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Dexter Palmer
About this listen
The acclaimed author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion returns with a compelling novel about the effects of science and technology on our friendships, our love lives, and our sense of self.
Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the Internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: She constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the president seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a "time machine") has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine.
Version Control is about a possible near future, but it's also about the way we live now. It's about smart phones and self-driving cars and what we believe about the people we meet on the Internet. It's about a couple, Rebecca and Philip, who have experienced a tragedy, and about how they help - and fail to help - each other through it. Emotionally powerful and stunningly visionary, Version Control will alter the way you see your future and your present.
©2016 Dexter Palmer (P)2016 Random House AudioCritic reviews
"Mind-bending.... A compelling, thought-provoking view of time and reality." (Booklist)
"Far more than a standard-model time travel saga.... Palmer's lengthy, complex, highly challenging second novel is more brilliant than his debut, The Dream of Perpetual Motion.... Palmer earned his doctorate from Princeton with a thesis on the works of James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gaddis. This book stands with the masterpieces of those authors." (Publishers Weekly)
"A Mobius strip of a novel in which time is more a loop than a path and various possibilities seem to exist simultaneously. Science fiction provides a literary launching pad for this audacious sophomore novel by Palmer. It offers some of the same pleasures as one of those state-of-the-union (domestic and national) epics by Jonathan Franzen, yet its speculative nature becomes increasingly apparent.... A novel brimming with ideas, ambition, imagination, and possibility yet one in which the characters remain richly engaging for the reader." (Kirkus Reviews)
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In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project - and future of time travel - in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team - erasing her contributions from history. Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother Granny Bee was one of the pioneers, though no one will tell her more.
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Lesbian time travelers!
- By Ranee on 10-13-21
By: Kate Mascarenhas
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The End of the World Running Club
- By: Adrian J. Walker
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Edgar Hill is 35 and caught in his own headlock. Overweight slob, underperforming husband, and reluctant father - for Ed, the world may as well have already ended. So when it does end in a catastrophic asteroid strike and Edgar and his family find refuge in an Edinburgh army barracks, it comes as something of a relief. But nothing's ever that simple. Returning from a salvage run in the city, Edgar finds his family gone, taken to the south coast for evacuation by an international task force.
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Hang in there till about hour 4 of the audio book
- By NMwritergal on 09-15-17
By: Adrian J. Walker
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Pattern Recognition
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
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Only gets better with age
- By Mika on 12-14-18
By: William Gibson
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A Quantum Love Story
- By: Mike Chen
- Narrated by: Patti Murin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her…and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he’s saying.
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Excellent narration & worthwhile, but NOT a romance
- By Emily on 02-08-24
By: Mike Chen
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Womb City
- By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
- Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah’s perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret.
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Couldn’t stop listening over 2 days…
- By Tina on 01-28-24
By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- By: Claire North
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his 11th life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August", she says. "I need to send a message". This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
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Not what I'd feared
- By Isobel on 04-29-16
By: Claire North
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All Our Wrong Todays
- A Novel
- By: Elan Mastai
- Narrated by: Elan Mastai
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed...because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down.
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Really fun time travel novel
- By Mark on 07-20-17
By: Elan Mastai
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Light Years from Home
- By: Mike Chen
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused—and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. The women dealt with it very differently. Kass, suspecting her college-dropout twin simply ran off, became the rock of the family. Evie traded academics to pursue alien conspiracy theories, always looking for Jakob.
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Family Drama with present day scifi aspects.
- By Steve Schiroo on 10-17-22
By: Mike Chen
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A Beginning at the End
- By: Mike Chen
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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Six years after a virus wiped out most of the planet’s population, former pop star Moira is living under a new identity to escape her past. Desperate for a fresh start herself, jaded event planner Krista navigates the world for those still too traumatized to go outside, but she never reaches out on her own behalf. Rob has tried to protect his daughter, Sunny, by keeping a heartbreaking secret, but when strict government rules threaten to separate parent and child, Rob needs to prove himself worthy in the city’s eyes by connecting with people again.
