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- De: Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of 20th-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.
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Introibo Ad Altare
- De richard en 03-20-13
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The Conquering Sword of Conan
- De: Robert E. Howard
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 17 h y 39 m
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This collection features Howard at his finest and Conan at his most savage. Truly heroic fantasy at its best, this volume contains "The Servants of Bit-Yakin", "Beyond the Black River", "The Black Stranger", "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula", and "Red Nails", which is perhaps Conan's most famous adventure.
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The definitive Conan
- De Jesse en 11-03-09
De: Robert E. Howard
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Naked Lunch
- The Restored Text
- De: William S. Burroughs
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone.
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Delightful rendition
- De csk en 10-11-12
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Red Mars
- De: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 23 h y 51 m
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts.
For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars. Leaving Earth forever, these 100 people have traveled nine months to reach their new home. This is the remarkable story of the world they create - and the hidden power struggles of those who want to control it.
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- De Dana en 07-17-08
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Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian
- The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus
- De: Robert E. Howard, Finn J. D. John
- Narrado por: Finn J. D. John
- Duración: 35 h y 6 m
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This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author.
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Great Reading!
- De Jackson en 07-19-17
De: Robert E. Howard, y otros
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Forge of Darkness
- Kharkanas Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Steven Erikson
- Narrado por: Daniel Philpott
- Duración: 31 h y 55 m
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Forge of Darkness takes listeners to Kurald Galain, the warren of Darkness, and tells of a realm whose fate plays a crucial role in the fall of the Malazan Empire and surrounds one of the Malazan world’s most fascinating and powerful characters, Anomander Rake. It’s a conflicted time in Kurald Galain, where Mother Dark reigns above the Tiste people. But this ancient land was once home to many a power...and even death is not quite eternal. The commoners’ great hero, Vatha Urusander, longs for ascendency and Mother Dark’s hand in marriage, but she has taken another Consort, Lord Draconus.
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A Precursor Epic Fantasy - A Rewarding Beginning!
- De Michael en 11-08-12
De: Steven Erikson
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Cryptonomicon
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 42 h y 44 m
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....
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Two thirds through and quit
- De Joshua en 06-20-16
De: Neal Stephenson
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Doomsday Book
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 26 h y 20 m
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For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure. For Dunworthy, her mentor, it is cause for intense worry about the thousands of things that could go wrong.
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Timely, beautiful, terrible and haunting
- De mudcelt en 11-02-09
De: Connie Willis
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The Forge of God
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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On September 28th, a geologist working in Death Valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area. On October 1, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago.
Something is happening to planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to contemplate
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Great Story, Wonderful Listening, But the Editor?
- De George Knight en 07-14-13
De: Greg Bear
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Gateway
- De: Frederik Pohl
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
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A human-focused SF classic
- De Ryan en 12-05-13
De: Frederik Pohl
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The Black Company
- Chronicles of The Black Company, Book 1
- De: Glen Cook
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead - until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her....
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Hard Boiled Morally Ambiguous Epic Fantasy
- De Jefferson en 03-18-11
De: Glen Cook
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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The boy can't help himself and so on the run again
Gene Wolfe's The Sword and the Lictor is the third installment in the Book of the New Sun. Severian has finally made it to Thrax and settles in only to encounter another woman that he takes pity upon and shirks his duty. This action forces him on the run where he encounters several interesting characters including Agia who keeps turning up like the bad penny she is. He also transiently adopts a young boy and reminisces about his youth. He meets a strange two headed individual and experiences a bit of the alien technology that Earth has lost. Finally, he reconnects with with Dr Talos and meets some aliens just as other events seem to be overtaking him.
Wolfe provides a few more clues about the alien relationship with a suggestion that Earth leadership is strictly under control. Severian remains an aimless wanderer without any clear direction or purpose as he interacts with a wide variety of people that reflect a disjointed human population that is largely uncontrolled where quite a bit have gone feral. Technology is firmly in the realm of magic with the aliens without clear objectives or purpose.
Davis continues his easy going rendition with excellent character distinction.
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- Janet & Greg Carter
- 04-07-22
Amazing!
Not a book that is easy to get a grip on. It is instead a book that will grip you in its immense layers and depths.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-19-23
Love the Performance.
After having failed to continue reading this series many times but still having the curiosity, I decided to try the audiobook version.
What a great choice that was. Thanks for the great narrator with his pleasant voice and performance, I listened to the end of the series and now finished the third book for the second time.
I usually cannot stand excessive voice acting - you know, like when the narrator makes hideous voice for villains, monsters, mean elderly people, obnoxious little children, hysteric housewives, pompous gentlemen and such. Some male narrators who try to do female voices for female characters make me dearly wish that they rather had not tried that, vice versa for female narrators with male characters.
But with Jonathan Davis, everything is near perfect. He does the voices but never make it weird or cranky. He never overdoes it to make the listeners cringe. Even for the female characters!
In the chapter 33, six characters have conversations. I was taken aback only afterwards, how smooth and natural the scene sounds, with the narrator giving each character distinctive voices that really fit for each of them.
In short, Jonathan Davis rocks!
I thank for his performance. He made the series far richer.
