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A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony.
To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire, who with the help of Brian Javna, a childhood friend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for the rare creature. And they find it, in the unknowing form of Robin Baker, pet store owner, whose genes contain traces of the sheep DNA. But there are others with plans for the sheep as well: Mercenaries employed by the military. Adherents of a secret religion based on the writings of a 21st century science-fiction author. And alien races, eager to start a revolution on their home world and a war on Earth.
To keep our planet from being enslaved, Harry will have to pull off the greatest diplomatic coup in history, a grand gambit that will take him from the halls of power to the lava-strewn battlefields of alien worlds. There's only one chance to get it right, to save the life of Robin Baker - and to protect the future of humanity.
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- De Professor en 10-31-12
De: Chris Bunch, y otros
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Death Becomes Her [Dramatized Adaptation]
- The Kurtherian Gambit, Book 1
- De: Michael Anderle
- Narrado por: full cast, Colleen Delany, Emily Beresford, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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There is more in our world than you know. Deep in the darkness of a government building, one man needs to find the perfect solution to a vampire’s request that the government satisfy the debt of honor owed him. If he falls short, the failure will be paid in the blood of the military. He needs three uniquely qualified individuals. He can find only one. One woman, dying, might be the ace-in-the-hole he needs to appease the Vampire. But then, she might also be the one person needed to save humanity. If she is accepted, will she willingly change?
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great adaptation
- De Michael Mason en 11-02-20
De: Michael Anderle
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StarFire
- Vince Lombard, Book 1
- De: Mike Lee
- Narrado por: Jason Brenizer
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Captain Vince Lombard, G-Marine company commander, is tasked with tracking down a stray ship. The Alliance Military Ship StarFire has gone silent, and previous attempts to locate her have resulted in the loss of more ships. After two previous wars with xenospecies humanity bumped into while expanding into space, no one knows what might be the cause of StarFire's missing in action status.
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Good solid Sci-Fi
- De Bob H. en 10-25-14
De: Mike Lee
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Steel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 1
- De: B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....
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A 14 year old boy’s idea of a “Real Man”
- De C. Brown en 04-16-19
De: B. V. Larson
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Singularity Sky
- De: Charles Stross
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion?
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Gonzo giggleworthy geekitude
- De Noah Smith en 11-11-10
De: Charles Stross
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The Ark
- Children of a Dead Earth, Book 1
- De: Patrick S. Tomlinson
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Humankind has escaped a dying Earth and set out to find a new home among the stars aboard an immense generation ship affectionately named the Ark. Bryan Benson is the Ark's greatest living sports hero, enjoying retirement working as a detective in Avalon, his home module. The hours are good, the work is easy, and the perks can't be beat. But when a crew member goes missing, Bryan is thrust into the center of an ever-expanding web of deception, secrets, and violence.
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Nearly there
- De Michaela en 05-11-16
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Hostile Intent
- De: Michael Walsh
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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Code named Devlin, he exists in the blackest shadows of the United States government--operating off the grid as the NSA's top agent. He's their most lethal weapon-and their most secret. But someone is trying to draw him out into the open by putting America's citizens in the crosshairs--and they will continue the slaughter until they get what they want.
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3-1/2 Stars - Could Have Been Better
- De Ed en 08-26-10
De: Michael Walsh
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The B-Team
- The Human Division, Episode 1
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union’s future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers there’s more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected... a secret that could spell war for humanity.
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Obumwe said, Eagan said, Wilson said, Rickney said
- De A Fitts en 01-18-13
De: John Scalzi
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The Plantation
- Payne & Jones, Book 1
- De: Chris Kuzneski
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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The first to disappear is a ski instructor in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Hours later, a pregnant woman is abducted from a crowded hospital. Two places, two incidents, a single motive. And so it begins....
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Incredible Story
- De Char en 07-11-09
De: Chris Kuzneski
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Omega Rising
- De: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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Jason Burke was a man hiding from himself in a small cabin high in the American Rocky Mountains when his simple, quiet life was shattered one night by what he first assumed was an aviation mishap. But when he investigates the crash, what he finds will yank him out of his self-imposed exile and thrust him into a world he could have never imagined.
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Entertaining but nothing special. Take a look.
- De Desmond en 10-31-15
De: Joshua Dalzelle
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The Eyre Affair
- A Thursday Next Novel
- De: Jasper Fforde
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection.
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A Worthy Read
- De chicagoalum en 01-21-10
De: Jasper Fforde
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Agent to the Stars
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.
