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Kirby Heyborne
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Nick Harkaway
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There couldn't be a fire along the Jorgmund Pipe. It was the last thing the world needed. But there it was, burning bright on national television. The Pipe was what kept the Livable Zone safe from the bandits, monsters, and nightmares the Go-Away War had left in its wake. The fire was a very big problem.
Enter Gonzo Lubitsch and his friends, the Haulage & HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company, a team of master troubleshooters who roll into action when things get particularly hot. They helped build the Pipe. Now they have to preserve it - and save humanity yet again. But this job is not all it seems. It will touch more closely on Gonzo's life - and that of his best friend - than either of them can imagine. And it will decide the fate of the Gone-Away World.
Equal parts raucous adventure, comic odyssey, geek nirvana, and ultra-cool epic, The Gone-Away World is a story of - among other things - love, pirates, mimes, greed, and ninjas. But it is also the story of a world, not unlike our own, in desperate need of heroes - however unlikely they may seem.
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When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl ú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borl must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own.
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Reviews, Dishonesty and The Emperor's New Clothes
- De Robert en 01-27-13
De: China Mieville
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All Our Wrong Todays
- A Novel
- De: Elan Mastai
- Narrado por: Elan Mastai
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed...because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down.
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Really fun time travel novel
- De Mark en 07-20-17
De: Elan Mastai
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The Book of Koli
- De: M. R. Carey
- Narrado por: Theo Solomon
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.mKoli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong.
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A Very Special Book
- De Charles Elmore en 04-22-20
De: M. R. Carey
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The Peripheral
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do - a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her.
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Worst Narration Ever
- De Tristan G R Wall en 05-29-15
De: William Gibson
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A Dirty Job
- De: Christopher Moore
- Narrado por: Fisher Stevens
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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People start dropping dead around Charlie, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death.
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Great Listen!
- De Janie en 03-24-06
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Seveneves
- A Novel
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron
- Duración: 31 h y 55 m
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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
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Odd narrator choice
- De Josh Mitchell en 05-30-15
De: Neal Stephenson
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Perdido Street Station
- De: China Mieville
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 24 h y 21 m
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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.
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Brilliant, wonderful book -- horrible recording
- De James en 08-19-09
De: China Mieville
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- De: Claire North
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his 11th life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August", she says. "I need to send a message". This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
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Not what I'd feared
- De Isobel en 04-29-16
De: Claire North
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Anathem
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 25 m
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Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.
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I love Neal, but Good lord... ugh!
- De SpiderGrrl en 10-08-19
De: Neal Stephenson
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Area X
- The Southern Reach Trilogy - Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance
- De: Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrado por: Carolyn McCormick, Bronson Pinchot, Xe Sands
- Duración: 26 h y 14 m
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Dive into the mysteries of Area X, a remote and lush terrain that has inexplicably sequestered itself from civilization. Twelve expeditions have gone in, and not a single member of any of them has remained unchanged by the experience - for better or worse.
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Book 1: intriguing! Book 2: Zzzz. Book 3: WTF!
- De KR en 02-03-15
De: Jeff VanderMeer
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Roadkill
- De: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Jack Kernigan is having a bad day...a bad year...a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits...something. Something big...something furry...something invisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth. Fate can play funny tricks. Which is why Jack suddenly finds himself the planet’s best hope to unravel a conspiracy of galactic proportions that could spell the end of the human race.
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The least helpful review of Roadkill
- De Joshua Kring en 08-05-22
De: Dennis E. Taylor
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Earth Abides
- De: George R. Stewart
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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The cabin had always been a special retreat for Isherwood Williams, a haven from the demands of society. But one day while hiking, Ish was bitten by a rattlesnake, and the solitude he had so desired took on dire new significance. Ish headed home when he finally felt himself again—and noticed the strangeness almost immediately. No cars passed him on the road; the gas station not far from his cabin looked abandoned; and he was shocked to see the body of a man on the roadside near a small town. Without a radio or phone, Ish had no idea of humanity’s abrupt demise.
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The accolades are undeserved
- De 2duckornot2duck en 04-26-21
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
- De: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
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Flowery poetic word salad
- De Austin en 02-11-20
De: Amal El-Mohtar, y otros
i am a worm genetiscist.
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What made the experience of listening to The Gone-Away World the most enjoyable?
Kirby Heyborne embodies The Narrator. Brilliant!What other book might you compare The Gone-Away World to and why?
Hard to say, since this story is truly unique, but Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey has some similarities.Which scene was your favorite?
Pa Lubitch's monster bees.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. Not that it isn't THAT good, but I needed to take breaks and digest it.Any additional comments?
Buy it. Listen to it. Love it.Audible give me more stars for this book
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A rambleogue to the end of the world
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10/10 execution of a pretty original concept, I was pleasantly surprised with how well the turnaround went. I'm almost disappointed there isn't a sequel, but that's definitely for the best. it wraps up nicely.
Kirby Heyborne does a fantastic job narrating, I don't ever feel like I missed anything due to his cadence. His sound effects were genuinely great.
Really threw me for a loop
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Where does The Gone-Away World rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The world was wonderful, deep, and complex. I would rate it in the top 10% of the books I've listened to.What did you like best about this story?
The characters grew and kept me on my tows.Which character – as performed by Kirby Heyborne – was your favorite?
The protagonist was definitely my favorite.If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
The world may have gone away, but one man will fight to save itA post apocalyptic world with heart
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Great book. Long read, but fun.
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Oh Yes
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The book is often entertaining and exciting, with wry comments and some laugh-out lines. But it is also very discursive: wandering through flashbacks and asides, switching tone between satirical and emotional. It isn't hard to follow, exactly, but rather tiring. The plot is interrupted so frequently that you sometimes want to shout "Get on with it!" at your audio player.
For example, the story is framed in a fascinating post-apocalyptic setting. Within that story, there are flashbacks to the vaguely absurdist Gone Away War that led to the apocalypse. Part of the story of that war involves an epic escape. In the middle of the escape, a secondary character dies, and the author decides to tell you what is going through the mind of the character during its death, which includes a flashback of the character's entire life, for a full 10+ minutes. It was a funny flashback, but I really wanted to just keep the main plot going.
This problem is exacerbated by the fact that it is an audio book, so, suddenly realizing that you are now going to spend 10-30 minutes listening to a discursive discussion can be really annoying.
On the other hand, the book is really interesting, very imaginative, and well-read. If you are okay with the meandering plot and willful switches of tone, this is a good choice.
Often funny and brilliant, but also exhausting
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Where does The Gone-Away World rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Near the top of the list of the audiobooks I remember (and I've listened to hundreds). Lovely but haunting, or...haunting but lovely.What other book might you compare The Gone-Away World to and why?
In some ways it may compare to Neil Gaiman, Guy Gavriel Kay or Haruki Murakami (the author may or may not appreciate those comparisons but I consider them a compliment), but in a number of ways truly unique.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The entire last third of the book.Any additional comments?
Not a happy story, really quite grim in places but still beautiful in total.This one stays with you...
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a writer that can turn a phrase, but slow paced.
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