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David Marantz
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Neal Asher
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In the eight years since his first full-length novel, Gridlinked, was published by Pan Macmillan, Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of science fiction, and his novels are now translated into many languages. Most of his stories are set in a galactic future-scape called The Polity, and with this collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe.
No one does monsters better than Neal Asher, so be prepared to revisit the lives and lifestyles of such favorites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savor alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont.
©2008 Neal Asher, First Night Shade Books edition 2015 (P)2015 Audible Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The Soldier
- Rise of the Jain, Book 1
- De: Neal Asher
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity’s Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations. Neither the Polity or the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they’ve placed an impartial third party in charge of the weapons platform guarding the technology from escaping into the galaxy: Orlandine, a part-human, part-AI haiman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance and good story - shouldn’t be your first polity book…
- De Amazon Customer en 04-04-23
De: Neal Asher
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Steel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 1
- De: B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,775
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,762
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,762
In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A 14 year old boy’s idea of a “Real Man”
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Elric of Melniboné
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- De: Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman - Foreword
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 24 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,225
It is one of the most well-known and well-loved fantasy epics of the twentieth century: the story of Elric, emperor of the dying kingdom of Melniboné. For a hundred centuries the Melnibonéans have ruled from the Dragon Isle of Imrryr. Now, after years of corruption and decadence, Elric’s amoral cousin Prince Yyrkoon, the brother of his beloved Cymoril, sets his eyes on the Ruby Throne. Elric must face his treacherous cousin not as a warrior but as a sorcerer king once again in league with the ancient gods of Melniboné, the Chaos Lords, and thus sealing his inexorable fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Skip the first chapter, it's not Moorcock.
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City of Last Chances
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- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 225
There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood–that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.
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Occupied Paris during WW2 In Fantasy World?
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Eversion
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,090
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 945
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 945
In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An entirely new level of science fiction
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Cage of Souls
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 23 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 599
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 598
The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slow Start, Strong Finish
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The Soldier
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- De: Neal Asher
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity’s Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations. Neither the Polity or the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they’ve placed an impartial third party in charge of the weapons platform guarding the technology from escaping into the galaxy: Orlandine, a part-human, part-AI haiman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance and good story - shouldn’t be your first polity book…
- De Amazon Customer en 04-04-23
De: Neal Asher
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Steel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 1
- De: B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,775
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,762
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,762
In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A 14 year old boy’s idea of a “Real Man”
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Elric of Melniboné
- Volume 1: Elric of Melnibone, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and The Weird of the White Wolf
- De: Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman - Foreword
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 24 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,225
It is one of the most well-known and well-loved fantasy epics of the twentieth century: the story of Elric, emperor of the dying kingdom of Melniboné. For a hundred centuries the Melnibonéans have ruled from the Dragon Isle of Imrryr. Now, after years of corruption and decadence, Elric’s amoral cousin Prince Yyrkoon, the brother of his beloved Cymoril, sets his eyes on the Ruby Throne. Elric must face his treacherous cousin not as a warrior but as a sorcerer king once again in league with the ancient gods of Melniboné, the Chaos Lords, and thus sealing his inexorable fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Skip the first chapter, it's not Moorcock.
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De: Michael Moorcock, y otros
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City of Last Chances
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 19 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 225
There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood–that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Occupied Paris during WW2 In Fantasy World?
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Eversion
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Harry Myers
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,090
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 945
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 945
In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An entirely new level of science fiction
- De Possum Bean en 01-08-23
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Cage of Souls
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- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 23 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 599
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 598
The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor.
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Slow Start, Strong Finish
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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre", through classic stories including "The Star", "Earthlight", "The Nine Billion Names of God", and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God", this comprehensive short story collection encapsulates one of the great science fiction careers of all time.
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List of stories from
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Hyperion
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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The Shrike Awaits. Enter The Time Tombs...
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Federation Chronicles
- The Complete Series
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- Narrado por: Phil Thron
- Duración: 34 h y 15 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 539
First came the development of the Personality Matrix Construct—PMC, transferring human consciousness into a machine. It changed the galaxy and the way wars were fought. Then something went wrong with PMCs and the Federation Wars toppled the galactic order. PMCs became a menace to be hunted and exterminated.
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A Captivating Sci-fi World builder
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Altered Carbon
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- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15,508
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,655
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,643
In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Altered Carbon
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Drop Trooper Books 1-4
- A Military Sci-Fi Box Set
- De: Rick Partlow
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 33 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,676
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,525
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,524
Go to war or go to jail. For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple.... He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hit man, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien enemy. Drafted into the Marine Drop-Troopers, Cam discovers there’s one thing he’s even better at than running street-con games, and that’s killing the enemy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Of you’re a fan of Galaxy’s Edge, Buy This.
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Revelation Space
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- Narrado por: John Lee
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,775
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Defeated
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Consider Phlebas
- De: Iain M. Banks
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,583
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,035
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,043
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Visionary but half-cooked intro to Culture 'verse
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De: Iain M. Banks
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Salvation
- Salvation Sequence, Book 1
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,099
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,803
In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation - including starships - virtually obsolete. Every place on Earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful - until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly located world 89 light-years from Earth, carrying a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. To assess the potential of the threat a high-powered team is dispatched to investigate. But one of them may not be all they seem....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wait For Book 2
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Day Zero
- A Novel
- De: C. Robert Cargill
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,496
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,326
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,321
It was a day like any other. Except it was our last.... It’s on this day that Pounce discovers that he is, in fact, disposable. Pounce, a styilsh "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush anthropomorphic tiger, has just found a box in the attic. His box. The box he'd arrived in when he was purchased years earlier, and the box in which he'll be discarded when his human charge, eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart, no longer needs a nanny. As Pounce ponders his suddenly uncertain future, the pieces are falling into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Calvin and AI Hobbs
- De Michael G Kurilla en 06-13-21
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The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
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- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage of weird fiction, Langan has already garnered his share of accolades. This new collection includes nine of his substantial stories.
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Forgot the Horror
- De Dylan en 10-04-18
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A Hole in the Sky
- Arkship Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Klett
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Sixteen-year old Hazel lives in the Daedalus, a starship that is flying in search of a new world. The ship has been traveling for 500 years, searching for a world to settle in after having to abandon its last world. Everyone on board Daedalus lives a very simple existence in farming villages. The age of machines supplying their needs was lost during a mutiny 500 years ago.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What happened?
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The Expert System's Brother
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 310
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected brevity, told with gravitas
- De Ian en 08-02-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Gabble
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Robert
- 12-09-15
Great Collection if Your a Fan of Asher
Would you consider the audio edition of The Gabble to be better than the print version?
The reader makes it easier to get into each story between transitions.
Who was your favorite character and why?
There was a great story of a gunslinger in a sci-fi setting named Snow.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I love Asher novels and the insipid black AI Penny royal always peaks my interest.
Any additional comments?
If you have not experienced the polity universe I would suggest starting with Gridlinked and pick this one up once you reach the Masada novel. I never liked sci fi before I read Ashers books. Somehow I always learn to love his best villains and any technology presented is backed by solid theory. This guy knows his stuff.
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Historia2 out of 5 stars
- Lambo
- 05-13-23
Not really a book in the series...
Not really a book in the series, but a series of short stories on which the Polity series is based or which are set in the Polity universe. It in no way continues the story line from the series. It alludes to things discovered in the books. Part of one of the short stories is included in one of the Polity books.
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