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Publisher's Summary
An oppressive world. An untested spacecraft. A perilous gamble.
Can her journey preserve humanity's freedom?
Cristina Flores speaks her mind. But in a totalitarian surveillance state where privacy is a thing of the past, her critical thinking and outspoken nature have marked her for death.
So when rebel scientists recruit the math genius for a covert plan to start anew on Mars, she accepts the chance to control her own destiny.
But space is a harsh sanctuary, and freedom is never purchased cheaply.
Alongside a small band of like-minded renegades, Cristina struggles to overcome escalating failures and rising panic. She fears their most lethal threat may be a charismatic but incompetent leader determined to command the colony to its last dying breath....
Can Cristina's unstoppable determination keep their dream alive, or will the hope for freedom be lost in the void?
The Far Shore is a thrilling sci-fi novel in the classic tradition. If you enjoy courageous heroes, convincing technology, and hard-edged science, you’ll love Glenn Damato’s bold odyssey.
“A magnificent story - a soaring feat of imagination, highly suspenseful and utterly gripping.” (Robert Bidinotto, best-selling author of Hunter)
“I give The Far Shore five stars. It rivals The Martian in accuracy, ambition and attitude. It offers hope for humanity at all levels.” (Tamara Wilhite, contributor at Liberty Island Magazine)
“Gripping and immersive, The Far Shore offers a lot: Technology for the hard science fiction fans and tons of heart for all of us.” (Laura Montgomery, author of Mercenary Calling)
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- Jeremiah
- 09-02-22
Narrator tries to save a Bonapartist fantasy
If you're a libertarian working as an engineer and frustrated that people don't just do everything you tell them, then this book is for you!
Honestly the writing is not terrible, and the narrator does an ok job, but the incredibly heavy handed and self-contradictory political commentary makes this book really hard to get though. It’s not terrible, but it’s not for everyone.
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- Kurt
- 02-27-20
A great technical and emotional journey.
A great audiobook, left me really engaged with the characters, and wanting to know what happens next. Really loved Victoria Ortiz’ performance as well: each character really stood out thanks to her talents. Well done!
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Story4 out of 5 stars 165
After the world's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors, but Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive; they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic spot-on sf of Mars and our own Earth
- By Samuel Montgomery-Blinn on 01-26-15
By: Lewis Shiner
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Powersat
- The Grand Tour Series
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 976
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 881
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Story4 out of 5 stars 878
Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And in its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of spaceflight.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book but substandard recording
- By Greg on 11-25-11
By: Ben Bova
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Starman's Saga: The Long, Strange Journey of Leif the Lucky
- By: Colin Alexander
- Narrated by: Alex Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
This is the story of Leif Grettison, a crew member of humanity’s first flight to the stars, even though he had not expected to take that trip. The year is 2069. The Troubles, a decade plus of proxy, and direct warfare among the US, Russia, and China, had brought the world to the brink of apocalypse. It was close enough to finally scare the leaders of the powers into signing the Geneva Treaties, a set of agreements pledging peace, cooperation, and the dismantling of the military complexes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ugh
- By Rhettparler@outlook. Com on 02-15-22
By: Colin Alexander
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The Martian Race
- By: Gregory Benford
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
When an explosion of the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle kills four crewmen, the US decides to redirect its energies to near-Earth projects, killing the manned mission to Mars. But tycoon John Axelrod assembles a consortium to fund the project, and he expects to net billions. But a European-Asian airbus will make a similar expedition. Now, the race is on to get to the Red Planet first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By JKO on 05-11-15
By: Gregory Benford
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Gunpowder Moon
- By: David Pedreira
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 135
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 134
The moon smells like gunpowder. Every lunar walker since Apollo 11 has noticed it: a burnt-metal scent that reminds them of war. Caden Dechert, the chief of the US mining operation on the edge of the Sea of Serenity, thinks the smell is just a trick of the mind - a reminder of his harrowing days as a marine in the war-torn Middle East back on Earth. It's 2072, and lunar helium-3 mining is powering the fusion reactors that are bringing Earth back from environmental disaster.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So tired of bad books.
