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They tried to destroy our planets. Our way of life. They tried to send us into extinction. But we, the Coalition, fought them and won. That was a decade ago. They’re known as the Host: a cabal of aliens seeking to dominate our sector of space. And they’re back - with help from a powerful new enemy. We’re outnumbered and unprepared. But there is hope. An ancient race of long-dead but technologically advanced aliens called the Navigators have a ship called the Blackstar that could potentially turn the tide. That is if I, Kai Locke, a humble ship racer, can find it and learn how to harness its power in time.
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Newly found love.
- De L. Rampey en 03-22-19
De: A. C. Hadfield
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Bypass Gemini
- Big Sigma Series, Book 1
- De: Joseph R Lallo
- Narrado por: John Forbes
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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In a distant future, Trevor "Lex" Alexander was shaping up to be the next great race pilot until a fixed race got him banned from the sport. Reduced to making freelance deliveries, he thinks his life can't get any worse. That's when a package manages to get him mixed up with mobsters, a megacorp, and a mad scientist. Now his life depends on learning what their plans are, and how he can stop them.
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I'm torn over this review.
- De Jim Stark en 05-27-17
De: Joseph R Lallo
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The Wrong Stars
- De: Tim Pratt
- Narrado por: John Glouchevitch
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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The shady crew of the White Raven run freight and salvage at the fringes of our solar system. They discover the wreck of a centuries-old exploration vessel floating light years away from its intended destination and revive its sole occupant, who wakes with news of First Alien Contact. When the crew break it to her that humanity has alien allies already, she reveals that these are very different extra-terrestrials and the gifts they bestowed on her could kill all humanity, or take it out to the most distant stars.
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Save yourself a credit, read something else
- De Ian Thomas Healy en 09-19-18
De: Tim Pratt
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Legacy
- A Prequel to Eon
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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In this prequel to Eon, Greg Bear continues to explore the possibilities presented by the asteroid Thistledown, a remnant of a lost human civilization. The Way is a tunnel through space and time that leads to other worlds, some more like planet Earth than Earth itself. It is perhaps the most formidable discovery in Thistledown and with it come disputes as to the nature of the Way and how it should be used. The Way can be reached only through Axis City, the only space station of Thistledown.
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Barely related to Eon and Eternity
- De David A. Kingston en 02-21-15
De: Greg Bear
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Swarm
- Star Force, Book 1
- De: B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h
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Kyle Riggs is snatched by an alien spacecraft sometime after midnight. The ship is testing everyone it catches and murdering the weak. The good news is that Kyle keeps passing tests and staying alive. The bad news is the aliens who sent this ship are the nicest ones out there.
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Finally some ORIGINAL scifi action.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-11
De: B. V. Larson
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The Atlantis Ship
- De: A. C. Hadfield
- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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Carson Mach, a former war hero turned freelancer, seeks the biggest payday of his life when he's tasked to hunt down a ghost ship that has echoed through the centuries. The legendary Atlantis ship has become a reality, appearing at the Commonwealth frontier and obliterating an orbital station.
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Very Good Story, Looking Forward to the Next Book
- De Striker en 09-13-15
De: A. C. Hadfield
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The Enceladus Mission
- Ice Moon 1
- De: Brandon Q. Morris
- Narrado por: Doug Tisdale Jr.
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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In the year 2031, a robot probe detects traces of biological activity on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. This sensational discovery shows that there is indeed evidence of extraterrestrial life. Fifteen years later, a hurriedly built spacecraft sets out on the long journey to the ringed planet and its moon. The international crew is not just facing a difficult twenty-seven months: if the spacecraft manages to make it to Enceladus without incident it must use a drillship to penetrate the kilometer-thick sheet of ice that entombs the moon.
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Robotic performance, potentially interesting story
- De Opa en 02-21-19
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Beyond the Aquila Rift
- De: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrado por: Tom Dheere
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
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Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.
