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The Myth of the Self-Made Man
- Narrado por: Inés del Castillo, Eric Yves Garcia, Christian Barillas
- Duración: 51 m
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Resumen del Editor
From a stunning new Latino voice, Myth of the Self-Made Man is a wildly inventive story - part sci-fi, with echoes of Get Out - that plunges us into a brave new American landscape.
More than a hundred years into the future, as the US approaches its 400th anniversary, Tomas, a young graduate student, searches for the real identity of one of the cyborgs that maintained American homes. He has been haunted for years by an audio clip of a cyborg named Felipe and is intent on writing Felipe’s biography. In the clip, Felipe can only recite that he was made in America, but Tomas must find out: Where was the Self-made Man really from?
In the National Archives, Tomas uncovers a trove of articles, depositions, and interviews about many other cyborgs, boys from El Salvador and Guatemala kidnapped, detained, and reengineered at a monolithic New England company.
As we follow Tomas’ determined investigation into these lives, their voices echo through our own past, present, and future with unsettling clarity.
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The Dispatcher
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Zachary Quinto
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
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Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-05-16
De: John Scalzi
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Chasing Boaz Manor
- De: Leah McLaren
- Narrado por: Serinda Swan
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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Boaz Manor was a finance wunderkind. He started a hedge-fund company in Canada and later burst onto Wall Street with a product that could transform the crypto market. By all accounts, he was incredibly hard-working. Possibly brilliant. And...a shameless con man who ended up wanted in multiple countries. Chasing Boaz Manor explores Boaz’s schemes through the perspective of those he left in his wake.
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- De Evan Thomas en 05-31-24
De: Leah McLaren
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Decorum at the Deathbed
- De: Josh Malerman
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 1 h y 13 m
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With her husband barely clinging to life at home, Becka has taken to jogging. Running helps clear her head and her heart. But it's not until she discovers a free-standing confessional booth deep in the woods that she begins to clear her conscience. As the days pass, and as her husband's condition worsens, Becka returns to the booth, finding it hard to stay away. But what draws her there? Is it the clean feeling of confession? Or is it what might be listening on the other side of the grate?
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Yawn
- De Scott Loyed en 11-09-20
De: Josh Malerman
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Have at It, Sister
- De: Bill Griffeth
- Narrado por: Bill Griffeth, Ryan Kailbourne, Scott Aiello, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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Gloria Burtzlaff feared for her life one day back in April of 1991 when her abusive husband, Larry, drunk and violent, slapped her, hit her, and began pelting her with glasses. After he tried to drown her in a tub, she got the family shotgun and confronted him in his underwear. “Larry, I’m going to kill you,” she declared. Defense lawyers would later claim he lifted a glass as if to say, “Have at it, sister.” Have at It, Sister is a true-crime tale about Gloria, a South Dakota woman who shot her abusive husband and was put on trial in a precedent-setting case.
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Thank you
- De Shelly W. en 09-02-22
De: Bill Griffeth
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#1 in Customer Service
- The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger
- De: Larry Correia
- Narrado por: Adam Baldwin, Larry Correia
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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Whether he’s underwriting for an overlord, or wearing a pocket protector in a pocket universe, Tom Stranger has just one policy: providing Quality Customer Service. No alien menace is too menacing, no galactic rift too rifty for the multiverse’s most-trusted Interdimensional Insurance Agent in these three brand-new adventures and two classic escapades.
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First half good
- De Ben Koch en 01-07-20
De: Larry Correia
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Tin Man: A Galaxy's Edge Prequel
- De: Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 52 m
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In the wilds of a jungle planet, the Legion fights in brutal combat as Republic marines fly their SLICS from one tragedy to the next. H292, a repurposed warbot, shows the heart of a hero as he wades into the battle not to destroy - but to save.
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So cool
- De Chris en 02-01-20
De: Jason Anspach, y otros
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Junkyard Cats
- Shining Smith, Book 1
- De: Faith Hunter
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets. This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining - warning her of a coming attack.
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Would be a great story, if most of it wasn't missi
- De Amazon Customer en 01-11-20
De: Faith Hunter
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The Maintenance Race
- De: Stewart Brand
- Narrado por: Richard Seyd
- Duración: 52 m
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In 1968, nine competitors set out in a race that had never before been attempted: to sail around the world, alone, without stopping. The route took them through the most dangerous waters on earth. Seeking help was forbidden, and psychologists speculated that the 10 months alone at sea could drive the sailors mad. The winner was promised money and attention, but everyone knew that the real prize was to become a legend. What no one predicted was how.
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Skills For Life
- De Admiralu en 10-02-21
De: Stewart Brand
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Darkness Visible
- Earworms
- De: Arvind Ethan David
- Narrado por: Kirsty Yates, Christian McKay, Miranda Richardson, y otros
- Duración: 38 m
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It is June 1940. The war against Hitler’s forces is raging. And the tide is turning against the British. In this hour of despair, Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives a mysterious letter from an even more mysterious woman, offering a Faustian bargain and a promise of victory. But if Churchill accepts, will he be condemning his nation’s very soul?
