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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four worlds because of unique microscopic symbionts that make it impossible for visitors to leave the Diamond. Seeking a unique solution, each of the four worlds making up the Diamond is sent a person whose mind has been stripped of everything and who is now controlled by an agent of the Confederacy. Lilith is the first planet to be visited.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great series if read in its entirety
- By Onix Harbinger on 08-21-18
By: Jack L. Chalker
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Fear the Sky
- The Fear Saga, Book 1
- By: Stephen Moss
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,017
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22,243
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,173
From the Audie-nominated narrator of The Martian. In eleven years' time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible Where Are The Rest?!
- By ByEqualMeasure - julie on 09-14-15
By: Stephen Moss
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Infinity Born
- By: Douglas E. Richards
- Narrated by: Corey Gagne
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 825
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 721
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 722
When DARPA's billion-dollar program to create artificial superintelligence is sabotaged, US operative Cameron Carr is tasked with finding the culprit. He's been on high-stakes missions before, but this time the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. Because the race to evolve a superintelligent computer is on, and power players around the world will stop at nothing to get there first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent ScoFi Mystery Thriller...
- By shelley on 08-14-17
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Scythe
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21,080
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,893
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,870
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life - and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe - a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Teenage Thumbs up
- By Lila Reading on 04-01-17
By: Neal Shusterman
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Game Changer
- By: Douglas E. Richards
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 978
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Story4 out of 5 stars 984
What if it were possible to upload years of knowledge into your mind in hours? To become an expert in multiple scientific fields, become an MD, or learn several languages - in a single day? The benefit to humanity would be immense. But so would the danger.... Rachel Howard is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to make this capability a reality. But when she crosses paths with Kevin Quinn, a Secret Service agent desperately trying to kill the president, she finds herself at the epicenter of an insidious plot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Richards fills the seat of the late great Crichton
- By Brian on 09-22-16
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Eon
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,218
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,078
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,081
Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but the arrival of the 300-kilometer long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and scientists are unable to decide how to use this knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Am Epic Original SciFi Read Worth Your Time...
- By Michael on 07-01-12
By: Greg Bear
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The Tar-Aiym Krang
- A Pip & Flinx Adventure
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 838
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 598
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 604
Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings - two great golden clouds suspended in space around it. Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers - a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The First of the Flinx and Pip Novels AT LAST!
- By Chris on 01-20-09
By: Alan Dean Foster
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Liege Killer
- The Paratwa Saga, Book 1
- By: Christopher Hinz
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
Two hundred years after a nuclear apocalypse forced humanity to flee earth, humans still remember the most feared warriors of that planet - the Paratwa. These are genetically modified killers who occupy two bodies controlled by one vicious mind. The legendary Paratwa named Reemul, known as the Liege-Killer, was the strongest of them all. Now someone has revived Reemul from stasis and sent him to terrorize the peaceful orbital colonies of Earth. Is this an isolated incident, or has the one who unleashed this terrible power announced a gambit for control over the entire human race?
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3 out of 5 stars
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I remember this being better the 1st time I read i
- By Brien Corey on 06-03-22
By: Christopher Hinz
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Thief's Magic
- By: Trudi Canavan
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright, Hannah Norris
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,063
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 982
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Story4 out of 5 stars 986
In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen’s world faces.Elsewhere, in an land ruled by priests, Rielle the dyer’s daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- By MissRed on 06-14-14
By: Trudi Canavan
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The Man Who Used the Universe
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He's a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith's cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies - the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process. Is he after peace, power or pure evil? With enemy starships beginning to amass, we won't have to wait long to find out.
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3 out of 5 stars
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it was a great book until this guy read it out loud
- By thomas on 04-23-24
By: Alan Dean Foster
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Mordecai
- The Riven Gates, Book 1
- By: Michael G. Manning
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 791
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 708
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 705
Years have passed since the last of the Dark Gods was defeated, and Lothion has entered an age of peace and prosperity. Mordecai’s oldest children have already begun to make a place for themselves, and his youngest are on the cusp of adulthood. By every outward measure, his life has been a success; he has earned his reward. However, Tyrion, the first wizard and brutal liberator of mankind, has returned with an agenda of his own, and dark things continue to stir at the edges of civilization, threatening to undo Mordecai’s accomplishments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story, but the audio is out of order.
