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Wheelworld
- Narrated by: Charles Carr
- Series: To the Stars, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 02-24-15
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $19.95
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Too dangerous to live. Too valuable to kill.
Jan Kulozik is in exile: sentenced to service the machines of Halvork, the farmworld that grows crops to fill the holds of Earth's grain-ships. This Wheelworld, baked by eternal summer, is a world of peasants enslaved by a handful of powerful families.
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- 06-19-16
Solid Story
Solid Reading, wonderful voice. Story is solid SciFi nothing outrageous. Harry Harrison is my Favorite Author in the Genre
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- Michael Leys
- 02-01-17
Fantastic
Harry Harrison is fantastic. Love his work. This is one of the best syfi series I've listened to or read