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Matter
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Story1,182
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their...
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What happened to Peter Kenny?
- By Bill on 01-18-16
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Matter
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Series: Culture, Book 8
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 02-11-14
- Language: English
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No Matter What
- A Novel
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Alex Finke
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance179
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Sometimes love sends you back to the drawing board. After a traumatic accident threatens the foundations of their happy marriage, a couple tries to rebuild and find their way back to each other—and themselves—in this tender, slow-burn romance by the bestselling author...
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Spectacular
- By Mara Apostol on 03-04-26
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No Matter What
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Alex Finke
- Series: Dial Delights
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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The Mattering Instinct
- How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
- By: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Narrated by: Rebecca Kaser
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Deeply revealing and insightful, The Mattering Instinct is a must-listen for those curious about why we seek to matter to ourselves and others—and how this insatiable longing that drives us apart may be the key to finally understanding each other.
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Desire to be Important
- By Seçkin Sosyal on 01-19-26
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The Mattering Instinct
- How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
- Narrated by: Rebecca Kaser
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-13-26
- Language: English
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Matter
- The Magnificent Illusion
- By: Guido Tonelli, Edward Williams - translator
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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What are we made up of? What holds material bodies together? Is there a difference between terrestrial matter and celestial matter? When Democritus stated that we are made up of atoms, few people believed him. Not until Galileo and Newton in the seventeenth century did people take the idea seriously, and it was another four hundred years before we could reconstruct the elementary components of matter.
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Matter
- The Magnificent Illusion
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-15-25
- Language: English
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The Matter Destructor: Book II
- By: Lucian Cross
- Narrated by: Clinton Woodhams
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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Hunter Graves has survived the opening days of the Trial, bloodied, hardened, and marked by a new profession: Exiled Tyrant. What began as a struggle for survival has turned into calculated evolution, each fight pushing him to grow faster, stronger, and colder than before. But the deeper he carves into this world, the clearer it becomes that something is wrong. The Trial isn’t following its rules.
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The Matter Destructor: Book II
- Narrated by: Clinton Woodhams
- Series: The Matter Destructor, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Matter
- Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice
- By: Peter Sheahan, Julie Williamson
- Narrated by: Peter Sheahan, Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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So how do you build a company that matters? Companies and people that matter have successfully become the obvious choices in the hearts and minds of their customers, their employees, and their communities. They elevate themselves by consistently finding ways to solve the most pressing needs their markets face. The result? They create more value year after year and build sustainable, differentiated organizations.
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good, but too repetitive.
- By Kevin & Kim on 04-17-18
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Matter
- Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice
- Narrated by: Peter Sheahan, Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-10-16
- Language: English
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Matter
- Culture Series, Book 8
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall193
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Performance131
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Story130
In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight and a search for the one, maybe two, people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was.
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Much more than a 'read'
- By Rasheed on 11-05-09
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Matter
- Culture Series, Book 8
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Series: Culture, Book 8
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-15-08
- Language: English
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A Matter of Death and Life
- By: Marilyn Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife, esteemed feminist author Marilyn Yalom, was diagnosed with cancer. In A Matter of Death and Life, Marilyn and Irv share how they took on profound new struggles: Marilyn to die a good death, Irv to live on without her.
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The most beautiful love letter
- By Aloha Hawaii on 03-13-21
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A Matter of Death and Life
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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Matterhorn
- A Novel of the Vietnam War
- By: Karl Marlantes
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,606
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Performance7,281
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Story7,278
Why we think it’s a great listen: A performance so poignant, we gave Bronson Pinchot (yes, Balki from Perfect Strangers) our inaugural Narrator of the Year award.... In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company to further his civilian political ambitions. But two people stand in his way.
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A First For Me . . . And The Last
- By Glen on 05-24-10
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Matterhorn
- A Novel of the Vietnam War
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-23-10
- Language: English
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The Matter Destructor
- By: Lucian Cross
- Narrated by: Clinton Woodhams
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance21
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Story21
Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested. Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him.
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Cliffhanger much???
- By Amazon Customer on 03-13-26
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The Matter Destructor
- Narrated by: Clinton Woodhams
- Series: The Matter Destructor, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 03-04-26
- Language: English
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Mattering
- The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
- By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
- Narrated by: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance72
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A timely, vitally important read.” — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:thinking “Beautifully written and deeply felt. Wallace gives readers the insights we need to understand each other, and...