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- Tzoltzor
- 06-13-23
One of the best Series of Books
Severian’s dark journey is endlessly fascinating and profound… and disturbing. Johnathan Davis is the perfect voice for Severian. He sounds exactly like what you’d imagine the voice in Severian’s head, recounting all he remembers, sounds like.
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- sharp7
- 09-06-21
Absolutely insane ride!
This book is much better than the previous two. So many amazing revelations, world building, and terrifying encounters. The characters are all super interesting as well.
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- C. Steinhoff
- 02-04-15
Great creepy sci fantasy book
Fills in all the hole's from the first 2 in the series . starts out slow but ends up great.
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- Doug D. Eigsti
- 01-10-13
Become a Seeker for Truth and Penitence
This is a review of the four volume THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN (TBNS) by Gene Wolfe; which traces the coming of age of Severian, once a member of The Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence.
In printed form the earlier works of Gene Wolfe can be quite challenging and this is the quintessential Wolfe novel. The esoteric language employed forces your eyes to slow down and read with great care. So many of the words, while supposedly all authentic English words, are unfamiliar that looking up at least a handful of them is necessary to understand the text. As a result, the reader’s mind has time to explore Severian’s world as the protagonist himself is doing. The printed books are heavy in the hand and the weight of the pages fore and aft serve as constant reminders of what has come before, and what is yet to be.
The most telling observation I can give about the audio book is that it transforms a massive tome into a much more personal narrative. As an audio book TBNS takes on a less intimidating, much more intimate and even more friendly character. The inexorable pacing of the narrator, Jonathan Davis, does not permit pauses for reflection, or speculation, the story plows on, without pausing to try to pronounce a word, without going back to regain the flow of the plot after a difficult flashback. And it is just fine.
Jonathan Davis is a most excellent narrator for TBNS. His voice has a deep calming quality that is well suited to recounting Severian’s story. He gives each character their own individual voice. He gives a fine performance ranking this among my favorite audio books. I can recommend all four of the volumes of TBNS here on Audible without reservation.
Note: The short afterwards that are part of each of the four volumes are not included in the audio versions. They should be read to get the full effect intended by the author Gene Wolfe.
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- Steve L
- 08-07-12
If you've made it this far, keep reading
What did you love best about The Sword of the Lictor?
Wolfe's use of symbolism and language are among the best I have ever read. His books are not for the faint of heart. Although his main character is a headsman, the content is not why I caution casual readers to think twice. Wolfe is a master, and he doesn't slow down to let you in on any of his secrets. You HAVE to pay attention to each word.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Severian is a richly-penned antagonist. His idetic memory makes for some fun times and deeply philosophical rants. I think he would be a difficult character to put on the big screen because of it, but he shines in book form because we get to hear every word of his (and others') thoughts.
What does Jonathan Davis bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The easy answer here is that he gives life to the words that the author has chosen. That could be meaningless drivel, except that Wolfe provides eloquent use of vocabulary that few others would dare to use. Each sentence is a finely crafted work of art. Davis has a mild, calm delivery which fits well with Severian's demeanor. I have always considered myself an "audio learner" and this is the first book which I absolutely had to hear to absorb.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I was too busy thinking to have much of an emotional reaction. His strength is in building a world and making the reader question his or her concept of memory, religion, violence, honor, etc., rather than invoking an emotional response.
Any additional comments?
Again--do not tread lightly. If you choose to read this book, you must listen closely to every word. I expect to re-read the whole series just to re-build the timeline in my head.
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- Alison
- 01-12-14
obviously amazing
If you loved the first two books (and lets face it, why would you pick this one up if the first two weren't your cup of tea), then you'll not be disappointed by this installment of the series. Once again we rejoin Severian quite a bit further along in his journey then when we left him at the end of the last book, but I found this transition easier to follow than the last, maybe just because I was expecting it more.
We follow Severian through the book as usual, with some familiar characters coming and going, and some new ones too. If it's been a while since you finished the last book, probably wouldn't hurt to refresh your memory before you start this one. This book probably has as many random tangents as the last but I found them more enjoyable or easier to follow or more relevant than the side stories in the last book.
I realized while listening to this book that part of what I love about Gene Wolfe's writing is that so much happens in the book, but every scene or incident is so well described and fleshed out. It's never rushed. But nor is it weighed down with unnecessary description. A lot of writers could learn from Wolfe. The world he creates is so realistic and easy to immerse yourself in, but so lacking in detailed descriptions (ie. what does the alzabo actually look like?).
Johnathan Davis's voice and narration style couldn't be more perfect for these books. I've been listening to some of the other things he's done, and he's an excellent narrator, but nowhere is he as good as he is here.
Can't wait to download the last book!!
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- daren
- 01-02-13
thick and powerful
Would you consider the audio edition of The Sword of the Lictor to be better than the print version?
absolutely better than print...gene wolffe is a master of imagery and depth...listening ensure nothing is missed and everything makes sense.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Sword of the Lictor?
the sheer convoluted poetry and descriptive abundance
What about Jonathan Davis’s performance did you like?
a beautiful and long range voice
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
if only i had the time
Any additional comments?
get it now
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