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The End of All Things
- Old Man's War, Book 6
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, John Scalzi
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Old Man's War
- Written by: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.
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Excellent book, great performance
- By Cori Oreskovich on 2017-12-12
Written by: John Scalzi
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The Collapsing Empire
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Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
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ok novel
- By Scott Duncan on 2017-11-03
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The Android's Dream
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- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire.
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A Very Good Sci-Fi Weave
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
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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.
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
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Van said. Van said. Van said. Van said.
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Little Fuzzy
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FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Beam Piper's classic and much-loved science fiction novel Little Fuzzy. Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of the planet Zarathustra. But then a strange intelligent animal walks into his life from out of the forest. The animal that he names 'Little Fuzzy' seems sapient and that threatens the charter of the company that owns the planet. With the company profits threatened, Jack realises that both his life and that of Little Fuzzy are in danger.
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.
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Excellent book, great performance
- By Cori Oreskovich on 2017-12-12
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The Collapsing Empire
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- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
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ok novel
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The Android's Dream
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- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire.
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A Very Good Sci-Fi Weave
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
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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.
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
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Van said. Van said. Van said. Van said.
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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
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Stars can’t do it justice
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.
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Wacky and fun
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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!
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Two centuries after humanity colonized the stars, new dangers emerge. The peaceful inhabitants of the Conclave are threatened by expanding alien powers. Invaders threaten the star cluster, attacking our fringe settlements. Captain Bill Gorman has mysteriously disappeared. His clone, set aside for a dark day like this, awakens and begins to put together the pieces. What’s gone wrong out on the frontier? Why are our colonies being attacked by aliens while the Conclave worlds dream of better days? And what happened to the original Captain Gorman?
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Very entertaining.
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Miniatures
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The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
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Publisher's Summary
Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human Division.
Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.
Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time - a couple of decades at most before the ranks of the Colonial Defense Forces are depleted and the struggling human colonies are vulnerable to the alien species who have been waiting for the first sign of weakness to drive humanity to ruin. And there's another problem: a group, lurking in the darkness of space, playing human and alien against each other - and against their own kind - for their own unknown reasons.
In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth, and to keep humanity's union intact...or else risk oblivion and extinction - and the end of all things.
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- Simone
- 2018-02-19
Awesome book
Love the book. Dislike Tavia Glibert, she'd be more suited to children's books. Too sweet sounding and talks too fast.
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- AdamP
- 2023-09-10
New narrator changes the fell of the story
The story is great. Love the series, but the new narrator completely changes the feel of the story. i have no doubt they are a great narrator in their own right, but not a good fit here considering the first one.
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- D. Kassiday
- 2015-09-06
why a lower rating on performance?
Mr. Dufris did an excellent job as always. Ms. Gilbert's porrayals of male characters had an irritating qualitty as well as lacking differentiation between male characters. Hearing that performance immediately after Dufris's oustanding portrayals of the same charaters resulted in Ms. Gilbert's portions of the narrative becoming difficult to listen to. Even that disparity might have only been slightly irksome if the personal 4th wall breaking acknowledgements from Ms. Gilbert were not included between sections of the book. That sort of thing is appropriate at the end of a book but in the middle it calls attention to the presence of a narrator rather than portrayal of the characters. Those interruptions banished my immersion in the book just as assuredly a bucket of water dumped on me would have. Editing out those 2 interruptions would significantly improve the audio book.
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- Ken C
- 2015-08-16
Why change narrator?
I can't honestly rate the story because all I could think about was " What happened to William Dufris "?
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- Julie W. Capell
- 2015-10-16
B-O-R-I-N-G
At the end of this audio edition of his latest entry in the “Old Man’s War” series, Scalzi himself comes on to say that he struggled when writing this book. I’d say it shows. This was one of the least engaging books I’ve read in a while. Broken into four large sections, each section reads like an independent novella. Although some of the characters recur, and there is an overall plot arc, each section has different point-of-view characters and explores a different slice of this universe.
The novella structure was not what I found objectionable. What I found strange was that the author decided to tell so much of his story via conversations. The reader is being told, over and over, by the characters, what is going on, rather than actually seeing it happen. For instance, a large chunk of one chapter features a group of politicians arguing about politics. Seriously, how did Scalzi think this was a good idea? There is a reason no one watches C-SPAN. Just imagine C-SPAN in written form and you have the general idea *snore*. In another section, four or five soldiers describe uprisings that have been happening on a variety of planets. It’s pretty thinly veiled commentary on the wars going on in the Middle-East today. There’s some action, but still an awful lot of talk. The last section features—you guessed it—more meetings and politicians talking themselves and the reader to death as they try to solve the dilemma set up in the first three sections of the book.
The best part of the book was the witty banter between some of the characters, notably the army grunts, but even the banter suffered from a sameness that anyone who has read a lot of books by Scalzi will readily recognize. Even the funny moments get a little boring when all the characters have the same razor-sharp wit and zing the bon mots in the exact same way. By the end of the book I was thinking if one more character said “Fair point” I was going to jump out the window.
[I listened to this as an audio book read by Tavia Gilbert and William Dufris, who did a serviceable job with less-than stellar content. It’s hard to make characters sound different when the author writes them all as carbon copies of each other.]
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- Bill
- 2015-08-15
Terrible reader in the middle of the book.
Reader at first and last quarter of the book is very good. The reader in the middle of the book has such a irritating voice I could not listen.
