The Expert System's Brother

De: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrado por: Shaun Grindell

Duración: 4 h y 2 m

Resumen del Editor

Best-selling British master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky brings listeners a new, mind-expanding science fantasia in The Expert System's Brother.

After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching for meaning. He soon discovers that the life he thought he knew is far stranger than he could even possibly imagine.

Can an unlikely savior provide the answers to the questions he barely comprehends?

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This is excellent sci-fi.

This book was very unique in the sci-fi world. I listen to a lot of sci-fi and I thought this book was great. Narration was great, I was immersed in the story and fascinated the whole time. I highly recommend it.

Very monotone narrator

I don't know if he was trying to do something intentional with it, but man this narrator ends each and every one of his sentences with the exact same inflection. "Surely," I thought to myself, "Surely he is just getting used to it, if I skip ahead a bit it'll be better" Nope, moved to chapter seven, more than halfway through the book and it is the exact same inflection. I couldn't get past it.

Concept based SF,

Concept based SF, backed up with  increasingly well crafted characters and always excellent world building....That my overall take on Tchaikovsky. 
He's also not into filler, extra words that fit well enough but aren't really doing much for the story, just uping the word count. Personally,  I appreciate that.

This story is definitely up to his high standards and well worth reading/audioing.

As others have said,  the narration is not excellent.  A bit heavy handed like a Brit doing an imitation of Captain Kirk. Also the narrator sounds older while the character is fairly young. If you imagine an older man trying to convey an unfamiliar but very important concept to a skeptical audience by telling a personal story from his youth then it works pretty well.

Overall,  interesting, enjoyable and a commentary on the human capacity to be led about, even against our own best interests.

Unexpected brevity, told with gravitas

I approached this book cautiously. This is the third book I've read by Tchaikovsky— the others being Children of Time, and Children of Ruin— but the first outside the Children universe. At 4 hours long, it seemed rather short by comparison. Still, the author is masterful and I couldn't resist.

The Expert System's Brother asks you to shift your perspective from the very beginning and try to envision a world wholly different from our own, and primitive, yet peppered with enough signs of humanity's zenith that a vague sense of dread constantly tugs at the bag of your neck: what happened the the familiar human race?

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys epic adventures, Sci-Fi or otherwise. The grandeur of the world and the epic story behind its tenuous balance are enthralling. The author's perspective on belonging, purpose, knowledge and inheritance are unique, and add up to another great work from a master of science fiction.

Thought provoking

At first I was confused. Were these creatures human or not. It took a while and some perseverance to get to a ripping good yarn.

Good tale, Wish it hadn't been a Volume 1

Accidental outcast slowly learns the world he lives on is not his own. What his culture views as exile is in reality a horrific death sentence. I was never entirely sure they realize that. The main character is a teen, and the combination of his inexperience and the level of cultivated ignorance in this static society is that left me waiting a long time to see if or when he would find out what we quickly deduce. I was afraid the story wouldn't get quite far enough, but it doesn't do that.

Remarkable!

Thought provoking, solid protagonist who I easily connected with and a marvelous plot! Also, the voice acting is phenomenal! Tchaikovsky impressed me yet again!

Horrible narration, okay story

The narration of this book is awful. The narrator doesn't act out anything and then always ends his sentences with an upward inflection. It's extremely distracting and made me physically uncomfortable. Who directed him? Did no one think that this was distracting before they published this to the Audible site? Good lord. The story is just okay, but the narration really threw me off. Re-record this with someone who actually acts out the story and doesn't speak with constant upward inflections....

Terrible narration

I’ll stick with the kindle version, thanks. This writer bizarre sing-songy voice is so distracting with emphasis on all the wrong words actually makes the book pretty hard to follow.

Ignore the bad reviews on narrator

I passed up this book several times because of the reviews on the narrator and I finally braved it and I'm so glad I did. Great story, had no issues with the narrator.