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Great story, mediocre audio book.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-17-12
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Battle Cruiser
- Lost Colonies, Book 1
- De: B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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One starship will either save Earth or destroy her. A century ago our star erupted, destroying Earth's wormhole network and closing off trade with her colonized planets. After being out of contact with the younger worlds for so many years, humanity is shocked when a huge ship appears at the edge of the solar system. Our outdated navy investigates, both curious and fearful. What they learn from the massive vessel shocks the planet.
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Disappointing, Juvenile
- De Russ en 12-27-15
De: B. V. Larson
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In this Hugo-nominated novel, an alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer, Hollus, asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho.
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Interesting book, very enjoyable narration
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Novel alien first contact
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Storyshift
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While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a weapon based on nuclear fusion - the mechanism that powers the sun. But Teller’s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system - including Earth. After the war ends, Oppenheimer’s physicists combine forces with Albert Einstein, computing pioneer John von Neumann, and rocket designer Wernher von Braun.
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Scratches head
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Calculating God
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
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In this Hugo-nominated novel, an alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer, Hollus, asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho.
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Interesting book, very enjoyable narration
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The Terminal Experiment
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An experiment has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. One will test life after death; another, immortality. The third one is the control unit. But now all three have escaped from Hobson's computer into the worldwide electronic matrix. And one of them is a killer.
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Incredible
- De David en 05-19-08
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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WWW: Wake
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math - and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes.
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A Great, if Incomplete, Concept
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Mindscan
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
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Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she too is no longer constrained by a worn-out body. Karen's son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body, she has done him out of his inheritance.
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Entertaining, but not Sawyer's Best
- De John C. en 05-31-12
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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The Hole
- Hard Science Fiction
- De: Brandon Q. Morris
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.
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Just OK. Won't repeat it. Won't do more this auth.
- De R. Frazier en 07-02-20
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Illegal Alien
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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When a disabled spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, seven members of the advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world. Then a popular scientist is murdered, and all evidence points to one of the Tosoks. Now, an alien is tried in a court of law -and there may be far more at stake than accounting for one human life.
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This is It.
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De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Rollback
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Thirty-eight years ago, Dr. Sarah Halifax earned worldwide fame by deciphering a radio transmission from an unknown intelligence reaching out from deep space. Now 87, Sarah receives news that, at long last, a new signal has been received, and her services are desperately needed once again.
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Main plot - Tiresome; Subplot - Cool!
- De Old Hippy en 04-29-11
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Flashforward
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
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A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. At the end of those moments, when the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.
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How would you digest the fruits of knowledge??
- De Phelix_da_Kat en 07-23-08
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Sundiver
- The Uplift Saga, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?
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good, but flawed
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Rendezvous with Rama
- De: Arthur C. Clarke
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At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence.
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Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
- De Fredrik Pettersen en 08-03-09
De: Arthur C. Clarke
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Revelation Space
- De: Alastair Reynolds
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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
- De Eoin en 07-15-12
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Elantris
- Tenth Anniversary Special Edition
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 28 h y 42 m
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In 2005, Brandon Sanderson debuted with Elantris, an epic fantasy unlike any other then on the market. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Tor is reissuing Elantris in a special edition, a fresh chance to introduce it to the myriad listeners who have since become Sanderson fans.
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Just love Jack Garrett's narration!
- De Brittany en 09-01-16
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The Downloaded
- De: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrado por: Brendan Fraser, Luke Kirby, Vanessa Sears, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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In 2059, two vastly different groups of people portrayed by the compelling trio of Brendan Fraser (Academy Award winner), Luke Kirby (Emmy Award winner), and Vanessa Sears (Dora Award winner) undergo cryonic suspension. While their bodies are frozen, their minds, still active and awake, are uploaded into a massive quantum computer. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.
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Poor writing- agenda piece
- De Amazon Customer en 10-27-23
De: Robert J. Sawyer
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Alien contact during a midlife crisis
Robert J Sawyer's Starplex offers a first contact tale. Humanity has discovered a network of artificial nodes, origin unknown, that allow for instantaneous travel across light years of distance. In the course of early exploration, they have made contact with two other intelligent races as well as uplifting dolphins. Starplex is a large spacecraft constructed for space exploration with all four intelligences taking parts. This leads to personnel issues at the same time, the human director (a position that rotates) is undergoing a midlife crisis. They discover dark matter which is also intelligent as well as the means to use the nodes to travel through time. Interstellar warfare also erupts.
