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Wild Seed
- The Patternist Series, Book 1
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew. He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries.
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A Tough Review To Write...
- De AlTonya en 04-05-21
- Wild Seed
- The Patternist Series, Book 1
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Ancestors with Superpowers
Revisado: 02-17-25
I really love how Butler infuses superpowers, African history, African culture, American history in a way that is both sympathetic of the times. It never seemed likes she super imposes "modern" sensibilities on to her characters or storytelling.
Have you seen the movie "Fallen" with Denzel Washington? I swear they got that from Doro in Butler's Wild Seed. Fallen was released in 1998, while Wild Seed was published in 1980.
Butler doesn't give you clear cut villains. Doro, I guess the antagonist, is a complex character whose actions are driven more by survival and control than pure malevolence. Interesting that he was doing genetic engineering for thousands of years.
Protagonist, Anyanwu, for the most part, embodies everything Doro isn’t—nurturing, empathetic, and connected to life in a way he’s forgotten. Anyanwu’s power isn’t just physical—it’s her resilience, empathy, and deep-rooted connection to life that is her superpower.
Octavia Butler has this rare ability to make you feel like you’re not just reading a story—you’re experiencing it across time, space, and even within your own psyche. Her works aren't traditional sci-fi; it’s like she bends the genre to explore the essence of humanity through lenses of power, survival, and transformation.
Her characters are “time-unbounded”, existing beyond the page—eternal in their struggles and growth. Doro’s immortality, Anyanwu’s regenerative power, and even the generational consequences in the series—they all make you reflect on how time shapes identity, yet some aspects of the human condition remain constant.
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Parable of the Sower
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Lynne Thigpen
- Duración: 12 h
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God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs - and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.
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Dystopia before dystopia was cool...
- De Amber en 05-28-14
- Parable of the Sower
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Lynne Thigpen
Written in 1993 Butler is a Seer
Revisado: 02-17-25
How is it that Octava Butler, in 1993, could have prophesized the LA Fires of 2025? How could she prophesize the rise of wirelessly controlled electronic shackles? EVERY one of her books I have read (listened) too so far says she was, herself, a time traveler. The details with which she describes reality of 2025 is eerily uncanny. I only pray that nothing else from the book comes to fruition. But just in case, I am going to reread so I can get some of those tips on growing wild seeds and recipes for making acorn-based edibles.
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Executed
- Extracted, Book 2
- De: RR Haywood
- Narrado por: Carl Prekopp
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn't think they needed a leader. But they've got one anyway. With their mission in tatters, Miri has been called in to steady the ship. And to focus them on their assignment: preventing the end of the world. The problem is, the world doesn't know it's in danger. With governments pursuing them relentlessly, attempting to steal the time-travel device to use for their own ends, the heroes are on the run.
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Incomplete
- De Irene Nelson en 09-19-17
- Executed
- Extracted, Book 2
- De: RR Haywood
- Narrado por: Carl Prekopp
My name is ..., I will complete my mission!
Revisado: 07-09-24
This book was action packed, hard hitting, bad azz women! It was funny (British humor) and fun from start to finish.
There were emotional parts that were hard to endure, but that's life. Without those parts, the book would have been mere sophomoric, male-focused, sci-fi.
All of the characters are well-developed. Consider yourself on the level of Miri or Ben to see the things that might have been predictable. 🤔
Well executed! 😎🎉👏🏾
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Recursion
- A Novel
- De: Blake Crouch
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom, Abby Craden
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery - and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself. In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth - and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery...and the tools for fighting back.
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Mixed Feelings
- De Breezybealle en 06-12-19
- Recursion
- A Novel
- De: Blake Crouch
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom, Abby Craden
Timelines that crack
Revisado: 06-29-24
Probably one of the best time warp books I've read in while. in fact, I'm thinking this was the best. it presented plausible, to a layman, arguments about what's happening.
I would say the book was amazing but because of these two disappointments, I give it 8.5/10.
Two disappointments:
1. Spiritual views of death and weren't seriously looked at all. Islam definitely has a theory of time. check it out.
2. The narrator was so monotonous unless at 1.5x speed.
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Fleet of Knives: An Embers of War Novel
- The Embers of War Series, Book 2
- De: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Soneela Nankani, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge aboard an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched 10,000 years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own.
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A degree of AI stubbornness
- De Michael G Kurilla en 11-08-20
- Fleet of Knives: An Embers of War Novel
- The Embers of War Series, Book 2
- De: Gareth L. Powell
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek, Joe Hempel
Poor Editing - Good story
Revisado: 02-13-24
Don't let the 84 chapters fool you!
