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Off Armageddon Reef
- Safehold Series, Book 1
- De: David Weber
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 29 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,234
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,456
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,459
Humanity pushed its way to the stars—and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining SciFi epic with a few flaws
- De A reader en 02-05-07
- Off Armageddon Reef
- Safehold Series, Book 1
- De: David Weber
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
It's "Nimuë", not "Nimoo."
Revisado: 01-28-12
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Only if the friend was a David Weber fan. There's a lot of Weber-esque expository that won't appeal to the generic fan of adventure style science fiction.
What does Oliver Wyman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I both hated and loved Mr. Wyman. He has such a wide range of voices to use. I wouldn't even recognize some of them as coming from the same person. He is a vary talented voice-over actor. On the other hand, I was annoyed by his mispronunciation of Nimue's name as
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. Too much to absorb in one sitting. It's the kind of book that one needs to digest slowly. Too many characters, too many undercurrents to track in one sitting.
Any additional comments?
I was bothered by some of the technical details in the book. For instance, the planet Safehold is described as being
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