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Winter World
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Série: The Long Winter, Livre 1
- Durée: 11 h et 4 min
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- Catégories: Science fiction et fantaisie, Science-fiction
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The Solar War
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
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They decimated Earth during the Long Winter. Now the Grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct. On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything.
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Want the end!!
- Écrit par Cathe le 2019-07-19
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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The Lost Colony
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
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On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet - and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld - Eos - seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers - from the Carthage - have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As James digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos.
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Rambling and confused
- Écrit par Brian le 2019-11-18
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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The Atlantis Plague
- The Origin Mystery, Book 2
- Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bel Davies
- Durée: 13 h et 7 min
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In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.
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Love the story but...
- Écrit par Maria Urban le 2019-04-02
Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
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Earthcore
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 20 h et 16 min
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EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources, and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting...and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.
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Great listening!!
- Écrit par Amelia le 2020-01-31
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Lucifer's Hammer
- Auteur(s): Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 24 h et 32 min
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The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
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MUST LISTEN. IRead this many years ago, still A+!
- Écrit par hdamoca le 2018-09-16
Auteur(s): Larry Niven, Autres
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The Atlantis World
- The Origin Mystery, Book 3
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bel Davies
- Durée: 9 h et 34 min
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Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally.
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They need to update the narration
- Écrit par Alex Landry-Simard le 2018-08-14
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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The Solar War
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
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They decimated Earth during the Long Winter. Now the Grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct. On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything.
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Want the end!!
- Écrit par Cathe le 2019-07-19
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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The Lost Colony
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
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On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet - and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld - Eos - seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers - from the Carthage - have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As James digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos.
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Rambling and confused
- Écrit par Brian le 2019-11-18
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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The Atlantis Plague
- The Origin Mystery, Book 2
- Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bel Davies
- Durée: 13 h et 7 min
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In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.
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Love the story but...
- Écrit par Maria Urban le 2019-04-02
Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
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Earthcore
- Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 20 h et 16 min
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EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources, and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting...and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.
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Great listening!!
- Écrit par Amelia le 2020-01-31
Auteur(s): Scott Sigler
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Lucifer's Hammer
- Auteur(s): Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 24 h et 32 min
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Histoire
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
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MUST LISTEN. IRead this many years ago, still A+!
- Écrit par hdamoca le 2018-09-16
Auteur(s): Larry Niven, Autres
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The Atlantis World
- The Origin Mystery, Book 3
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bel Davies
- Durée: 9 h et 34 min
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Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally.
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They need to update the narration
- Écrit par Alex Landry-Simard le 2018-08-14
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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The Atlantis Gene
- The Origin Mystery, Book 1
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bel Davies
- Durée: 15 h et 44 min
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Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.
Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.
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Not what I expected
- Écrit par Georgina le 2017-12-29
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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Genome
- The Extinction Files, Book 2
- Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
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The thrilling conclusion to The Extinction Files is finally here! In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed. The truth was discovered 30 years ago, almost by accident. Dr. Paul Kraus had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity's lost tribes - human ancestors who had gone extinct. When Kraus compared the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he found a pattern of changes: a code. At the time, the technology didn't exist to unravel what it meant. Kraus hid his work and disappeared.
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Great book!
- Écrit par Jesica Messom le 2018-08-01
Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
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Extinction Series: The Complete Collection
- Auteur(s): James D. Prescott
- Narrateur(s): Gary Tiedemann
- Durée: 24 h et 29 min
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Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater with the aim of securing a sample. But buried deep beneath the earth lies a shocking discovery that threatens to shatter everything we think we know about our species.
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did not excite me
- Écrit par K.Rancier le 2020-02-10
Auteur(s): James D. Prescott
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Astral Prime Mission Pack 1: Missions 1-4
- Black Ocean: Astral Prime Mission Pack
- Auteur(s): J.S. Morin, M. A. Larkin
- Narrateur(s): Mikael Naramore
- Durée: 19 h et 53 min
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They found a planet where none belonged. They should have left it alone. This audiobook includes the first four missions in the Black Ocean: Astral Prime series.
