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Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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Another banger from Tchaikovsky
- De J. C. Amos en 06-09-24
- Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Interesting philosophic mystery
Revisado: 03-22-25
The fact that the book description contains such a huge spoiler is unconcoucionable. However, it's not egregious enough to spoil most of the story; which doesn't approach the standards set by the "Children of" series but that's a very high bar to be sure and not easily reached by anyone.
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Women Money Power
- The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
- De: Josie Cox
- Narrado por: Josie Cox
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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In Women Money Power, business journalist Josie Cox tells the story of women’s fight for freedom and economic equality. This is an inspirational account of brave pioneers who took on social mores and the law, including the “Rosies,” who filled industrial jobs and helped win World War II, the heiress whose fortune helped create the birth control pill, the brassy banker who broke into the boys’ club of the New York Stock Exchange, and the namesake of landmark equal-pay legislation who refused to accept discrimination.
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Great reporting
- De Tyler en 03-28-24
- Women Money Power
- The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
- De: Josie Cox
- Narrado por: Josie Cox
Less overtly biased than most
Revisado: 11-26-24
Lots of interesting history. Like so many books about bias, you won't find a single word anywhere acknowledging the fact that the bias isn't perpetrated by everyone or that some of the worst perpetrators are those IN the afflicted group. As a rather short person I can say that I've had several women supervisors and all were taller than me. Given that women are typically shorter than men it seems more likely that, now that women have clearly broken into the previously excluded fields, most of the bias may not necessarily be about being a woman anymore.
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Quantum Chaos
- Quantum, Book 5
- De: Douglas Phillips
- Narrado por: Amanda Ronconi
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Everyone knows that Chitzas are masters of spatial compression, routinely exploring distant places across the Milky Way in their wedge-shaped scout ships. But rumors abound of even greater accomplishments. Some say these intrepid explorers have reached beyond the galaxy. When a distress signal is received from deep space, making sense of the emergency becomes a personal matter for Daniel Rice. His wife is onboard that ship.
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I enjoyed the first 4 books in the series
- De Frank A Mastromauro en 09-30-23
- Quantum Chaos
- Quantum, Book 5
- De: Douglas Phillips
- Narrado por: Amanda Ronconi
Humans are vegan - white privilege still exists?
Revisado: 11-12-24
When an author starts spouting "politically correct", divisive, virtue signaling phrases I'm done. Book gets returned and I never consider that author again. I've got literally hundreds of books under my headphones and know there are plenty of good authors out there that aren't explicitly trying to prove they are towing all the divisiveness lines.
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The Deep, Deep Snow
- De: Brian Freeman
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger who found her in the freezing cold. Now, years later, a young boy is missing - and Shelby is the one who must rescue a child. The only evidence of what happened to 10-year-old Jeremiah Sloan is a bicycle left behind on a lonely road. After a desperate search fails to locate him, the close bonds of Shelby’s hometown begin to fray under the weight of accusations and suspicion. Everyone around her is keeping secrets.
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Get this while it's the daily deal!!!!
- De shelley en 06-20-19
- The Deep, Deep Snow
- De: Brian Freeman
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
Wow. Masterfully crafted.
Revisado: 10-26-24
I don't think I've heard anything so intricately woven. All the praise is well deserved.
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Not Till We Are Lost
- Bobiverse, Book 5
- De: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy.
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idk man... the last couple of books just haven't really done it for me.
- De Kody en 09-06-24
- Not Till We Are Lost
- Bobiverse, Book 5
- De: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Everything you've come to expect from a Master of scifi.
Revisado: 09-10-24
Although the arc seems to be heading into skippyland I trust Mr. Taylor's imagination is easily up to the task of keeping the story fresh and engaging.
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Dead Moon
- De: Peter Clines
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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In the year 2243, the Moon belongs to the dead. The largest graveyard in the solar system, it was the perfect solution to the overcrowding and environmental problems that had plagued mankind for centuries. And the perfect place for Cali Washington to run away from her past. But when a mysterious meteor crashes into one of the Moon’s cemeteries, Cali and her fellow Caretakers find themselves surrounded by a terrifying enemy force that outnumbers them more than a thousand to one. An enemy not hindered by the lack of air or warmth or sustenance. An enemy that is already dead.
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Why did you do this? Just why?
- De Veronica en 03-02-19
- Dead Moon
- De: Peter Clines
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Unrelated zombie apocalypse
Revisado: 06-18-24
I really didn't see any relationship between this and any of the other 3 books. No characters in common and a completely different "monster". The whole book is just escaping/defeating the zombie horde.
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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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At a time when the very foundations of American democracy seem under threat, the lessons of the past offer a road map for navigating a moment of political crisis. In Democracy Awakening, acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson delves into the tumultuous journey of American democracy, tracing the roots of Donald Trump’s “authoritarian experiment” to the earliest days of the republic.
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We’d be in a much better position if everyone read this
- De Jeffrey Schwartz en 10-01-23
- Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
About as biased and partisan as it's possible to be.
Revisado: 06-14-24
Just a long list of stupid/bad things that one party did and nothing the other party did while mis-characterizing and outright lying about motives for what was done when it was something that otherwise could not be faulted.
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Vicarious
- De: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Katherine McNamara
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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In High Earth, digital entertainment is everything. Shows. Virtual worlds. Simulations - there’s something for everybody in a city where working for a living has been rendered obsolete by technological advancements. Even a short walk outside to visit with others is no longer necessary. Just load into the network and you can be with anyone, anywhere. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis; a live reality show that pushes human beings to their very extremes.
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Fastest read ever!
- De Willis Burns en 04-13-21
- Vicarious
- De: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Katherine McNamara
Katherine ruins it.
Revisado: 05-30-24
Will holds up his end but every time Katherine starts reading I feel like I'm listening to a romance novel. It just ruins the mood of the book.
The book isn't fabulous or anything but it's not bad. Maybe even fairly decent. The reader just makes me want to turn it off.
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Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- De: Janine M. Benyus
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes listeners into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; and many more examples.
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Dated but good
- De stephen taylor en 09-05-21
- Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- De: Janine M. Benyus
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
SUPER DATED!!!
Revisado: 05-24-24
Written in 2000 so nearly everything mentioned is either disproven or mainstream technology already.
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Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- De: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrado por: Alessandro Juliani
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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A comment on negative reviews
- De Burns en 09-20-11
- Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- De: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrado por: Alessandro Juliani
Super retro but thought provoking
Revisado: 05-17-24
Lots of very old si-fi but tackles a huge number of philosophical issues and describes interesting perspectives.
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