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- De: Andrew Seiple
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden
- Duración: 48 m
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All Doctor Dire wants to do is save the world. But those pesky heroes keep getting in the way, and it's all she can do to give them a good fight without killing them. Supervillainy is such an underappreciated job these days....
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A good taste
- De AV en 02-23-21
De: Andrew Seiple
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Forgotten
- The Forgotten Series, Book 1
- De: M.R. Forbes
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Never thought about it. And why bother? Access points to the ship's controls are sealed, the systems that guide her automated and out of reach. It isn't perfect, but he has all he needs to be content. Until a malfunction forces his engineer wife to the edge of the habitable zone to inspect the damage.
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Surprised
- De Tm en 07-28-18
De: M.R. Forbes
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A Red Peace
- The Starfire Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Spencer Ellsworth
- Narrado por: John Keating, Mary Robinette Kowal
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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A Red Peace, first in Spencer Ellsworth's Starfire trilogy, is an action-packed space opera in a universe where the oppressed half-Jorian crosses have risen up to supplant humanity and dominate the galaxy. Half-breed human star navigator Jaqi, working the edges of human-settled space on contract to whoever will hire her, stumbles into possession of an artifact that the leader of the Rebellion wants desperately enough to send his personal guard after. An interstellar empire and the fate of the remnant of humanity hang in the balance.
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Suits & Insects War & Technology
- De Midwestbonsai en 11-28-18
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Titanborn
- De: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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After decades hunting wanted offworlders throughout the solar system, Corporate Bounty Hunter Malcolm Graves doesn't bother asking questions. So long as the pay is right, he's the man for the job. And he always works alone. But when a high-profile bombing on Earth has Pervenio Corp clamoring for answers, they force him to team up with a strange, cyber-augmented partner. A young man more interested in statistics than instinct. Their assignment: Track down a suspected group of extremists from Titan who will go to any length to free their moon from the grip of Earth's corporations.
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Great Mystery Sci-fi
- De Bryan en 02-08-19
De: Rhett C. Bruno
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Last Command
- Fallen Empire, Book 0
- De: Lindsay Buroker
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 2 h y 26 m
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In the final days of the empire, Cyborg Corps Colonel Leonidas Adler plans to die in a manner befitting of an imperial officer. He will fight until his last breath, giving his life to defend Emperor Markus, as it was meant to be. But when the emperor himself summons him for a final special mission, how can he refuse?
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Pretty good teaser for lighter space opera
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 10-15-21
De: Lindsay Buroker
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Invaders
- De: Vaughn Heppner
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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They came from the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina. First they studied us. Now they're among us, threatening human existence as they search for the Starcore, the greatest device of the lost Polarions. Logan is captured in the Nevada desert but escapes in Greenland. There he finds an extraterrestrial stealth ship, giving him the means to take the battle to the enemy.
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WISHING WASN'T GOING TO HELP ME NOW
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-07-17
De: Vaughn Heppner
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Vitalis Omnibus
- De: Jason Halstead
- Narrado por: James Killavey
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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Mysterious blackouts left Kira with precious few memories of events in her life, never mind those worth sharing. Somewhere in those blank spots she acquired skills - skills she was hard pressed to explain. But those skills got her a job as the new navigator for the Rented Mule, a transport ship that plied the Rim Systems at the very edge of human civilization.
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Moral of the stoty is...
- De Rachel en 10-22-14
De: Jason Halstead
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Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
- The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
- De: Brian Daley
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire.
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Best Sci Fi Fun anywhere!
- De A. Foxter en 07-07-15
De: Brian Daley
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Off Planet
- Aunare Chronicles, Book 1
- De: Aileen Erin
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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In an all-too-plausible future where corporate conglomerates have left the world’s governments in shambles, anyone with means has left the polluted Earth for the promise of a better life on a SpaceTech-owned colony among the stars. Maité Martinez is the daughter of an Earther Latina and a powerful Aunare man, an alien race that SpaceTech sees as a threat to their dominion. When tensions turn violent, Maité finds herself trapped on Earth and forced into hiding.
