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Waking Gods
- Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
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As a child Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand buried deep within the earth. As an adult she's dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers - and even more perplexing questions. But the truth is closer now than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force.
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not bad.
- Écrit par A Mckay le 2022-12-31
Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
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Only Human
- Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
- Narrateur(s): William Hope, Charlie Anson, Laurence Bouvard, Autres
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Brilliant scientist Rose Franklin has devoted her adult life to solving the mystery she accidentally stumbled upon as a child: a huge metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. The discovery set in motion a cataclysmic chain of events with geopolitical ramifications. Rose and the Earth Defense Corps raced to master the enigmatic technology, as giant robots suddenly descended on Earth's most populous cities, killing one hundred million people in the process.
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Eva's Voicing... What's going on with that?
- Écrit par nick le 2019-03-26
Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Auteur(s): John Scalzi
- Narrateur(s): Wil Wheaton
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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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Strong Sunday School energy.
- Écrit par Andrew le 2022-05-16
Auteur(s): John Scalzi
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Jade City
- The Green Bone Saga, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Fonda Lee
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Kishino
- Durée: 19 h et 7 min
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In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for - and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city.
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Interesting take on modern fantasy, I'd recommend!
- Écrit par Chris Conrod le 2020-09-19
Auteur(s): Fonda Lee
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Hull Zero Three
- Auteur(s): Greg Bear
- Narrateur(s): Dan John Miller
- Durée: 8 h et 33 min
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A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination - unknown. Its purpose - a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home - a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms - he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger.
Auteur(s): Greg Bear
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The Bone Ships
- Auteur(s): RJ Barker
- Narrateur(s): Jude Owusu
- Durée: 17 h et 3 min
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Two nations at war. One prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an endless war. The dragons disappeared, but the battles for supremacy persisted. Now the first dragon in centuries has been spotted in far-off waters, and both sides see a chance to shift the balance of power in their favor. Because whoever catches it will win not only glory, but the war.
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A brilliant sea story!
- Écrit par Christian G. Cameron le 2022-07-16
Auteur(s): RJ Barker
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Waking Gods
- Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
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As a child Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand buried deep within the earth. As an adult she's dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers - and even more perplexing questions. But the truth is closer now than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force.
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not bad.
- Écrit par A Mckay le 2022-12-31
Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
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Only Human
- Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
- Narrateur(s): William Hope, Charlie Anson, Laurence Bouvard, Autres
- Durée: 8 h et 43 min
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Brilliant scientist Rose Franklin has devoted her adult life to solving the mystery she accidentally stumbled upon as a child: a huge metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. The discovery set in motion a cataclysmic chain of events with geopolitical ramifications. Rose and the Earth Defense Corps raced to master the enigmatic technology, as giant robots suddenly descended on Earth's most populous cities, killing one hundred million people in the process.
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Eva's Voicing... What's going on with that?
- Écrit par nick le 2019-03-26
Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Auteur(s): John Scalzi
- Narrateur(s): Wil Wheaton
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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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Strong Sunday School energy.
- Écrit par Andrew le 2022-05-16
Auteur(s): John Scalzi
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Jade City
- The Green Bone Saga, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Fonda Lee
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Kishino
- Durée: 19 h et 7 min
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In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for - and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city.
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Interesting take on modern fantasy, I'd recommend!
- Écrit par Chris Conrod le 2020-09-19
Auteur(s): Fonda Lee
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Hull Zero Three
- Auteur(s): Greg Bear
- Narrateur(s): Dan John Miller
- Durée: 8 h et 33 min
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A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination - unknown. Its purpose - a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home - a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms - he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger.
Auteur(s): Greg Bear
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The Bone Ships
- Auteur(s): RJ Barker
- Narrateur(s): Jude Owusu
- Durée: 17 h et 3 min
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Two nations at war. One prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an endless war. The dragons disappeared, but the battles for supremacy persisted. Now the first dragon in centuries has been spotted in far-off waters, and both sides see a chance to shift the balance of power in their favor. Because whoever catches it will win not only glory, but the war.
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A brilliant sea story!
