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Heaven's River
- Bobiverse, Book 4
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Série: Bobiverse, Livre 4
- Durée: 16 h et 57 min
- Production originale Livre audio
- Catégories: Science fiction et fantaisie, Science-fiction
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All These Worlds
- Bobiverse, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 7 h et 56 min
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The epic and highly anticipated conclusion to the listener-favorite series that had countless Audible listeners (and employees) hooked from the very first Bob - featuring, as always, a flawless performance from the inimitable Ray Porter. Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct.
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Now what am I gonna do with my life?
- Écrit par Eli le 2018-03-01
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 8 h et 59 min
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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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Amazing story
- Écrit par Andre Yelle le 2017-10-05
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.
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Didn't think I'd like it, but I loved it
- Écrit par Eli le 2018-01-11
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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The Singularity Trap
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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Dennis E. Taylor, author of the best-selling Bobiverse trilogy, explores a whole different, darker world in this sci-fi stand-alone. Determined to give his wife and children a better life back home, Ivan Pritchard ventures to the edge of known space to join the crew of the Mad Astra as an asteroid miner. He's prepared for hard work and loneliness—but not the unthinkable. After coming into contact with a mysterious alien substance, Pritchard finds an unwelcome entity sharing his mind, and a disturbing physical transformation taking place.
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Ray Porter is quickly becoming a favourite.
- Écrit par Schills le 2018-06-20
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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Outland
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet.
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Excellent!
- Écrit par Maggie Reid le 2019-05-28
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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Roadkill
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 8 h et 58 min
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Jack Kernigan is having a bad day...a bad year...a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits...something. Something big...something furry...something invisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth. Fate can play funny tricks. Which is why Jack suddenly finds himself the planet’s best hope to unravel a conspiracy of galactic proportions that could spell the end of the human race.
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Entertaining, but Dennis E Taylor formulaic
- Écrit par H. Scott Elliott le 2022-08-06
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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All These Worlds
- Bobiverse, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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The epic and highly anticipated conclusion to the listener-favorite series that had countless Audible listeners (and employees) hooked from the very first Bob - featuring, as always, a flawless performance from the inimitable Ray Porter. Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct.
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Now what am I gonna do with my life?
- Écrit par Eli le 2018-03-01
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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For We Are Many
- Bobiverse, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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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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Amazing story
- Écrit par Andre Yelle le 2017-10-05
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.
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Didn't think I'd like it, but I loved it
- Écrit par Eli le 2018-01-11
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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The Singularity Trap
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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Dennis E. Taylor, author of the best-selling Bobiverse trilogy, explores a whole different, darker world in this sci-fi stand-alone. Determined to give his wife and children a better life back home, Ivan Pritchard ventures to the edge of known space to join the crew of the Mad Astra as an asteroid miner. He's prepared for hard work and loneliness—but not the unthinkable. After coming into contact with a mysterious alien substance, Pritchard finds an unwelcome entity sharing his mind, and a disturbing physical transformation taking place.
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Ray Porter is quickly becoming a favourite.
- Écrit par Schills le 2018-06-20
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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Outland
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet.
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Excellent!
- Écrit par Maggie Reid le 2019-05-28
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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Roadkill
- Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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Jack Kernigan is having a bad day...a bad year...a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits...something. Something big...something furry...something invisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth. Fate can play funny tricks. Which is why Jack suddenly finds himself the planet’s best hope to unravel a conspiracy of galactic proportions that could spell the end of the human race.
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Entertaining, but Dennis E Taylor formulaic
- Écrit par H. Scott Elliott le 2022-08-06
Auteur(s): Dennis E. Taylor
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Project Hail Mary
- Auteur(s): Andy Weir
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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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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Riveting Story!
- Écrit par Maggie Irwin le 2021-05-10
Auteur(s): Andy Weir
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SpecOps
- Expeditionary Force, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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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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Repetitive and dull
- Écrit par Andrew le 2019-03-25
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Paradise
- Expeditionary Force, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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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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More repetitive than anything I’ve ever read or listened to
- Écrit par Andrew le 2019-04-15
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Black Ops
- Expeditionary Force, Book 4
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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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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Hail the adventures of Skippy the Magnificent!!!
- Écrit par Kaisersoser le 2017-11-17
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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The Last Emperox
- The Interdependency, Book 3
- Auteur(s): John Scalzi
- Narrateur(s): Wil Wheaton
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The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems - and billions of people - are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through scientific prediction...and yet, even as the evidence is obvious and insurmountable, many still try to rationalize, delay and profit from, these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known.
