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Kim Stanley Robinson’s illustrious SF career has earned him every major award in the business—including the Nebula and Hugo Awards.
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One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, a carefully groomed mustache, wears maroon socks, and who once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan book editors that he has discovered a coded message about a Templar Plan, centuries old and involving Stonehenge, a plan to tap a mystic source of power far greater than atomic energy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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too much missing
- By Kenneth on 01-29-07
By: Umberto Eco
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The Just City
- Thessaly, Book 1
- By: Jo Walton
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 177
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 164
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Story4 out of 5 stars 164
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community populated by over 10,000 children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Could Not Get Past Mispronunciations
- By Martha K. on 04-22-17
By: Jo Walton
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Great & Secret Show
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 821
In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times best-seller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horrific Dark Fantasy
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By: Clive Barker
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In the Matter of Nikola Tesla
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This fictionalized story of the true-life genius Nikola Tesla - arguably the most influential inventor in history - offers a "young-to-old" portrayal in the form of "A Romance of the Mind". It reveals his impassioned inner life and his secret love for Karina, the muse no one else can see who brings him life-altering inspirations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent fictionalization
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By: Anthony Flacco
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Grass
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Story4 out of 5 stars 349
What could be more commonplace than grass or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Speculative & Creative, Yet well Paced and Unique
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By: Sheri S. Tepper
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Variable Star
- By: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 691
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 452
At his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of interstellar time and space. Now, the Heinlein estate has authorized award-winning author Spider Robinson to expand his outline into a full-length novel. And the result is vintage Heinlein.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Spider WHO
- By Randall on 04-25-09
By: Robert A. Heinlein, and others
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Galilee
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 23 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 265
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 236
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Story4 out of 5 stars 239
The Barbarossa family’s roots are far more ancient and ethereal, but they are bound to the Gearys by a shared history of murder, insanity, and adultery. When Rachel Geary and Galilee, the seductive prince of the Barbarossa clan, fall in love, they unleash powerful enmities that could destroy both dynasties. Shorter and more conventional than some of Barker’s other work, this novel is especially rich with complex, passionate, three-dimensional characters, lush settings, and elegant language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Audiophile's Dream
- By Joseph on 09-01-11
By: Clive Barker
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Scythe
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21,084
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,896
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,873
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life - and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe - a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Teenage Thumbs up
- By Lila Reading on 04-01-17
By: Neal Shusterman
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The Journey
- By: Isobelle Carmody
- Narrated by: Isobelle Carmody
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4 out of 5 stars 125
A bonus never-before-released short story by best-selling author Isobelle Carmody. Before the apocolyptic Great White - and the regressive theology that ruled the decimated population in its wake - the city of Uropa is a gleaming metropolis devoted wholly to materialistic consumption.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Journey
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By: Isobelle Carmody
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How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
- Stories
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrated by: Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Ray Eller, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 715
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 639
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 639
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great! One quibble with the audiobook editing
- By L on 03-05-19
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Cast in Moonlight
- Chronicles of Elantra, Book 6.5
- By: Michelle Sagara
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 659
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 653
Barely a teenager, Kaylin Neya is a thief, a fugitive, and an attempted assassin. She also has a smart mouth, sharp wits, and mysterious markings on her skin. All of which make her perfect bait for a child prostitution sting in the city of Elantra - if she survives her first meeting with the Hawks!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, gives important series background info
- By James on 05-04-12
By: Michelle Sagara
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The Satanic Verses
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,844
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,600
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,590
Inextricably linked with the fatwa called against its author in the wake of the novel’s publication, The Satanic Verses is, beyond that, a rich showcase for Salman Rushdie’s comic sensibilities, cultural observations, and unparalleled mastery of language. The book begins with two Indians plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their airliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Use an audiobook to really enjoy Satanic Verses
- By David Edelberg on 11-24-12
By: Salman Rushdie
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The Stranger House
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
For years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to travellers. People like Sam, a brilliant young mathematician, who believes that anything that can't be explained by maths isn't worth explaining. And Miguel, a historian running from a priests' seminary, who sees ghosts. Sam is an experienced young woman, Miguel a 26-year-old virgin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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an OK read
- By Jen Terry on 01-18-08
By: Reginald Hill
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- 02-06-11
Polarized Opinions
This seems to be one of those polarizing books--people either love it or hate it. I decided to try it because (1) the premise sounded intriguing and (2) I enjoyed KSR's "Red Mars" immensely, although I could never get into the rest of the series. "Galileo" was a big disappointment; thus, among the polarized opinions, I vote on the "tedious and pointless" side. I got about 3 hours in and just couldn't stand it any more. Gave it two stars because I felt bad giving only one star to something I hadn't finished--it might have gotten better farther along, but I wasn't sticking around to find out.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Elizabeth
- 05-27-10
Tedious
I expected an exciting story. This is more a biography with a tiny bit of sci-fi on the side. Maybe it gets better as it goes, but I've not managed to make it through the first part after trying to engage with the story for over three weeks now.
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