- Écrit par Christian G. Cameron le 2022-07-16
Auteur(s): RJ Barker
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The Serpent's Curse
- The Last Magician, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Lisa Maxwell
- Narrateur(s): Candace Thaxton
- Durée: 22 h et 38 min
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Esta isn’t a stranger to high-stakes heists. She’s a seasoned thief who has no reservations about using her affinity for time to give her an edge, and she’s trained her whole life for one mission: travel back to 1902 New York, steal the ancient Book of Mysteries, and use its power to destroy the Brink and free the Mageus from the Order’s control. But the book held a danger that no one anticipated - Seshat, an angry goddess, was trapped within its pages.
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This is really good
- Écrit par Phantom le 2022-11-20
Auteur(s): Lisa Maxwell
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The Bear and the Nightingale
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Katherine Arden
- Narrateur(s): Kathleen Gati
- Durée: 11 h et 48 min
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Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil. Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring.
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Great story with horrible narration
- Écrit par Sasha le 2018-01-25
Auteur(s): Katherine Arden
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Rogue Protocol
- The Murderbot Diaries, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Martha Wells
- Narrateur(s): Kevin R. Free
- Durée: 3 h et 46 min
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Sci-fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a humanlike android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.
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I love everything about this series
- Écrit par L. Beck le 2021-03-12
Auteur(s): Martha Wells
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Commune
- Commune, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Joshua Gayou
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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For dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet's most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages. In the United States, the military scrambles to speed the nation's recovery on multiple fronts including putting down riots, establishing relief camps, delivering medical aid, and bringing communication and travel back on line. Just as a real foothold is established in retaking the skies (utilizing existing commercial aircraft supplemented by military resources and ground control systems), a mysterious virus takes hold of the population, spreading globally over the very flight routes that the survivors fought so hard to rebuild.
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Fantastic debut!
- Écrit par Karen le 2017-12-11
Auteur(s): Joshua Gayou
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Artificial Condition
- Auteur(s): Martha Wells
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It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
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Too short again. I’m not buying another in the series.
- Écrit par Dan Barcza le 2020-03-17
Auteur(s): Martha Wells
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Akata Warrior
- Akata Witch Series, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Nnedi Okorafor
- Narrateur(s): Yetide Badaki
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A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade Ekwensu. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor, Sugar Cream, and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.
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Beautiful
- Écrit par Paul Elegbeleye le 2020-08-12
Auteur(s): Nnedi Okorafor
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Andrea Vernon and The Big Axe Acquisition
- Auteur(s): Alexander C. Kane
- Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
- Durée: 9 h et 14 min
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The supervillains of DESTRON have conquered the country, The Big Axe has been imprisoned, and the heroes of the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection have been reduced to hiding behind a force field surrounding New York City. And if that's not enough, Andrea Vernon is pregnant. With a Little Axe. But Andrea’s not one to sit on the sidelines. She has to make a plan to save the country, rescue her boyfriend, and figure out what exactly people do with babies.
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Book 4 please!
- Écrit par Nic le 2022-01-10
Auteur(s): Alexander C. Kane
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The Winter of the Witch
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Katherine Arden
- Narrateur(s): Kathleen Gati
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The Winternight Trilogy introduced an unforgettable heroine, Vasilisa Petrovna, a girl determined to forge her own path in a world that would rather lock her away. Her gifts and her courage have drawn the attention of Morozko, the winter-king, but it is too soon to know if this connection will prove a blessing or a curse. Now, Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers - and for someone to blame.
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Magical and Moving
- Écrit par J. Bell le 2021-05-13
Auteur(s): Katherine Arden
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John Dies at the End
- Auteur(s): David Wong
- Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
- Durée: 14 h et 17 min
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STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why?
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Sometimes Gross, Frequently Excellent
- Écrit par Pannyrin le 2018-09-19
Auteur(s): David Wong
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The Girl in the Tower
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Katherine Arden
- Narrateur(s): Kathleen Gati
- Durée: 13 h et 2 min
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The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent, and instead flees her home - but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege.
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Beautiful and Exciting
- Écrit par Amy Braun le 2022-09-04
Auteur(s): Katherine Arden
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Escaping From Houdini
- Stalking Jack the Ripper, Book 3
- Auteur(s): Kerri Maniscalco
- Narrateur(s): Nicola Barber
- Durée: 12 h et 59 min
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Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they're delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly. But then, privileged young women begin to go missing without explanation, and a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship.