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excellent
- De C. Paget en 12-28-10
De: John Scalzi
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Miniatures
- The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Luke Daniels, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
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Small doses of "Scalzian" humor
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 01-05-17
De: John Scalzi
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Little Fuzzy
- De: H. Beam Piper
- Narrado por: Lee Winfield
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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Jack Holloway mines valuable sunstones on the planet Zarathustra. One day, he encounters a small, furry humanoid whom he names Little Fuzzy, who introduces Holloway to his family. Holloway cares for the Fuzzies and spreads the news of their apparently intelligent behavior. When the Company discovers that the Fuzzies' intelligence may qualify them as a sapient species, it takes certain steps.
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Redshirts
- A Novel with Three Codas
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
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Not his Wheal-house
- De P. Stover en 09-16-13
De: John Scalzi
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The God Engines
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this — and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given....
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I love Scalzi's writing but not this book
- De Tony Loman en 11-29-11
De: John Scalzi
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 03-15-22
De: John Scalzi
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Agent to the Stars
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.
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excellent
- De C. Paget en 12-28-10
De: John Scalzi
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Miniatures
- The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Luke Daniels, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
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Small doses of "Scalzian" humor
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 01-05-17
De: John Scalzi
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Little Fuzzy
- De: H. Beam Piper
- Narrado por: Lee Winfield
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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Jack Holloway mines valuable sunstones on the planet Zarathustra. One day, he encounters a small, furry humanoid whom he names Little Fuzzy, who introduces Holloway to his family. Holloway cares for the Fuzzies and spreads the news of their apparently intelligent behavior. When the Company discovers that the Fuzzies' intelligence may qualify them as a sapient species, it takes certain steps.
De: H. Beam Piper
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Redshirts
- A Novel with Three Codas
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
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Not his Wheal-house
- De P. Stover en 09-16-13
De: John Scalzi
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The God Engines
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this — and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given....
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I love Scalzi's writing but not this book
- De Tony Loman en 11-29-11
De: John Scalzi
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
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I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 03-15-22
De: John Scalzi
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The B-Team
- The Human Division, Episode 1
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union’s future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers there’s more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected... a secret that could spell war for humanity.
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Obumwe said, Eagan said, Wilson said, Rickney said
- De A Fitts en 01-18-13
De: John Scalzi
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The President's Brain Is Missing
- A Tor.Com Original
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 47 m
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The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?
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Not my cup of tea (Kelly SAID)
- De Kelly A McDermott en 09-15-19
De: John Scalzi
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- De: John Scalzi
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One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, from new moon to a spectacular and possibly final solar eclipse, we follow multiple characters—schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians—as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives.
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Lock In (Narrated by Wil Wheaton)
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
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Fun! Things you might want to know:
- De Alexis en 08-29-14
De: John Scalzi
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The Collapsing Empire
- The Interdependency, Book 1
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
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THE STUPIDITIES OF COURT
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-01-17
De: John Scalzi
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The Dispatcher
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Zachary Quinto
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
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Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-05-16
De: John Scalzi
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Slow Time Between the Stars
- The Far Reaches Collection
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Kay Eluvian
- Duración: 56 m
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Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, and—with a perspective created but not limited by humans—what it should do.
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Lovely story! Lovely performance
- De Lisa en 06-28-23
De: John Scalzi
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A Very Scalzi Christmas
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Dina Pearlman, Kevin T. Collins, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 59 m
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New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps 15 short takes on the holiday season - interviews with holiday notables, "informational" articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and New Year’s - and puts them all into a stocking stuffer-sized package that makes the perfect gift for friends, family, or yourself.
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Very Scalzian indeed!
- De Andre Wallace Simonsen en 12-03-19
De: John Scalzi
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Constituent Service
- A Third District Story
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Amber Benson
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
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Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District–the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself. And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.
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What a silly and sweet quick listen!
- De Geoffrey Christian en 10-08-24
De: John Scalzi
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Starter Villain
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- De C. White en 09-19-23
De: John Scalzi
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Rip-Off!
- De: John Scalzi, Jack Campbell, Mike Resnick, y otros
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In Rip-Off!, 13 of today’s best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction) - then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.
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When is a rip-off not a rip-off?
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-24-13
De: John Scalzi, y otros
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Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue
- A Tor.com Original
- De: John Scalzi
- Narrado por: James MacKenzie
- Duración: 21 m
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Here is Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, now a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
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Excellent Prologue, not short story
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 03-05-13
De: John Scalzi
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- DAVID
- 11-12-11
Covertly flatulent Scifi at it's best!
Fun book, listening was a gas!
A word of warning to those who might be sheepish about genetic engineering; ewe may want to Baaack away from this one.
