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David Brin
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What may we become? How will we endure? The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Here are vivid tales about possible tomorrows, from the keen eye and colorful pen of David Brin, a modern master of speculative fiction.
Visit a chillingly plausible tomorrow, when prisoners may be sent to asteroidal gulags. Or might prisons vanish and felons roam, seeing only what society allows? Suppose, amid lavish success, we gain the superpower to fly! Will we even appreciate it, or will we find new reasons to complain? In "Mars Opposition", you'll experience an alien invasion like no other, confronting humanity with a stark and terrible choice; followed by several more tales of conquest from beyond, each of them wildly different. On the other hand, might fantastically potent new beings emerge out of ourselves, as revealed in "Chrysalis"?
Featuring guest appearances by Gregory Benford, Jules Verne, and Galileo, this adventure takes you beyond the very singularity in "Stones of Significance", pondering what could happen after humans are like gods. And "Reality Check" asks one of you listeners - just one of you - to wake up!
Tomorrow awaits. We can face it and prevail. So long as our stance is brave Insistence of Vision.
©2016 David Brin (P)2016 David BrinLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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It’s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber—sleeps from which most, but not all, awaken. Those who do wake live in fear of the next mist, and the next, each a little longer and more dangerous than the last. Alternating between the perspectives of a kleptomaniac waitress named Cora and her twelve-year-old friend Glass, Sleepaway depicts a small-town America turned alarming. This is a place where loved ones are lost to a state between life and death; where denial, delusion, and desperation take hold of those remaining.
De: Kevin Prufer
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River of Time
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Stephen Mendel
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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The River of Time brings together 12 of David Brin's stories, including "The Crystal Spheres", which won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story in 1985. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe. Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book
- De Pernicious en 05-26-16
De: David Brin
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Heart of the Comet
- De: Gregory Benford, David Brin
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 21 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet, alter its orbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells - that might once have brought life to Earth - begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future - and that of Earth - only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Challenging hard sci-fi with some characterization
- De William Tanksley, Jr. en 08-06-18
De: Gregory Benford, y otros
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Existence
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,201
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,072
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Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will its universe envelop you?
- De Andreas Henriksson en 07-20-13
De: David Brin
Brin Is Brilliant; Sometimes Too Brilliant
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