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Henry doesn't think he'll ever be able to get his mind off his parents' divorce. That is, until he meets Pyrgus Malvae, prince of the faerie world. Now Henry must help Pyrgus return home to fight the evil Faeries of the Night.
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Coming of Teenhood
- De Coral en 01-18-07
De: Herbie Brennan
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The Silvered
- De: Tanya Huff
- Narrado por: Dee Macaluso
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The Empire has declared war on the small, were-ruled kingdom of Aydori, capturing five women of the Mage-Pack, including the wife of the were Pack-leader. With the Pack off defending the border, it falls to Mirian Maylin and Tomas Hagen - she a low-level mage, he younger brother to the Pack-leader - to save them. Together the two set out on the kidnappers’ trail, racing into the heart of enemy territory. But with every step the odds against their survival, let alone their success, grow steeper....
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Persevere-- The sample doesn't do it justice!
- De Mindy en 07-31-16
De: Tanya Huff
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- De: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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HAND DANCING
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-30-15
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The Cutting Edge
- Part One of A Handful of Men
- De: Dave Duncan
- Narrado por: Mil Nicholson
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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Beautiful Queen Inos married the loyal stableboy Rap and made him her king. They were very much in love, and they lived happily ever after. Fifteen years went by. Rap and Inos were comfortable, secure, and truly happy, raising their family in the little backwater kingdom of Krasnegar, well removed from the hurly-burly of great affairs.... But in far-off Hub, the old Imperor's health - and, some said, his sanity - deteriorated inexorably. The borderlands were seething....
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High expectations
- De Ryan M. Kelley en 04-08-14
De: Dave Duncan
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How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
- Stories
- De: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrado por: Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Ray Eller, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
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Great! One quibble with the audiobook editing
- De L en 03-05-19
De: N. K. Jemisin
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Ghost Talkers
- De: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force. Each soldier heading for the front is conditioned to report to the mediums of the Spirit Corps when they die so the corps can pass instant information about troop movements to military intelligence. Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels.
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A very atmospheric, fast read!
- De kara-karina en 09-04-16
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The Demon King
- A Seven Realms Novel
- De: Cinda Williams Chima
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
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The first of a new young adult trilogy, The Demon King features a former thief, Han, who’s trying to provide for his mother and sister. One day Han, who sports mysterious (and certainly magical) silver cuffs on his wrists, confronts wizards setting fire to a sacred mountain. Now possessing one ofthe wizards’ amulets, Han faces more trouble than he ever could have imagined.
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Sooooooo Good!!!!!
- De Sharon en 06-15-13
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Four Summoner's Tales
- De: Kelley Armstrong, Christopher Golden, David Liss, y otros
- Narrado por: Ray Porter, Phil Gigante, Nico Evers-Swindell, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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Four best-selling authors. One hell-raising premise. What if the dead could be summoned from their graves - for a price? What if a quartet of distinctive storytellers took a stab at this deceptively simple idea - on a dare? The answers lie here, in Four Summoner’s Tales, as these acclaimed writers accept the challenge and rise to the occasion - in four brilliantly chilling ways. It’s all in the execution….
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Only one tale was good!
- De Frank Holmes en 05-12-15
De: Kelley Armstrong, y otros
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Six of Crows
- De: Leigh Bardugo
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder, Brandon Rubin, Fred Berman, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone.
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7 Narrators, But That's Not a Good Thing
- De KM en 03-18-16
De: Leigh Bardugo
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Grass
- De: Sheri S. Tepper
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 18 h y 44 m
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What could be more commonplace than grass or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again.
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Speculative & Creative, Yet well Paced and Unique
- De Zach Wilson en 04-17-17
De: Sheri S. Tepper
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The Mirror of Her Dreams
- Volume I of Mordant's Need
- De: Stephen R. Donaldson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 28 h y 27 m
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The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life - until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land.
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Thank Heavens, It's Finally Over!
- De Benjamin en 07-12-12
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Nightborn
- Lords of the Darkyn, Book 1
- De: Lynn Viehl
- Narrado por: Johanna Parker
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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The High Lord of the Immortal Darkyn has sent his most trusted warrior, Korvel, to retrieve a coveted scroll that's rumored to contain maps to Templar treasures and the secrets to eternal life. Uniting with Korvel to recover the dangerous artifact is Simone Derien, the daughter of the scroll's guardian, and a woman with many deadly secrets.
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GOOD BUT.... WHERE'S THE PREVIOUS BOOKS???
