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The Elysium Commission

By: L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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L. E. Modesitt returns to SF with a whole-new future world on the brink of destruction.

A brilliant scientist on the planet Devanta has created a small universe contiguous to ours - and a utopian city on one of the planets. The question becomes, though, an utopia for whom? And why is a shady entertainment mogul subsidizing the scientist? More critical than that, does this new universe require the destruction of a portion - or all - of our universe in order to grow and stabilize?

Blaine Donne is a retired military special-operative now devoted to problem-solving for hire. He investigates a series of seemingly unrelated mysteries that arise with the arrival of a woman with unlimited resources who has neither a present nor a past.

The more he investigates, the more questions arise, including the role of the two heiresses who are more - and less - than they seem, and the more Donne is pushed inexorably toward an explosive solution and a regional interstellar war.

©2010 Modesitt Family Revocable Living Trust (P)2021 Tantor

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its hard to create a future world and a mystery

first off I have enjoyed this authors output for years.

the reader did a first class preformance.

the author, if the story had been set in a present day world it probably would have made more sense. but to set the story in a weird world very obviously pushes a ideology. the strange thing is that the whole ability to change your sex/appearance could have been skipped as it had NO IMPACT on the story at all.
frankly it was jarring and a little offputting and I am surprised the author didn't use any of the changability in any of the plot lines.

read the author's recluce or imager series highly recommended. this book... the only way I finished it was listening to it while doing other things.

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