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Performance4 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4 out of 5 stars 143
Mankind has long dreamed of reaching out to live on other planets, and with the establishment of the Mars Endeavour colony, that dream has become reality. The fledgling colony consists of 120 scientists, astronauts, medical staff, and engineers. Buried deep underground, they're protected from the harsh radiation that sterilizes the surface of the planet. The colony is prepared for every eventuality except one - what happens when disaster strikes Earth?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who rescues the Martians when Earth is gone?
- By Jason on 09-20-17
By: Peter Cawdron
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Winter World
- By: A. G. Riddle
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,936
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,443
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,429
The ice is coming. It was the last thing we expected, but the world is freezing. A new ice age has dawned. Billions have fled the glaciers. A cataclysmic war is coming. In orbit, a group of scientists are running the Winter Experiments, a last-ditch attempt to understand why the planet is cooling. None of the climate models they build make sense. But then they discover an anomaly, an unexplained variation in solar radiation...and something else. Close to the burning edge of the sun, they catch a fleeting glimpse of something that shouldn’t be there....
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3 out of 5 stars
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I felt title and genre was misleading.
- By Melmom on 03-08-19
By: A. G. Riddle
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Ascension Series: Volume I
- Books 1-3
- By: Ken Lozito
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 323
Contains books one, two and three of the action-packed space opera Ascension series. They’ve been watching us for hundreds of years. Now they need our help. Earth is not safe. Zack is good at finding things, but when he discovers a global conspiracy, life as he knows it is over. Kept secret for 60 years, the discovery of an alien signal forces an unlikely team to investigate a mysterious structure discovered in the furthest reaches of the solar system. Join the crew of the Athena, Earth’s most advanced spaceship on the ultimate journey beyond our wildest imagining.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Clearly written for the Jr. High School age group
- By Ed H. on 03-11-21
By: Ken Lozito
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Fluency
- By: Jennifer Foehner Wells
- Narrated by: Susanna Burney
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,937
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,751
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,757
NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960's. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it. Dr. Jane Holloway is content documenting nearly-extinct languages and had never contemplated becoming an astronaut. But when NASA recruits her to join a team of military scientists for an expedition to the Target, it's an adventure she can't refuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Concept, Loved the Story... I Want More!
- By Striker on 10-30-14
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Gravity
- By: Tess Gerritsen
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 893
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 797
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 789
Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for years for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the international Space Station.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fast Paced Thriller
- By Jacqueline on 10-07-13
By: Tess Gerritsen
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Alien: Covenant Origins
- The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,769
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,398
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,396
The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is a make-or-break investment for the corporation - and for the future of all mankind. Yet there are those who would die to stop the mission. As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great narrator, lackluster writing
- By Tobie on 06-28-18
By: Alan Dean Foster
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Sky Hunter
- A Targon Tales Prequel
- By: Chris Reher
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 515
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 478
Air Command pilot Nova Whiteside is assigned to a remote outpost to guard the construction of a tethered orbiter, Skyranch Twelve, against rebel sabotage. The difference between the well-ordered Union air fields and this dusty garrison is made painfully clear when she runs afoul a brutal commander of ground troops. When she is trapped behind enemy lines in a bloody uprising, she meets Djari, a civilian whose trust in the governing Union is shattered by what he has witnessed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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IVE READ BETTER STORIES ON PUBLIC RESTROOM WALLS!!!
- By Shanon on 03-03-21
By: Chris Reher
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Tantalus Depths
- By: Evan Graham
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 297
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Story4 out of 5 stars 256
The Tantalus 13 survey expedition went off the rails as soon as Mary Ketch and the crew of the Diamelen learned that the thing beneath their feet wasn’t a planet. An impossibly vast and ancient artificial structure lies below, hidden from the universe under a façade of cratered stone. SCARAB arrived on Tantalus 13 two years ago. An artificially intelligent, self-constructing factory, it was supposed to aid the crew in their mission, to meet their every need.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good primer for Young Adults new to sci-fi!
- By Philip Maddox on 10-09-22
By: Evan Graham
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Beyond the Aquila Rift
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: Tom Dheere
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 341
Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story, mediocre audio book.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-17-12
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Up Against It
- By: M. J. Locke
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 121
Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very old school SF, in ways good and bad
- By A reader on 06-19-12
By: M. J. Locke
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Intrinsic
- By: Philip C. Quaintrell
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Story4 out of 5 stars 320
Kalian Gaines has a secret; he just doesn't know it yet. He looks like us, he lives like us...but he is not one of us. Kalian knows nothing outside of his mundane life teaching history on 30th-century Earth, until a day like any other triggers a series of events that will tie his fate to that of humanity. A human handprint, embedded into a rock with alien script, is discovered on a moon that mankind has never set foot on. This discovery holds a secret, which will sweep Kalian into the heart of a conspiracy that has corrupted the galaxy for 200,000 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Brilliant
- By Fraser on 04-22-18
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The Enceladus Mission
- Ice Moon 1
- By: Brandon Q. Morris
- Narrated by: Doug Tisdale Jr.
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Story4 out of 5 stars 176
In the year 2031, a robot probe detects traces of biological activity on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. This sensational discovery shows that there is indeed evidence of extraterrestrial life. Fifteen years later, a hurriedly built spacecraft sets out on the long journey to the ringed planet and its moon. The international crew is not just facing a difficult twenty-seven months: if the spacecraft manages to make it to Enceladus without incident it must use a drillship to penetrate the kilometer-thick sheet of ice that entombs the moon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Robotic performance, potentially interesting story
- By Opa on 02-21-19
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Predator - Incursion
- The Rage War, Book 1
- By: Tim Lebbon
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,361
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,234
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,236
Predator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering the Rage War. This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then, when Lt. Johnny Mains and his marines - the VoidLarks - enter the fray, they discover an enemy deadlier than any could imagine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I was really wanted to like this book!!
- By jeremy lamarch on 05-15-16
By: Tim Lebbon
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Heart of the Comet
- By: Gregory Benford, David Brin
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
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
- By William Tanksley, Jr. on 08-06-18
By: Gregory Benford, and others
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After Earth
- By: Peter David
- Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 120
Experience the vast tapestry of After Earth in a novelization unlike any other: a 1,000-year saga featuring original content from the mind of Peter David, the veteran sci-fi author who helped develop the movie’s richly imagined world. This is the complete, never-before-seen chronicle of the extraordinary family that’s been across the universe and back - from humanity’s last days on Earth through the events of the epic film! Raige runs in the family....
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3 out of 5 stars
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This is a movie script not a book.
- By colleen on 06-12-13
By: Peter David
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Stealing Light: Shoal, Book 1
- By: Gary Gibson
- Narrated by: Charlie Norfolk
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4 out of 5 stars 183
In the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries, establishing a dozen human colony worlds scattered along Shoal trade routes. Dakota Merrick, while serving as a military pilot, has witnessed atrocities for which this alien race is responsible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cool character & plot ! Do you like Chase Colpath?
- By C. Hartmann on 08-13-12
By: Gary Gibson