-
A Fire in the Sun
- Marid Audran Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Series: Marid Audran, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 03-01-11
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
Regular price: $24.95
People who bought this also bought...
-
When Gravity Fails
- Marid Audran Trilogy, Book 1
- By: George Alec Effinger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 362
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 317
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 316
For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can't refuse.The 200-year-old godfather of the Budayeen's underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Neuromancer in the Middle East
- By David on 07-28-13
-
Hardwired
- By: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 235
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 180
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 181
Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Good Listen
- By Jonathon on 01-18-09
-
Autonomous
- A Novel
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 509
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 474
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 473
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Robots, future drugs, slavery, and patent reform
- By Platypus Man on 10-25-17
-
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,668
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,335
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 4,322
From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Really, really fun
- By Lovisa on 08-05-17
-
The Water Knife
- By: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,864
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,613
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 2,608
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
The fight for water in a drought fueled apocalypse
- By Lore on 09-24-15
-
Nexus
- Nexus, Book 1
- By: Ramez Naam
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,992
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,804
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,818
In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage, with far more at stake than anyone realizes.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
SERENITY PACKAGE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-13-17
-
When Gravity Fails
- Marid Audran Trilogy, Book 1
- By: George Alec Effinger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 362
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 317
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 316
For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can't refuse.The 200-year-old godfather of the Budayeen's underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Neuromancer in the Middle East
- By David on 07-28-13
-
Hardwired
- By: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 235
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 180
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 181
Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Good Listen
- By Jonathon on 01-18-09
-
Autonomous
- A Novel
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 509
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 474
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 473
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Robots, future drugs, slavery, and patent reform
- By Platypus Man on 10-25-17
-
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
- A Novel
- By: Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,668
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,335
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 4,322
From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Really, really fun
- By Lovisa on 08-05-17
-
The Water Knife
- By: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,864
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,613
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 2,608
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
The fight for water in a drought fueled apocalypse
- By Lore on 09-24-15
-
Nexus
- Nexus, Book 1
- By: Ramez Naam
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,992
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,804
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,818
In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage, with far more at stake than anyone realizes.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
SERENITY PACKAGE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-13-17
-
Lock In (Narrated by Wil Wheaton)
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,242
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,584
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,570
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Fun! Things you might want to know:
- By Alexis on 08-29-14
-
Iron Dragoons
- Terran Armor Corps, Book 1
- By: Richard Fox
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,011
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 951
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 950
Soldiers of the Terran Armor Corps wage war across the stars. Wired into mechanized battle suits, they fight the terrifying battles which must be won, no matter the cost. Their deeds are legend, their reputation feared by the enemies of Earth and her allies, but how the Corps forges young men and women into mighty warriors is shrouded by mystery. Roland Shaw lost his parents to war, he volunteers for the Armor Corps to honor their memory and discover just how far he can push himself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely hands-down favorite
- By Wes on 11-25-17
-
Elysium Fire
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 301
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 281
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 280
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Reynolds fan left cold
- By Zach on 01-25-18
-
The Dreaming Void
- Void Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,385
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,370
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,386
AD 3580. The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread through the galaxy to over a thousand star systems. It is a culture of rich diversity with a place for everyone. A powerful navy protects it from any hostile species that may lurk among the stars. For Commonwealth citizens, even death has been overcome.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Solid Hamiltonian Space Opera
- By Ethan M. on 08-06-08
-
The Collapsing Empire
- The Interdependency, Book 1
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,018
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,413
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,382
Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Just feels small - no sense of scale, so why care?
- By Ron P on 03-29-17
-
A Deepness in the Sky
- By: Vernor Vinge
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,136
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 923
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 938
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. There are two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A science fiction classic
- By Amen-Ra on 01-26-11
-
Accelerando
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 400
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 360
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 362
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Hardest of hard SF...
- By David Lee on 11-24-14
-
Provenance
- By: Ann Leckie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 412
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 383
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Worth it as an audiobook
- By Honaker on 11-07-17
-
Pattern Recognition
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Badly cut up into chapters and monotonic narration
- By Marcel (MadJo) on 04-16-18
-
Foreigner
- Foreigner Sequence 1, Book 1
- By: C. J. Cherryh
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,146
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,028
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,037
The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
struggled to relate to human
- By kesia martin on 11-07-16
-
The Stars My Destination
- By: Alfred Bester
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
STILL AMAZINGLY GOOD AFTER 62 YEARS
- By charles watkins on 02-19-18
-
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51,824
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 48,654
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48,568
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Ignore the Publisher's Summary! This is Amazing!
- By PW on 04-12-17
Publisher's Summary
Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence. Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world.
During the day, Marid is a policemanand Bey's personal envoy to the police. His new position has brought him money and power which he would abandon in a moment if he could return to a life of neither owning nor being owned. Which, unfortunately, isn't one of his options.It's also not an issue. For something dark is afoot. Something that is sending the city into chaos.
Helping a child-mutilator to avoid arrest. Sending a killer to murder Marid's partner. Murdering prostitutes and savaging their remains. Signs point to the hand of Abu Adil - the one man in the city whose power rivals Friedlander Bey's. Whatever happens next, it's not going to be good news for Marid Audran.
More from the same
What members say
Average Customer Ratings
Overall
-
4.5 out of 5 stars
-
5 Stars81
-
4 Stars57
-
3 Stars8
-
2 Stars4
-
1 Stars2
Performance
-
4.5 out of 5 stars
-
5 Stars99
-
4 Stars32
-
3 Stars2
-
2 Stars1
-
1 Stars2
Story
-
4.5 out of 5 stars
-
5 Stars68
-
4 Stars53
-
3 Stars9
-
2 Stars3
-
1 Stars3
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Cliff
- madison, MS, United States
- 09-10-13
The series just keeps getting better.
What made the experience of listening to A Fire in the Sun the most enjoyable?
The world is so vibrant and well developed. You feel like such a place really exists.
What other book might you compare A Fire in the Sun to and why?
This is a unique cyberpunk book. The closest I would come would be William Gibson novels, but he is more Japanese influenced. Mr. Effinger was the only one to really explore the Arabic world. Remember this book is almost 10 years old. He was definitely ahead of his time.
Which character – as performed by Jonathan Davis – was your favorite?
Marid is clearly the best character. he is well developed with good points but tons of internal flaws as well.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
i wanted too, but 12 hours is a long time...
Any additional comments?
Great series. I'd strongly advise getting all 3 books.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- brandi
- PITTSBURGH, PA, United States
- 01-23-17
Original & enthralling from page 1.
This 2nd Marid Audran book had me hooked immediately and hesitant to put it down. The story is thrill and well-crafted. The characters are nuanced and complicated. There are no tidy clichés or guaranteed happy endings. I highly recommend this book.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- A. Middleton
- 06-21-16
A fine sequel to When Gravity Fails
Not quite as good a story as When Gravity Fails, but it builds the world and the characters very well.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- AustinDocs
- 05-27-16
A Science Fiction Police Procedural
Marid Audran returns in very different circumstances. Not as appallingly odd and otherworldly as the first book, but I liked it quite a bit, and so did my wife.
There. This has been a review.