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Nice but nothing new
- By Susan Donnelly on 02-14-26
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Mattering
- The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
- Narrated by: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-27-26
- Language: English
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Dark Matter
- A Novel
- By: Blake Crouch
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33,507
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Performance30,373
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Story30,360
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade...
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Another Book Where the Ratings Lie
- By Matthew on 08-05-16
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Dark Matter
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-26-16
- Language: English
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Why Gender Matters
- What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
- By: Leonard Sax MD PhD
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall608
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Performance548
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Story549
Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls—how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how they process emotions and take risks differently. Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing misbehavior, and failing to help kids to reach their full potential.
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Terrible Read
- By Davon Smith on 07-02-21
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Why Gender Matters
- What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-29-17
- Language: English
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Matters of the Heart
- Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love
- By: Thema Bryant Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Thema Bryant Ph.D.
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking, heart-centered road map for everyone who seeks greater fulfillment in their relationships—with family, friends, romantic partners, and themselves As a psychologist and minister with more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Thema understands how challenging it can be to...
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Life changing book!
- By TS on 03-29-26
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Matters of the Heart
- Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love
- Narrated by: Thema Bryant Ph.D.
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-04-25
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 6
- By: Matt Dinniman
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays, Patrick Warburton, Travis Baldree, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 46 mins
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Overall19,263
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Performance16,430
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Story16,429
A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend.
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Mayhem & Intrigue… Oh my! 😼
- By C. White on 09-01-23
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 6
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays, Patrick Warburton, Travis Baldree, Annie Ellicott
- Series: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 6
- Length: 26 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-01-23
- Language: English
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Matter and Memory
- By: Henri Bergson
- Narrated by: Michael Lunts
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Matter and Memory, (Matière et Mémoire), published in 1896, was the second book written by Henri Bergson (1859-1941), one of the leading French philosophers of his age. It followed Time and Free Will (1889) and helped to establish him as a major force in anti-mechanistic thought, opposing the trend towards uncompromisingly secular and scientific views. However, when Matter and Memory appeared, Bergson was 39 and had yet to become the hugely influential figure he became in the first decades of the 20th century.
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Matter and Memory
- Narrated by: Michael Lunts
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-17-21
- Language: English
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A Matter for Men
- The War Against the Chtorr, Book 1
- By: David Gerrold
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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With the human population ravaged by a series of devastating plagues, the alien Chtorr arrive to begin the final phase of their invasion. Even as many on Earth deny their existence, the giant wormlike carnivores prepare the world for the ultimate violation--the enslavement of humanity for food!
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Great Courses, NOT!!
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-28-15
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A Matter for Men
- The War Against the Chtorr, Book 1
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Series: The War Against the Chtorr, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-08-14
- Language: English
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Difficult Conversations
- How to Discuss What Matters Most
- By: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, and others
- Narrated by: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask" We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the...
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Worth a credit
- By Stephanie Johnson on 01-22-26
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Difficult Conversations
- How to Discuss What Matters Most
- Narrated by: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-22-23
- Language: English
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Matter
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Geoff Cottrell
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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What is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us - from desks, to books, to our own bodies - are made of atoms, which are small enough that a million of them can fit across the breadth of a human hair. Inside every atom is a tiny nucleus and orbiting the nucleus is a cloud of electrons. The nucleus is made out of protons and neutrons, and by zooming in further, you would find that inside each there are even smaller particles: quarks.
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Matter
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-16-19
- Language: English
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A Matter of Blood
- A Chiara Corelli Mystery
- By: Catherine Maiorisi
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Just back from her second tour in Afghanistan, NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli goes undercover to expose a ring of dirty cops. But when she's ordered to kill to prove her loyalty, she aborts the operation without having identified the leaders. Now, Corelli is the one exposed. With her brothers and sisters in blue ostracizing her, can she trust Detective P. J. Parker to watch her back?
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Not What I Expected
- By ZebrasDen on 09-05-21
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A Matter of Blood
- A Chiara Corelli Mystery
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Series: Chiara Corelli Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-31-21
- Language: English
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Story1,994
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence...
