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Overlords of the Iron Dragon
- Kharadron Overlords: Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Book 1
- De: C L Werner
- Narrado por: Andrew James Spooner
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Far above the highest mountain peaks, a new power has arisen. The duardin have developed new technology and weapons of war, and now they sail the skies in their amazing airships, seeking wealth and plunder. Brokrin Ullissonn, Captain of the Ang Drak, has a reputation for bad luck. Unless his fortune turns, and soon, he will lose his ship and his livelihood. When he and his crew discover the location of a source of aether-gold of unparalleled quality, the temptation is too strong to resist. No matter what dangers present themselves, the duardin desire wealth beyond all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Sky Dwarf Fun
- De Cosmo Peters en 12-12-24
- Overlords of the Iron Dragon
- Kharadron Overlords: Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Book 1
- De: C L Werner
- Narrado por: Andrew James Spooner
Good Sky Dwarf Fun
Revisado: 12-12-24
I listened immediately after being disappointed with the first 40k Votann book. That did not deliver, but this one certainly does.
Cranky dwarves, with guns and ships and cool gadgets, on a dangerous treasure hunt and fighting a Chaos cult. There is exciting action, and lots of character development and conflict as the Kharadron balance profit, loss, grudges, and honor.
Good dwarf fun!
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The High Kâhl's Oath
- Warhammer 40,000 Series
- De: Gav Thorpe
- Narrado por: Debra Michaels
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 180
Myrtun Dammergot, leader for the Kindred of the Eternal Starforge, is in her element, exploiting the unending conflict and living a life of adventure, without the unwanted burden of responsibility. But when a messenger from her Kindred’s Hold ship brings news that upends everything she knows, responsibility, challenges, and opportunity come knocking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ROCK AND STONE
- De Pandora Grace en 11-19-24
- The High Kâhl's Oath
- Warhammer 40,000 Series
- De: Gav Thorpe
- Narrado por: Debra Michaels
This ain't it
Revisado: 12-09-24
We've been waiting for the return of 40k space dwarves for a long time, I was excited about the Leagues and especially excited for them to start getting some books, but this was a big disappointment.
There are a few cool moments; the opening bio-salvage sequence, some Votann having a tense dinner party with Imperial humans, and the way the kyn vote with weighted scales were all neat. However, these are brief snippets of quality and the rest of this book does not deliver.
Characters are bland and deeply forgettable, there is nobody exciting and cool to care about. The core of the plot revolves around a boring journey to nowhere to achieve something pointless, and the few action sequences are extremely lackluster.
This feels to me like a homework assignment written by someone who was completely uninterested in the subject matter, assigned by a Games Workshop that doesn't really know what they want space dwarves to be in the modern version of the 40k universe.
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Old Venus
- A Collection of Stories
- De: George R.R. Martin - editor, Gardner Dozois - editor
- Narrado por: Diana Rigg, Full Cast, Michael Dorn, y otros
- Duración: 22 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by best-selling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Varied but overall solid
- De David en 09-20-15
- Old Venus
- A Collection of Stories
- De: George R.R. Martin - editor, Gardner Dozois - editor
- Narrado por: Diana Rigg, Full Cast, Michael Dorn, Stephen Fry, Jake Stormoen, W. Morgan Sheppard, Gethin Anthony, Wil Wheaton, Janis Ian, Ron Donachie, Various
Exactly what I was looking for
Revisado: 02-09-23
I had just finished re-listening to Sky People, a very retro action adventure on a Venus teeming with dinosaurs, cavemen, and sinister Russians, so Old Venus was exactly what I needed to keep scratching that retro sci-fi itch.
I will say, about a third of the authors on this collection didn't really understand the assignment. Some stories are much more modern sci-fi, with none of the wonder and wistfulness for a mysterious Venus of the past.
That said, most of the stories are good and the good ones really rip! Loaded with deadly jungles and oceans, sinister and sexy aliens, and death ray shoot outs, Old Venus is a very enjoyable collection of science fiction with a distinctly vintage flavor.
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Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 193,207
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 176,706
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 176,154
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Very Enjoyable
Revisado: 08-05-22
A lot of praise has already been given to this book, deservedly so. I'll just say it's good hard sci-fi, made deliberately palatable for a mass audience. If you wanted it to push into extremely weird or unexplored concepts you might be a little disappointed, there's a lot of time spent explaining common scientific concepts and principles in the context of a space adventure.
Feels like it was definitely written with eventual adaptation in mind, and the emotional high points will probably play really well in a movie or a show, while some of the more academic sci-fi will take backseat.
Narration and production is top-tier, with the one caveat that Ray Porter cannot do female characters. He does amazing inflection and accents, perfect for the 1st person perspective, but he has one terrible woman's voice that he uses for all the women in the book.
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Shadowbreaker
- Warhammer 40,000
- De: Steve Parker
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 651
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 566
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 565
The Deathwatch are the elite of the elite - small teams of Space Marines handpicked for special missions that require the utmost courage and cunning. Now recovered from the injuries sustained on his previous mission, Codicier Karras must lead Talon Squad in the hunt for a missing inquisitor. Their only clue is the name of an Imperial planet that has been taken over by the T’au. Is the missing inquisitor alive or dead? Worse still, has she gone rogue, jeopardising one of the Inquisition’s most secret projects?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Deathwatch, kinda.
- De Phil en 07-09-19
- Shadowbreaker
- Warhammer 40,000
- De: Steve Parker
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
This Kicks Ass
Revisado: 12-18-20
I’m a big fan of 40k, but I’ve always found the books to be a mixed bag of quality. That being said, if you like 40k DO NOT SLEEP ON SHADOWBREAKER. This story gives us so much from the universe; Ordo Xenos, Space Marines, Inquisitors, Tau, Tyranid, and Eldar all clashing in one of the most gripping stories ever told in the 40k canon. The action is badass, the scope is huge, the lore is deep, the characters rule, and tone is awesomely grim. For me, it was quintessential 40k.
Also, don’t listen to people complaining that this book suffers from “too much politics” in the story. The politics referred to are compelling conflicts between different factions within the Inquisition, and they capture the brutality and grimdark-ness of 40k in a way no other stories about the Inquisition have managed to do, combining it with elements of a spy thriller.
Great narrator as well, can’t wait for the rest of this series to make it to audible.
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