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Debt of Honor
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: John MacDonald
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,217
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6,524
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,499
Clancy plunges hero Jack Ryan into nonstop high adventure, as two seemingly unrelated occurrences being a chain of events that will stun the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WORSE READING/PERFORMANCE EVER!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-20-15
- Debt of Honor
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: John MacDonald
Slow boring narration fixed by increased speed
Reviewed: 05-28-23
Love this story. Clancy has always been a bit eerie with how realistic his scenarios have been and seemingly predict the future.
Narrator has such good pronunciation that it’s possible to speed this up to 1.1 to 1.2 listening speed to get rid of the boring plodding feel.
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Daniel X: Genesis
- By: James Patterson, Aaron Tracy
- Narrated by: Michael Cimino, Abigail Breslin, Jimmi Simpson, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,805
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,786
James Patterson’s thrilling adventure series gets an exclusive, audio-only origin story in Daniel X: Genesis, brought to life by an all-star cast. We meet Daniel, an ordinary teen just trying to navigate his way through high school. That all changes when he discovers he has super powers and can conjure up anything, at any time, just by imagining it. Suddenly he’s meeting powerful entities who tell him he is not, in fact, a typical teenage human but an alien...and his parents died not in a car wreck but in an epic battle with an intergalactic villain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Book Starts as if in the Middle of a Story
- By Georgia McNabb on 08-19-22
- Daniel X: Genesis
- By: James Patterson, Aaron Tracy
- Narrated by: Michael Cimino, Abigail Breslin, Jimmi Simpson, Mercedes Ruehl, full cast
Yawn if it wasn’t so annoying
Reviewed: 09-21-22
Too bad to finish. Felt like a condensed version of an abridgment. It’s like a bad teaser trailer of almost any “coming of age” movie in the past 30’years. Teenage geek check. Unavailable love interest check. Parents dead check. Watchful yet remote guardian check. Weird things start happening on his birthday check. Check, check, check. Plot “twist” as common as a 4 way stop intersection. Acting on the principle character so overdone especially when he imagined his parents that I stopped right there.
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The Test
- By: Sylvain Neuvel
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,058
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,052
Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shocking & engaging
- By Caffaenated on 03-22-19
- The Test
- By: Sylvain Neuvel
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
Yeah, mind f$$k. But makes you think
Reviewed: 08-13-22
I’d say this is on the level with stories like “The Matrix”, or “Total Recall”. And while you are having a wow moment there may be a another wow or two about “comfortable” truths.
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Space: 1969
- By: Bill Oakley
- Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,516
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,875
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,849
Nancy Kranich (played by Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne of Russian Doll and Orange Is the New Black) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station. But Nancy hates her job, is sick of space, and longs to find adventure and a safe place to smoke cigarettes that won’t blow everyone up. But when Nancy gets caught up in an outer-space conspiracy involving President Kennedy, former vice-president Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could change the course of history, she gets way more adventure than she bargained for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply the Best Full-Cast Audio Book Ever!
- By Veritas on 07-09-22
- Space: 1969
- By: Bill Oakley
- Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
Casual Comedic Cranium Contortions
Reviewed: 07-25-22
Leave you expectations back in the real world. Sit back, relax, and enjoy a tale more corny than a bushel, with more twists than a 60’s nightclub, and enough irreverence to topple a major religion.
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The Dispatcher
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83,153
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76,315
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76,097
Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.
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5 out of 5 stars
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IT'S HARD TO GET MYSTICAL ABOUT YOUR JOB
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-05-16
- The Dispatcher
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
Very interesting and engaging
Reviewed: 03-27-22
This story starts off seeming to focus on a current medical ethics issue, but rapidly takes a sharp turn and …. Well it’s a short story. Just listen.