- De CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 en 05-13-13
De: Lynn Viehl
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Falling Free
- Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
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Don't read this one first
- De Carol en 02-20-13
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Fragmentos de honor [Shards of Honor]
- Las aventuras de Miles Vorkosigan 1 [The Adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, Book 1]
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold, Rafael Martín Trechera - translator
- Narrado por: Raúl Rodríguez
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Cordelia Naismith, de la Fuerza Expedicionaria Betana, estaba en el lugar y el momento equivocados, inlcuso llevaba el uniforme que no debía. Así que su encuentro con Aral Vorkosigan solo podía ser consecuencia de una de esas estratagemas tan sórdidas y abundantes en la militarizada sociedad de Barrayar. Un conjunto de intrigas, traiciones y engaños la conducen a establecer una paz personal con Aral Vorkosigan, su principal enemigo.
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Muy entretenida. Ligera, bien narrada, breve.
- De anisakis27 en 05-24-22
De: Lois McMaster Bujold, y otros
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The Spirit Ring
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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In an alternate Renaissance Italy where the church regulates magic and licenses magicians, fiery Fiametta Beneforte wants to be more than her goldsmith-mage father's unpaid apprentice. But when the Duchy of Montefoglia is laid under military and magical siege, she unexpectedly must join with Thur Ochs, a young Swiss miner and foundryman, to tap their skills in both metalwork and necromancy to rescue her father's soul and combat an evil sorcerer.
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Well written Supernatural-Fantasy
- De IreneMBBT en 07-29-19
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Penric’s Demon
- A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is the Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric.
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A Kinder, Gentler Demon
- De Carol en 01-10-16
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The Sharing Knife, Volume 1
- Beguilement
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Young, pregnant Fawn Bluefield has just fled her family's farm to the city of Glassforge, where she encounters a patrol of the enigmatic soldier-sorcerers known as Lakewalkers. Fawn has heard stories about the Lakewalkers, who are wandering necromancers with no permanent homes and no possessions except the clothes they wear and the mysterious knives they carry. What she does not know is that the Lakewalkers are engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as "malices".
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Not really my thing
- De Eric C. Zawadzki en 08-27-09
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The Hallowed Hunt
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. The road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey's destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
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Extremely disappointing
- De Loren en 10-12-12
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Falling Free
- Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
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Don't read this one first
- De Carol en 02-20-13
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Fragmentos de honor [Shards of Honor]
- Las aventuras de Miles Vorkosigan 1 [The Adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, Book 1]
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold, Rafael Martín Trechera - translator
- Narrado por: Raúl Rodríguez
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Cordelia Naismith, de la Fuerza Expedicionaria Betana, estaba en el lugar y el momento equivocados, inlcuso llevaba el uniforme que no debía. Así que su encuentro con Aral Vorkosigan solo podía ser consecuencia de una de esas estratagemas tan sórdidas y abundantes en la militarizada sociedad de Barrayar. Un conjunto de intrigas, traiciones y engaños la conducen a establecer una paz personal con Aral Vorkosigan, su principal enemigo.
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Muy entretenida. Ligera, bien narrada, breve.
- De anisakis27 en 05-24-22
De: Lois McMaster Bujold, y otros
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The Spirit Ring
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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In an alternate Renaissance Italy where the church regulates magic and licenses magicians, fiery Fiametta Beneforte wants to be more than her goldsmith-mage father's unpaid apprentice. But when the Duchy of Montefoglia is laid under military and magical siege, she unexpectedly must join with Thur Ochs, a young Swiss miner and foundryman, to tap their skills in both metalwork and necromancy to rescue her father's soul and combat an evil sorcerer.
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Well written Supernatural-Fantasy
- De IreneMBBT en 07-29-19
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Penric’s Demon
- A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
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On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is the Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric.
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A Kinder, Gentler Demon
- De Carol en 01-10-16
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The Sharing Knife, Volume 1
- Beguilement
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
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Young, pregnant Fawn Bluefield has just fled her family's farm to the city of Glassforge, where she encounters a patrol of the enigmatic soldier-sorcerers known as Lakewalkers. Fawn has heard stories about the Lakewalkers, who are wandering necromancers with no permanent homes and no possessions except the clothes they wear and the mysterious knives they carry. What she does not know is that the Lakewalkers are engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as "malices".
