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Winter World
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Series: The Long Winter, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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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!!
- By Cathe on 2019-07-19
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Rambling and confused
- By Brian on 2019-11-18
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Not what I expected
- By Georgina on 2017-12-29
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Love the story but...
- By Maria Urban on 2019-04-02
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- By Maria Urban on 2019-04-02
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Super value!
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Couldnt. Stop. Listening.
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awesome
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Publisher's Summary
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. :)
7 people found this helpful
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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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- J. Maturana
- 2020-09-09
So much description that it stalls the story
Know that feeling when something talks so much that you're begging for them to shut up and move on to the important points? It's this story summed up.
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- Joanne C Vida
- 2020-12-29
Not overly original
Well written but too similar to the Formic Wars by Orson Scott Card but without some important details. I did care about the characters but the story skipped too many details
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- Litgoddess
- 2020-07-19
Surprisingly epic
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. There was just enough science, excellent pace, and a great plot. I’m looking forward to book 2!
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- Dave Coles
- 2020-05-24
Good story, bad science
For a science fiction novel, generally, the fiction has to be based in science. The author plays fast and loose with much of it. In one instance the author goes into great technical detail about the vastness of space, then claims they can travel to the asteroid belt, which is actually beyond our solar system in six weeks. It takes six months to go to Mars. Considering the main character is involved in designing the space ships that take them to the artifact that is absorbing the sun's radiation and cooling the Earth, you'd think there would be an explanation of the type propulsion they use. According to one character, they could travel a significant fraction of light speed. But they never say how much. I found both main characters unbelievable. The mission commander Jem, seemed pretty dimwitted for a geneticist. She couldn't put two and two together when it came to Oscar. James also seemed like a dumbed down genius. I never got a sense of his genius because the author didn't put enough research into the things that he was supposed to be a genius about. The author should be at least as brilliant as the most brilliant character. The relationship between them seemed implausible since they had lived together for several years, James couldn't tell her about his past, even though everyone else knew about it. The logical thing would be to tell her about it before someone else or an alien tells her. Overall the story idea was good, but the execution came up short.
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- David
- 2020-05-07
AWESOME
Absolutely loved this book and the 2 books that fallow !!! awesome narration as well !!
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- historiker33
- 2019-04-24
Really fun audiobook
Critical Stuff First: My academic background is history, not science. Thus, when some reviewers have said that the science in Winter World is bunk, its not that I'm responding from a position of disagreement or doubt - rather, my lack of scientific expertise means that Riddle could have said the ship had a warp core, and I'd have ignorantly enjoyed the book anyway. If you have a strong science background, maybe some points in the book will bug you. Since I'm a humanities guy, I found the story thoroughly enjoyable. I do see some people's points about Emma seeming underdeveloped. Shes NASA a mission commander, but she seems disproportionately assigned to "emotional" things, plus being good at building things. She definitely could have exhibited more 1) assertiveness/leadership 2) scientific expertise. But Seriously, Everybody: Those things aside, this is an awesome story overall. I'm a huge fan of Riddle's work, and I could listen to Ballerini read a phone book. His performance paired wonderfully with Cobb's, and I look forward to listening to the next installment in the series. Riddle takes the apocalyptic/dystopian genre and gives you a story thats much more than "omg you guys, a plague with no backstory or explanation. and zombies. and stuff". There is more depth to his plots than a lot of other stories you'll see, and it is so, so easy to get blissfully lost in his writing. Summing up: Is it a perfect book? Of course not. Is it a great story and damn good audio book that I would absolutely recommend everyone buy? YES.
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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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- 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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- A. Dukes
- 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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- 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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- Kindle Customer
- 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.
67 people found this helpful
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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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