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The Divide Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Eiden
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Nicol Zanzarella
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By:
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J. S. Dewes
About this listen
"Both readers are brilliant and nail the characterization in a way that instantly connects them to the listener. Everything here is top-notch." (Booklist, starred review)
The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in J. S. Dewes' fast-paced sci-fi adventure The Last Watch, where a handful of soldiers stand between humanity and annihilation.
The Divide.
It’s the edge of the universe.
Now it’s collapsing - and taking everyone and everything with it.
The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels - the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military.
At the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no comms - nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in the hole could be Cavalon Mercer - genius, asshole, and exiled prince who nuked his grandfather's genetic facility for “reasons”.
She knows they’re humanity's last chance.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he'll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he succeeds, he might trigger an interstellar war, but success might also point the way to the next step of Homo quantus evolution.
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Just when I had given up.... jack pot!
- By Zach on 11-08-18
By: Derek Kunsken
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Ghost Station
- By: S.A. Barnes
- Narrated by: Zura Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—a space-based condition most famous for a case that resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. When she's assigned to a small exploration crew, she's eager to make a difference. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that crew is hiding something. While Ophelia focuses on her new role, her crewmates are far more interested in investigating the eerie, ancient planet and unraveling the mystery behind the previous colonizer's hasty departure.
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Too Much Inner Whining
- By Michael on 07-27-24
By: S.A. Barnes
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Murder by Memory
- By: Olivia Waite
- Narrated by: Blair Baker
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
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Hope This Series Takes Off!
- By Katrina on 04-16-25
By: Olivia Waite
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These Burning Stars
- By: Bethany Jacobs
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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Jun Ironway—hacker, con artist, and occasional thief—has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is also dangerous. The Kindom, the ruling power of the star systems, is inextricably tied up in the Nightfoots’ monopoly.
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Wow - what an excellent space opera 🚀
- By Marie S. on 10-23-23
By: Bethany Jacobs
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The Blighted Stars
- By: Megan E. O'Keefe
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Humanity is running out of options. Habitable planets are being destroyed as quickly as they're found and Naira Sharp thinks she knows the reason why. The all-powerful Mercator family has been controlling the exploration of the universe for decades, and exploiting any materials they find along the way under the guise of helping humanity's expansion. But Naira knows the truth, and she plans to bring the whole family down from the inside.
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Has a Dune feel to it
- By The Mitzlaffs on 07-19-23
By: Megan E. O'Keefe
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Trading in Danger
- Vatta's War, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Moon
- Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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The first of the acclaimed Vatta's War books, the exciting military science fiction series that features a swashbuckling spaceship-captain heroine who mixes commerce with combat.
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Highly Recommend
- By L'Aura on 11-28-09
By: Elizabeth Moon
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Exiled Fleet
- Publisher's Pack (Books 1-2)
- By: Richard Fox
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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Book 1: Albion Lost: For centuries, the Daegon waited. They plotted. And now they are ready to strike. The core worlds of settled space enjoy a tenuous peace, unaware and ill prepared for the threat building beyond the furthest reaches of humanity. The star kingdom of Albion stands as a shining light of justice and mercy in a harsh galaxy, and they will be the first to suffer the Daegon's fury. Book 2: The Long March: Commodore Thomas Gage and his fleet, safeguarding the last of the Albion Royal Family, are on the run.
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Very good series ... so far
- By Sailfish on 10-23-17
By: Richard Fox
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The Starship in the Stone
- By: M.R. Forbes
- Narrated by: Dave Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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When Thomas heard the cries for help, he didn’t hesitate to do the right thing. It was his chance for redemption. Until everything went wrong. The cave should have been deserted. The perfect place to hide. Instead, it’s crawling with soldiers and engineers working to unearth the impossible: Excalibur.
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Interesting take on King Arthur
- By Survivor T on 03-01-25
By: M.R. Forbes
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The Fourth Consort
- A Novel
- By: Edward Ashton
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. That’s what they told him, anyway. The only actual members of Unity that he’s ever met are Boreau, a giant snail who seems more interested in plunder than spreading love and harmony, and Boreau’s human sidekick, Neera, who Dalton strongly suspects roped him into this gig so that she wouldn’t become the next one of Boreau’s crew to get eaten by locals while prospecting.
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Loved the Mickey 7 books. But this was bad.
- By s bell on 03-11-25
By: Edward Ashton
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Seveneves
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
- Length: 31 hrs and 55 mins
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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Odd narrator choice
- By Josh Mitchell on 05-30-15
By: Neal Stephenson
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Saturn Run
- By: John Sandford Ctein
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
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For fans of The Martian, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from number one New York Times - best-selling and Pulitzer Priz - winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope - something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do.
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Best Sci-Fi Book in a While!
- By Ted on 05-29-17
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Terms of Enlistment
- Frontlines, Book 1
- By: Marko Kloos
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world...or you can join the service. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth.
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TICKET PUNCHER
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-16-14
By: Marko Kloos
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- Sum Guy
- 05-05-21
Enjoyed this one
Although the "Science" seems really far fetched, this was a fun story with interesting characters. looking forward to next book.
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- BN
- 03-18-24
Character transition
Kept me interested over the miles. Good one for a drive. On my way to the sequel
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- Kristine
- 07-12-24
Another "new to me" author
I keep going back and forth with trying to decide whether or not it is better to read reviews prior to reading a book. Sometimes it is extremely helpful, yet other times, it can color your expectations - whether good or bad - and create some pre-conceived opinions that you may not have reached on your own.
