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The Warp and the Weft (The Worlds of Ryn Wilkie #1)
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- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Confronted with a society where women's voices are stifled and medical advancements are non-existent, Ryn's despair turns to determination when she discovers her ability to flip between worlds.
Can she leverage her abilities to advance their technology and challenge those deep-seated gender biases, or will the weight of their traditions prove insurmountable?
And, can she stop the guy who attacked her before he hurts other women?
"Jump" into the first book of the Worlds of Ryn Wilkie.
“Some of the best Sci-Fi I’ve read in years.”
“…reminds me of Heinlein and Asimov…”
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- 05-27-24
The AI Voice - Game Changer
I love all of Dahners' books (that I have read), and this one is no exception. I'm a sucker for parallel worlds and alternate histories.
What I am anxious to comment on, is the narration. The AI voice is incredible - easy to understand and very "human", not robotic at all. It only mispronounced a couple of words, and mis-emphasized a few phrases. And these are the same flaws I find in most human narrations. So no real criticism or disappointment there.
The only consistent failing is in communicating the speech of the story's characters. Their voices are all the same. When a good narrator is reading a book, he gives each character a unique voice. But, as in reading a book you don't get different voices for different characters. The text is the same for everyone. The differences are in your imagination. And it is the same for this AI voice - it is easy to know who is speaking. I am happy to live with this minor "flaw."
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- Anonymous User
- 05-14-24
Virtual Voice better than "Hal" but not great.
Now I can say I have all of Laurence Dahners books on Audible, but the real person reading the others really makes it way better. This was "included" with my subscription , otherwise I wouldn't have purchased a virtual voice book. I enjoyed the story but the reading was work to listen to. This story isn't as good as his others for me, but he's still one of my favorite authors by far!
In the words or Dr. Dahners, give it a listen and see what you think.
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- Dave Sharp
- 05-09-24
Similar to Hillis family
Love the great medical references. And the time travel stuff. This book was fine. The first hour is slow, but after that, you'll be hooked. Can't wait for the next series.
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- Mark
- 04-05-24
BEYOND EXCELLENT !
Virtual Voice: 4 Stars
Meat Bag Voice: 5 Stars
If I could get a Dahners Audiobook tomorrow narrated Ai or I could wait 2 weeks to get a human narration; I'd take the Ai.
Interestingly I'm willing to criticize a group but not individuals because I have so much respect for the hard work of creative people.
If Virtual Voice brings greater production rates then so be it.
On average over the works by Dr Dahners I enjoy the Ai voices almost as much as the best human narrators. At the time of this review, with only three examples: The Little Redheaded Boy and His Flying Saucer, The Transmuter's Daughter and The Warp And The Weft, I'm hoping Laurence can bring his engaging worlds into this universe more rapidly. One problem is, that most of the meat-sack actors lack sufficient versatility to do justice to the richly diverse characters encountered in one of Laurence's beautiful stories while the Ai voice presents the words more like the printed page which allows our minds to build the graphic worlds the good doctor describes. However the Ai struggles with spacing the words, sentences and paragraphs comfortably. The level of detail never feels like filler in his stories, but supply just what's needed to visualize the scene that his intelligent characters encounter.
There may come a day when I miss the emotional engagement only humans can express, but I crave the works of Dr Laurence Dahners, so the bottom Line: I'll purchase his Audiobooks the instant they are available, be it Ai or human voice, so whichever wins the production race wins my attention.
Is this selfishness or greed on my part? Is this self defeating in the long term? To answer these questions we'll have to engage stasis.
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- T.A. fan
- 04-29-24
A science fiction story read by a computer
Liked the story and the characters. Seems to be a mutant-genius-hero series. Deals with equal rights issues. The virtual voice tech was nearly good enough to sound like a real person. Laury Dahners writes great stories!
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- Aaron & Klarissa
- 06-27-24
Two worlds meet
An interesting book about parallel worlds and what can happen with a small change can really change the world , and how our modern world's technology would seem to be a wonder. That we take for granted.
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- Lawly
- 03-27-24
Virtual Voice Sucks, but the Story Is Good
The story is good, and while it is a different Dahners' story, it still has the Dahners' feel. I would've rated this a 4 star book except for the fact that I listened to it on Audible. It is your typical (in a good way) Dahners hard science fiction story where the protagonist has an ability that us mere mortals do not. She learns to work her gift, all the while making the world(s) a better place.
