starfish
- Rifters Trilogy Series, Book 1
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew - people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater - down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.
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An excellent story, but only half of it
- By Casey on 02-12-20
By: Peter Watts
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The Paladin
- By: David Ignatius
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs
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When a daring, high-tech CIA operation goes wrong and is disavowed, Michael Dunne sets out for revenge. CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.
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Could have been a short story
- By disappointed buyer on 05-28-20
By: David Ignatius
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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
Bear packs quite a bit of baggage into this tale. The significance on the binary millennium (2048) seems a bit geeky. Much of the verbiage is introspective, while the international diplomatic kerfuffle seemed forced. The space probe looks like a concept that was never fully fleshed out for a standalone story.
The narration is very well done with excellent character distinction. Pacing is on the slow side.
Near future perspectives on mass killings
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fantastic, a whole new experience on audio
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The primary protagonist being a "transform" is remarkably prescient. I found all of the characters well drawn and compelling, including the AI.
The journey into the Country of the Mind of Goldsmith was astonishing.
Not to give away anything (I hope), it is well worth the listen, and /or read.
Excellent story
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A trove of great ideas
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Where does Queen of Angels rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Among fiction, very high. The narrator was excellent and the story was engrossing.What did you like best about this story?
I liked the complexity of the story and the way the author managed to make interesting characters while also introducing fascinating scientific topics (of varied fields).What about George Guidall’s performance did you like?
It was easy to tell by his intonation which character he was portraying. He got across emotion without ever seeming tawdry.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Not in one sitting (it is 19 hours long), but it was definitely a book I was always excited to get back to.Excellent SF that has aged well
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What a find
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But if it is supposed to be a murder mystery, it becomes lost in the fog of each character's existentialism.
If the point of the wiring was to get you add list into their reality, it is a masterpiece. But if it is meant to be a murder mystery, it fails miserably.
The lack of continuity made me stop halfway through, after finding that I had stopped listening several times, and had to remind to where it had lost my interest yet again.
Waaaaannnnnddddeeeerrrrssss..................
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Brilliant, prescient, resonant masterpiece
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