The first 32-35 chapters were fluff. each chapter/character repeated 80% - 90% of the content they said the last time they spoke. So frustrating!
Also, every speaking/named character, including Trouble dog were Debbie downers. I mean, 90% of the time they're lamenting a mistake! ugh so frustrating.
And... them to go and make the same dang mistake again! And Johnny Schultz... I think his character was incorrect. he was supposed to be a free-wheeling kind of guy. But most of the time he was was uptight.
There were many fun and intriguing points. But you could probably write those with 20 sentences!
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Call to Arms
- Black Fleet Trilogy, Book 2
- De: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow-up to the number-one best seller Warship. Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space...barely. He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion, but for the last few years it has been eerily quiet along the Frontier. Jackson now struggles to convince the Confederate leadership the threat is still imminent and needs to be taken seriously.
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Really enjoyed both books thus far.
- De Mark en 01-23-16
- Call to Arms
- Black Fleet Trilogy, Book 2
- De: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
Action packed Space Opera
Revisado: 12-31-23
Fage... yeah, I have to listen to the next. The book was full of surprises.
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The Quantum Series, Books 1 - 3
- De: Douglas Phillips
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Kirby Heyborne, Traci Odom
- Duración: 33 h y 50 m
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Daniel Rice is a government science investigator whose specialty is solving seemingly intractable problems through scientific inquiry. But Daniel's intellectual strength is sorely tested by the bizarre realities he finds in the quantum world. Extra dimensions of space trap the unwary, probability replaces cause and effect, and time isn't what anyone imagined. The other side of the mirror is a place full of dangers, but it's also somewhere a dedicated scientist can uncover secrets that connect humans with something greater.
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Yes, there was a reason why this was on sale.
- De James Borders en 11-23-20
- The Quantum Series, Books 1 - 3
- De: Douglas Phillips
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Kirby Heyborne, Traci Odom
Book 3 a slow starting, anti-God, erudite rubbish
Revisado: 10-15-23
Book 3 attacks anyone who is not "educated".
The author equates believing in God to being a neanderthal.
So... the first 2 books were ok. I first read them a couple of years ago. This last one, however, book 3, directly attacked God and the belief in God. "Belief in God" and some kind of standard set of virtues were made out to be the villain. And unfortunately, the author used hypocritical, extreme, misogynist as evidence for his trope.
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The 3rd book didn't pick up steam until after chapter 9. When it did, the future was cultish. The threat of nuclear war was second only to the threat of a misogynist world.
The cultural "badlands" of the future was indeed weird. But it was so extreme in its sinfulness, that it didn't align with any religion's principles (for which the author tried to argue caused the deviance).
other points:
* The main character is a James Bondish type of scientist that gets chased by ladies on any timeline.
* The author portrays all normal women (non theoretical physicists) as airheads, even when they are literally rocket scientists. Nala & Chloe are horny cultural anomalies.
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Renegades
- Expeditionary Force, Book 7
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 17 h y 7 m
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The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again saved the world. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.
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Same Problems as BSG and LOST
- De Spankybus en 04-03-19
- Renegades
- Expeditionary Force, Book 7
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
funny + physics
Revisado: 09-28-22
Whole series is great 👍 but each book has it's issues. the last one had too much cursing. This one the bickering between Joe and Skippy while trying to guess what the other was about to say just became too much.
but... I loved the Physics!
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Zero Hour
- Expeditionary Force, Book 5
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 17 h y 20 m
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United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-merry band of pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of light years from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed Skippy is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.
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The middle sags with repetition
- De KM en 02-14-18
- Zero Hour
- Expeditionary Force, Book 5
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
too much cursing
Revisado: 09-22-22
This book, keeps the witty humor up, but it's the first time I've had it playing on a road trip with the kiddos... and boy! eventually the gratuitous use fowl language was just too much. I had to turn it off. now, whenever they here RC Bray complain about his fowl language
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Gravity Dreams
- De: L. E. Modesitt Jr.
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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In Earth's distant future, Tyndel is both teacher and mentor, a staunch devotee to his conservative and rigidly structured religious culture. Then a rogue infection of nanotechnology transforms him into a "demon", something more than human, and he is forced into exile, fleeing to the more technologically advanced space-faring civilization that lies to the north, one that his own righteous people consider evil. Although shaken by his transformation, he has the rare talent required to become a space pilot.
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Introspective sci-fi nano tech
- De Matthew en 08-24-18
- Gravity Dreams
- De: L. E. Modesitt Jr.
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
creative scientific shirk
Revisado: 08-30-22
Midesitt mixed philosophy, science fiction, and religion to create an enthralling drama from the point of view of a "demon".
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