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The Gone World
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 02-06-18
- Language: English
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $31.50
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Publisher's Summary
Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope. The Gone World follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.
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- Veronica
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What an amazing find!
The description of the book did not did not do it justice. It’s incredibly difficult to really summarize Gone World because the author does such a brilliant job of blending hard science fiction, crime suspense, and a bit of horror. I didn’t know much about the author or the book when I started and I’m glad I didn’t. It grabbed me from the first chapter and I listened to this though my commute, workday and somewhat unfortunately, through most of the night. The only thing I didn’t appreciate was the epilogue. But I’m ignoring it because it doesn’t really matter. The book is brilliant.
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- Eugene R. White
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Confusing and unfinished story, but captivating
Spoilers here. I'm not a horror fan, and this book is near to that. Lots of blood and guts -- very descriptive with smells and horrible deaths. The time travel approach is innovative and unique -- any future destination is an "IF" that might come to pass -- and then disappears as a reality when the time traveler leaves. I felt the ending was just incomplete -- maybe the author wanted it that way, but I needed another chapter.
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- Lexington Rooke
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- 02-19-18
Best story I've listened to in months
What did you love best about The Gone World?
This story possibly has the most comprehensive implementation of time travel out of any book I've listened to. Normally time travel is fraught with paradoxes and loops with no beginnings, but this seemed feasible.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The main character is a disabled, female, possibly bisexual time-travelling NCIS agent. What more needs saying?
Any additional comments?
If you loved mind bending plots like Inception, you should love this novel.
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- Nathan
- 05-16-18
You better have a good imagination
There is a lot of "sci-fi" (I guess) things going on, and it's probably just me, but I had a hard time picturing some of the things and places in the story. I also think it's a little long (I probably should've got the abridged version) because the last three hours or so I was just like "c'mon already, let's wrap this up." I think I'll wait a few months then try to listen again, maybe it'll be better then since I'll already have an idea of what's happening and what's coming up.
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- Tyler
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- 04-18-18
Unexpected and Outstanding
I agree with the notion that this book is True Detective Season 1 mixed with Interstellar. The science fiction elements are based on some of favorite theoretical physics ideas. This is an excellent read though a little bleak at times. The narrator does a fantasy job with the characters.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- ROCKVILLE, MD, United States
- 04-17-18
No escape
Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World offers a unique blend of hard science fiction and horror, along with some gritty detective noir against a backdrop of blood and gore. In an alternate history universe, the US has been using its space program as a cover for a top secret program to investigate potential and alternate futures. Along the way, they discover, the terminus which is a future annihilation slowly working itself ever closer to the present. Against this backdrop comes a gruesome murder of a family, including a former soldier who had been associated with the secret space program, but believed to have gone missing. As the investigator digs into the case, she discovers a covert conspiracy with unknown intentions and finds additional gore. As she traverses time and space to multiple futures, she encounters alternate futures as she attempts to piece together the mystery.
The major sci-fi elements encompasses the ability to travel to alternate futures and then back again to present time. Each can be subtlety and dramatically different at the same time. The passage of time in getting to and from as well as the time spent there ages the agent biologically, such that she is slowly catching up to her mother in age. The detective work is gritty and confusing, while the violence is graphic and extensive with overtones of a supernatural quality. The world ending terminus is truly a hell on Earth scenario worthy of Dante.
The narration is superb with an excellent character distinction of both genders including the same character at different ages. While not for the squeamish, this blending of sci-fi and horror in what is basically a detective murder mystery is an ambitious undertaking, the success of which will be in the ear of the listener.
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- Buzz
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- 03-12-18
Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive
Would you try another book from Tom Sweterlitsch and/or Brittany Pressley?
Absolutely not.
Has The Gone World turned you off from other books in this genre?
I can't imagine that another book, of any genre, could be so repetitive.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator was fine.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Gone World?
That's easy...I would cut the endless descriptions of the same scenarios. Really, after 4 or 5 descriptions I got it...but the author chooses to believe we have never read a book before, so he repeats...and repeats...and repeats...and, oh yeah, he repeats, his descriptions of just about everything in this novel. The 13 hours of read time could easily have been 6 or 7 hours, with the same result.
Any additional comments?
How many times can you describe a "white tree?" Apparently, about 40 times.
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- Darren J. Downing
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