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Tips on how to listen to this novel - NO SPOILERS
- By Ken on 05-12-13
By: Iain M. Banks
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The Player of Games
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,678
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Performance4,159
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Story4,151
The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly...
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Great introduction to The Culture series
- By Ken on 08-04-11
By: Iain M. Banks
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Consider Phlebas
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,734
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Performance4,156
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Story4,165
The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy...
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Visionary but half-cooked intro to Culture 'verse
- By Ryan on 07-20-13
By: Iain M. Banks
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The State of the Art
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance115
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Story115
From New York Times bestselling and modern master of science fiction, Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art is the acclaimed collection of Banks's short fiction. “Banks is a phenomenon...writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.” –William Gibson This is a...
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Great(but missing final chapter)
- By Scott on 04-19-24
By: Iain M. Banks
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The Algebraist
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance57
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Story57
As complex, turbulent and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale. “An enormously enjoyable book, full of wonderful aliens, a sense of wonder and subtle political commentary on current events.” –Publishers Weekly...
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Surprisingly meh
- By Ryan on 05-19-24
By: Iain M. Banks
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Transition
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall464
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Performance363
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Story363
There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern...
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Finally an Iain M. Banks book on audible...
- By Kurt on 10-29-09
By: Iain M. Banks
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Machine Vendetta
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall375
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Performance343
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Story343
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series—Machine Vendetta is a thrilling tale of deadly conspiracies and old enemies that refuse to die. Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten...
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I really liked the characters and story
- By Fafnir on 04-17-26
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall134
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Performance92
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Story89
The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire, now a wildly successful computer game. So successful, in fact, that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion, but he also has other things on his mind. What, for example, drove his mother to take her own life?
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Entirely enjoyable. More AudioBooks by Iain Banks?
- By Daniel on 08-23-09
By: Iain Banks
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Revelation Space
- By: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,808
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Performance4,875
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Story4,872
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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Defeated
- By Eoin on 07-15-12
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Children of Time
- Children of Time, Book 1
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41,120
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Performance37,395
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Story37,324
Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.
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A very pleasant surprise
- By Simon on 06-17-17
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Canal Dreams
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance20
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Story20
Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmostphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on the cello....
By: Iain Banks
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The Quarry
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance92
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Story93
Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His...
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By Iain Banks, not Iain M. Banks
- By Reader X on 05-19-18
By: Iain M. Banks
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Children of Ruin
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,099
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Performance8,000
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Story7,979
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...
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Not ideal for audiobook format
- By bogmonkey on 01-08-20
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The Children of the Sky
- By: Vernor Vinge
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 27 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall823
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Performance725
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Story725
Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them - and among the humans - who seek power. And no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization....
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Deeply unsatisfying
- By Nurselord on 07-20-16
By: Vernor Vinge
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Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25,766
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Performance21,862
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Story21,903
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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The Shrike Awaits. Enter The Time Tombs...
- By Michael on 10-13-12
By: Dan Simmons
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A Deepness in the Sky
- By: Vernor Vinge
- Narrated by: Peter Larkin
- Length: 28 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,172
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Performance1,827
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Story1,837
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap...
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A science fiction classic
- By Deadtroll on 01-26-11
By: Vernor Vinge
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The Ringworld Engineers
- The Ringworld Series, Book 2
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,414
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Performance2,147
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Story2,148
It’s been 20 years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and SpeakertoAnimals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis’ help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable - and will destroy itself within months. To survive, he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet.
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Good Story, Wrong Narrator. Way Wrong.
- By Kevin der Kinderen on 04-16-13
By: Larry Niven
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Usurpation
- Semiosis, Book 3
- By: Sue Burke
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies, Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance46
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Story46
Stevland, the dominant sentient lifeform of Pax, has clandestinely sent some of its progeny to Earth. To explore, to spread, to report back. Since their germination, Earth has been a powder keg. Human rebellion, robot uprisings, and global pandemics have created chaos, distrust, and deaths. As more and more conflicts break out across Earth, Stevland's children work in the background, in an attempt to control human behavior and perhaps, bring peace to the planet. Stevland took control of Pax. Earth shouldn’t be too difficult.