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So Short
- Écrit par Garrett Erskine le 2020-04-20
Auteur(s): John Scalzi
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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Easily one of the better books I've read..
- Écrit par jesse cornelious le 2018-10-31
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Breakaway
- Expeditionary Force, Book 12
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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The Merry Band of Pirates offered the bad guys a ceasefire. We won’t mess with them, if they don’t mess with us. Easy, right? No. The aliens chose to do things the hard way. So, the Pirates are racing around the galaxy to clean up the threat to Earth. The infant UN Navy has their own mission with the Alien Legion: Get humanity some allies in the fight. And the Ethics & Compliance Office might have to do something...ethical. Unless they can find a way around it.
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as always amazing except for that preview.
- Écrit par liam le 2021-06-03
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Mavericks
- Expeditionary Force, Book 6
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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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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Good, but heavy lack of the Merry Band of Pirates
- Écrit par Scott le 2018-10-22
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Zero Hour
- Expeditionary Force, Book 5
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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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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once again a great listen
- Écrit par Kevin le 2018-02-14
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Valkyrie
- Expeditionary Force, Book 9
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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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 home world. 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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Canadians do not say or use "EH like that.
- Écrit par liam le 2020-02-10
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Critical Mass
- Expeditionary Force, Book 10
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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The Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth....
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[SPOILERS AHEAD] Craig, please take a break.....
- Écrit par Dylan H. le 2020-08-29
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Match Game
- Expeditionary Force, Book 14
- Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It’s simple: 100 percent Grade-A extreme awesomeness. And also because he had never been faced with an opponent of equal power. Until now. This time, he might need a little help from a band of filthy monkeys.
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It's magnificent.
- Écrit par Locke Steinbach le 2022-06-07
Auteur(s): Craig Alanson
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Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor.
More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender’s fate - whatever the cost.
But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob’s descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore. Some of them oppose Bob’s plan; others have plans of their own. The out-of-control moots are the least of the Bobiverse’s problems.
Undaunted, Bob and his allies follow Bender’s trail. But what they discover out in deep space is so unexpected and so complex that it could either save the universe - or pose an existential threat the likes of which the Bobiverse has ever faced.
Heaven’s River is the fourth installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies.
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- André
- 2020-09-25
I hope this story never ends
I love this universe, I think this could make a fantastic video game....hmmmmmm.
very cool story on this one with the quelens? anyhow I can't wait for it to continue.
I have the hard copies of the books so I can let people borrow them :)
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- Yousaf
- 2021-04-21
Not bad but not great
Pros:
Excellent narration.
Cons:
Bobs feel overpowered.
Bridgette is annoying.
Over reliance on visual descriptions.
I'm only 1/3rd of the way through and will update this review if things change.
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I really had to push myself to finish this one. The story does try to address the issue of Bobs being overpowered but it wasn't enough to build any sort of tension.
Overall this chapter felt like a filler.
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- Hutch Morzaria
- 2021-04-14
Bit of a slog
This one was really hard to get through and in my opinion it doesn't really compare to the previous books in the series which had a very interesting villain and story. I didn't really care about what was going on here and kind of just felt like I had to finish because I was somewhat invested which is a real pity. There didn't really seem to be any new world altering events that were happening but rather a lot of repetition across the whole book. I'm hoping the next book actually gives a bit more insight into why "Starfleet" is doing what it's doing as potentially that could make this book worthwhile. I'd say read this if you're a fan otherwise you could probably give it a skip without really missing anything critical.
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- Samuel Street
- 2020-09-26
epic
This book was truly amazing and easily kept up to the high standard of the Bobiverse series. I would not be surprised if I ended up listening to this book again. It was full of detail and followed the story line flawlessly. This is easily my favorite series of all time.
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- Meneses
- 2021-04-07
The weakest in the series but still has potential
The events of book 4 are certainly interesting but they don't hold a candle to what was going on before.
By the beginning of book 4 the main antagonistic problems the "Bobs" have had to deal with have been dealt with so the author needs to create a new journey, and the solution to that is to sends us on this adventure to save someone intruduced in one of the previous books and then barely mentioned after.
The problem with this book is that altough the charming universe the author has granted us is still there, it's just the stakes aren't. At times I found myself skipping whole chapters out of boredom trying to get to the tension or rush I felt previously. I'll say that by the last two hours it became very enjoyable again and I look forward to book 5 now but it was a grind to get through this book and not abandon it.