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Not really my thing
- De Eric C. Zawadzki en 08-27-09
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The Hallowed Hunt
- De: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
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The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. The road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey's destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
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Extremely disappointing
- De Loren en 10-12-12
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Stand on Zanzibar
- De: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 21 h y 16 m
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Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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Valor's Choice
- De: Tanya Huff
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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In the distant future, humans and several other races have been granted membership in the Confederation - at a price. They must act as soldier/protectors of the far more civilized races who have long since turned away from war.
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Military Future Past
- De Dave H en 04-21-13
De: Tanya Huff
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The Cloud Roads
- De: Martha Wells
- Narrado por: Christopher Kipiniak
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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Moon has spent his life hiding what he is - a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again cast out by his adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself... someone who seems to know exactly what he is, who promises that Moon will be welcomed into his community.
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Very original but flawed
- De David en 06-22-13
De: Martha Wells
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Sundiver
- The Uplift Saga, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?
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good, but flawed
- De J Michael en 04-16-08
De: David Brin
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Primary Inversion
- A Novel of the Skolian Empire
- De: Catherine Asaro
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred. A desperate attempt must be made to avert total disaster.
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Good Narrator and a Good Story
- De Victoria en 01-20-05
De: Catherine Asaro
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The Element of Fire
- Ile-Rien Series, Book 1
- De: Martha Wells
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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The kingdom of Ile-Rien lies in peril, menaced by sorcerous threats and devious court intrigues. As the weak King Roland, flattered and misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, guards the safety of the realm. But now rumors arise that Urbain Grandier, the dark master of scientific sorcery, has arrived to plot against the throne. And Kade, bastard sister of King Roland, appears unexpectedly at court. The illegitimate daughter of the old king and the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, Kade's true desires are cloaked in mystery.
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A Different Take on High Fantasy
- De Tango en 12-08-13
De: Martha Wells
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Riverworld Saga, Book 1
- De: Philip José Farmer
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose—innocent or evil—of the Riverworld....
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Great concept, dated writing.
- De Battaglia en 08-04-11
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Remnant Population
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Moon
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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For 40 years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days - until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing.
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Grandmother Wisdom Wish Fulfillment
- De Jon B en 04-25-22
De: Elizabeth Moon
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Ninefox Gambit
- De: Yoon Ha Lee
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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To win an impossible war, Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.
Captain Kel Cheris of the Hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris' career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the Hexarchate itself might be next.
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Just too confusing with enough context
- De Jose Alvarez en 04-02-17
De: Yoon Ha Lee
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Alliance Space
- Alliance-Union Universe Series
- De: C. J. Cherryh
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 21 h y 51 m
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This omnibus volume contains two Alliance-Union novels, Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna.
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Loved the books
- De willaim moomaw en 04-23-21
De: C. J. Cherryh
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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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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
- Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space.
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- Terri
- 05-04-12
A Hero's Beginning & his Extraordinary Parents
It is amazing how many credits you can blow through when you find an incredible writer & series (or multiple series). I haven't found anything of LMB's that I haven't enjoyed.
This is book 2 about Miles' extraordinary parents and friends. I absolutely adore Cordelia. She is the type of woman that many of us wish to be, honest, strong in will, determined, and she has great taste in mates & friends. Aral Vorkosigan is a man looking for something and someone to live for and Cordelia is the one who helps guide him as well as love & understand him.
I love the back stories of other major characters in the series: Bothari, Illyan, Kuo, Drou, Gregor Vorbarra....
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- Chuck
- 07-05-10
A Good Intro to Vorkosigan series
I enjoyed this book. I was new to the author and the series. The characters and the background to the culture are developed as a byproduct of the story which I like. This allows action to be intertwined with narrative. Well narrated.
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- KBergin
- 03-19-21
Deserves Every Accolade
For those who read the first two novels in the Chalion series (The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls), the fast-paced The Hallowed Hunt will seem a strange end to the series. Set on a different world with entirely new characters, this novel’s “type”—absent the five-fold religion and the supernatural—is a story of political and warring intrigue on a different planet. Instead of saints, there are heroes. Instead of miracles, there are advanced weapons and eighteen artificial wombs brought back from a recent space war with a much different world (perhaps more “familiar” to the modern western reader) that frees women to continue their lives as the baby develops for nine months. Barrayar leans much further toward science fiction and romance (always present in the earlier Chalion books). Fantasy is there only in the terrific world-building. Bujold has said that, in real time, it could take place at the same time or several hundred years in the future of the stories that centered in Chalion and their backdrop of wars with its north-bordering country.