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A deep dive into the power of plants!
- By Treyarch on 10-05-24
By: Sue Burke
Most popular in Space Opera
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall277,564
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Performance258,078
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Story257,526
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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I love Andy Weir and Ray Porter
- By William J. Miller on 05-05-21
By: Andy Weir
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The Faith of Beasts
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance117
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Story117
James S. A. Corey’s Expanse series has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 23 languages, establishing itself as a modern masterwork of science fiction. Now, the Hugo Award–winning author returns with the second volume in their New York Times...
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How To Fight Back
- By Loveday AX Robijn Kuhn on 04-17-26
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For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74,090
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Performance67,285
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Story67,083
Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece.
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THE FECAL MATTER HAS HIT THE ATMOSPHERIC PROJECTOR
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-03-17
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126,643
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Performance109,090
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Story108,980
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
By: Frank Herbert
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall277,564
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Performance258,078
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Story257,526
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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I love Andy Weir and Ray Porter
- By William J. Miller on 05-05-21
By: Andy Weir
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The Faith of Beasts
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance117
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Story117
James S. A. Corey’s Expanse series has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 23 languages, establishing itself as a modern masterwork of science fiction. Now, the Hugo Award–winning author returns with the second volume in their New York Times...
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How To Fight Back
- By Loveday AX Robijn Kuhn on 04-17-26
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For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74,090
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Performance67,285
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Story67,083
Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece.
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THE FECAL MATTER HAS HIT THE ATMOSPHERIC PROJECTOR
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-03-17
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126,643
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Performance109,090
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Story108,980
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
By: Frank Herbert
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Children of Time
- Children of Time, Book 1
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41,120
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Performance37,395
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Story37,324
Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.
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A very pleasant surprise
- By Simon on 06-17-17
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Empire of Silence
- Sun Eater, Book 1
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 26 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,496
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Performance4,007
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Story4,002
The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world.
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A Slow start at best....then the story tapers off
- By paul nordquist on 08-21-19
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The Mercy of Gods
- Captive's War, Book 1
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,250
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Performance3,907
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Story3,907
From the Hugo Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse, James S. A. Corey, comes the start of a monumental new space opera series. HOW HUMANITY CAME TO THE PLANET CALLED ANJIIN IS LOST IN THE FOG OF HISTORY, BUT THAT HISTORY IS ABOUT TO END. The Carryx—part empire...
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Incredible
- By Davey Francis on 08-15-24
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Dune Messiah
- Book Two in the Dune Chronicles
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31,594
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Performance26,924
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Story26,895
The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...
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Good-not-great book, not as fond of the narration
- By Joel D Offenberg on 11-13-09
By: Frank Herbert
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Ground State
- Expeditionary Force, Book 19
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,429
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Performance4,317
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Story4,317
Except the Pirates were too late, and now not one but two of the enemy are loose in the galaxy. And they are equipped with starships more powerful than Valkyrie. A direct fight would be hopeless, so the Pirates must rely on wacky ideas from the mushy brain of a monkey—and some serious sketchiness.
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Long time enjoyer of the franchise dissapointed
- By Nate Rasmussen on 01-31-26
By: Craig Alanson
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Children of Strife
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall331
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Performance318
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Story318
A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...
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Great read for those that love exposition
- By Michael Brown on 03-18-26
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Leviathan Wakes
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33,809
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Performance30,114
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Story30,034
From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series. Humanity...
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Started a love affair with hard sci fi
- By NH on 07-30-17
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Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25,766
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Performance21,862
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Story21,903
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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The Shrike Awaits. Enter The Time Tombs...
- By Michael on 10-13-12
By: Dan Simmons
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Children of Ruin
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,099
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Performance8,000
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Story7,979
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...
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Not ideal for audiobook format
- By bogmonkey on 01-08-20
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Old Guns: A Military Sci-Fi Adventure
- Old Guns, Book 1
- By: J. N. Chaney, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall234
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Performance225
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Story225
When the Colonial Shield Federation needs someone to face an ancient alien threat, they don't call their best; they call the only Marines who survived first contact. Problem is, a decade of hard living has taken its toll on Frank Cage and Martin Kelvin. Frank has spent the last ten years drowning his memories in whiskey and starting bar fights, while Martin walks around on a cybernetic leg, tending his garden and trying to forget the past. But their retirement comes to an abrupt end when a military transport arrives, crushing Martin's prized tomatoes and bringing orders that can't be refused.