I'd say if have enjoyed the previous books stick trough it, you'll still find this a good listen but perhaps just not as good.
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- braydon
- 2020-11-21
goosebumps at all times
such an incredible journey through the bobiverse, gripping on every chapter.
the level of psychology and human interaction with alien species and also personal mental growth within the collective unimaginably detailed universe this book carries is beautiful from start to finish and I'm proud to say that the last portion of the book left me with goosebumps and tears at the final word.
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- Alex Mackinnon
- 2020-09-28
Excellent writing
Excellent writing and given its length a great value
I would say more but spoilers...
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- Ray
- 2020-09-27
Highly recommend this addition to the universe.
From a fan, having listened to the first three books a couple times, and now having finished book 4 in two days, I am impressed.
The plot feels like a great extension of the stories of the first three books with a twist in the plot that I began to suspect somewhere in the middle, and enjoyed as it developed in the story.
This universe has more stories to tell, I hope Dennis has some outlines rattling around for development. I don’t think we’re done with Bob or the cohort yet.
Ray Porter does a phenomenal job of giving all of the the narrative characters a unique and identifiable voice, even characters who sound similar, are unique enough, that I imagine the man has a three ring binder full of character profile sheets with twitches, attributes and other neurotic identities.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-11-29
More
great stuff looking forward to book five
great narrative, maybe a movie? Anyways well done guys
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- Riff Raff
- 2020-10-28
I really hope he keeps writing these.
I was extactic when I had found out that there was to be a fourth book in the Bobiverse series. I will be patiently awaiting another four.
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- ChrisBy
- 2021-06-21
Disappointing
I really enjoyed the first 3 books in the series which really concentrated on the building of the Bobiverse. However, this story jumps into huge detail about a new solar system and species and the Bobiverse becomes a background to the adventures in Quinlan. it's engaging but not in the same way as the first 3 books and doesn't really belong as a sequel but more a branch. Overall, I find that it has tainted my Bobiverse experience and I would rather have finished and walked away a book earlier. I can see some interesting story lines evolving from where the Bobiverse now finds itself, so I might look forward to future books if they don't wander quite so far (in detail) off the Bob-track.
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- C. White
- 2020-09-24
BOB-tastic!!! 🛸
-Okay... In all fairness, I’ve gotta admit that the first three BOBiverse books easily rank among my all time favorite audible books. I have listen to the complete series at least half a dozen times. I will also admit that I downloaded Heaven’s River the moment it became available and immediately put in a marathon listening session. So, with that said... NOT disappointed. At first I was skeptical on how to meaningfully continue the series (especially when the synopsis makes it feel like nothing more than a needless “Quest for Bender” follow up). I couldn’t have been any further off the mark. Even though the first section of the story primarily revolves around Bob-prime, the audience is quickly propelled into the realization that Bob’s distant clones aren’t just petulant children, but may indeed have their own legitimate point of view. As the listener, you really do begin to question who is right... and just because you’re familiar with a character doesn’t mean it is who you would naturally align with in the “real”. The story provides some very timely commentary on the validity of a dissenting ideologically in a fractured society. I will admit, at times I did feel the actual “quest” to find/rescue Bender was a bit of needlessly protracted time filler, but Ray Porter’s superb narration skills keeps the extended storyline tolerable. Ultimately, If you loved the earlier entries into the BOBiverse, then you will have no problem picking up with the rest of the moot and enjoying the ride. If one thing has been made clear to me with this book, it is that the BOBiverse has the potential for a series of never ending stories. Long live (I mean “clone”) Bob!
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- ror
- 2020-09-26
filler book
I really liked the last 3 books a lot but this one is no good. positive reviews are perplexing to me, buy it if you care about continuity more than story.
12h are just B-roll, running away scenes, nothing interesting happens like the maduro or the others or spaceships related. Main story is very isolated, imagine BoB running around in robot disguise. should have lasted 3h max. Background story is more bobiverse group related, author did not want to commit any decisions so minor events happen, get talked about and waved away,
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- Emmet H.
- 2020-09-25
As Skippy would say, five stars, duhhhh!!!
If you’re like me you got up early the day this was released and are already done with it. If for some reason you listened to the first three and are on the fence about getting the long awaited fourth installment, rest assured it is well worth the credit! Fantastic book Dennis and great performance as always by Ray!