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I was enjoying this until…
- De Anonymous User en 01-14-24
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Black Sheep
- De: Meghan March
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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Every family has a black sheep. In the infamous Casso crime family, that black sheep is me - Cannon Freeman. Except I’m not a free man. I’ve never been free. Not since the day I was born. I owe my loyalty to my father, Dominic Casso, even if he won’t publicly acknowledge me as his blood. I’ve never had a reason to go against his wishes...until I met her. Drew Carson turned my world upside when she walked into my club looking for a job. Now, my honor and my life are on the line.
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I INHALED EVERY SINGLE EXCITING SECOND
- De CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 en 07-03-19
De: Meghan March
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Swing State
- De: Rebecca Gilman
- Narrado por: Anne E. Thompson, Bubba Weiler, Kirsten Fitzgerald, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 25 m
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When a recently widowed woman in rural Wisconsin notices her husband’s toolbox is missing, she calls the authorities—and unwittingly starts a chain of events that will forever change her community. What begins as a disarmingly simple mystery blooms into an exploration of loss, the fragility of the environment, and what it means to connect and heal.
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We can all relate
- De Wdj en 03-21-24
De: Rebecca Gilman
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Grieving Conversations
- De: Chris Cander
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 55 m
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County Sheriff Brody Hayes is in the midst of a missing person's call - for a five-month-old baby. Deep in the mountains of his hometown, Bowie, Wyoming, Brody's desperate search for the helpless child through a worsening snowstorm leads him on an even greater journey - one through his memories of his childhood, his brother, his son, and a life for himself that he thought was lost.
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Gripping
- De Shivani en 01-21-21
De: Chris Cander
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The Prynne Viper
- De: Bianca Marais
- Narrado por: Genesis Oliver, Shiro Kihagi, Bianca Amato, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 5 m
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In a futuristic world where predictive software can map out the lives of every living person and their descendants, Naomi Prynne is on trial. The charge: endangerment by way of a pregnancy. Thirteen jurors will determine whether Naomi is allowed to carry the pregnancy to term, but the jurors are also all plaintiffs, the software having predicted how Naomi Prynne’s child will affect each of them in life-changing ways.
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The future of Birth and Free Will
- De Vic en 01-23-22
De: Bianca Marais
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- Dog lover1
- 04-20-21
Fabulous and thought provocating
Great story. Totally believable, even in the near future. Also disturbing. Ironically, I have just listen to the product in the George Floyd murder case. And while justice was done there, I’m not so sure America is ready for total justice, liberty for all and freedom.
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- Shannon
- 04-16-21
Devastatingly Well Written! A MUST read!
This story is so poignant and soul-shattering in all the ways great sci-fi and indeed literature at large should be... I am so grateful to the author for sharing their craft and perspective!
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- lynn allen
- 04-27-21
They Ruined It For Themselves
I am focusing on the negative so people can evaluate if these points would bother them. If you get through the list unbothered, it is the book for you.
1. Dropped an F-bomb, the one and only of the book, in the last 2 minutes of the book. It was completely unnecessary, said by an unlikely character, and added absolutely nothing.
2, Details insistent with futuristic setting. Holograms and cyborgs exist, but you are watching something on a DVD? Seems unlikely, Even today, historically important data is digitized and the originals are kept in a vault for safekeeping. Pretty much everything is the same as today in the "future" except for the cyborgs and mention of a hologram.
3. The information that the main character found, if the story was real, would have been unlikely to exist (or be allowed to exist) and the further information that they received no one would have cared enough about the regular-joe main character to make sure they got it.
4. The poorly pronounced Spanish was a little annoying though this might have been intentional as a literary device.
5. I'm trying to avoid spoilers. So, basically something as mentioned as being "ethically sourced" but it is something that seems impossible to source ethically and the author doesn't explain how it could be possible. Missed opportunity to introduce some futurism and make the story more believable.
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- Nicole
- 05-25-21
We need more!
What a captivating short story. I would have loved to listen to a full book based on this premise.
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- Blue777
- 07-06-21
Human plus technology = Selfmade man
This is a disturbing yet enjoyable nonfiction story. You don't need to worry about your job being automated, you should be worried about ending up a cyborg.LOL.
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- marisol garcia
- 05-18-21
A modern story of slavery and human trafficking
This short story is perfectly woven to include our border crisis with a dash of science fiction. I enjoyed the reader and the story. The conclusion made me so desperately sad.
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- JRCC
- 03-31-23
AMAZING, too bad it's just a short story!
AMAZING, too bad it's just a short story! left me wanting more. it's a very powerful story. In such a short time so much is conveyed.
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- Taylor
- 05-05-21
To the quick
At first I wasn’t sure what to make of this. Unfortunately, by the end I was cut to the quick and my heart was shattered. As someone of Latin descent, I feel that this is where our voices are, currently. Anyone who is looking to understand what it feels like to be latinx in a black lives and white lives matter society without anyone mentioning brown lives, needs to hear this.
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- Mildred Enriquez
- 08-09-21
Great short story
This short story gave an interesting perspective of immigrants being taken advantage of by their own people. I would recommend listening.
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- Laurel Winter
- 04-17-21
My first review. Compelled.
I've listened to MANY great audiobooks and never submitted a review. This book siezed my heart, broke it, and put it back together stronger and more compassionate than before.
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