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Excellent book!
- De TheKtribe en 04-03-19
De: Aileen Erin
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Time Salvager
- De: Wesley Chu
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.
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Thrilling time-traveling adventure full of twists.
- De Daniel en 11-13-15
De: Wesley Chu
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Ashfall Prophecy
- De: Pittacus Lore
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Syd Chambers grew up on Earth with his human mother and barely remembers his alien father from Denza, who left on a mission when Syd was very young. After leaving Earth, Syd learned the truth of his father’s disappearance on the planet Ashfall—his father had died protecting a devastating secret about the history between humans and Denzans.
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the pace
- De troy douglas en 07-12-24
De: Pittacus Lore
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The Rift Uprising
- The Rift Uprising Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Amy S. Foster
- Narrado por: Claire Coffee
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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Seventeen-year-old Ryn Whittaker is a Citadel: an elite, enhanced soldier specially chosen to guard a Rift, a mysterious and dangerous portal to alternate Earths scientists cannot control or close. Trained from the age of 14, Ryn can run faster, jump farther, and fight better than a Navy SEAL - which is good when you’re not sure if a laser-wielding Neanderthal or an axe-wielding Viking is trying to make it through the Rift and into your world. But the teenager’s military conditioning and education have not prepared her for the boy who crosses through.
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Mediocrity In Bloom
- De Wade Lancaster en 08-08-18
De: Amy S. Foster
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Recon
- De: Tarah Benner
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Eli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don't ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine. She's the best developer in her year, and she's confident she'll find a place among the wealthy, respected Systems workers. But when an upset in the bidding changes the course of Harper's future, she'll be forced to rely on an unlikely ally.
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Really fun listen
- De Cate en 05-23-16
De: Tarah Benner
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Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An - a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying - and fatal - discovery: The Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from the reach of Earth - born weapons and technology ... and tens of thousands of captive human souls still bow to their iron will.
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SIR, I, I, SIR
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In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea. He's discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon or something manufactured.
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Interesting premise, pedestrian execution
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The Queen's Gambit
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Needed a lot more coloring between the lines
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The Ship fled a dying Earth to save the human race. Launched as the last gasp of humanity, the Ship set out to preserve the species by seeding the universe with one billion colonists. Generations of crew, trained to be either flight or marines, have spent 5,000 years protecting the Ship and its civilian cargo from the constant threat of alien violence. Fifteen-year-old Zax has always had trouble fitting in with the other cadets, but he's finally on the cusp of attaining his dream and gaining entrance to the Pilot Academy.
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Must have been written for teenage girls
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Guardian
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Audra Copeland is among dozens of newly convicted felons dropped off on the prison planet Rhodon, where she discovers that the women of zone four have a long-standing arrangement with the men. If they hand over six of the new arrivals, the men won't raid. And Audra has just been drafted. She can take her chances on her own, or select a guardian. The deal is simple, if barbaric: sex, in exchange for food and safety from the other 200 men in zone four. It's a terrifying proposal. The men are violent, filthy degenerates. Then Audra sees Tyson at the edge of the crowd.
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Fantastic and different!
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2K to 10K
- Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
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Expanding on the author's highly successful process for doubling daily word counts, this audiobook - a combination of reworked blog posts and new material - offers practical writing advice for anyone who's ever longed to increase their daily writing output.
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Could You Be Writing Faster?
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Mercenary Instinct
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Skulking around in the ruins on a planet swarming with treasure hunters, slavers, and bounty hunters isn't good for one's health. But Ankari Markovich needs a few archaeological samples for her latest business venture, a venture that might prove lucrative enough to move her family off the impoverished planet where she grew up. Unfortunately, she has no sooner collected her samples than she's captured by a band of brawny mercenaries.
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Pleasantly Surprised!
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Fortune's Pawn
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- TorturedPoet
- 03-23-15
Fun ride! Convincingly real!
Thoroughly entertaining, captivating, imaginative, tightly-wound. For a man (me), more than I ever wanted of naughty glimpses into how women think and what they want in men (according to this woman author). Fun ride that ended all too soon! Really amazed by the whole thing!! The armor was really cool too. Just displeased with taking God's name in vain so repeatedly.
