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The Van Rijn Method
- Technic Civilization Series 1
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The buck starts here!
Think there's an unbridgeable gulf between human and alien thought? Not so! There's a common tongue, all right - and Nicholas Van Rijn speaks it fluently: trade. For behind the buffoonish blarney and bawdy bonhomie of the Falstaffian Van Rijn is a man who gets things done. A born wheeler-dealer who usually leaves both sides better off in the bargain. (While pocketing a hefty cut of the profits himself, of course!)
With "The Man Who Counts" and a passel of other tales included, this is the first of three volumes set to contain the complete cycle of Polesotechnic League books and stories by transcendently gifted science fiction master (how does seven Hugos and three Nebula Awards strike you?) Poul Anderson - and starring Nicholas Van Rijn, his most famous character of all!
Contains mature themes.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-31-20
Humph and hassenpfeffer!
I read most of the stories in this collection in other books published in the 60s & 70s and listened to two of my favorite stories first: "The Three-Cornered Wheel" and "A Sun Invisible". These were the first Poul Anderson stories I ever read and I enjoyed your production of them, especially the "The Three-Cornered Wheel". The narrator BJ Harrison did a great job and brought to life the natives of Ivanhoe - a planet orbiting a small star located near the Pleiades star cluster. I had never read the Saturn Game(1981) and found it difficult to get through - not one Poul Anderson's best, in my opinion. "Margin of Profit"(1956) was a story I didn't know but is now one of my favorite Nicholas van Rijn stories. The novel the "Man Who Counts"(1958) was also new and is another great van Rijn story. The narrator plays van Rijn VERY well bringing him to life with his outrageous accent! The next book in the series "David Falkayn: Star Trader" has the best stories of the Polesotechnic League including the novel "Satan's World" (1969). The third book, Rise of the Terran Empire, collects Anderson's early stories of the Terran Empire including one my favorites "The People of the Wind"(1973). And the fourth book will introduce Poul Anderson's most famous protagonist, Sir Dominic Flandry.
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- Andorboth
- 11-22-20
wonderful reading - Technic in hi-fi audio
Delighted that the Technic Civilization series is finally having its own complete audiobooks.
I loved this reading by BJ Harrison - and I'm looking forward to the other volumes. The sound quality is perfect, and Harrison brings the characters and stories to life.
The editing of all of Anderson's stories finally into a chronological 7-book series is a great moment (just wish the covers were different). One can get a bit lost in all the different publications of the Technic Civilization without this fine editing job. I do hope they finish an entire series of audiobooks to accompany these publications.
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- sheridan
- 02-04-21
meh
Did not do it for me.lots not working here. voice did not match the writing.
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This ninth volume of Favorite Science Fiction Stories is a little unusual, in that it includes a few stories that are not really that short, bordering on novellas. Titles include: "The Concrete Mixer" by Ray Bradbury, "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, "Bedside Manner" by William Morrison, "The Inferiors" by Mari Wolf, "The Aggravation of Elmer" by Robert Arthur, "Conquest over Time" by Michael Shara, "The Virgin of Valkarion" by Poul Anderson, "No Charge for Alterations" by H. L. Gold.
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Fave Sci fi 9
- By Deedra on 05-17-18
By: Ray Bradbury, and others
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Harvest of Stars
- Harvest of Stars, Book 1
- By: Poul Anderson
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The virtual persona of a long-dead visionary entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship in this ingenious science-fiction classic.
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entertaining
- By Andorboth on 12-07-22
By: Poul Anderson
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Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2
- By: Fredric Brown, Ben Bova, Frank Herbert, and others
- Narrated by: Ben Hurst, Emmett Casey, Ran Allan Ricard, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The second collection of science-fiction tales by Jimcin includes 31 stories.
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Some of the best
- By Empowerment on 02-15-10
By: Fredric Brown, and others
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Rise of the Terran Empire
- The Technic Civilization Saga, Book 3
- By: Poul Anderson
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech weapons to alien barbarians. A planet not previously known for interstellar commerce suddenly revealed a secret fleet of armed starships and started building an empire. Even if Van Rijn and his right-hand man, David Falkayn, could find a way to stop this blatant aggression, the glory days of the League were over.
By: Poul Anderson
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The Stars Are Also Fire
- Harvest of Stars Series, Book 2
- By: Poul Anderson
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 21 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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On a far-future Earth, a linked system of artificial intelligences called the cybercosm runs the planet and the universe far more efficiently than any flesh and blood ruler ever could, in essence rendering the human race obsolete. On the Earth's moon, genetically engineered Lunarians carrying the DNA of Dagney Beynac - a descendant of the legendary Anton Guthrie, founder of the powerful and visionary Fireball Enterprises - struggle to preserve their lives, their freedom, and their satellite's resources in the face of threats posed by encroaching humans and controlling machines.
By: Poul Anderson
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Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 4
- By: Poul Anderson, Ben Bova, Fredric Brown, and others
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts, Cindy Killavey, Emmett Casey
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This fourth volume of Favorite Science Fiction Stories contains 22 more gripping tales.
By: Poul Anderson, and others
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Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire
- Technic Civilization, Book 5
- By: Poul Anderson
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
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No longer a brash, young ensign, Captain Dominic Flandry has risen in rank but now appreciates fully that the Terran empire is old and tired, wanting to be left in peace. But the enemies it has made and the competing empire of Merseia will give it no peace. Too evenly matched for open warfare not to destroy them both, the opponents engage in subtle thrust and counter-thrust, feint and counter-feint, with Flandry in the thick of it.
By: Poul Anderson
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The Boat of a Million Years
- By: Poul Anderson
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 24 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The immortals are 10 individuals born in antiquity from various cultures. Immune to disease, able to heal themselves from injuries, they will never die of old age - although they can fall victim to catastrophic wounds. They have walked among mortals for millennia, traveling across the world, trying to understand their special gifts while searching for one another in the hope of finding some meaning in a life that may go on forever.
By: Poul Anderson
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