- By Zach on 03-28-18
By: David Pedreira
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Mars Nation: The Complete Trilogy
- Mars Trilogy, Books 1-3
- By: Brandon Q. Morris
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 25 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 470
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Story4 out of 5 stars 422
NASA finally made it. The very first human has just set foot on the surface of our neighbor planet. This is the start of a long research expedition that sent four scientists into space. But the four astronauts of the NASA crew are not the only ones with this destination. The privately financed "Mars for Everyone" initiative has also targeted the Red Planet. Twenty men and women have been selected to live there and establish the first extraterrestrial settlement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth a listen
- By Chris Duemig on 09-16-20
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The Ark
- Children of a Dead Earth, Book 1
- By: Patrick S. Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 657
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 611
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Story4 out of 5 stars 610
Humankind has escaped a dying Earth and set out to find a new home among the stars aboard an immense generation ship affectionately named the Ark. Bryan Benson is the Ark's greatest living sports hero, enjoying retirement working as a detective in Avalon, his home module. The hours are good, the work is easy, and the perks can't be beat. But when a crew member goes missing, Bryan is thrust into the center of an ever-expanding web of deception, secrets, and violence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nearly there
- By Michaela on 05-11-16
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You're Going to Mars!
- By: Rob Dircks
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,986
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,667
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,655
Living and slaving in Fill City One, you get used to the smell. We call it the Everpresent Stink. But every once in a while, on a spring day with a breeze, it clears away enough to remind us that there is something more out there. Most Fillers' wildest dreams would be just to get past the walls and live in the mainland. But my dream? It’s a little bigger. I’m going to Mars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reviewers Choice Award, its that good
- By Midwestbonsai on 11-13-18
By: Rob Dircks
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Starfish
- Rifters Trilogy Series, Book 1
- By: Peter Watts
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 188
A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew - people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater - down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An excellent story, but only half of it
- By Casey on 02-12-20
By: Peter Watts
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
- By: Becky Chambers
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 776
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 683
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 680
At the turn of the 22nd century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life. A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system 15 light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds.
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4 out of 5 stars
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"Gay & Lesbian"?!? This is solid Sci-Fi
- By Jennifer on 09-16-19
By: Becky Chambers
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The Final Frontier
- Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact
- By: Neil Clarke - editor
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell, James Anderson Foster, Mary Robinette Kowal, and others
- Length: 28 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them. Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing New Here!
- By Lisa Davidson on 09-11-18
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Oblivion Awaits
- Infinita, Book 1
- By: Christopher Hopper
- Narrated by: Rebecca Woods, Daniel Wisniewski
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128
They banned him from space. But someone has offered him a way back. Can he afford the price? Famed engineer and test pilot Jericho Fox has been grounded for reasons he'd rather put behind him. But a political leader from a rival party offers to send him back to space. Fox finds himself stuck between working for the enemy and doing what he loves again. Meanwhile, high above Earth on Astraea Station, decorated astrophysicist Dr. Evelyn Park is on the verge of a scientific breakthrough that could make history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was written for audio
- By David Seaman on 11-09-21
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Assemblers of Infinity
- By: Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 115
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 116
The crew of Moonbase Columbus makes an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon - a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious structure begins to expand and take shape, and its creators begin to multiply. Is this the first strike in an alien invasion from the stars? Or has human nanotechnology experimentation gone awry, triggering an unexpected infestation?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Alien nanotech unbound
- By Michael G Kurilla on 08-08-12
By: Kevin J. Anderson, and others
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Man Plus
- By: Frederik Pohl
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Robert J. Sawyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4 out of 5 stars 92
Roger Torraway watched in horror as the monster lurched, toppled over and died. Project Man Plus had gone suddenly and drastically wrong. The race to colonize Mars was too important, too costly, and America was already too committed, for plans to be scrapped. They would have to make a new Martian. And Roger Torraway was it, candidate for the endless surgery, operation after painful operation, that would enable him to survive on that faraway planet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More timely now than ever
- By Sandy R on 06-28-10
By: Frederik Pohl
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Firestar
- Firestar Saga, Book 1
- By: Michael Flynn
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 31 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 562
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Story4 out of 5 stars 507
It is the dawn of the 21st century, and America is in trouble. Public schools breed apathy and ignorance, and politics has become the art of the quick fix. There is one woman, though, who has both the vision and the money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley van Huyten, heiress to one of the great American fortunes, is determined to bring America, and the rest of the world, back on track. She founds an educational subsidiary in hopes of raising a new, less cynical generation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow Rise
- By Amazon Customer on 01-13-13
By: Michael Flynn
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Earth's Last Gambit: The Complete Series
- A Sci-Fi Box Set, Books 1-4
- By: Felix R. Savage
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 45 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4 out of 5 stars 154
Get the Earth's Last Gambit bundle, featuring all four books in this first-contact series blending hard sci-fi and edge-of-your-seat action.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unlikeable characters, good narration
- By Kindle Customer on 02-04-22
By: Felix R. Savage