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Into the Twilight
- What It Means to Be and Remain Human
- De: Michael Segedy
- Narrado por: Ellen A. Connor
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Into the Twilight takes place 200 years into the future, when Jacob Ladder and Emma Fine, strangers to one another, wake from two centuries of suspended life to a future that challenges many of their deep-rooted assumptions about what it means to be and remain human. As the story opens, the human race faces demise from within and without. Mulling over its options, the governing council decides that the human genome will require “major redesigning” or “scrapping” if what’s left of humanity is to survive. And that’s where Ike comes in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought Provoking, Engaging and Suspenseful
- De AudioBookReviewer en 05-03-22
- Into the Twilight
- What It Means to Be and Remain Human
- De: Michael Segedy
- Narrado por: Ellen A. Connor
What Does Being and Remaining Human Entail?
Revisado: 02-18-22
Aside from being fascinated by all the speculation about the course humanity could take some day, the quality of the narration and narrator's uncanny ability to use so many different voices really impressed me. The characters are well-defined and easily draw your interest. I can't say which one I liked most. The enigmatic Ike or the bawdy Emma or the suave Sagan. And the story, well, it takes you on a journey that leaves you wondering, not just about how things turned out for Ike, but how much Ike's reality may be a window into our own. Which is kind of scary. In any event, the author takes us on a metaphysical ride that will slip by the less engaged reader and leave the more philosophically minded scratching their heads and muttering, "I hope not."
There's also much to think about in terms how far we can go with genetic engineering without losing what makes us human, much of which has been defined by Freud and Darwin, as the author sees it. How we escape the mold nature has cast us in, and whether or not we want to, becomes a major theme in this novel as well as a large question that sooner or later we will need to address in the era of genome tweaking we're now entering.
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Our Darker Angel
- De: Michael Segedy
- Narrado por: Rene Grui
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
In Our Darker Angel, the mystery begins with FBI Agent Rick Clark's investigation into a series of murders committed by a terrorist group identifying itself as ARC, Anarchists for Real Change. Terrorism has become a personal issue with Clark. Two years earlier, his daughter perished in a bombing orchestrated by EMMA, an acronym for Emergent Movement of Militant Anarchists. The ARC murders bear a striking resemblance to the killings by EMMA, as they, too, target the rich and powerful and morally bankrupt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Edge of your seat listen
- De AudioBookReviewer en 05-12-22
- Our Darker Angel
- De: Michael Segedy
- Narrado por: Rene Grui
Wonderful mystery, unpredictable, but believable
Revisado: 12-10-21
The narrator's voice captures the personalities excellently, from the classy to the classless, the well-balanced to the unhinged. I enjoyed her handling of the story throughout. Great job Renee! Ignore the one star review. Judging from the reviewer's lazy writing it is doubtful that she listened to more than a minute of the audiobook.
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