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Amazing sequel
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Great read!
- By Thomas on 12-05-12
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The Gripping Hand
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award-winning authors of such best sellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered - a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function: Master, Mediator, Engineer, Warrior.
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Sequel to "The Mote in God's Eye"
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A World Out of Time
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Do you know how people get old?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-13-12
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Footfall
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle at Their Best
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The Secret of Black Ship Island
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The oldest children of the settlers on Avalon are now in their late teens and want independence from their parents and guardians. And they especially don’t want them around for the initiation ceremony held on Black Ship Island for the younger children just reaching their teens. But when previously unknown creatures make their deadly appearance, things go horribly wrong.
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Another interesting tale from Avalon.
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Amazing sequel
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The Legacy of Heorot
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Great read!
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A World Out of Time
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- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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Do you know how people get old?
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Footfall
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
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They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods.
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle at Their Best
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The Secret of Black Ship Island
- Heorot, Book 2
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
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A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign called "The South Seas Treasure Game". As in the early role-playing games, there are dungeon masters, warriors, magicians, and thieves. The difference? At Dream Park, a futuristic fantasy theme park full of holographic attractions and the latest in VR technology, they play in an artificial enclosure that has been enhanced with special effects, holograms, actors, and a clever story line. The players get as close as possible to truly living their adventure.
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Role-playing to death. What is real? What is fake?
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The Integral Trees
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Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline were prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided - and secretly spied upon - by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. What they weren’t prepared for, however, was the Smoke Ring - an immense, gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free fall.
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entertaining
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The California Voodoo Game
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Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about to embark on the greatest game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made - or destroyed. And the most advanced software package ever invented was going to be tested. But one of the players was a murderer - and worse. Only Alex Griffin, head of Dream Park Security, and Game Master Tony McWhirter guessed the extent of the treachery tainting the Game.
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Dream Park at its best.
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The Mote in God's Eye
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- Narrated by: L J Ganser
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The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre. No lesser an authority than Robert A. Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read".
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A great read!
- By J. Rhoderick on 02-12-10
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Protector
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Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days, and Brennan figured to meet that ship first.
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My all time favorite
- By JerryLStarr on 07-21-16
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The Smoke Ring
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probably the weakest story in the series.
- By Mac on 08-06-18
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A Gift from Earth
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The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans - it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers survived somehow - under a ruthless dictatorship. Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof. Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about. At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!
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Human story in sci-fi setting
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Oath of Fealty
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the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, wracked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance.
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Fun political science fiction
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Allan Carpentier escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the famous poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpentier is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But now that he's returned to this Dantesque inferno, can he ever again leave?
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A confused book
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Children of Ruin
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Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it's been waiting for them.
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Exceptional Deep Sci-Fi
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The Burning City
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Set in the world of Larry Niven’s popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports listeners to an enchanted and ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. There, Yangin-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, alternately protects and destroys the city’s denizens. In Tep’s Town, nothing can burn indoors, and no fire can start - except when the Burning comes upon the city. At that time the people, possessed by Yangin-Atep, set their own town ablaze in a riotous orgy of destruction that often comes without warning
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Somehow just couldnt get into the book
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Betrayer of Worlds
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Since fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have - just barely - survived one crisis after another: the rebellion of their human slaves, the relentless questing of the species of Known Space, the spectacular rise of the starfishlike Gw'oth, the onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Now fresh disaster looms, as though past crises have returned and converged. Who can possibly save the Fleet this time?
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Different voices. Better voices...
- By Mark on 01-27-15
Publisher's Summary
Get ready for an adventure on a world from the brilliant imagination of New York Times best-selling author Larry Niven.
Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destiny’s rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite. The Cavorite deserted the original interstellar colonists, stranding them without hope of contacting Earth.
Now, descendants of those pioneers have many questions about the Road, but no settler who has gone down it has ever returned. For Jemmy Bloocher, a young farm boy, the questions burn too hot - and he sets out to uncover the many mysteries of Destiny’s Road.
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- The Zombie Specialist
- Secret Fortress
- 07-21-14
This is no Lucifer's Hammer
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
I've noticed quite a large difference between the amazon reviews and the audible reviews. Perhaps it might be the narration turning people off??? But I personally didn't mind the narration.
