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Fleet of Knives: An Embers of War Novel
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- By: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Soneela Nankani, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge aboard an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched 10,000 years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Cover & Great Narration!
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Embers of War
- By: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 73
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From BSFA award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war. The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sign me up for the crew!
- By Beckersly on 06-20-18
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Junkyard Cats
- By: Faith Hunter
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13,825
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After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets. This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining - warning her of a coming attack.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Would be a great story, if most of it wasn't missi
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Gideon the Ninth
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- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316
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Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap out of the audio, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Maybe the worst book I have read.
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Salvation Lost
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- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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The comparative utopia of 23rd-century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race is abruptly revealed to be one of the worst threats humanity has ever faced. Driven by an intense religious extremism, the Olyix are determined to bring everyone to their version of god as they see it. But they may have met their match in humanity, who are not about to go gently into that good night or spend the rest of their days cowering in hiding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nothing better for me than the Hamilton/Lee combo.
- By OlliespotBookReviews on 10-29-19
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Terminus
- By: Peter Clines
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,488
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,428
Murdoch’s past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He’s been happily avoiding them for ages, trying to live something close to a normal life. But now he’s been drawn back into another one of their ludicrous attempts to bring about the end of all things. Anne is tired of living in the past. She’s finally looking to the future and embracing her destiny. She’s going to lead the Family forward on their greatest, final crusade to destroy the hated Machine of their long-time adversary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super dope entry in the Threshold series
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Fleet of Knives: An Embers of War Novel
- The Embers of War Series, Book 2
- By: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Soneela Nankani, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4 out of 5 stars 26
The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge aboard an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched 10,000 years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Cover & Great Narration!
- By Beckersly on 03-08-19
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Embers of War
- By: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
From BSFA award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war. The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sign me up for the crew!
- By Beckersly on 06-20-18
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Junkyard Cats
- By: Faith Hunter
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13,825
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,803
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2 out of 5 stars
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Would be a great story, if most of it wasn't missi
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Gideon the Ninth
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- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,257
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,246
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap out of the audio, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Maybe the worst book I have read.
- By Glenn on 01-08-20
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Salvation Lost
- Salvation Sequence Series, Book 2
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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The comparative utopia of 23rd-century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race is abruptly revealed to be one of the worst threats humanity has ever faced. Driven by an intense religious extremism, the Olyix are determined to bring everyone to their version of god as they see it. But they may have met their match in humanity, who are not about to go gently into that good night or spend the rest of their days cowering in hiding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nothing better for me than the Hamilton/Lee combo.
- By OlliespotBookReviews on 10-29-19
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Rogue Protocol
- The Murderbot Diaries, Book 3
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,376
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,193
Sci-fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a humanlike android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, but...
- By Amazon Customer on 12-03-18
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Artificial Condition
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,214
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,961
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,956
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fun, short, overpriced.
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The Worldship Humility
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- Narrated by: Colin Morgan
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,117
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It’s been 120 years since the 50 or so worldships containing the few million survivors of the human species set off after the planet Earth was destroyed by a meteor. On the Worldship Humility, Sam, a 30-year-old Airlock Operative, is bored. Living in space should be exciting and full of adventure, except it isn’t, and he fills his time hacking 3-D movie posters and holographic adverts outside the stores in the retail zone. Petty thief Yasmine Emile Dufont is also from the WS Humility, but she is not bored....
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5 out of 5 stars
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My 1st "6 Star" Rating in Two Years--fun, smart
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Requiem for Medusa
- Galaxy’s Edge: Contracts & Terminations
- By: Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,256
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The scum hiding deep inside the Reach out along galaxy's edge thought they could kill her and not pay the price. For years these hardened killers have run roughshod over the lawless worlds where Republic justice is never as fast as the blaster in your hand and where double-crosses and death are a part of every deal. They thought this time would be no different. They were wrong. This time, the Guild sent the legendary bounty hunter Tyrus Rechs. As the infamous Rechs pursues the men who murdered his colleague, he's hell-bent on justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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10 stars
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The Light Brigade
- By: Kameron Hurley
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- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back...different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief - no matter what actually happens during combat. Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don’t sync up with the platoon’s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unending war for all the wrong reasons
- By Michael G Kurilla on 06-05-19
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 31 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,462
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,212
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,210
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious & Mannered 2nd Half
- By Barry McWilliams on 06-24-19
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All Systems Red
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,317
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,765
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,764
All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I just wish all four stories were one book...
- By Garrett Stone on 11-05-18
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Thin Air
- A Novel
- By: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 858
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 802
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 797
From the author of the award-winning Altered Carbon, which is now an exciting new series from Netflix. On a Mars where ruthless corporate interests violently collide with a homegrown independence movement as Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power, Hakan Veil is an ex-professional enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that's made him a human killing machine. But he's had enough, and all he wants is a ticket back home - which is just what he's offered by the Earth Oversight organization, in exchange for being the bodyguard for an EO investigator.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Turns out there is life on Mars
- By Gilbert on 10-26-18
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Triumphant
- The Genesis Fleet, Book 3
- By: Jack Campbell
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,289
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,211
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,213
The recently colonized world of Glenlyon has learned that they're stronger when they stand with other star systems than they are on their own. But after helping their neighbor Kosatka against an invasion, Glenlyon has become a target. The aggressive star systems plan to neutralize Glenlyon before striking again. An attack is launched against Glenlyon's orbital facility with forces too powerful for fleet officer Rob Geary to counter using their sole remaining destroyer, Saber.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exciting
- By Jean on 07-16-19
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Aftershocks
- The Palladium Wars, Book 1
- By: Marko Kloos
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,690
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,564
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,561
Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia System, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. After devoting fifteen years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on. He’s not the only one. A naval officer has borne witness to inconceivable attacks on a salvaged fleet. A sergeant with the occupation forces is treading increasingly hostile ground.
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3 out of 5 stars
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it's all set up
- By Breq on 07-09-19
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Dead Moon
- By: Peter Clines
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,720
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,495
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,493
In the year 2243, the Moon belongs to the dead. The largest graveyard in the solar system, it was the perfect solution to the overcrowding and environmental problems that had plagued mankind for centuries. And the perfect place for Cali Washington to run away from her past. But when a mysterious meteor crashes into one of the Moon’s cemeteries, Cali and her fellow Caretakers find themselves surrounded by a terrifying enemy force that outnumbers them more than a thousand to one. An enemy not hindered by the lack of air or warmth or sustenance. An enemy that is already dead.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just not as good and doesn't fit
- By J. Zabel on 03-21-19
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Provenance
- By: Ann Leckie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,122
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,121
A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world before they are lost to her for good.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Insipid lead character
- By Jeff G on 07-02-18
Publisher's Summary
Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy.
Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog follows a series of clues that lead her to the Intrusion - an area of space where reality itself becomes unstable. But with human civilization crumbling, what difference can one battered old ship have against an invincible armada?
Meanwhile, Cordelia Pa and her step-brother eke out their existence salvaging artifacts from an alien city. But when Cordelia starts hearing the city’s song in her head, strange things start happening around her. What extraordinary affinity does she have for this abandoned technology, and how can it possibly help the Trouble Dog?