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Ringworld's Children
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance52
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The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3-million-times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.
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From a space opera to the muppet show
- By Joachim on 13-08-16
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Ringworld's Children
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Series: Known Space, Book 15, Ringworld, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-08-04
- Language: English
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High-Rise
- By: J. G. Ballard
- Narrated by: Tom Hiddleston
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,337
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Performance1,215
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Story1,217
From the author of the Sunday Times best seller Cocaine Nights comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for riots and technological mayhem.
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Awful
- By Si on 13-12-15
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High-Rise
- Narrated by: Tom Hiddleston
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-03-15
- Language: English
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Humans
- The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 2
- By: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance33
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Story33
In this Hugo-nominated novel, Neanderthal physicist Ponder Boddit brings Canadian geneticist Mary Vaughan back to his world to explore the near-utopian civilization of the Neanderthals. Boddit serves as a Candide figure, the naive visitor whose ignorance about our society makes him a perfect tool to analyze human tendencies toward violence, over-population, and environmental degradation.
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science reality is wonderful
- By John Moss on 06-03-24
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Humans
- The Neanderthal Parallax, Book 2
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
- Series: Neanderthal Parallax, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-04-08
- Language: English
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The Shadow of the Torturer
- Urth: Book of the New Sun, Book 1
- By: Gene Wolfe
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall163
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Performance142
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Story142
Severian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him...until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian helps her commit suicide and escape her fate. For a torturer, there is no more unforgivable act. In punishment he is exiled from the guild and his home city to the distant metropolis of Thrax with little more than Terminus Est, a fabled sword, to his name.
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A classic in any genre
- By Anonymous on 04-06-21
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The Shadow of the Torturer
- Urth: Book of the New Sun, Book 1
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Series: The Book of the New Sun, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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The Enemy Within
- By: Joshua Dalzelle
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall228
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Performance204
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Story203
The quadrant is burning. Violent, deadly uprisings are breaking out, seemingly at random, all across the Confederation's sphere of influence. The response by the powerful Confederation Fleet has been swift and decisive, but for every planet they restore order to, another erupts into chaos. Omega Force is working along the frontier worlds when they're forced to come to the aid of a longtime ally and soon realize that the two events are not unrelated.
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Pretty decent fourth book
- By Katherine K. on 04-03-26
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The Enemy Within
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Series: Omega Force, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-10-15
- Language: English
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Permutation City
- By: Greg Egan
- Narrated by: Adam Epstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall97
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Performance85
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Story85
The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly. The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy. The good news is that there is a way out.
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A great book that deserves a much better narrator
- By John Hawksley on 19-05-16
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Permutation City
- Narrated by: Adam Epstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-11-13
- Language: English
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AS1
- By: Trevor Lewis
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Gideon, a young and gifted electromagnetics engineer, finds himself stationed at Green Bank Observatory, with the United States' most powerful radio telescope at his fingertips. Utilizing groundbreaking techniques, he stumbles upon an unexplainable radio signal emerging from just outside our solar system. Soon, he is thrust into a world of science and politics as humanity steps into the unknown. Trust morphs into fear as the dark shroud of the discovery is lifted, revealing the true intentions that will forever alter the course of the human race.
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Quite decent
- By Morten Einar Hagen on 10-11-25
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AS1
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-10-25
- Language: English
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Centre of Gravity
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance59
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Story61
The second book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology. The warlike Sh’daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the...
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A good story
- By Andrew Armstrong on 29-07-19
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Centre of Gravity
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Series: Star Carrier, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-07-14
- Language: English
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The Long Sunset
- By: Jack McDevitt
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Story18
Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advanced race that could be her last chance for a mission before the program is shut down for good. Hutch has been the academy’s best pilot for decades. She’s had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war.
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Never goes where I thought it would.
- By Anonymous on 12-04-24
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The Long Sunset
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Series: Academy, Book 8
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-09-18
- Language: English
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Meru
- The Alloy Era, Book 1
- By: S.B. Divya
- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story10
For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.
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Robotic narration
- By Kindle Customer on 07-01-26
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Meru
- The Alloy Era, Book 1
- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Series: The Alloy Era, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-02-23
- Language: English
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The Quantum Thief
- The epic hard SF heist thriller for fans of THE MATRIX and NEUROMANCER
- By: Hannu Rajaniemi
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall240
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Performance200
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Story200
The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. It is a stunning debut. Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence...