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- Nikki Mazurek
- 04-01-15
Great heroine
this was my first sci-fi book and I loved it. easy read, awesome characters. I'm getting ready to read the second one
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- Christopher
- 06-01-16
Good story with some caveats..
Overall I did wind up moving on to the 2nd book in the series, so by the end I felt like the story was a good one. However, while there were some things well done, there were definitely some that could have been better.
One issue I had is with Emily Durante's performance: initially, it was extremely off-putting to me. It bothered me so much, I actually stopped about halfway through the 1st chapter and started to write a negative review based solely on that. I thought better of that though, and decided instead to try and press through, and eventually I got accustomed to it; I believe it did actually get better.
Part of the problem is that she has to do a man's voice at the very beginning, which she just doesn't do well- at least not for that particular character. On top of that, she has to emphasize the main character's native dialect, which she chose to have a distinct southern "drawl" to, but with some odd characters, almost northeastern U.S.. It made for something fairly foreign, but quite odd at the same time. It caused the character's range of emotion to fall a bit flat in the beginning. As the story progresses, the dialect fades significantly except for times when she intentionally drops back into her native tongue for effect, and becomes less of a distraction, and you can read more into the performance of the lead role.
One thing that some will like and others won't is the romance plot of the story; Yes, it does take up a significant portion of the 1st book- (quite a bit less in the 2nd). One of the things that is interesting to me about this is that the author is a woman. I did not realize that until I had finished the book and then went back and looked. The main reason I bring that up is that the main character (Devi) is also a woman, and I believe that Rachael Bach brings a bit more realism to SOME of the character's psyche because of that- there is a greater degree of nuanced uncertainly as the main character tries to figure out her relationship with her love interest through the story, to a degree that I've not seen from male authors who write about woman characters. Sanderson does a fantastic job with Vinn in his Mistborn series, but this just felt a bit more real from that standpoint.
However, at the same time, Devi also had to fit into this mold of being a "strong, self made" woman, whose main line of work is as a mercenary. That felt like a much more 2 dimensional aspect of her psyche, and less real (even if it was a likable aspect for a lead character).
The story itself is complex and engaging- there are layers of mysteries that lead to new questions and deeper puzzles- always fun to try and unravel, though it does leave you a bit confused as to exactly what is going on at some points. And book 1 leaves plenty of mystery left that you want to dive into the 2nd book to unravel what is going on- not necessarily a cliffhanger ending, but you end up with a lot more questions than when you started.
There are some minor repetitious points that the author belittled that I found particularly distracting. Both Devi's love interest, as well as the captain, do a HUGE amount of sighing. Like at every interaction they have with her. It gets old- I was concerned they were going to run out of oxygen on this ship with all the friggin' sighing that was going on! (Find another way to express regret than with a sigh please!) And Racheal talks WAY too much about how warm the cook's hands are (OK, we get it, they are unusually warm- please stop telling us every dang time she touches them- which apparently is a LOT!).
I feel like the stars above are pretty solid representations- most of the times I am wishing for half stars, but I think the overall for this one is a solid 4 stars. I've got some gripes for sure, but in the end it was worth the credit, and I was entertained.
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- Mel | Mel's Bookshelf
- 12-20-15
Great for Sci-Fi Newbies!
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I really should read more sci-fi. I really enjoy it! And Fortune’s Pawn… HOLY MACARONI!!! What a FANTASTIC book! WARNING – ENTHUSIASTIC RANT AHEAD!
Meet Devi! Our smart, strong and BUTT KICKING heroine. Devi is an armoured soldier and leaves her prestigious position to take a security job on the Glorious Fool, a trade ship. For some reason security personnel that serve on this ship tend to do well for themselves, and she is determined to be a devastator – an elite type of armed guard that protect the king himself . The highest position that an armoured guard can get to. And Devi is ambitious. On the Glorious Fool the people she encounters are not what they seem. The Captain is something more than a trader, his daughter is more than a little girl, and the cook is more than a cook. But she has no idea what their secrets are. And she is going to find out and use the information to become a devastator. If she doesn’t die first.