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Just wow
- Écrit par (SL) Cyn le 2019-10-10
Auteur(s): J.S. Morin, Autres
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Pandemic
- The Extinction Files, Book 1
- Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 18 h et 53 min
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In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.
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Editor wrecks first words of every chapter!
- Écrit par hdamoca le 2020-01-09
Auteur(s): A. G. Riddle
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Devoted
- Auteur(s): Dean Koontz
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 11 h et 24 min
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Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother. And he’s not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening.
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awesome
- Écrit par SilkeForce le 2020-04-03
Auteur(s): Dean Koontz
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Odyssey
- An Arisen Standalone
- Auteur(s): Michael Stephen Fuchs
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
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One Tier-1 Naval Special Warfare Operator, trained at the highest levels of any military, with 20-plus years of operational experience. One ex-cop civilian survivalist, who lived through two years of post-apocalyptic hell, unlike seven billion of her fellow humans. And an entire continent heaving with 400 million dead guys. To save the lives of his children, and rejoin Alpha team and the fight to save humanity, Homer must journey across a thousand miles of undead North America with Sarah Cameron, battling heavily armed bands of marauders who shoot first and ask questions never.
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A great stand alone in a great series
- Écrit par Kevin C le 2019-06-22
Auteur(s): Michael Stephen Fuchs
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Alas, Babylon
- Auteur(s): Pat Frank
- Narrateur(s): Will Patton
- Durée: 11 h et 11 min
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This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - “Alas, Babylon.” When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness....
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Why you should read this book.
- Écrit par hdamoca le 2019-08-26
Auteur(s): Pat Frank
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Mountain Man: Prequel
- Auteur(s): Keith C. Blackmore
- Narrateur(s): R.C. Bray
- Durée: 8 h et 19 min
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After a long day of prepping a house for painting, all Gus Berry wanted was the night off to spend some time with his girlfriend and relax before having to return to work the next morning. But that isn’t going to happen. Because Gus’s co-worker Benny has found a one-night job at the local Mollymart East, a job that has to be done by morning. If Gus and his paint crew can complete the work by then, it could mean huge business with a respected, established grocery store chain.
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Worthy Prequel. Read it Fourth.
- Écrit par Langer le 2020-05-16
Auteur(s): Keith C. Blackmore
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Imajica
- Auteur(s): Clive Barker
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 37 h et 20 min
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Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie "oh" pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension.
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Great Story
- Écrit par Jason le 2021-05-30
Auteur(s): Clive Barker
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Departure
- Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
- Narrateur(s): Nicola Barber, Scott Aiello
- Durée: 10 h et 10 min
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En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home?
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Too Much of a Romance Novel
- Écrit par camallis le 2019-05-19
Auteur(s): A.G. Riddle
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Dead Men Can't Complain and Other Stories
- Auteur(s): Peter Clines
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister, Ray Porter
- Durée: 4 h et 54 min
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Including three never-before-published stories, Dead Men Don't Complain is the first-ever collection of short fiction by Peter Clines, author of 14, The Fold, and other Audible smash hits. Combining equal parts geekery and humor with the occasional dash of horror, Dead Men Don't Complain is ideal for Clines fans eagerly awaiting his next novel - or for brand-new listeners discovering this Audible favorite for the first time.
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Not my favorite from Peter Clines
- Écrit par Martin Gauthier le 2019-06-30
Auteur(s): Peter Clines
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The ice is coming. It was the last thing we expected, but the world is freezing. A new ice age has dawned and humanity has been forced to confront its own extinction. Billions have fled the glaciers, crowding out the world’s last habitable zones. They can run from the ice, but they can’t escape human nature: a cataclysmic war is coming.
In orbit, a group of scientists are running the Winter Experiments, a last-ditch attempt to understand why the planet is cooling. None of the climate models they build make sense. But then they discover an anomaly, an unexplained variation in solar radiation...and something else. Close to the burning edge of the sun, they catch a fleeting glimpse of something that shouldn’t be there....
Suddenly humanity must face the possibility it is not alone in the universe. And the terrifying possibility that whatever is out there may be trying to exterminate us.