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- Kevin
- 2015-08-13
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
Yes. changing readers mid book William Dufris performance was excellent as always. I dont know who Tavia Gilbert knows to get put in mid way through and she even threw in a self serving message between chapters her voices and pronunciation also left alot to be desired.
Who was your favorite character and why?
As always Harry Wilson
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Tavia Gilbert and William Dufris ?
No one though I would've not used Tavia Gilbert at all.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Yes
Any additional comments?
I've listened to all the books in the Old Mans War series it was a good conclusion to the series.
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- Russell
- 2015-08-25
I Shouldn't Get So Happy When Listening to a Book
I loved listening to Old Man's War a few years ago. Lately I've listened to some very good science fiction and raved about it. But, I was so happy being back in this universe which combines witty science fiction and great adventure read by a master narrator that I remember thinking ... I shouldn't be so happy - its just a book. Ultimately this one stands apart from some other excellent SF that has entertained me - so happiness ensued.
The only criticism I have is that John had an alternate beginning for the book that he scrapped as the starting point but couldn't just throw it away. So after the story is over, we hear that "alternate universe" version that just peters out mid story.
The book comes in five parts. John first warns us about the alternate first chapter to be presented at the end. Then, William Dufris takes over and we hear Rafe Daquin's story of being captured and having his body discarded and his brain put in a box to run a ship in service to some nasty characters. How Rafe deals with that and the exposure of a group bent on destroying the human Colonial Union, the Earth and an alien United Nations called the Conclave drives the rest of this impressive book. The next part is read by Tavia Gilbert and introduces us to a powerful alien player in the Conclave called Hafte Sorvalh. This dragged a bit for me because William Dufris part was so excellent - but it in the end it is necessary to give us another perspective. Dufris takes over relaying the rest of the book and I was quite satisfied with how the story was wrapped up.
I purposely did not listen to the alternate first chapter right away, because I wanted to savor the ending of the book. I did the next day and actually would recommend not listening to it. What Scalzi should have done if he wanted this alternate take would be to release this separately and finish it! That is why I took one star off for the story rating.
Listening to Old Man's War and the other books in this series enriches the enjoyment of this book, but you should be able to read this as a stand alone story. If you decide to start with the first book, this reviewer is envious of the journey you are embarking upon.
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- Josh P
- 2015-08-23
Drooling over the original draft/alternate version
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While this book pretty much completes and ties up all the loose ends to the Old Man' War series, there is an alternate version of the story that is added as a supplementary addition to the audiobook. In the authors note he mentions how he first started with the alternate story and then for reasons he doesn't explicitly explain, pretty much decided to re-write the story into the book we have now. I would say this book is a good book but felt rushed to me. Many plot lines felt forced in order to just finish the story. Some characters like General Gao and Hafde Sorval feel completely different from their constructs in the previous books. Also many of the major characters from the human division are relagated to almost background scenery. I kept waiting for one of those great/funny conversations between Hardt Schmit & Harry Wilson but it felt like while Hardt is there he almost never speaks. That's not to say it's a bad book, it is definitely above average when compared to other authors. The real problem arose for me when I listened to original story that got shelved and is incorporated as a supplementary section after the book is done. This original draft / alternate version really felt like the book we were supposed to get. It had the feel of the original trilogy and the spirit of the human division stories. Sadly John Scalzi states in his authors notes that he has no intentions to complete this original draft/alternative version. I honestly found myself much more engaged during the supplement than any time listing to the released book. So just to re-iterate, this is a good book that I enjoyed and I'm sure if your a fan of the Old Man's War series, that you will enjoy it too, but I hope that someday Mr Scalzi changes his mind and completes the original draft/alternate version of this book because that small preview was where I found myself truly hooked.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2015-10-19
Not worth buying
Probably the worst Scalzi story I've heard/read. Lackluster story, hugely unrealistic conclusion, awful dialogue. In my teens he was my favorite writer, I now realize that was because his dialogue is locked in the 14-16 range. Descriptive writing is still excellent though, definitely Scalzi's strength, a shame this book was so heavily dependent on his mediocre-to-low ability to write dialogue. Expect a lot of snarky wit... From every damn character, it's like they're all clones.
Narration tried hard and I thought they did well, though the quick messages to (the listener? the studio?) were weird and disrupted the flow.
Very disappointed, I'd go back in time and not buy both if I could.
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- DobieChuck
- 2015-08-15
Peaks and Valleys
As a whole this was an average book... Parts were well above that average, and some small bits were below... As always the flippancy, irreverance, and humor of a Scalzi book was imaginative and quite chuckleworthy... The switching of the narrators within the story was a mistake - shoulda stuck w/ William Dufris and run w/ it... I appreciated the putting of a bow on the series sequence,, but at times that effort seemed higgledy-piggledy... Also, the personal messages at the part beginnings were annoying. They shoulda been at the very beginning, or end, not peppered within the story,... Like I said annoying... Harry Wilson as usual was great, and the brain in the box Raif was an easy character to become invested in... Although, that alternate beginning at the end (yes, you read that right;) Scalzi being a bit cheeky) was needless, and a tad irritating... I don't need outtakes, deleted scenes, and/or alternate story arcs - let the story stand on its own, my imagination is sufficient toengage in what if exercises w/o the author throwing them in my path;) It was a decent enough book, but would recommend waiting for a sale rather than using a credit, or paying full freight...
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- Wayne
- 2015-08-31
The 2nd narrator is terrible
I liked this story a lot, but the second narrator was not gifted with a pleasing voice. Also it sounded like she was reading the book for first time, with little emotional involvement.
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