I listened to it on Audible and that was a bit of a disaster since it was an A.I. narrated story, instead of a human being. I understand that leaves more profit for the author and Audible, but taking the job from a human beings lowered the quality of the narration by a big degree. The author must've written O.R. as the acronym for operating room. The stupid computer pronounced it "or" so the main character entered the "or" a lot, since she is a doctor, and many scenes take place in the operating room.
The story bounces back and forth between our Earth and an alternate earth. (Because I listened to it on Audible with a robot narrating it, I couldn't tell what the alternate Earth was called. The computer pronounced it "Serth" so maybe it was "C-Earth" in the book?). Our protagonist and her best friend Keeley, have a mind to change the alternate earth and to advance women's rights there, where women are stuck hundreds of years in our past with no rights whatsoever. During their time on our Earth, they are both doctors and they are trying to finish out their rotations, all the while stop a serial rapist(s). Also, for those who have read or listened to the Hyllis family books, there is a bit of that in here, too. Because there are multiple story lines going on, the book flies by, is engaging, and interesting. I look forward to the next one (hopefully narrated by a human being).
The narrator repeats each chapter heading twice, presumably because the words "Chapter 10" must appear twice in the story. At various points, it felt like a robot was narrating the story. Sarcasm was COMPLETELY lost in its narration toolbox. We are dealing with rape and some other heavy topics, and having a computer who lacks empathy narrate was an error.
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- Bill
- 04-07-24
Not one of his better ones.
The virtual voice is better than the normal text to speech. It doesn't distinguish between characters and there are odd pauses: I didn't check but I suspect most of these are for paragraphs. For some reason chapter headings are read twice.
I do plan on reading the sequel: but it's not one of his better books. The worlds he's created have potential but the characters, in general, aren't ones I'd want to be around. They don't have the spark/fun I have come to anticipate from almost all his other series. Almost everyone has multiple chips on their shoulders. The issues/ideas seem oversimplified.
He did point out that very few people are aware of how frequently women commit rape. But he didn't show any other awareness of the complexities of early and modern women's rights movements. For example men in general didn't have the right to vote until shortly before women got the vote. The Supreme Court ruled that if men were subject to the draft they deserved the right to vote. Men were and are generally subject to harsher treatment by the courts. Up until very recently life was very nasty for almost everyone. Both men and women.
He repeatedly referred to these athletic modern women being far stronger than old style farm women. The athletic modern women might have some specialized strength for gymnastics/martial arts movements. But for the lifting/toting/all day long strength I'd bet on the farm folk and people from the early 1900's hands down. If he wanted to argue that the farmers were malnourished or generally sickly then perhaps ....
I like his sharp, fun leads who give me a smile and things to think about. This book was lacking from that As in his bioterror book his treatment of vaccines was simplistic. For example he could have acknowledged that the smallpox and polio vaccines accidentally spread very nasty diseases, such as syphilis and RSV, all over the world. Several vaccines have the issue that while they suppress symptoms: many only mildly suppress disease spread if at all. The diseases have the higher risk but generally lower spread of the disease once recovered. One sign of this is how difficult it has become for pharma to produce immunoglobulin. In general people no longer have the long term immunities, in their plasma, used to produce the immunoglobulin.
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- David A. Fournier
- 06-24-24
Virtual Voice DESTROYED this book.
Using AI (Virtual Voice) as a narrator ruined the telling of this story. Firstly, where the author has a character stuttering, the AI is saying the individual letters in the stutter until it gets to an actual word. Second, when the author is indicating a pause by using an ellipse, the AI is skipping over the ellipse without pausing. Lastly, the AI's reading of the story is without the emotional input that a human narrator would include (good or bad).
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- James
- 06-18-24
Virtual Voice is Not Ready for Prime Time
The AI voice is better than I expected but not nearly as good as a skilled human reader. One flaw was frequently putting emphasis on the wrong word in a sentence or letter in an acronym. In TB, ICU, and other acronyms the AI emphasized the first letter instead of the last. And the AI read the acronym OD (for overdose) as the word "odd". Also, the voice was very childish, even though the content was suitable for an older audience.
As for the story, the two main characters are supposed to be intellectually gifted young women (doctors working as residents in a major university hospital and candidates for faculty positions) but their decision-making, conversation, and behavior was more like that of maybe average 15-year-olds.
There were also a few logical flaws and unlikely coincidences in the plot.
But the overall setting is interesting, the characters quite appealing, and the book started to get better toward the end. I am considering getting the next one.
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