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Read his first book instead
- By NMwritergal on 01-19-20
By: Mike Chen
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
- By: Charles Yu
- Narrated by: James Yaegashi
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally.
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Audio Not the Way to Go Here
- By Garrett Matthew on 10-14-14
By: Charles Yu
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The Shining Girls
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Beukes
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.
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You will either love it or hate it
- By L. O. Pardue on 07-16-13
By: Lauren Beukes
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Jason Taverner - world-famous talk show host and man-about-town - wakes up one day to find that no one knows who he is - including the vast databases of the totalitarian government. And in a society where lack of identification is a crime, Taverner has no choice but to go on the run with a host of shady characters, including crooked cops and dealers of alien drugs. But do they know more than they are letting on? And just how can a person's identity be erased overnight?
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An excellent reading of an amazing book
- By dnblack on 05-24-16
By: Philip K. Dick
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Paradox Bound
- A Novel
- By: Peter Clines
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town's still got a video store, for God's sake. So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave? Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting - waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing just long enough to drop tantalizing clues before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. The one who's a walking anachronism, with her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model A Ford.
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I tried SO hard, I really did!
- By Angela Vickery on 10-04-17
By: Peter Clines
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- webtraverser
- 04-29-16
A very different kind of Time Travel story
As some have said, it is hard to talk about this novel without talking about the details. The story is slow burn and there is not much "sci-fi" in it. If you are looking for an in your face kind of time travel story this is not for you. If you like a subtler type of story that has rich and detailed characters, give it a try.I thought he nailed the end perfectly.
January LaVoy is fantastic. I will have search out other audio books by her.
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- Matthew
- 03-15-16
It grabbed me more than I thought
Would you listen to Version Control again? Why?
I don't listen to audio books more than once, so no. I can see how/why someone would however.
What did you like best about this story?
Character driven story, with enough drama/action/ scientific reasoning to keep it interesting. There are great leaps of faith required to keep the story moving forward, but on balance it does a reasonably job of keeping on track.
Which character – as performed by January LaVoy – was your favorite?
Our hero Rebecca Wright is rich and interesting.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Current title works for me.
Any additional comments?
This offering really did grab me. It was rich, complex, thoughtful and in places moving. Clearly the author was using this a platform for their own POV on many aspects of life, which is sometimes irritating, but not in this instance.
The story did have some plot holes and issues however, so i did need to knock it down a notch.
Notwithstanding, it's worth the credit.
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- Juan Mac Donald
- 11-09-16
Great performance
I can't wait to go through the book again and again and discover new information and foreshadowing.
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- Don
- 09-06-16
Awe inspiring!
I am literally awe-struck by Dexter Palmer's imagination and intellect as demonstrated in this book. A multi-dimensional and highly creative narrative coupled with a profound knowledge and insight into the conduct of science made this book one of the most compelling I have ever come across! Truly a tour de force! Coupled with January LaVoy's outstanding performance, I couldn't stop listening!
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- Copeland Carter
- 08-21-21
Definitely a Hidden Gem
I loved this book. It is very well written, has relatable, lovable characters, and a fantastic, yet still believable plot. I will definitely be relistening to this book again.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-05-21
Great time travel book
A new take on time travel that doesnt dissapoint.now i need to go read all his other stuff!
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- Thunder Ridge
- 04-24-18
Lots of detail, no real payoff
I wanted to get to the part where all of the details came together. There was never that moment for me. It just drifts off at the ending.
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- Angeline Kell
- 10-13-23
Loved the book so much I listened to it twice!
The unraveling of the story and the possibilities are fascinating. The writing is exceptional as are the characters.
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- Cliente Kindle
- 09-08-16
masterpiece.
this book drove me to tears, repeatedly. it has great female characters, and a most romantic storyline, that pierced right thru my heart. I'm still in shock.
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- Robert F. Jones
- 05-27-17
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Compelling characters. About the creation of a time machine and the potential implications. Skims over philosophy (categorical imperative etc). Deus ex machina ending.
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