Why am I mentioning this? Well, I wanted to get a peek at what this book was about and got caught going down the rabbit hole with reviews. One of the comments I read was that there wasn't enough character development and we didn't get enough reasons to like the main characters, to root for them. So when I started reading, that was in the back of my mind.
In the end, I enjoyed this book. The storyline, the world building, and yes, the characters were unique, interesting, and well developed. I really liked the two main MC's - Adequin Rake and Cavalon Mercer - but Cav was completely my favorite. Yes, there could have been more character development. It would have been great to learn more about their backgrounds earlier in the book but I still felt enough of a pull for Cav and for Rake to understand them and to root for them.
Where I think the concept might have been started was where there is a fairly significant loss of life in the beginning of the story, but because it was mostly at the beginning and we didn't really KNOW any of the characters, it was more like just reading about an event. There was no actual "feelings" for me one way or another. That is dramatically different from the end where there is another "event" that definitely hit me in the feels, even though this character in particular wasn't that well developed either, but by that time I WAS invested with Rake and it impacted me for that reason.
I will say that by the end of the first book there was enough character growth (especially in Cavalon) that I honestly FELT proud of him and was completely invested in his journey. Rake, on the other hand, was a little more difficult to unpack, but her personality traits and her utter confidence and strength made it easy to respect her. There were some fun secondary characters- Em, Jackin, Owen and Puck - that also seemed to add to the breadth of the story.
I'm not much of a science fiction fan, but this book was easy enough to follow along with. There was enough "science lingo" to make things seem plausible and there weren't that many times where you just had to throw out any plausibility - at least, it all seemed to work once you bought into the initial concept. I listened to most of this on audio and felt like the narrators, specifically the male narrator - Andrew Eiden - did a fantastic job. This book seems like it was written to be made into a movie and after finishing the book I learned that the author is a screen writer. That actually made sense because there were many, many descriptive visual cues in the story that seemed to make the movie in my head easier to develop.
So, I am off to book 2. After all, saving the universe is not an easy job - I need to follow along with the gang to see what's going to happen next......
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-08-21
Worth the read
overall the book was very enjoyable but the pacing was a bit off-putting. There were some excellent moments and one in particular in the latter half of the story that was enough for me to go ahead and pre-order the next book!. looking forward to the next half of the story!!
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- Kyle J.
- 12-08-21
A story inside a world I need to know
I loved how this story existed inside a world, I guess "universe" would be more appropriate, that I need to know more about. The Sentinels find themselves in a fight against time and the edge of the universe, and this story focuses on that. I've been a sucker for a survival story every since I read the Hatchet when I was a kid. These characters find a way to keep going when they could easily give up. I kept reading to find out how they could make it through, and at what cost. The implications for everything that can result for their choices are enough to make me seek out book two asap.
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- Steve Angeles
- 10-11-21
Excellent book, looking forward to the rest.
My only criticisms are the lack of language used to describe what the characters were going through. One of the main characters has some heavy PTSD and decision fatigue, along with heavy guilt from a past decision. But when they are hit with heavy issues it they get stuck, the descriptions and reasoning is lacking even though the reader knows what's going on. It makes for less heavy feeling when these issues return. Stakes don't match the actuality when seen as a whole because I don't feel the paralysis or the momentum behind the issue.
Beyond that, loved it. Plots within Plots, character arcs, and increasing danger.
Oh... and big eye rolls to the people complaining about curse words. There were hardly any... and even if there were, then don't play the book for your Sunday school class. Try a Chuck Palahniuk book some time you delicate things.
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- Fox
- 05-09-22
not bad. not fantastic either.
It stays away from a lot of the typical stereotypes for this genre which is good. The Science is good. seems legit without being overwhelming. the MC was a bit weak. usually I get a little tired of a MC that's way OP and doesn't know it or w/e but with this I kinda wished he was a little op. just a little. The MC is not powerful or really all that special really. only thing that sets him apart is his family heritage and his education, which is meh. I couldn't even remember his name for the 1st half of the book so yea. also, I guess the author was making a point that in the future, relationships will definitely not be bound by gender and male on male relationships were completely common and almost expected kinda. examples came up like 4 times with no character comments at all. it was bad or overwhelming at all, it was just kinda odd. didn't really fit I guess.
overall the story was unique and I did enjoy the story and will for sure get the next book.
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- Eric Jones
- 05-01-21
Interesting, but uneven
Decent but uneven story. Good ideas, but narrative gets bogged down in the details of minor events and the repetition of interpersonal conversations and inner monologues. Narrators are OK. Not a bad listen, but could have been more.
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- R. Jernigan
- 06-22-21
A solid demonstration of science fiction
This novel has pretty much everything you could hope to see in science fiction: aliens, inexplicable tech, ftl travel, cybernetic body mods, far-future society; heck, it's got a novel end-of-the-universe peril thrown in too.
Looking forward to the sequel.
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- Doo
- 06-03-22
man what a ride
can't say enought great things about this..
funny sarcastic male main
a not gonna take any S main female
2 great narrators done in the way if kings style...female narrator for her side male for his side.
lots of great laugh out moments, little bit of crying.
just a great story all the way thru.
and to be honest I liked it better than the expanse, and I liked the expanse alot. but the politi al side kid of slogged it sometimes
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