I have a theory regarding the difference between amazon and audible reviews, and it does not involve any conspiracy theory with amazon! I think it is just the main character experiences so much, and yet just seems to take it as though it is another day. For example, Jemmy has to run away because of an accident, and yet the style of writing or the narration did not seem to indicate any crisis had occurred in the first place. As a listener it is easier to notice this lack of emotion. However, as a reader you tend to read yourself into the experience. With the audible version I tend to rely on the emotion or style of the narrator for that emotional character development (I know not all people are like this, but that is just me :-) As a reader I find myself reading more between the lines of a character.
I think this Niven book is one of those stories that is best read and not listened too. Which makes it hard for me to recommend this audible story to anyone.
What do you think your next listen will be?
It will be have to be something with a bit more action. Perhaps, a zombie quickie like 'Die Trying'. I was hoping for so much more from this book after enjoying Niven's book "Lucifer's Hammer". However, I was greatly disappointed. So the next book is one I have not read any reviews on. Perhaps, this time I will be taken by surprise for the better!!
Which character – as performed by Paul Michael Garcia – was your favorite?
The obvious choice is Jemmy, but I certainly didn't stay awake at night wondering what would happen. In a book which depends on the audience being there in 'another world' the divorce of emotion in the main character made it difficult for me to 'experience' or be immersed into the storyline.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointed, because it really could have been another ‘Niven’ classic, which I could really get into! But instead, it tuned into a bit of a chore to listen to!
Any additional comments?
My advice is while the book is not bad it is not one of Niven's best and would best when it is on special.
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- Scott
- Santa Clara, CA, United States
- 07-10-14
The story might be great—the narration isn't
This is like listening to a completely disconnected set of phrases. I bet the book is okay, but I can't stand more than a few paragraphs before switching to something else. How is it possible to take a collection of sentences and read them without any of the original meaning intact? Poo!
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- A Jackson
- 04-25-12
A 'road' worth travelling
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
A book I enjoyed reading so much I decided to listen to it as well...about 15 years later. A comfortable old friend to hang out with.
Any additional comments?
Well thought out universe with realistic sociological, economic an scientific features. Sure to be enjoyed by all but the most speckle-shy!
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- John3v36
- 11-22-19
love this book
love it.
always love Larry Niven books.
this is one of his better ones.
I love the way this seems to have multiple stories within the story
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- Lady Pamela
- New Mexico
- 11-04-18
This Review Needs a Title...So, I
Boring book. Listened to this as long as I could stand. The sci-fi happened long ago before the book began and the book was just one, long, soap opera. I got bogged down in the main character's life events and couldn't extricate myself from the minutiae, so I quit reading. Maybe it has a good conclusion, but I'll never know!
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- George
- 09-10-14
Booorinnnnngg....
Boring book. Listened to this as long as I could stand. The sci-fi happened long ago before the book began and the book was just one, long, soap opera. I got bogged down in the main character's life events and couldn't extricate myself from the minutiae, so I quit reading. Maybe it has a good conclusion, but I'll never know!
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- Virginia J Krolikoski
- 06-28-14
No story
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A plot.
What was most disappointing about Larry Niven’s story?
No story. Kept waiting for something to happen. Had lots of potential.
Have you listened to any of Paul Michael Garcia’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Liked the narrator and would listen to him again.
What character would you cut from Destiny's Road?
Characters were all interesting just not expounded on.
Any additional comments?
Couldn't finish the book it was so boring.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- Alan Venable
- 05-21-14
Boring from the start
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Something interesting might have been nice
Has Destiny's Road turned you off from other books in this genre?
Boring narrator
How could the performance have been better?
Someone else would have made this book better
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Destiny's Road?
Not possible to make this anything but boring the way it is written. Sorry I wasted the time and money.
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- Bjarne
- 03-13-12
There are better Niven books
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The story is not exactly boring, but not all that interesting either. The narrator is OK.
I don't recommend Destinys road. Niven has done a few good books;
2 of 6 people found this review helpful