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An epic among the greatest of all time SF

Revisado: 04-28-24

Solid science, thought, and story from start to story finish … for all three volumes. Right up there with the Hyperion Cantos.

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Finally a realistic view of space travel

Revisado: 07-12-16

If you could sum up Aurora in three words, what would they be?

Epic, Human, Realistic

What was one of the most memorable moments of Aurora?

The final moments of the ship, expressing her joy and optimism

Have you listened to any of Ali Ahn’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Excellent performance, particularly the Ship's narrative

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Highly recommended if you are a serious science fiction reader. If you've read KSR before, this shouldn't disappoint. If it does, it may be because you missed the point of some of his prior work, e.g. real problems don't go away just because you board a space ship for another planet, they just get harder. This book drives that concept home in a way few other works have accomplished.

It is clear that current events color this book: NASA less and less capable; the growing disconnect between people and nature; billionaire egos driving space investment; the rapid self recovery of nature around Chernobyl (when people left) and that most people no longer look to the stars (now it's the Internet and smartphone screens).

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Great Sci-Fi

Revisado: 05-30-16

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Solid story that offers new ways to look at our universe, how we affect those around us and the concepts of immortality and re-incarnation.

What did you like best about this story?

Both original and familiar. Easy read.

Which scene was your favorite?

When the main character realized he had gotten so many things wrong, but still kept his composure and secured his place as the hero of the story.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

no, but it was very enjoyable.

Any additional comments?

Sometimes I wish we could drop the term Sci-Fi and replace it with Literary Science. Much of what we call fiction is a visionary description of a future or a natural phenomena not yet proven or generally understood. There are concepts in this book that I believe fit in that category, particularly that we leave symbolic 'pieces' of ourselves, like dust, on the people and places we visit during life. I found the book's discussion of 'nephrons' offered tools to better consider these concepts.

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Exceptional Story Telling and Characters

Revisado: 12-15-13

Where does A Feast for Crows rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It is among the best of the Fantasy genre. The careful detail and depth of the characters, scenes, politics and symbols are outstanding. Although the Northern European Dragon and Knight fantasy genre has been done before, Martin makes it his own in a way I've seen none do.

What other book might you compare A Feast for Crows to and why?

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

A story of knights, dragons and zombies.

Any additional comments?

Although many seem to complain about the narration, ... it's a book and the "readers" should remember this. If you want to watch TV or a movie, do so, but books require some assembly from the mind.

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Loved the story telling, but not the characters

Revisado: 06-06-11

This was the second Reynolds book I have read, the other was the Prefect. Reynolds is wonderful at unfolding a detailed and inventive story that is both interesting and illuminating. He also takes time to build a foundation for understanding his key characters, which is important. Unfortunately in both this book and the Prefect, his lead human characters make decisions that don't seem "human" or minimally contradict expectations set by his character development. In this, there are two strong woman lead characters, supposedly friends, supposedly on space "ships" with cultures in the sailing tradition. Yet one of the lead characters, "the Engineer" leads a mutiny against the other, "the Captain" and then locks her away for more than a dozen years for reasons that don't make sense. It is understandable that the Captain upset her mutinous Engineer when not believing her unsupported technical conclusions, Reynolds defined the Engineer character as a professional to whom the technical details matter most. But it was only after the Captain started making decisions based upon good Engineering calculations, that her Engineer friend decided it was time to rebel, along with the other engineers, who suddenly could no longer do technical calculations and thus opposed the captain.

When I read the Prefect, I decided that the overall story was good enough to ignore the character flaws and read another Reynolds work. But when similar (worse) flaws came up again in this book, I think I might avoid future Reynolds books. I think it takes something Major away from the overall story when the characters don't add up.

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Very good performance of an OK Book

Revisado: 04-26-11

The performance of this book is very good. There are several characters and the story continuously jumps between them. The reader's voices make it easy to follow each scene change. The book itself is mediocre story telling and the kind of science fiction which is very easy to digest because it doesn't go well beyond current capability. The author appears to have read (from the terminology borrowed), very good Sci Fi writers such as Dan Simmons. If you are into deep sci-fi, I would skip it, but if you are up for something at the quality level of a good TV miniseries, this can be an enjoyable listen.

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