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- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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"Eunice Wong smoothly differentiates a diverse cast in this edgy military thriller."—AudioFile
J. S. Dewes, author of The Last Watch and The Exiled Fleet, returns with another science fiction space opera, Rubicon, that melds elements of Scalzi's Old Man's War with Edge of Tomorrow.
Sergeant Adriene Valero wants to die.
She can't.
After enduring a traumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war against intelligent machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity.
When her VI suddenly achieves sentience, Valero is drawn into the machinations of an enigmatic major who’s hell-bent on ending the war—by any means necessary.
The Divide series
The Last Watch
The Exiled Fleet
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
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Critic reviews
“Rubicon and the trauma in it feel terrifyingly real. I couldn't look away.”—Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo-award winning author of the Lady Astronaut series
“Dewes (the Divide series) continues to demonstrate a gift for superior hard sci-fi with a standalone outing that is simultaneously thoughtful and pulse-pounding. ... Fans of smart military sci-fi will be riveted."—Publishers Weekly
“Rubicon is non-stop military SF action with plenty of twists. I couldn't put it down. J.S. Dewes has entered the military SF arena and firmly planted her flag as one of the best in the business today.”—Michael Mammay, author of The Misfit Soldier
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Captain James Decker has lived a life of hunting, killing, and earning credits. To some, it hasn’t amounted to much, but to him, it’s led to him captaining the SC Fortune, a space cruiser with a competent crew that he’s grown fond of. After accepting a bounty hunting mission with a beautiful blonde woman as the mark, Decker finds himself soon without a ship and a crew. But as luck would have it, this same mission gives him back what he lost: a new ship and a new crew.
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Narration and internal monolog !!
- By CooJo on 02-16-23
By: Dante King
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Hypertek
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- By: Micky Neilson
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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Blake Harley is a Skiptracer - a kind of bounty hunter - on the faraway construct world of Concourse Prime. Hired by a corporate client to secure an overdue product, he'll make some quick cryp and be on to the next job. Easy. Except, this job is anything but simple. The product is tied to the immensely powerful and ultra-secret Hypertek, leaving Blake with a choice: be a good soldier, or refuse to help MagnaCorp become the most powerful entity in the system. Another problem: everyone else in Concourse Prime is gunning for the product as well.
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Unfortunately, the book wasn't for me!
- By Lonnie-The GreatNorthernTroll-Moore on 04-13-20
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Alien: Covenant Origins
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- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
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The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is a make-or-break investment for the corporation - and for the future of all mankind. Yet there are those who would die to stop the mission. As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch.
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Great narrator, lackluster writing
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By: Alan Dean Foster
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Captain Tess Bailey is in deep trouble. She and her crew are on the run, pursued by a tyrant who'll take them dead or alive. Tess's best hope is a tall, dark, and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan, who says he can help her. But his motivations are far from clear. With the dreaded Dark Watch closing in, what Tess and Shade don't know about each other might get them killed, unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other before it's too late.
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After years of catastrophic fighting, the rebellion is over. The First Galactic Empire has fallen. Instead of liberation and a return to democracy, freedom, and a new golden age, humanity has been plunged into darkness. Eighteen years after the Great Fall of civilization, stranded on the wrecked world Asherho, Keira Kane struggles to make her way. Adopted, protected, and raised by former Imperial Marines, Keira has been trained as a mechanic and technician. Her skillset is indispensable to maintaining the decaying infrastructure of her dying planet.
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Don't pay attention to those John Lee haters
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This Alien Shore
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It is the second stage of human colonization - the first age, humanity's initial attempt to people the stars, ended in disaster when it was discovered that Earth's original superluminal drive did permanent genetic damage to all who used it - mutating Earth's far-flung colonists in mind and body. Now, one of Earth's first colonies has given humanity back the stars, but at a high price - a monopoly over all human commerce.
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Another excellent novel by C.S. Friedman!
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By: C. S. Friedman
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Space Tripping
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Chuck never thought too deeply about whether aliens existed - not until Jopp, an intergalactic transport pilot, drunkenly crashed on Earth and tried to steal his truck. Now Chuck finds himself unwittingly roped into helping Jopp work off a debt to the universe's most powerful corporation, the Prime Partners Intergalactic Consortium. Through a series of mishaps and misfortune, the duo find themselves in possession of a mysterious black case. In order to survive, they must fend off murderous marauders, an interplanetary police force, and a peculiar crime boss.
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Excellent Book!
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By: Patrick Edwards
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Don't Judge It By The Title
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Into the Unknown
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Criminal attorney Liam Price can't believe his luck. He scored a deal for a suite aboard the Starlit Dream to the exotic world of Aquaria. He surprises his wife, Aria, with the trip for her 40th birthday, and the Price family gets ready for the trip of a lifetime. Soon after the voyage starts, they learn that they’ve somehow jumped to the wrong star system. Liam consults the ship’s computer to determine their location, but he can't access the navigational data. The captain claims that there’s nothing to worry about. Then the ship plunges into darkness....
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I am returning this title
- By D. Dial on 10-14-19
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Earth is a dying planet. To survive, humanity founds the Circuit, a string of colonies across the solar system, dedicated to mining resources vital to preserving what remains of mankind. Here there are no heroes or villains, only those willing to do what's necessary to survive. The New Earth Tribunal, a powerful religious faction, has risen to rule the Circuit. They believe a Spirit within the Earth will one day appear and welcome humanity back home.