On the World of Barrayar, ruled by a dying Emperor whose five-year-old grandson is next in line, the main characters are a newly married couple. Our point-of-view character is Patricia Naismith Vorkosigan, former Captain of a science/exploration spaceship from Beta Colony, an advanced world of science and gender equality—not classless, but free from hunger and encouraging advancement for all via free access to education and health care. She is recently married (and pregnant) to Aral Vorkosigan, a retired military officer and nobleman in Barrayar’s scientifically advancing but socially Medieval society. They were once enemies until they had to come together against those who would defeat them both. They know each other very well.
Their love and mutual respect are as much the heart of this novel as they are essential to its action. When the son-less emperor dies, leaving a helpless grandchild and his mother as practical pawns in the hidden schisms between the conservative (anti-science, anti-egalitarianism) nobles and the progressive counterparts, Patricia finds herself the wife of the Regent of Barrayar until the little Emperor comes into power at age twenty.
Mayhem and civil war break loose. Kidnappings of the upper-class of Vorkosigan supporters begin, and the enemy takes over the palace.
Pregnant and in a world that she thought that she’d come to love, she takes a gamble to free herself to action. And action is what follows, for the last third of the book is hers.
No spoilers.
The two central characters are beautifully drawn, Patricia particularly. We hear her thoughts, her doubts, her decision-making techniques, her greatest fears, and then the result: her actions. She IS a Captain, after all. Her and Aral’s closest allies are fully developed people with achingly described pasts and their present, painful results.
Bujold has written a marvel of a “space opera” that takes place “on the ground” in every way. I raced through it!
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- Kirsten M. Crippen
- 01-11-13
Is Machiavelli required reading on this planet??
The second book in the Vorkosigan saga, Barrayar picks up almost instantly after Shards of Honor. This book is chock full of political intrigue, machinations - honestly, is Machiavelli required reading on this planet? - and murder.
Bujold throws a little romance, social commentary, and ethics into the mix. Also, it's just a great adventure.
The worlds and culture of Barrayar and Beta are wonderfully sketched out. Beta a truly egalitarian society - where access to information is a constitutional right - and Barrayar a more rigid, warrior-centric, and imperial society are good case studies.
I also think this idea that making all the different worlds as direct descendants of Earth, instead of including actual alien civilizations is interesting. All the different civilizations are distinct and different, while all are human.
The characters are wonderful. Not only do you care for them, but you really want to know more about them. A sign of a great storyteller. On to the next!
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- Anne Brunhart
- 03-13-15
Lois Bujold's story telling makes my soul happy
I am at a loss to explain how much I enjoy her writing. I need her writing talents to give her just praise and adoration, and if I try, I risk sounding like a potential infatuated stalker. I will say if you enjoy science fiction at its most authentic in scale and quality, you will find no better author to follow today.
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- Lauri Donahue
- 11-15-18
Wonderful!
This might be my favorite Vorkosigan book. It’s a delicious mix of humor, adventure, wit, and genuine emotion, with moments that made me tear up and whoop. The narration is sublimely matched to the text and a masterpiece in itself.
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- justin aquino
- 05-18-21
Wonderful and very entertaining
Second time to go through this since 2013. It's still a great story and the characters are well developed.
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- Pressley
- 01-13-21
Great read, action packed plot
The author is a master of action packed plots with wonderfully engaging characters. I recommend it.
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- Rebecca L. White
- 04-21-17
compelling story dated
the author took a long time to develop the characters in this story. I was beginning to get bored when the real action started. overall I enjoyed the story. however for a science fiction Thriller one expects that it will feature technological advances beyond our imagination. perhaps this was the case when then book was initially written in the 1980s but it appears dated in 2017
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- crazybatcow
- 06-23-11
Excellent backfill story
An excellent back-fill of Miles' origins. I really liked how characters that play a big role later in Miles' life are introduced and developed here. Cordelia is also interesting as a character on her own - trying to make it in a world very different from her home planet.
There is no confusion as to what political stance Bujold holds, but it isn't overwhelming or condescending. There's enough action and suspense to keep the story moving forward, but the book has a huge character and society development component to it. After the denouement there is still quite a bit of "story" to read - there is no action or suspense in this part, but it's very interesting if you really want to know how Miles (and his compatriots) came to be.
The narrator is the same as in the rest of the Miles' books - he does a good job but, since the main character is Cordelia, it was a bit odd to hear the voice I associated with Miles in the other books when Cordelia was talking.
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