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Julie E. Czerneda on Audible=WIN
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A mysterious terrorist organisation has carried out several attacks against the Federation and Klingon Empire. Tensions are running high in a region already crippled by conflict. The perpetrators are tracked to the Lembatta Cluster, a mysterious region of space whose inhabitants, the Renao, regard the Alpha Quadrant s powers as little more than conquering tyrants. The Federation are desperate to prevent more bloodshed, and have sent their most powerful warship, the USS Prometheus, into the Cluster to investigate the threat before all-consuming war breaks out.
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AD 3580. The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread through the galaxy to over a thousand star systems. It is a culture of rich diversity with a place for everyone. A powerful navy protects it from any hostile species that may lurk among the stars. For Commonwealth citizens, even death has been overcome.
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ERIC FLINT'S VENTURE INTO FULL SCI-FI MODE
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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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Audible Where Are The Rest?!
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Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she's an active historian. She wants to know about the past--to experience it firsthand. Once she's dived the ship, she'll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It's a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.
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NOT Clive Cussler in Space
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Very good - but the cover and title are deceptive
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Robot believers at the far end of the galaxy endeavor to create a true religion, but their efforts could be shattered by a shocking revelation. Far in the future, on the remote planet End of Nothing, sentient robots are engaged in a remarkable enterprise. They call their project Vatican-17: an endeavor to create a truly universal religion presided over by a pope, whose extreme godliness and infallible artificial intelligence are fed by telepathic human Listeners who psychically delve into the mysteries of the universe.
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Great Early Science Fiction (Not The Best Title)
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- Terry Harrington
- 06-05-21
Was a great series until the reader was changes
I had been enjoying the Foundation series while I drive around the country. I'm an OTR Trucker.
when the reader was switched, I lost interest. this has to be redone. the reader has no emotion, monotone, and the dialog is read word. for. word.
I tried but it was putting me to sleep while I drive which is dangerous. I listen to Audible every day while I drive. But I can't with this reader. series ruined.
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- Matthew Garn
- 08-16-21
Mixed Feelings
After what I considered a pretty amazing follow up to the original trilogy (Foundations Edge), you certainly wont be satisfied by avoiding this, and you may not be satisfied by reading it. I really have mixed feelings. The scale of this story ramped up really fast at the close of Foundations Edge, and it does again at the end of this. The story seems to drag more than its predecessor, despite this, I found the search for Earth to be very interesting and entertaining overall. My gripe comes mainly from the end. I wont spoil anything but the ending is not quite ambiguous enough to be a perfect cliffhanger and is a bit too ambiguous to be a definitive conclusion. That is, the conclusion that is drawn is done so quickly and unsatisfactorily. If only Asimov had lived long enough to follow this up properly to tie up loose ends while properly unraveling other loose knots.
I cant give this 3 stars, since I thoroughly enjoyed a majority of the story, but I wont 5 stars since it really falls short of the original trilogy and its direct predecessor in my opinion.
Regarding the performance, I really preferred Scott Bricks performance throughout the 4 previous books. I wish he returned here to bring more life to the characters.
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- Jeanne
- 12-06-20
So disappointing - narrator ruins it.
I love the whole Foundation series (and Asimov’s Robots series!). I have read all the books several times, and still enjoy listening to them often. I decided this week to listen to the original trilogy, then Foundation’s Edge, following up, of course, with Foundation and Earth. I forgot about the change in narrator for the series, so was surprised and disappointed (again) when this book started. I’m sure Larry McKeever is a decent fellow, but as a narrator, he is awful and ruins a great story. I would love to hear Scott Brick doing the narration on this one, too.
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- Garth
- 07-28-21
narrator needs to find a new line of work
this is a great story I have read several times. This guy close to ruins it. The next in the series is also read by him....I'm skipping it
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- BillD
- 08-24-21
Insanely Bad Narration
I'm a huge fan of Asimov and of Foundation but this narration is inexcusable. Transitioning from Scott Brick's inspired work to this particular narrator is very difficult. I've heard text to speech engines with better pronunciation and delivery.
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- Akram
- 12-08-21
Worst reading ever…
Amazing series! Not sure why they could not get the same voice actor for the whole series… honestly ruined the last book for me, I should have just read the paper back would have been way better… I don’t know why audible keeps doing that with series.
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- Johnathan Kovacs
- 04-05-22
Monotonous reading...
Monotonous reading... but you have to listen to book 5 before moving on to book 6. Someone should really re-do the reading.
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- haseltinew
- 03-30-22
The Story Is Good But The Reading Falls Flat!
It is better to listen to this reading at a faster speed. The performance is far too slow and I found 1.3X to be best for me, also the reading is far to flat and monotone and I found the story itself worth this minor inconvenience however.
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- Jared Busby
- 08-02-22
This needs to be redone, sorry mr. mckeever
Another review says this should be recorded again with Scott Brick the reader of the books before this. That would be good, but ideally we’d get someone better than Scott Brick as well. Scott Brick is ALWAYS solid, and I appreciate that. I can always listen to him just fine, and I’ve listened to enough audiobooks that I know there are readers that are far beyond solid/decent/fine. Nick Podehl is the one that jumps to mind because he’s unbelievably good, but there’s a lot of good options.
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- John B Swain
- 10-17-22
A continuation of the story, but written for the younger generation and lacked a little reality in the imagination.
For the younger generation. They should read the original Foundation trilogy first. I read them when I was in my early twenties.
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