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A series that deserves a future (no pun intended)
- By Stephanie Ohlson on 03-30-26
By: J. N. Chaney, and others
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Children of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18,282
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Performance15,555
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Story15,543
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.
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great story, more production problems
- By Ziya on 04-22-08
By: Frank Herbert
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SpecOps
- Expeditionary Force, Book 2
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36,039
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Performance32,880
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Story32,791
Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots, and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return from. At least, this time, the Earth is safe, right? Not so much.
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WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY by NO PATIENCE MAN
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 03-18-17
By: Craig Alanson
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Livesuit
- The Captive's War
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,381
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Performance1,234
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Story1,234
The first novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey's epic Captive's War series. Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the endless slaughter is the Livesuit forces. Soldiers meld their bodies to the bleeding edge technology, becoming...
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Wow, Apex modern military sci-fi.
- By Mike Q Saltzgaver on 11-12-24
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Ender's Game
- Special 20th Anniversary Edition
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44,610
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Performance33,545
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Story33,790
Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.
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6 titles in the series so far
- By Kapila Wimalaratne on 01-29-03
By: Orson Scott Card
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Gateway
- Expeditionary Force, Book 18
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,663
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Performance6,268
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Story6,268
Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy.
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Decent, but a few comments.
- By Caleb on 05-08-25
By: Craig Alanson
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Ship of Prophecy Box Set: The Complete 10-Book Series
- By: Scott Bartlett
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 75 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall781
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Performance739
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Story741
The return of humanity's oldest enemy... An alien prophecy that predicts our species' downfall... And a captain who's the only thing standing in the way of his starship getting mothballed. Wait, what? Imagine Captain Keyes’ surprise when the fate of the galaxy turns out to depend on him, his decrepit ship, and his oddball crew.
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Another box set!
- By Julie Heyneman on 06-23-25
By: Scott Bartlett
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Howling Dark
- Sun Eater, Book 2
- By: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 28 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,845
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Performance2,548
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Story2,544
Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries. Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly 400 years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the security of the Sollan Empire and among the Extrasolarians who dwell between the stars.
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Well holy buckets
- By Rachel on 07-29-19
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Paradise
- Expeditionary Force, Book 3
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48,734
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Performance44,713
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Story44,536
While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise." The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can't do anything about it without endangering Earth.
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running out of ideas...
- By AP on 06-08-17
By: Craig Alanson
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Zero Hour
- Expeditionary Force, Book 5
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41,442
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Performance38,152
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Story37,976
United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-merry band of pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of light years from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed Skippy is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.
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The middle sags with repetition
- By KM on 02-14-18
By: Craig Alanson
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Renegades
- Expeditionary Force, Book 7
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25,775
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Performance23,630
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Story23,563
The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again saved the world. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.
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Same Problems as BSG and LOST
- By Spankybus on 04-03-19
By: Craig Alanson
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Black Ops
- Expeditionary Force, Book 4
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41,754
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Performance38,293
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Story38,150
The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth. Along the way, they became sidetracked by securing a future for the UNEF troops on the planet Paradise. When asked whether Earth was now safe, their ancient alien AI responded "Not so much"...now they have to deal with the consequences.
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Slightly better than books two and three.....
- By Mary and Stephen on 01-02-18
By: Craig Alanson
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Mavericks
- Expeditionary Force, Book 6
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32,044
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Performance29,385
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Story29,298
The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet "Paradise" get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first....
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Trouble on Paradise pt. II
- By Kukele on 09-27-18
By: Craig Alanson
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Armageddon
- Expeditionary Force, Book 8
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23,577
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Performance21,501
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Story21,439
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 homefront 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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Great and not so great
- By Amazon Customer on 11-08-19
By: Craig Alanson
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Valkyrie
- Expeditionary Force, Book 9
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22,659
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Performance20,531
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Story20,449
After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's homeworld. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.
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A chore to read. A disappointment and repetitive.
- By Kevin on 02-04-20
By: Craig Alanson