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My new favourite author!
- Écrit par Jardinpetitbasin le 2021-12-14
Auteur(s): Kerri Maniscalco
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A History of What Comes Next
- A Take Them to the Stars Novel
- Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Byron, Dugald Bruce Lockhart, Imogen Wilde, Autres
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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Over 99 identical generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race.
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Fabulously narrated reinterpretation of history
- Écrit par Tina B le 2021-05-26
Auteur(s): Sylvain Neuvel
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An inventive debut in the tradition of World War Z and The Martian, told in interviews, journal entries, transcripts, and news articles, Sleeping Giants is a literary thriller fueled by a quest for truth - and a fight for control of earthshaking power.
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.
Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.
But some can never stop searching for answers.
Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of relic. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history's most perplexing discovery - and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?
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- Nancy
- 2018-09-19
Loved the multi cast and presentation
I really liked how the story was presented. The story unfolded in a series of case files and interviews as though somebody was recalling events of the past from some distant future. The interviewer is left unnamed which leaves a sense of mystery. And the multi cast works well for this presentation style. I'm looking forward to the next books!
The military, alien technology and conspiracy themes all remind me of Stargate for any other fans out there.
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- Adam Duncan
- 2022-04-18
This is hugely popular?
I purchased this book, actually the series, on the advice that it is one of the best science fiction series available. In my opinion it is quite the opposite. the quality of the voice acting and performances is top notch, though how they are able to deliver these lines without laughter is beyond me.
I won't bash the writer here, but I wish the book and the prose was less melodramatic. I wish the story was more show and not tell. I wish there were not so many contradictions in the details. I wish the characters were more different, with varied personality and not simply a different tone to the same voice (note: characters not actors). I wish that characters having conversations didn't feel like they were reading from their personal journal, or from a Wikipedia page.
If you are a fan of Science fiction, you must also be a fan of all the different things I mentioned to enjoy this series. I apologize if the author ever reads this, at least you can take comfort in the fact that I already paid for the books.
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- Olivia
- 2020-06-26
Awesome story, incredibly performed.
when I read that this was full cast recording I was intrigued but I found the story is so well told and so viscerally felt in the voices of the characters coming to life. This was a story I couldnt stop listening to and I think I finished in a day and a half. Well worth my monthly credit!
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- Katie
- 2019-10-26
✨⭐✨Fantasticly Riveting✨⭐✨
This read(or listen in this case) became an instant favourite for me. the interview format is done in such a way that story the story felt fluid and unstilted. The pacing was fantastic and kept me wanting more. I loved the unnamed interviewer and really hope they make a return in the next book. Also as a Canadian really loved that this book was written by a Canadian author and had a Canadian lead! ;)
I loved unraveling the mystery of the technology and the people involved with the project. The interview style so made me feel as if I was a part of the story acting as some sort of investigator or reviewer.
I'm going to reared this again soon as I went through it so quickly the first time and want to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Voice acting was clear, we'll paced and not overly dramatic which I prefer from audio books. I also enjoyed the fact that it felt more like the voice actors were reading a screenplay and not simply reading a book, it really made the characters come to life for me.
All and all I absolutely adore this work and will recommend it to everyone!
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- Dauny Bee
- 2019-02-20
Did Not Disappoint!!!!!
I have always relied on reviews to determine my purchases and this book did not disappoint!! The format of the interview style storytelling took me 2 interviews to get used to and then I was in the story! Loved it! Great story! Well performed!! Finished the book in 3 days!!!
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- Marie Rokas
- 2017-12-28
Great entertainment!
First time that I listened to an Audible book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Merci!
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- Jerome
- 2023-01-10
Okay story
Okay story. A bit of mystery, so I’m intrigued, the characters are okay, they have personality but a the dialog is a bit boring. Got tired of the mysterious and sinister man pretty quickly, like a one note piano. The international politicking seemed believable.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-10-19
Always in the passenger seat
I don't like the constant use of the narrative style of interviews and journal entries. It feels like the author doesn't trust you to experience the events as they happen. The few times the author doesn't rely on these narrative styles it's a breath of fresh air.
I don't like the story of untouchable big brother organization gets a bit bland
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- Jamie @ Books and Ladders
- 2022-09-29
Can't Wait to See Where This Goes!