Sawyer posits that with the bulk of the universe consisting of dark matter, there is no reason to believe it is also not capable of generating intelligent life. In addition, he suggest that galactic formations are the result of conscious effort by dark matter. Finally, there is the notion of using time travel to modify the overall mass of the universe for long term stability.
The narration is well done with a decent range of characters. Pacing is aligned with the plot.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 06-23-12
Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke
I believe this to be a tribute to Clarke by Sawyer. It is written in a similar style to Clarke and Sawyer even mentions one of Clarke's biggest books, Childhood's End. I like all six of the Sawyer books I have read, but if he was trying to write like Clarke, I do not believe he captured Clarke's ability to show the wonder of space. That being said it is still a good book. I believe I am a hard customer to please, but Sawyer has yet to produce something I could give less then four stars to.
There is lots of science in this, especially physics. There is lots of explaining science in this that might turn some people off, but I was not bothered by it. The story includes, Green Stars, Dark Matter, Time Travel, Gateways, Space Biology, Macro Life, a glass man and the word Billions is often used to describe.
A very small part of the book deals with an aging man going through a middle age crisis and how it effects his marriage. Another bigger part is a kind of a "Make Love Not War" theme which I found a little annoying. Bad guys who try to kill you are forgiven and become your buddy. There is also a part of the book where scientist fight a military with makeshift weapons and the scientist come out on top. I found that I little hard to swallow.
If you like this, you will want to read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. My favorite Sawyer books are Terminal Experiment, Flash Forward and Calculating God. As mentioned before no Sawyer book has disappointed me yet.
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- Scott
- 02-27-11
Worth it
Took a little while to get going, but then it was worth it. Nice listen.
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- Torbjørn Pettersen
- 09-02-15
One of the best!
Sawyer does what he does best; captivates me from page 1 and never let go for a single paragraph.
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- Jared
- 01-21-10
The synopsis is misleading
Slight Spoiler alert!
Not a great book. The story is mostly told in a non-linear fashion, jumping from time to time. The majority of it being told by the main character to a being on an alien ship. The alien ship actually has nothing to do with any conflict in the books universe.
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- Erwin valderramos
- 05-18-23
Didn’t think it was for me but Loved it.
This was a compelling brisk but meaningful
Journey. I enjoyed it lots and well worth a credit.
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- Cougar
- 01-01-12
Great SciFi listen
Without giving away the plot, the book is a little confusing at the outset. However, stick with it and all will become clear. I thought the author could have provided more details regarding his description of futuristic objects and events. I found it difficult to visualize some of the things in the book. However, the shortcoming was more than offset by the imagination of the author and the flow of the action. A good listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-06-18
interesting listen
Well worth a listen if your looking for a good space opera. Good addition to my collection.
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- Canadian Guy
- 02-10-15
A symphony for the mind
This was truly an incredible book. Starplex was a rare exploration of the Space Opera sub-genre, and as Robert J. Sawyer intended, did not focus on a military plot as the central theme, but rather, a peaceful group of scientists who's mission was to make peaceful contact with other races via a vast network of 'shortcuts' or stargate type devices. Yes, there is certainly space combat and battles, but what makes this book so different is the anchoring in real science fiction roots -- at it's core it's about science, and the extrapolation and exploration of 'what-if' scenarios. It seeks to tease apart answers to current scientific knowledge.
To say this book was riveting was an understatement. I read it in 24 hours, and wished there was a whole series like it. But alas, this book is, and must be, fully self-contained. Starplex plucks the most melodious strings of science fiction, and turns them into a symphony for the mind.
The various races described in the novel were also fascinating, each with distinct cultures and idiosyncrasies. Sawyer is a man with an incredible imagination.
Almost 20 years after publication this book remains singular and utterly engaging.
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- David
- 08-14-16
One of his best
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I love Sawyer, only one of his books i have not like, but most of them I enjoy. This one I really loved though. Great story
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