Narrator did a nice job, not a crusher performance, but very enterprising.
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- Joshua
- 05-09-14
Exactly what I expect from Scalzi
I've read several of Scalzi's books now. They are light, entertaining, well-paced and just surprising enough to keep me coming back.
I've never been blown away by Scalzi... he is very creative, but his execution never quite matches the the promise of his premise.
Always fun. Never amazing.
I'll be back anyway.
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- Ember Rayne
- 04-21-13
Far-fetched and FANTASTIC! Worth the Listen!
Would you consider the audio edition of The Android's Dream to be better than the print version?
I can't answer this one, as I don't read books anymore. I've been an Audible listener for 10 years come this August, (10 years man!) and my friends and family swear I CAN'T read. Well. I can. I read to my 2 year old each evening! (She's not old enough for audio-books JUST yet... but soon... soon...)
What did you like best about this story?
Wil Wheaton. He's a fantastic narrator! I have to admit a childhood crush on Wheaton (Gordie Lachance not Wesley Crusher) and I'm glad to see him diverge from acting to lend his voice to John Scalzi's work. He's by turns funny and somber, and he reads quickly, not stumbling over words and carrying the story faster than an inattentive mind may be prepared to accept. But the inflection and pitch keeps you listening and interested, and the characters are believable, male and female. His narration adds to the novel, guiding the story well.
Ah, but you asked about the STORY.... Fine.
The story's just great, and picking a "best" part is difficult because it's good entertaining fun from beginning to end. I love the way that the themes are serious, but the treatment is still light and irreverently optimistic. The story examines the rights of sentient species, international (inter-species, interplanetary) conflict, exploitation of those too weak to object, the true horror of war and the idea that we will continue to die in war as individuals long after we have escaped the solar system. Religion and faith, artificial intelligence, and life after death are ALL tackled head on and explored with great insight and sensitivity. But there is none of the "morality tale" feeling that you might observe in say, Orson Scott Card's treatment of similar broad themes. (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide)
While Card's books are also excellent listens, (once you finish this, use your next credit for Ender's Game and you'll be glad you did) there is much more real humor and joy in the overall feeling of The Android's Dream. I found myself laughing aloud more than once.
Which scene was your favorite?
I loved the scenes in which we reveal the true nature of the sought after Android's Dream, and in which each character responds from their various points of view. Without spoiling, there's a plot twist that doesn't wait until the end, and it's excellently crafted. I found myself laughing until tears came to my eyes, and then the tears were real because I was moved by the way that Scalzi shows us how fragile our perceptions of what is "normal" what is "real" or "legitimate" can be. Suffice to say that the way in which he prompts questioning the nature of our identities is masterful... are we a collection of cells and a slave to our genes? Or are we something more?
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I was moved by the friendship between Creek and Brian, and by their loyalty to one another. I think that the idea that a friend could be eternal, and that maybe all that makes a person could be preserved and then expanded is really a neat one.
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I've also read Redshirts by Scalzi, and I really enjoyed both! Worth the credit and worth the hours.
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- Dr. Curmudgeon
- 08-26-12
Couldn't hit pause
I listened to this one all the way through, only stopping once for sleep.
It was a delightfully entertaining, and well woven narrative, read by probably the greatest new reader that Audible has to offer.
Ok, the story itself depends a bit much on suspension of disbelief, but as mind candy goes, this book is guaranteed to calm any sweet tooth. Scalzi can spin a yarn like cotton candy. Light,sweet, and a very special treat.
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- Kristen Giles
- 05-20-16
Not his best
As usual, excellent narration by Wil Wheaton. Scalzi's writing and story on this one feels off to me, like its a collage of things from other books and most of it doesn't make much sense including the ending. If this were my first introduction to Scalzi's work, I would probably not pick up another.
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- Todd K.
- 01-16-15
Amazing!
This book is the perfect book for someone who loved the novel Ready Player One. This book is amazing, funny, and all-around great!
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- Mike
- 09-05-12
One of Scalzi's best
One of my favourite Scalzi stories. Funny and engaging without trying to be too clever.
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- Thomas J. Hart
- 06-02-12
Science Fiction and Humor Collide
John Scalzi has a rare gift. He writes imaginative science fiction with a dollp of satire and much wit. Who would have thought this was possible. I enjoyed it immensely.
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- P L-ski
- 11-01-21
Smart and Funny, My Favorite
It's like Tom Clancy books, but in the future and funnier.
This would have been a perfect Review but I have to have 15 words or more.
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- MJB
- 10-31-18
Great story with good narration by Will Wheaton.
Great story with good narration by Will Wheaton. I had some good chuckles throughout the story.
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