- By Scott Grosjean on 10-16-18
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The LonTobyn Chronicle, Books 1-3
- By: David B. Coe
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 64 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
This bundle includes Children of Amarid, The Outlanders, and Eagle-Sage.
By: David B. Coe
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The First Prophet
- Bishop Files Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Kay Hooper
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 315
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 277
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Story4 out of 5 stars 275
Months ago Sarah Gallagher woke from a coma with psychic abilities she couldn't control. They changed her life and cost her the man she loved. And now, someone is playing games with Sarah's mind. It begins with Sarah's home being destroyed by fire - an act of arson that draws novelist Tucker Mackenzie into Sarah's confidence. But he has other reasons for pursuing a woman who can see what others can't. So does a mysterious enemy intent on eliminating Sarah, and everyone she cares about. Because it's only a matter of time before her visions lead her and Tucker to a secret many will kill to hide.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good Book, terrible narrator doing the voice!
- By kim on 01-26-13
By: Kay Hooper
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Veiled Alliances
- A Prequel Novella to the Saga of Seven Suns
- By: Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 325
This audiobook shows the origin of the green priests on Theroc, the first Roamer skymining operations on a gas-giant planet, the discovery of the Klikiss robots entombed in an abandoned alien city, the initial Ildiran expedition to Earth, the rescue of the generation ship Burton and the tragedy that leads to sinister breeding experiments. Veiled Alliances is an excellent starting point for readers new to the Saga, as well as an unforgettable adventure for fans of the series.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Start with Book One
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-05-14
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The Post-Human Omnibus
- Books 1-4
- By: David Simpson
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,149
Before he was Oldtimer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor,sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history, a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world's first strong artificial intelligence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Man, I really wanted to like this book
- By Consumer on 04-29-15
By: David Simpson
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A Thousand Words for Stranger
- Trade Pact Universe, Book 1
- By: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
This debut science fiction novel is the story of Sira--a woman on the run from the law, from her own people, and from an unknown figure determined to use her for his own ends. Her memory taken from her by a stasis block, she must stay free long enough to regain both her identity and the full use of her telepathic powers. The price of failure may not only be the loss of her own future, but that of her entire race.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another GREAT Czerneda book!
- By Heather Dryer on 12-11-12
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- Justin McKnight
- 01-25-24
Epic progress and advancement!
This addition to the series is my favorite! I love seeing the return of Hope and of course the gathering of the “First” or those that will be the foundation of the Alliance!
There is also the adventure of getting to see the history of the United States’ birth from a science fiction perspective. With the Alliance being more open and lacking the micromanaged authoritarian dictatorship of the Aliomenti, they are able to pursue advancement in almost every aspect! The petty infighting and selfishness is mostly absent. They can dive in deep with catching Will’s passion for innovation and the zeal “to be the change you want to see in the world!”
Then there is of course the continuing of the secret mission to ensure the “future” Will will be able to make his trip into the past to save Elizabeth (Hope).
The storytelling is great and the plot weaving is entertaining. I love the people of the Alliance and what they bring to the overall story. New characters bringing their own aspects to the story, both good and bad.
I had jumped into the next book almost immediately at the end but had to come back to leave my own review to hopefully see other people jumping into this amazing adventure!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Rosemary Hughes
- 02-02-22
The saga continues
So as title suggests, Will seperates from Arthur's dominated Aliomenti and started his own group Alliance.
However, there were a few things needed to be done before he could do this, as well as a few centuries had to pass before the timeline of his 35th birthday occurred, in this time sequence loop they were in.
I admire the way that various technological advances and historical events have been incorporated to make this a very intriguing tale.
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- Debbie
- 07-02-16
Wonderful Series
Each book builds on the next, and this last had plot twists I simply could not predict, which is much more engaging. I truly hope I don't have to wait five years for the rest of the series.
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