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Shards of Honor
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,479
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,641
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,654
I>Shards of Honor is the novel in which Lois McMaster Bujold introduced the science-fiction world to Barrayar and Aral Vorkosigan, Beta Colony and Cordelia Naismith. From this beginning the author has created a multigenerational saga spanning time as well as space. Bujold is generally recognized as the current exemplar of the character-based science-fiction adventure story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First story in the Miles Vorkosigan series
- By Lifelong Reader on 06-18-09
- Shards of Honor
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
How to write a love story without it being a romance novel
Reviewed: 09-05-21
If I may be pardoned a bad joke, Lois McMaster Bujold definitely shows here McMastery of story weaving here. As much as things are such a staple of science fiction, the author obviously took as one of her basic tenants that we only care about those things because she has crafted characters that we connect with. She has created a solid backdrop and storyline. With which she introduces and let’s us follow her primary characters through chaos and calm,, mortal danger and boredom. A truly wonderful experience. Enjoy!
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New Found Land: The Long Haul
- By: Austin Grossman, Neal Stephenson, Sean Stewart
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans, Elizabeth Jasicki, Graeme Malcolm, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,621
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,476
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,468
Imagine two worlds at war. In one, citizens with jetpacks and ray guns have colonized Venus. In the other, magic reigns supreme, and history turns on swords and spells. Now imagine they have just discovered a third world. Our world. Our timeline of rideshare apps and strip malls is about to become the newest battlefield in the long war between science fiction and fantasy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You'll like this if you liked The Zeta Family.
- By Tory Thai on 06-12-21
Crazy and entertaining
Reviewed: 08-11-21
How many genres can you cross breed into a a single story? I don’t know but this is crammed full of millennials to magicians, jesters to jet packs, and crystals to cockroaches. (Listen to this and those lines will take on an accent). Sit back and enjoy several hours of a good kind of crazy.
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Forerunner
- AI Fleet, Book 1
- By: Isaac Hooke
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,042
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 943
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Story4 out of 5 stars 937
Jain was the lieutenant commander of an elite SEAL team. He was accustomed to order and discipline, which he used to give the men under his command that particular brand of killer instinct his unit was known for.But one day that semi-comfortable, ordered life ended when he opened his eyes to find his body replaced by a starship. His mind had become its AI core. He is somewhere in deep space. Most of his systems are badly damaged. He has no memory of how he got here, or what his mission is. Evidence points to an attack by an unknown entity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ugh
- By General Tso on 05-11-21
- Forerunner
- AI Fleet, Book 1
- By: Isaac Hooke
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Interesting concept, but…
Reviewed: 07-20-21
Really wanted to like this but the characters just felt adolescent. Felt like the Duane Johnson Jumanji movie in spaceships without the comedy. Didn’t bother to finish.
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Only Human
- Targon Tales, Book 2
- By: Chris Reher
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 272
Captain Nova Whiteside is assigned to the elite Vanguard task force assembled to combat an increasingly dangerous rebel force. Her no-nonsense new commander is of an enigmatic and reclusive species that soon figures most decisively in the balance of power.
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2 out of 5 stars
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this isn't sci-fi this is smut
- By Eli on 05-10-21
- Only Human
- Targon Tales, Book 2
- By: Chris Reher
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
If you want a little more romance with your space opera
Reviewed: 07-20-21
Interesting characters, seemed like a good plot.
I couldn’t finish the audiobook. I will start off by saying that it’s probably my personal (male) bias here, but I really do not enjoy romance novels. I felt like “the catalyst” had a better romance/action ratio. My suspension of disbelief kept stumbling over romance getting in the way of the story. Especially at the first major plot twist the pacing felt like it stalled on the romance, breaking me out of the main story. Or maybe I just don’t get that the romance IS the main story, and everything else is background. Not for me, but YMMV.
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Fata Morgana
- By: Steven R. Boyett, Ken Mitchroney
- Narrated by: Macleod Andrews
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,751
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,454
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,445
At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombing mission over eastern Germany when everything goes sideways. The bombs are still falling and flak is still exploding all around the 20-ton bomber as it is knocked like a bathtub duck into another world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best one I have heard in some time!
- By As happy as a monkey with two bananas in his hands on 10-10-17
- Fata Morgana
- By: Steven R. Boyett, Ken Mitchroney
- Narrated by: Macleod Andrews
Unexpected
Reviewed: 07-04-21
Great story and performance.
Good use of point of view and writing style to underpin changes in the story.
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