
Solitude
Dimension Space, Book One
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Narrateur(s):
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R.C. Bray
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Julia Whelan
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Auteur(s):
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Dean M. Cole
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Winner Listeners Choice Award - Best Science Fiction
The Martian meets Gravity when Army Pilot Vaughn Singleton, Earth’s last man, rushes to Area 51 in search of a spaceplane after he discovers the last woman is stranded on the International Space Station and barely alive - thus beginning a race against time. The event that wiped life from the planet started at the supercollider. It created a rift in space-time. The astronaut stranded aboard the space station, Commander Angela Brown, is a theoretical physicist who used to work at the collider. She may be able to reverse the event, restoring the timeline and returning all life to the planet...if only she could get there. If you like action-packed audiobooks that leave you sitting in your car long after reaching your destination, you'll love the electrifying action in this trilogy of award-winning thrillers.
Can Vaughn find a path to space and back? Can Angela - the only person capable of reversing humanity's disappearance - survive until he does?
Find out now. Get Solitude today and start a series you won’t want to stop!
"Like The Martian on (and above) Earth. An epic survival story with very human characters, clever problem-solving and a gripping mystery. The end left me with no idea where Dean was going with the story, I couldn’t wait for the next book.” (Craig Alanson, NYT best-selling author of Expeditionary Force)
"R.C. Bray and Julia Whelan are individually stellar. Having them co-voice Dean M. Cole's superb Dimension Space Series is a stroke of genius. Rich with elements of every genre, Solitude is an outstanding listen.” (Nicholas Sansbury Smith, USA Today best-selling author of Hell Divers)
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Dragons Riders: The last noble warriors in the realm. Only heroes can embolden the ordinary. For centuries, millennia, the Dragon Riders galvanized generation after generation, adding Riders to their ranks and birthing dragons from their eggs. But there are no more heroes. War with the Andarens is like nothing the Riders, nor the armies of Erador, have ever faced. In the place of heroes, there are only soldiers now. Fodder for the machine of war. This time of twilight is set to be the crowning hour of the dark when the light is losing its grip.
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- Daniel Wong
- 2021-03-16
An excellent beginning to the Dimension Space trilogy!
I really enjoyed Dean’s writing - he gives life to the characters in a believable and descriptive world. Both narrators are excellent! I am looking forward to the rest of the books in the series.
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- James E
- 2021-03-06
This book isn't what you think its better!
Can you imagine being in this situation? Stuck in space with no hope of rescue or stuck on the planet as the last person on earth. Well with this book you can... Also holy crap how quickly things go to shit when people aren't around is amazing. Loved this book , the desperation and the true grit to be brought together. Well Done!!! I bet I will enjoy the next book just as much
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- rick
- 2022-09-14
original
Great story looking forward to the next book. Only wish hey would try both narrators together instead of each carrying the male and female character voice. ultimately Bray and Whelan did a great job.
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- JohnCa L.
- 2025-05-06
Novel premise of a post-apocalyptic world with no animal life except for two human beings and 4 mice
Interesting description of what such a world could be like. Animated narration Highly implausible plot, even if the prototype machines that allowed a space rescue really existed. There were too many cliffhanging moments that the reader knew would end well and culminate with the man and woman finally coming together.
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- Sarah C.
- 2022-09-06
Great!
I sometimes worry when there are very very few characters but not with this book. Totally entertaining and a great story.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2024-04-04
Suspense and mystery
Kept you captivated between suspenseful moments and the intrigue of the unknown yet to be discovered.
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- Gerald Lefebvre
- 2022-09-03
Excellent story, Excellent Narration
I really enjoyed this book narrated by R.C. Bray and Julia Whalen. Fantastic to have 2 voice actors instead of 1 person doing all the voices. Story is very well written, if you like sci-fi you will like this one.
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- Stuka Pilot
- 2023-08-14
Wish it wasn’t a series
Great narration and a intriguing plot with a nice twist at the end of the first book. I wish it was a single book but I hate when they set out to make you buy more books. So I’ll not be buying the next book.
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- D. Urquhart
- 2023-06-19
Weird mix of decent hard sci-fi and Hollywood style hyperbole
Difficult to rate this.
Some decent hard sci-fi elements. Lots of cliche moments. Some predictability issues.
Every time Vaughn’s chapters came up, I knew there would be some excessively-dramatic, Hollywood-movie style action, to the point that it became uninteresting.
Angela’s chapters were more interesting-ish, though little happened.
I got to the end to know more about the central “mystery”… and then got a transition designed for a second book. Ideally, this book would have been shortened by a third to excise some of the predictable material and get to the point with the interesting stuff I hope would be in book 2.
All that being said, I liked it enough to keep reading, and liked the characters enough to care by the end.
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- Talys
- 2024-07-25
Great performance, story went on a bit.
Both performers did an excellent job, but the story felt like it dragged on a bit. I will probably go on to part 2, though not right away.
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