I really enjoyed this and think the audiobook highlighted the story overall. The full cast made this story that much better since we got to hear everyone's thoughts and opinions from the nuanced voices of the characters. I felt like a fly on the wall reading this and I loved that!
An interesting mix of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Pacific Rim, with much less science and technology and much more politics. I really enjoyed learning about the giants robots and how they functioned. I do have questions about the "missing" case files since this is spread amongst a number of them, but there are some missing in the sequence.
I know this is a trilogy, but I still wish this had a bit more of a satisfying conclusion. It was a little too open for me. But if you enjoy SciFi and stories told through interviews/transcripts/pieces, then this is for you.
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- Kurtis Z Drew
- 2022-07-12
Review by Dr Cool
I had a good time listening to this. I am going to get the next one.
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- Cheerioh
- 2018-07-27
Vraiment prenant
Je n'ai pas lu de livre de sf depuis longtemps. Celui-ci est un bon retour en la matière. J'ai apprécié la lecture à deux voix, un homme et une femme.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 2016-05-04
BLUES BROTHERS
VAST NETWORKS OF INFORMATION NO ONE IS AWARE OF
I am giving this five stars, mostly for it's entertainment value. It is not the best I have listened to lately, but it kept my attention. It is a little hard to describe, as the mood of the book changed. It started out with a cool concept and seemed to take itself pretty serious. By the end it seemed a bit frivolous or maybe a satire on the subject, edging on Rocky and Bullwinkle I am not a fan of whole books done through interviews and the action being something remembered instead of live, but I still liked this and the core story. I also thought that there was great character development. I also liked the full cast and they certainly made the listening better than reading.
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- Chris
- 2016-05-01
Such a shallow story
The premise is awesome, so awesome that I pre ordered the book and waited eagerly for it to be available.
It's super short and the story seems so rushed, sub plots that should have been expanded were left behind to accelerate a much larger plot that was pretty weak. I was expecting a start to a great new science fiction universe or at least a thrilling science fiction narrative similar to contact or the Martian. What I got was a rejected script for an episode of stargate sg1.
The characters were fine, they could have been great, the story jumped around a lot and I barley got to know them, which is a shame.
Worst of all the ending was so unfulfilling, and the attempt at a cliffhanger ending was foiled by the lack of character development. I just did not know enough about them to care about what was happening.
Super disappointed by this book, more so by the fact that it could have been one of the all time great scifi books.
On a better note, the cast reading the book was great, I usually don't like ensemble casts, this book might get me to look further into them.
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- Adam
- 2017-06-29
How is this on so many lists? Don't bother.
I started this really wanting to like it. I had just finished "We are Legion (We are Bob)", which I loved, and was hoping to continue on a train of fun scifi. Not all YA novels read like a YA novel - this one really did (... it *is* YA, isn't it?).
There's very little depth to the characters, crushes and relationships pop up in conversations in which they don't belong, and the dialogue puts so many context clues around every "SAT word", they might as well put those phrases into Mr. Smith's 4th period spelling test. A huge leap forward in exposition happens when a mysterious man shows up and just explains everything. I could go on.
This seems to be a popular book and I heard its movie rights have already been sold....? At best, this might be one of those few "See the movie, skip the book" situations.
Two stars because I actually finished it after almost stopping it three times (though, to be fair, I kept waiting for it to be as good as everyone says), and the ensemble cast does a great job with the material they have. The book is fine and all, and probably great for teens, but I won't be spending a credit on the sequel.
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- S. Yates
- 2017-05-28
Outstanding cast performance
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Overall, a fast-paced and exciting SF opener. The book started out feeling solid, but not special (large and ancient artifact found in South Dakota that defies current scientific knowledge; assemblage of a team to decipher its meaning and find other artifacts). But as the chapters slid by, all told via interviews, journal entries and reports, characters started to be more fully sketched, individuals showed menace and ruthless focus, and a larger mystery appeared. This middle section was masterful, with Neuvel revealing enough to keep the story moving, but with large enough gaps to make you wonder how far characters would go and why the artifacts exist. This showing with little telling made the book tense and particularly fascinating. Toward the end of the book this breaks down a bit, with a number of details being explicitly lay out, and in that straightforward narrative some of the magic and suspense is lost. Still entertaining and I will continue the series, but a bit more left to the imagination (and a bit less laid out by conveniently interviewed strangers with too many answers) might have better served the narrative.
