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Red Rising
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
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Spartacus retold mixed with Red Faction
- By Gary on 16-03-14
- Red Rising
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
You can’t stop listening
Reviewed: 12-03-22
An addictive read. Surprised it took me so long to find! Narration is different but excellent and well suited to the story and characters. Sad to have reached the end.
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Infinite
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries 50 scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away. With Earth no longer habitable and the Mars colony slowly failing, they are humanity's best hope. After 10 years in a failed cryogenic bed - body asleep, mind awake - William Chanokh's torture comes to an end as the fog clears, the hatch opens, and his friend and fellow hacker, Tom, greets him...by stabbing a screwdriver into his heart. This is the first time William dies.
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Terrible sci-fi
- By James on 02-11-17
- Infinite
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
A fun listen
Reviewed: 19-10-21
Kept me listening throughout. Plenty of quirky twists with good pace. Great narration as always.
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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A return to form
- By Amazon Customer on 06-05-21
- Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
A fantastic journey to join
Reviewed: 18-09-21
A great story to celebrate science and engineering - it really is quite useful kids!
I enjoyed the delivery and subtle humour. The technology and analysis were a fun tutorial.
Engineers will love this. Don’t let that put you off if you are not that way inclined- it’s an enjoyable listen.
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Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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A fantastic combination
- By Mr. S. Gibson on 15-08-10
- Hyperion
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine
Fantastic and far reaching
Reviewed: 13-12-20
Fantastic and far reaching sci-fi. Very different characters feature in several intertwined stories. A gradual and complex build up over an epic journey. Attention grabbing from the beginning. Well narrated by a cast of actors which helped differentiate the characters. Recommend to sci-fi readers of all genres.
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Solitude
- Dimension Space, Book One
- By: Dean M. Cole
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray, Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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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.
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So badly written I couldn't listen to it
- By MarkR on 13-05-19
- Solitude
- Dimension Space, Book One
- By: Dean M. Cole
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray, Julia Whelan
A good easy listen
Reviewed: 05-09-20
Having two narrators helped to give some contrast. Not an outlandish story, being strongly tethered to the world we know. My usual sci-fi is a bit more out there and so this felt a bit more like straight fiction rather than science fiction. A good listen with relatable characters. Interested to see how book two shapes up.
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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Shortlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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A superb production of a sci fi classic!
- By Peter on 21-07-07
Epic!
Reviewed: 25-07-20
Hard to write a review of such a classic that has already received so much well deserved praise. Fantastic story, characters and detail. Completely immersive! Essential reading.
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Armageddon
- Expeditionary Force, Book 8
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
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After the Renegade mission by the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years, at least. After there was trouble on the home front and the president had to authorize a nuclear strike on an American city, UNEF decided they did need the Merry Band of Pirates again. So, the Flying Dutchman is sent out on a simple recon mission. But for the pirates, nothing is ever simple, and their mission will become Armageddon.
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A long wait for deja vu!!!!!!!!!
- By james clough on 09-11-19
- Armageddon
- Expeditionary Force, Book 8
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
They just keep on giving!
Reviewed: 14-05-20
The Joe and Skippy combo are always good value. This time a bit darker and with a tantalising glimpse of just how weird the universe is. Still more to give!
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Woken Furies
- Altered Carbon, Book 3
- By: Richard Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
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This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 percent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try to get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and the skies.
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Poor quality recording
- By Rohan on 14-02-15
- Woken Furies
- Altered Carbon, Book 3
- By: Richard Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Full of immersion
Reviewed: 04-08-19
Having really enjoyed books one and two, I went straight to book three. A change in narrator took some getting used to. Nothing wrong with the performance just odd not to use the same guy who delivered the other books so well. There are connections with the other books but hard to call it a joined up trilogy. If I’m honest I think the first two were better but still a great listen. Amazing imagination, succinctly described and fully immersive. Recommended.
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Altered Carbon
- Altered Carbon, Book 1
- By: Richard Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
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Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.
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As cyberpunk thrillers go, it ain't bad...
- By S on 21-05-15
- Altered Carbon
- Altered Carbon, Book 1
- By: Richard Morgan
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Dark, imaginative and full of action
Reviewed: 19-04-19
I was worried about having seen the TV series but the detail and extra complexity of the book make it worthwhile and fulfilling.
The environment and characters come from a huge imagination and are described with efficient ease, leaving you feeling you’ve earned your own place in that world.
The plot is tantalisingly complex and dark, told straight and without unnecessary embellishment - all adding to the sense of real.
The narration felt slow to begin with but quickly grew to feel well suited to the language. A good and confident delivery.
I would definitely recommend this book. I’ve downloaded the second and third parts of the trilogy already.
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Mavericks
- Expeditionary Force, Book 6
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
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The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet "Paradise" get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first....
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A Skippy Shandy?
- By Simon on 28-09-18
- Mavericks
- Expeditionary Force, Book 6
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
The good stuff keeps coming!
Reviewed: 17-02-19
A great listen as always. Having listened to the whole series, I’m finding it hard to remember exactly what went on in this book! The adventures of the Mavericks, away from Joe and Skippy, was refreshing broadening the story while keeping the plot moving along. Some great new characters. RC completely nails the narration as always. I can’t imagine anyone else doing the characters justice. I’m wondering if this is the last one!
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