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- Christopher
- 2020-09-27
The Bobiverse takes a turn
Dennis Taylor's "Bobiverse" series is a great sci-fi listen. Packed with humor, geek references, and thought provoking storylines, I have throughly enjoyed the series. For the most part, this book does continue on with that general theme, though it did feel that Taylor was left a bit adrift as to exactly where to take the story without the "big bad" of "THE OTHERS" to confront anymore. Instead, the story tackles the implications of the diverging clone personalties of Bob- the "drift" as he calls it. As personalities continue to drift farther and farther from original Bob, philosophical differences about interacting with sentients (or "ephemerals") becomes a major sore spot, as the Bobs try to decide what exactly to do with relative eternity.
Of course, most of this story is taken up with the search for Bender, which leads to a giant megastructure and a mystery about it's creation and creators. Needless to say (slight spoiler), the vast majority of the inhabitants are very technologically limited, which bring the mystery about how they came to be in such an impressive feat of engineering. Unfortunately MOST of book 4 is bogged down with the drudgery of using the "mannies" to try and infiltrate the technologically limited society to unravel the puzzle. It's an intriguing enigma that Taylor created and you obviously want the answers to the questions, but the book gets very bogged down in the minutiae of just traveling through and interacting with this civilization. So compared to the other books it's really quite the slog. There are similarities to the subplot with the Deltans, but unlike that subplot there isn't much diverging from this theme for most of the book, Where the Deltan life (particularly Archimedes') was interesting and interspersed with other plot lines, this is more of a drudge.
However I do have hope that the storyline will continue with more books, as the overall arc of the series continues to be a very interesting one. I'd have to give this book a lower score than the other 3 as it does drag on as I mentioned, but still I have no regrets about getting this book. I just look forward to the next one in the series.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-09-28
Great Series, weakest addition to the series.
I loved all the previous books but this one lacked something and it is hard to pin point. It felt like the whole story was based on the divide between bobs but they spent so much time not exploring that. Is the longest book in the series and it feels like it shouldn't have been.
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- srqartist
- 2020-09-28
Anthropology ?
I would like to say at the beginning I was looking forward to this particular release. About halfway into the book I became irritated by the Keystone cop approach to this story. Chapter after chapter, the lack of focus became overwhelming. The main theme of heavens river became a anthropological mess. All human attributes made the story ridiculous. It’s one thing to have Bob spacecraft ,virtual reality ,and another thing to understand why the author would abandon the more science fiction attributes of The first three books. As with most of these long extended series, the final two chapters leave so many possibilities I can’t even count them. All the new players were never flushed out and The soap opera approach to ridiculous situations took over. The author chose not to push the Bobaverse forward, but rather took us down the path of a very long and tedious anthropology book.
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- Lego Man
- 2020-09-25
Only 3 hrs in .. I will be up again until 2 AM...
Got B4 today - immediately hooked. Story is shaping up to be as complex as any other, Ray Porter is doing a GREAT job, the Bob's have really developed a disparate society. Can't wait to find out what the Mega Structure is!
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- Lyndon
- 2020-09-25
Thanks for the reference.
I love these books, the narrator, everything. But what I really love is when the author makes a reference to one of my other all time favorite books, I can't help but love these series even more.
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- Les B.
- 2020-09-30
Quest to Keep Bender's Matrix Dry*
*Yeah, that should be the title.
After the brilliance that was the first 3 books, this one falls flat. Hell, it barely registers as passable Sci-fi.
There were a couple interesting story arcs but they never matured. Most of the book involved running away from bad-tempered "beaver creatures" while keeping some electronics from the drink. Ultimately the solution is wax paper and lots of scurrying. Quite a let down from SCUT, SIDAR and railguns.
I want my money back Taylor.
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- judy
- 2020-09-25
A good addition to the series
I am a huge huge fan of the first three Bobiverse books, so of course, I pre-ordered a copy of book four here. I listened to it beginning as soon as they released it at midnight. This book is slightly different from the first three in that most of the whole book centers around the one main storyline, instead of getting to see small stories here and there thru the eyes of different Bobs like in the first three books. Good thing the main storyline is a pretty good one, then. While I don't think this is my favorite of the 4 books, I think it is a fine entry into the series. I always have thought that you could write endlessly in this series, given that the Bobs are immortal and that the Universe is a big place! I hope this isn't the last time the Bobiverse calls out to Dennis to write some more into it. And what can be said about Ray's performance that hasn't already been said? He always does an amazing job. My favorite narrator on Audible still, after quite a few years of being a fan of audiobooks.
If you are a fan of the first three, don't hesitate to re-visit the world of the Bobs!
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