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- Deanna
- 2019-03-05
Stunning concoction of everything I love in a great story
Once again I hold a treasure of a story by A. G. Riddle filled with a magnanimous blend of science and AI with adventure, motivation, and determination. Each character is filled with distinguishable personality made even more prominent by exceptional actors giving life through astounding and synchronous voices.
The story advances with an excellent pace that readers / listeners will have no complications with. The story is entertaining, interesting, adventurous, educational, and extremely well composed. The humour and sarcasm mix well to enliven each conversation and person and enhance the listening experience. The story details are pieces together and released at well thought out points during the story and confirm Riddle has exceptional story telling abilities whilst maintaining faith in the readers and the way minds work to gather information and draw conclusions just in time to arrive at more information and better conclusions. Henry’s movie quotables are absolutely hilarious followed with James’ sarcasm. Such an enjoyable listen! But I will not divulge what happens. You must read this story to find out. You won’t be disappointed.
I can’t hardly wait to read book two. :)
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- Matt
- 2019-04-16
good
I am an avid sci fi reader. this is pretty good. not as silly as some, not hard science fiction either....
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-04-24
Can't wait to hear the next book
The use of 2 narrators is pure genius and allows the reader to dive more into these characters and get different perspectives on the story while been wisked away ...
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- Brian Harrison
- 2019-09-16
Lacked detail
A good story line, however, I felt it should have been directed towards the younger teen reader. Overall somewhat simplistic.
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- Roger
- 2019-03-08
His best book since Departure!
Loved it. Look forward to listening to the next one in the series. The narration was also great!
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- Brad K
- 2021-09-20
WARNING - it isn't good.
While this should be a good book, it is not. Do not be fooled by the other ratings.
You know how a book can be so good you are disappointed when it ends? That isn't this. It goes on, and on, and on - you'll get tired of it.
But you'll be so frustrated too. There's an awful "secret" about one of the main characters. He did something that got him thrown in jail. Something so terrible that everyone hates him. You get teased with the secret of what he did FOR THE ENTIRE BOOK only to discover it was stupid. What a waste of time. Why drag that out? None of it made any sense.
And it is poor writing. Some of the other reviews note that it is lazy writing that often just tells you details rather than showing you in the action or writing. It is frustrating.
Skip it and if you don't then you've been warned.
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- Jayme
- 2019-10-06
Good idea, poor execution
Great narration which sort of makes up for a somewhat cliche and predictable story with one dimensional characters. It has a original story idea which is why I kept reading because I wanted to know what would happen but I found the social interaction between characters cringey and distracting. The most cringey bits: 1. Every character seems to want to sacrifice themself for someone else which gets pretty circular and annoying 2. Every action a character that isn't James (even the female lead Emma) takes is meant to boost his ego or develop his character. I'm not interested in reading the sequel.
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- Whitney
- 2022-08-10
Beware of present tense.
Good story and entertaining. The book being written in present tense is a negative mark from me. The story would have been much better served in past tense.
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- IndigoFox
- 2021-11-11
The worst book on audible
I've never not finished a book on audible but this came dangerously close, the main character Mary Sue and Twilight level quality of writing made every moment of listening painful.
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- Dragul
- 2021-07-09
A great space romp
I haven't had this much fun with a space opera since I first boarded the good ship USS Enterprise.
Author AG Riddle lives up to his name, keeping us guessing and plausibly holding back key parts of the MC's past.
Other than one scientific plot hole that would be a spoiler to reveal, Riddle adds enough hard science - effects of gravity on the body, power/space limitations, to name a few - this is a superbly constructed and written novel.
I'm up for the sequel
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- Cynthia R Phillips
- 2019-07-15
High school creative writing 101
While I've enjoyed both narrators on other productions, I truly felt put off by A.L.Cobb's version of the female protagonist - too 'teen'like for me personally; Ballerini also sounded off...personally speaking.
The story seemed contrived and forced. While I agree with much of the political statement, it was presented in a preachy nuance which was off-putting.
I've enjoyed other titles by Riddle better than this one, and I'm not certain whether I care enough about the characters to listen to the second in the pair.