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Narration-style enhances this story's 'otherness'
- By Carole on 01-12-13
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The Quantum Thief
- The epic hard SF heist thriller for fans of THE MATRIX and NEUROMANCER
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-11-11
- Language: English
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Tesla and the Pyramid
- By: Jenner Brown
- Narrated by: Ryan Haugen
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Tesla and the Pyramid is a propulsive, action-packed technothriller that reveals undisclosed frontier science and real-world hidden archaeology, blurring the line between fact and fiction like never before.
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Tesla and the Pyramid
- Narrated by: Ryan Haugen
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-09-25
- Language: English
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Alien Encounters
- Seed Planet Initiative, Book 2
- By: Daniel Wescott
- Narrated by: Michael Mau
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance35
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Story35
AE follows the story of Michael Forbes as he navigates the intricacies of temptation and loyalty while trying to be helpful in a world dominated by mafioso moves, alien AI, beauty, and attraction. Meanwhile, his girlfriend is being very naughty. Michael meets Una and Evan in this continuation of The Alien while the AI and Lizzie both go through a process of evolution and Silvio moves ahead with plans. An investigation team arrives from Home and some new players enter the field as Alien Encounters stack up and actions clash.
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Ruthless Futures
- By Claudio Crawford on 19-02-26
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Alien Encounters
- Seed Planet Initiative, Book 2
- Narrated by: Michael Mau
- Series: Seed Planet Initiative, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 21-06-24
- Language: English
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Fairyland
- By: Paul McAuley
- Narrated by: Max Dowler
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Story21
The 21st century. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic upheaval. In London, Alex Sharkey is trying to...
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A Classic of 90's SciFi
- By Anonymous on 29-05-23
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Fairyland
- Narrated by: Max Dowler
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-05-16
- Language: English
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A Door into Ocean
- By: Joan Slonczewski
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance3
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The Sharers of Shora are a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future. They are pacifists, they are highly advanced in biological sciences, and they reproduce by parthenogenesis - because there are no males. Conflict erupts when a militaristic neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world and sends in an army.
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good story, but..
- By Alice DG on 04-04-24
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A Door into Ocean
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 31-07-08
- Language: English
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A Call to Duty
- Book I of Manticore Ascendant
- By: David Weber, Timothy Zahn
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance75
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Story74
Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...he two things his neglectful mother couldn’t or wouldn’t provide. So when Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he’d finally found the structure he’d always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn’t exactly what he expected. Boot camp is rough and frustrating; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating plague, the Navy is possibly on the edge of budgetary extinction.
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Great read.
- By Amazon Customer on 24-12-22
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A Call to Duty
- Book I of Manticore Ascendant
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Series: Honorverse: Manticore Ascendant, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-10-14
- Language: English
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Dust
- By: Elizabeth Bear
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance16
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Story16
Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has been called one of the best science fiction authors of her generation. In Dust she skillfully spins a classic science fiction trope - the lost generation ship - into a complex and compelling tale of fallen angels, secretive family politics, and sexual taboo.
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Not Sci Fi
- By James Burkill on 11-02-19
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Dust
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Series: Jacob's Ladder, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 29-12-08
- Language: English
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Diaspora
- By: Greg Egan
- Narrated by: Adam Epstein
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance63
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Story62
Behold the orphan. Born into a world that is not a world. A digital being grown from a mind seed, a genderless cybernetic citizen in a vast network of probes, satellites, and servers knitting the Solar System into one scape, from the outer planets to the fiery surface of the Sun. Since the Introdus in the 21st century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software.
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awful reading. 0 stars.
- By Chrisdad on 09-05-19
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Diaspora
- Narrated by: Adam Epstein
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 25-11-13
- Language: English
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Fast-Time at Aldmont High
- The Time Flow Stories, Book 1
- By: Laurence Dahners
- Narrated by: Robin Coppock
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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This hard sci-fi novel is the first book of the Time-Flow Stories, a series of tales about Witt Ryllin, a young man who abruptly gains the ability to psychically control the flow of time. He sets to work, figuring out how to use his new gift to help his family and perhaps even improve his college prospects. This is far from as easy as he’d first hoped. Through all this he must deal with his sarcastic friend Jesse. A friend who’s sometimes helpful, but at least as often a big part of the problem. Oh, and Witt’s got girl trouble!
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Fast-Time at Aldmont High
- The Time Flow Stories, Book 1
- Narrated by: Robin Coppock
- Series: The Time Flow Stories, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-07-23
- Language: English
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Powersat
- The Grand Tour Series
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall149
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Performance131
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Story131
Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And in its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of spaceflight.
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Good stor (very poor edit)
- By John on 15-04-14
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Powersat
- The Grand Tour Series
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Grand Tour, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-11-11
- Language: English
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