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If you liked The Expanse, walk away.
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Alex Hunter - in the mission that turned him from a normal man into the weapon known as the Arcadian - and the elite team of soldiers known as the Hotzone All-Forces Warfare Commandos must enter a hostile country to rescue a defected Chechen researcher from the centre of a country at war. But the HAWCs are not the only ones looking for the rogue scientist and the mysterious package he carries with him. A brutal and relentless killer and his death squad are on the trail, too - and they bring a savagery with them that Hunter and his team have never witnessed before in modern warfare.
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Not bad, but not great
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My history is unknown. My present is violent. My future may be more dangerous still. I use my unique skillset in one of the Moon’s many watering holes. Here, miners can spend their hard-earned money to forget that they’re not among the wealthy elite in the paradise colony on Mars. When a known crime boss walks in, events will begin to unfold hinting at a dark past and an even murkier future.
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Hunh?
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Evan Gabriel wasn't always a feared and respected North American Federation Navy Commander. Before dangerous missions to the ice-bound planet of Poliahu, the deadly jungle world of Eden, and politically corrupt Mars, he was a simple recruit, fighting to make his mark in the elite Naval Special Forces…and was part of a top-secret military experiment that would change his life forever. Zero Point tells the tale of a young man faced with difficult choices and dangerous trials.
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THE FLICKER OF THAT MEMORY
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Overtaken Online Books 1-4
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Thirty-three-year-old game designer Dex Walsh spends an entire year devoured by sorrow after the death of his wife. As a last-ditch effort to regain his joy, he sells everything and joins Overtaken Online. Expecting to spawn in a noob-friendly area with guidance from his personal assistant, he instead finds himself naked and alone in a dark prison cell rapidly filling with gas. Under-leveled and not knowing how to escape, he has no idea how far he will be able to progress as long as he pushes forward and doesn't give up.
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The "hero" is a creep.
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- I'm all ears
- 09-22-23
Almost great, but very dark
This book certainly has a lot going for it. Highly imaginative and compelling, it kept me listening, but ultimately I felt let down. It was just too dark for me.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-06-23
Amazing
What a fun listen. Great story, writing, and narration. I'm sad that it is over and can't wait for more stories grow J.S. Dewes!
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- ElBeardoMagnifico
- 04-03-23
Bloody, Brilliant.
I can't love this book enough. Gripping and cinematic action scenes, relentless pacing, and emotional depth that will make you fist pump right before it tears your guts out. Praying that the publishing gods realize - as I do - that this book *needs* a sequel, or I will not be okay.
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- Sicholas Nequeira
- 04-01-23
incredible
audible reset my review as I was writing it (great service thanks) so all i have the energy to relay from the original review I wrote is I loved it. truly a horror story, but like, only in the best ways a horror story can be.
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- Michael Davis
- 04-07-23
It's Okay.
I had fun with Rubicon overall, but in general it feels like a step back from Dewes's Divide series. As a standalone it felt too rushed for me, especially in the final act. Still an author I'll continue to check out when she puts out new books. One of the better new sci-fi authors overall.
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- Caleb
- 06-16-23
A tired story that seem to be forced.
Unfortunately, I got the impression from this book that the author fell into a whole bunch of bad writer traps.
For ex: Continually trying to “tell” us. How badass her marine is, rather than show us.
Or Introducing characters just to achieve one simple plot point, and then killing them off.
Or Single color emotions, she’s afraid of one thing the hole book. maybe she’s afraid of other things, but she intentionally ignores them, I don’t know maybe the writer is trying to prevent confusing the audience with her complex backstabbing story.
also a lot of the action is thrown in as an afterthought. Like these Marines are scooting around the neighborhood, finding things to keep themselves occupied….. until the next backstabbing plot comes revealed.
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- C. Hartmann
- 04-02-23
Tough but Good
A very interesting premise drives the story. Well written and well performed. There are a number of non-gratuitous descriptions of pain and trauma which are necessary to the plot, but hard on the reader. I gave it 5 stars because I felt the originality outweighed the tough subject matter, Real military space opera stuff.
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- Demetrius
- 05-29-23
Amazing
Great story with twists and turns and memorable characters. Can’t wait for the next sequel.
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- JW
- 07-02-23
Mira's End, a fantastic military sci-fi!
Mira's End, what a fantastic military sci-fi standalone. Checked all the boxes for me, as I am drawn to character-driven stories that lean into close experience of the main character(s). Great balance of action, emotion, and tech and the pacing is stellar. There were times when I was consumed in Adriene's experiences, right there in the thick of the action and/or trauma at play - Dewes balances the internal and external so well. I very much enjoyed the way human, AI, and. mil tech blended in this. More than anything the reflections on, experiences of, and themes circulating around dying and death were very compelling to me. If there is where military sci-fi is heading count... me... in.
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- Joe
- 01-18-24
Many holes in the story but we'll read.
Romance was thrown in for no reason. Too many plot holes. The story starts slow then picks up in middle but begins to make little sense with too many holes by 2/3 and beyond.
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