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- Samuel L Hill
- 2017-11-05
Very Disappointing
This is my first review of an Audible offering after nearly a decade and scores of purchases. Why am I now motivated to write this? As a service to humanity... danger! Stay away!
I found the story line sophomoric and characters acting more like they're in a high school drama production than highly skilled professionals trying to understand alien artifacts. I also found the transcribed interview device unconvincing and it quickly felt like it was just a way for the author to avoid the effort required to create a narrative.
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- Kate Unger
- 2017-05-17
Excellent Audiobook, Unique writing style
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Sleeping Giants was an amazing audiobook. The whole book is written as a case file, so it’s interviews and journal entries performed by a full cast audio (Audible version). It took about an hour for me to understand what exactly was happening in the story, but then I was hooked. Pieces of a giant metal robot have been found on Earth, and they’re suspected to be the remains of aliens on Earth thousands (or maybe millions) of years ago. The main players in the story are the lead scientist, a mathematician, and a couple of military pilots. And the un-named interviewer. It’s so interesting!
I don’t read a lot of science fiction, but this book was amazing. It was more focused on how humans would act in the face of the known existence of aliens instead of being a sci-fi alien story. I like to call this type of science fiction “near science fiction,” meaning that it could happen right now today. It’s not focused on a futuristic world or space travel. It’s similar to The Martian or Dark Matter where it takes present day society and then introduces a sci-fi element to it.
My favorite character in this book was Kara, one of the pilots. She’s spunky and disrespectful of authority. She does what she wants and she mouths off. The actress who played her was perfect. She reminded me of Julia Styles in all of her mid-90s movies (think 10 Things I Hate About You). I got a kick out of listening to her, and I was routing for her the whole way.
I read this book back in March right before the sequel was released, so it was perfect timing. I didn’t have to wait long to learn what happened next. Even still, there isn’t a huge cliffhanger at the end, so if you don’t get to the sequel right away, it’s not too terrible. Mostly, I just wanted more of the characters once I finished this book, and I was happy that I got that right away.
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- John Davidson
- 2016-05-26
Interesting concept, but falls at the first hurdle
The concept is certainly interesting, but the story fails to engage.
The most interesting character is the nameless man controlling things, but this doesn't quite work as he is too "nameless", and his position within the overall story is not well defined. Given that, I do like the way his dialogue is written; eschewing language contractions gave his speech a strange, formal air that appeals to me.
The other characters tend to be sketched too lightly to really engage with, with the result that they sometimes come off as whiney more that anything else.
I guess they may develop in subsequent books (the cliffhanger is a bit heavy-handed for my liking), and, if so, then the author needs to work on this.
Finally, an important plot point about two thirds of the way through the book was so ridiculous as to annoy me for the remainder.
As others have said, this both feels too long for the story presented, and not long enough as the characters need more development.
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- Em
- 2016-05-31
The multicast made it for me
"Sometimes the perfect multicast can really make a book, as is the case with Neuvel's debut. The voices here forged in me a fierce sense of loyalty for the characters I came to care about, and utter hatred for one that was truly evil (who I don't think I would have hated nearly enough if it was the voice in my own head narrating) - and you will loathe her - she is the absolute worst. The unnamed central narrator evolved from someone who was initially off-putting to someone I was desperate to hear speak; he became a reassuring fatherly presence. Overall, the production quality elevated this one from a simple story (which I really shouldn't call "simple" since Sleeping Giants is a geo-political mystery/thriller epistolary novel with alien technology) to an immersive experience that made it feel, above all else, very personal. I was in the trenches with these guys. I can't wait for the next in the series."
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- DEKEY
- 2016-04-29
The entire book felt like the beginning of a book.
It was engaging but not edge of your seat by any means. Leaves you hanging.
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- C. Peterson
- 2017-05-31
weak plot was ruined by goofy dialog
Started off ok, but this book is disappointing. Weak story line, and some of the conversations seem very odd. In high stress and life threatening situations, the characters seem too flippant, andthe dialog doesn't match the action.
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