
Building Harlequin's Moon
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Tom Weiner
The first interstellar ship, John Glenn, fled a solar system populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn’s crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir in hopes of creating a utopian society that will limit intelligent technology, but by some miscalculation they have landed in the wrong system. Short on the antimatter needed to continue to Ymir, they must shape nearby planet Harlequin’s moon, Selene, into a new, temporary home and rebuild their store of antimatter through decades of terraforming.
Gabriel, the head terraformer, now leads this nearly impossible task; his primary tools the uneducated and nearly illiterate children of the original colonists, born and bred to build Harlequin’s moon into a virtual antimatter factory. With no concept of the future and with life defined as duty, one girl, Rachel Vanowen, begins to ask herself, what will become of the children of Selene once the terraforming is complete?
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Another wonderous tale
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Where does Building Harlequin's Moon rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
near the bottomWhat other book might you compare Building Harlequin's Moon to and why?
hard to tell because the reader is so bad.What didn’t you like about Tom Weiner’s performance?
He sounds like he is reading a documentary or technical user's manual. He has a deep, booming voice. Since most of the characters are female and/or children/teens, it just doesn't work. Even when he is reading "tender moments" it's like the Hulk hugging a child. You know what he's trying to do but you can do nothing but cringe. I'm sure that he would be great for some other books but not one such as this in which gentle nuances are needed. The characters are constantly torn because of decisions that they have to make or that others made. He just can't express that depth of felling.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Haven't finished it yet but it really is difficult to get into it and really care about the characters since they are read so woodenly.How did this performance average 4.4?
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For children or young teenagers, infantile emotionalism
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Too bad.
Narrator was little too mechanical, the inflection was choppy. Also, I like the timbre of his voice, but the main character is a young female - not a good match.
Overall, good choice for the old school hard Scifi fan.
Excellent - but needed to be twice as long
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sweet sci fi in an epic story
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Excellent
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Crashing moons together to make a world.
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good terraforming story
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