The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 2003
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,420
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8,391
All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, but lacks where Skyward excelled.
- By Quiet Coyote on 12-10-19
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Armageddon
- Expeditionary Force, Book 8
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10,091
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,705
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,676
After the Renegade mission by the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years, at least. After there was trouble on the home front, and the president had to authorize a nuclear strike on an American city, UNEF decided they did need the Merry Band of Pirates again. So, the Flying Dutchman is sent out on a simple recon mission. But for the pirates, nothing is ever simple, and their mission will become Armageddon.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great and not so great
- By Amazon Customer on 11-08-19
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The Last Tribe
- By: Brad Manuel
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,432
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,864
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8,842
Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon is living a nightmare. Attending boarding school outside of Boston, he is separated from his family when a pandemic strikes. His classmates and teachers are dead, rotting in a dormitory-turned-morgue steps from his room. The nights are getting colder, and his food has run out. The last message from his father is to get away from the city and to meet at his grandparents' town in remote New Hampshire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No zombies!
- By Robert on 08-01-18
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An Echo of Things to Come
- The Licanius Trilogy, Book 2
- By: James Islington
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 26 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,207
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,666
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,628
In the wake of a devastating attack, an amnesty has been declared for all Augurs - finally allowing them to emerge from hiding and openly oppose the dark forces massing against the land of Andarra. As the Augur Davian and his new allies hurry north toward the ever-weakening Boundary, however, fresh horrors along their path suggest that their reprieve may have come far too late. His ally in the Capital, the new Northwarden, contends with assassins and politicians and uncovers a dangerous political secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even better than the first book
- By Anonymous User on 08-28-17
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Dawn of Wonder
- The Wakening, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Renshaw
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 29 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37,282
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35,071
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34,987
When a high-ranking officer gallops into the quiet Mistyvales, he brings a warning that shakes the countryfolk to their roots. But for Aedan, a scruffy young adventurer with veins full of fire and a head full of ideas, this officer is not what he seems. The events that follow propel Aedan on a journey that only the foolhardy or desperate would risk, leading him to the gates of the nation's royal academy - a whole world of secrets in itself. But this is only the beginning of his discoveries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So, DUDE, where's the next book?
- By Morro Schreiber on 08-13-19
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78,568
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 73,741
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73,592
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ignore the Publisher's Summary! This is Amazing!
- By PW on 04-12-17
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Spellmonger
- Spellmonger, Book 1
- By: Terry Mancour
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,836
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,808
Minalan gave up a promising career as a professional warmage to live the quiet life of a village spellmonger in the remote mountain valley of Boval. It was a peaceful, beautiful little fief, far from the dangerous feudal petty squabbles of the Five Duchies, on the world of Callidore. There were cows. Lots of cows. And cheese. For six months things went well. Then one night Minalan is forced to pick up his mageblade again to defend his adopted home from the vanguard of an army of goblins bent on a genocidal crusade against all mankind. And that was the good news.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific Book! A great adult fantasy series.
- By Eric on 07-27-17
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The Handmaid's Tale
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Claire Danes
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,217
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32,888
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32,880
After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ridiculously stupid & gloomy
- By CW in ATX on 02-20-20
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The Land: Predators: A LitRPG Saga
- Chaos Seeds, Book 7
- By: Aleron Kong
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 46 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17,615
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16,711
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16,654
In The Land: Predators, the Mist Village has harnessed its power. With core buildings, professional fighters, and now their own dungeon, the settlement is primed to grow into a kingdom of true power and magic. The path to power has not been without risk, however. The MistVillage has been noticed. Evil nobles from the Kingdom of Law, bloodthirsty goblins from the Serrated Mountains, an undead lord with a penchant for human sacrifice, and fanatical kobolds from the Depths all plot the village's destruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best series I've read all year!
- By Robert J. Tavares on 05-08-19
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Fear the Sky
- The Fear Saga, Book 1
- By: Stephen Moss
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18,987
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,831
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,781
From the Audie-nominated narrator of The Martian. In eleven years' time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing
- By SDStudent on 02-23-16
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The Rise of Magicks
- Chronicles of The One, Book 3
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,708
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,460
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,440
After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness - if, indeed, they can be saved.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not great. Not even a little.
- By JamieK on 12-23-19
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34,379
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32,665
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32,588
The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Overrated
- By Guernica on 07-08-19
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The Vine Witch
- By: Luanne G. Smith
- Narrated by: Susannah Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,997
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,665
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,662
For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Adult fairytale
- By Christina t on 10-09-19
Publisher's Summary
We begin with the latest installment of Paul Di Filippo's Plumage from Pegasus column, "Write What You Sell," providing a new twist on literature and publishing.
Then, Al Michaud takes us Down East for the annual clambake in "Clem Crowder's Catch," a Maine horror story that will elicit both shivers and laughs.
Benjamin Rosenbaum's surreal "Red Leather Tassels" introduces us to the sex life of a very special woodpecker.
"Repository" by Carol Emshwiller is an edgy and powerful glimpse into the mind of "the universal soldier."
Harlan Ellison reads Harvey Jacobs' existential fish story, "Spawning," with comic restraint.
From the pen of the wonderful Pat Murphy comes "Dragon's Gate," a tale about a prince, a minstrel and, of course, a dragon, that sets the entire tradition of such stories on its ear.
And finally, Adam-Troy Castro's stunning novella "The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes," explores the nature and purposes of art, humanity, and perhaps life itself.
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- Ryan L
- 03-30-17
A few high points
As with all of the periodicals turned into audiobooks, hit or miss. A few of these stories were good (Dragon Gate, Repository) and a few were surreal (Clem Crowder's Catch, and Spawning). Overall pretty decent for an audio anthology.