This book was fantastic! My synopsis doesn’t do it justice! Think Firefly, crossed with Battlestar Galactica. It was AMAZING! Mystery, violence, sexual tension, thrills, comedy, aliens, space travel… And this is just the first book!
And the audio book! WOW! Think I have a new favourite. I couldn’t stop listening! I loved every minute of it! Emily Durante did such a fantastic job as the sarcastic mercenary!
Devi is an awesome character. Yes it has a little clichéd powerful Buffy type thing going on, but I love reading about the awesome strong female character. I loved the dialogue, the fact that she drunk way too much and made mistakes and wasn’t perfect. She is the best female lead character I have read about in a long time!
The romance was fabulous! I have read a few reviews complaining about the large romantic aspect of this novel, but I think it absolutely made it! It still would have been interesting without it, but added an extra dimension that I loved. Plus, I love a good dose of romance and sex in a book!
Another star of the book was Devi’s armoured suit “Lady”. It was almost a character itself. I thought it was so clever and I loved that it was like an extension of her body.
Oh I just loved this book! I’m already into the second!
Would I recommend it?
Yes! For any science fiction fan, and also for sci-fi newbies! Those who want a good, easy to read, fabulous story! And I absolutely recommend the audio version, which is the best one I have listened to so far!
“But fair warning, being drunk doesn’t slow down my head shots.”
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- 02-17-19
Will continue, with reservations
Contrary to other reviewers, I think the performance was just fine. She does men’s voices adequately and mixing accents isn’t a problem if the characters aren’t actually from modern Earth.
On the other hand, the novel isn’t a complete story. The two erasures at the end were entirely too convenient, almost like a deus ex machina.
That said, the plot is compelling enough to interest me in the “sequel”.
3 stars for the story (down from 4 for not resolving the plot in one novel)
4 stars for the performance (rated as 5, formally, because those who rated it down aren’t being fair)
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- Just a guy and his family
- 10-04-21
Great fun, heroic hero
A great escape into fiction with a strong female lead and interesting plot twists. Emily Durante executes the story well!
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- 01-28-22
Excellent
I loved it. I loved the characters and their story. I can't wait to listen to the next book in the series. The narration was excellent also.
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- WyoGal
- 04-29-24
Cool twist to set up second book
While I didn’t really like the narrator’s adapted condescending tone for the protagonist, it was necessary to create a believable character. The narrator has good vocal variety for female characters and some variety for the male characters, but some of the guys sounded stereotypical. Overall, though, the narrator carries the emotions of the scenes believably and adds to the tension of the plot. The story has a few head scratchers where the author leaves in archaic references that likely would be obsolete in a futuristic space traveling society— sitting on folding chairs on a ship, using paper and pencil, writing on one’s skin instead of making a note with an electronic device, using Earth slang/cliches, and worrying about an alien’s gender. I also don’t believe the motive for erasure of the memory device. Despite the minor complaints, the story is action-packed with alien vs human shoot-outs in close quarters and the mystery of the protagonist’s love interest keeps the reader’s attention. The first book ends with lots of loose ends, but it’s good enough I ordered book 2. The story has weapons and physical fighting, some blood and guts, a couple off-page sex scenes, alcohol consumption, use of heavy medication, and some sexist behaviors the protagonist puts a stop to. Some secondary characters die, but their loss is not sentimental.
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- Connor
- 02-02-14
Liked Part of the Book, But Not All
Got this book to hear the story of a hard fighting, hard drinking space mercenary. I was expecting the hero to be a tough talking woman who takes down aliens with her big guns. But “Fortune’s Pawn” is also the story of girl meets guy, girl gets guy, girl worries about losing guy. I do not care about the problems of dating in space.
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- Darren
- 05-01-21
Love Rachel Aaron/ Rachel Bach
Other reviewers say the narrator is terrible but she's ok and gets better as the book progresses. If you haven't checked out Rachel's other series Heartstrikers and Detroit Free Zone, they're worth the credit.
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