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- Will
- 2019-06-04
Disappointed...
Both phases of this audio book, story and performance are frustrating. First the story feels very rushed and underdeveloped. The performances are just not interesting and both have a strange inflection and tempo that I found distracting. This is disappointing because every other AG Riddle book I very much enjoyed, however in my view they missed the mark on this one.
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- Nikki
- 2019-04-25
Stale
The book started out interesting but ended up just mashing up already used plot lines from popular sci-fi movies/books. The characters were actually pretty flat. The thing I really hate, is when a book starts off good, then gets very predictable and boring, but you’ve already invested time into it so you finish feeling like you wasted time and money you’ll never get back. I have to be pretty amazed or pretty irritated to write a review, this falls in the irritated category.
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- Melmom
- 2019-03-08
I felt title and genre was misleading.
It was not a bad story, was looking for a hard science fiction story ended up a love story in space with barely a nod to the problems of intersystem space travel. As a love story, it would rate at least a four start review by someone more talented in exposition than I.
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- S. Morris
- 2019-03-26
One Dimensional Characters, Bad Science
The premise of this book was interesting, which is what led me to purchase it, however I was disappointed for a number of reasons.
1. The character of Emma was really poorly executed. Her entire reason for existing in the story seemed to be to validate all of the things James says and does. This is the epitome of a male author writing a part for a woman without having a clue about women. Making an astronaut play the part of a damsel in distress was embarrassing to read.
2. The science was bunk. A lot of inaccuracies in how things would play out were the planet to undergo massive cooling. I've heard some reviewers compare this book to "The Martian" for some reason. The Martian managed to get the science right.
3. Many of the "plot twists" were completely predictable, chapters in advance. Many plot points were never followed up on or glossed over. The author really seems to have phoned in some of the effort on this one, and the editor also doesn't seem to have done much to help either.
All in all, I was super disappointed in this book. I wanted to like it but it just didn't deliver. I'm definitely not going to bother with the sequel.
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- Connor
- 2019-03-22
Entertaining but nothing special
It’s a beach read. Plot is entertaining but very predictable. Writing is amateurish. Nothing to write home about but worth a read. Narrators are pleasant to listen to.
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- Eric Callman
- 2019-05-09
Exciting... Like an action movie.
This book was entertaining - with good characters and lots of suspense - but the technical details were terrible. If you enjoy big budget action/disaster movies - eg. The Day After Tomorrow - you'll probably like this. If you're looking for a hard-science fiction story, you should probably look elsewhere.
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- Alberto Estrada
- 2019-03-26
Love story with a backdrop of survival.
When this was compared to interstellar I immediately got it. I don't feel like it deserves this comparison. The love story dominates this story. Everything else is interesting but I cannot but help to roll my eyes whenever the two characters interact, which happens quite frequently.
Performance is solid. I'm about a third of the way through and cannot wait to get it over with.
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- O. Bakker
- 2019-06-18
Cliché. Maybe for teens or young adults
Great narration, but a couple pain points. First off, was the poorly scripted women. The lead female character is but a damsel-in-distress. Oh James, oh James, lets hold hands, oh James is so smart, oh James tell me what you’re thinking, oh my! whatever are we going to do James… Urgh! Other female characters also never quite seem to provide any applicable solutions to whatever predicament. They are either argumentative or overly sensitive. Even the apparently accomplished doctor is easily flustered by discord on the team she’s there to treat and ensure the well-being of.
My second pain point is the general intelligence and maturity level of humanity’s last hope. These characters and their respective internal dialogue lack the maturity, or portray the intelligence necessary to pull off the feat required to save earth. It’s like high schoolers playing grown up.
As an avid Sci-Fi reader, I can easily suspend reality and give the author wide berth, but this book is cliché and pretty deng annoying.
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- Brad Johnson
- 2019-06-05
Interesting premise, then sappy
One part of SciFi is science. The author forgot that and turned scientists/astronauts into whiny overly emotional puppets. Rather than wasting time beating this turkey to death, just run away. Oh, Mr Bray was excellent as always.
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