Eric Jones
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Not Till We Are Lost
- Bobiverse, Book 5
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,640
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,101
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,100
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Dennis Taylor delivers again!
- By Sunrise Voyagers on 09-09-24
- Not Till We Are Lost
- Bobiverse, Book 5
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Good to have the gang back
Reviewed: 09-07-24
It was a solid entry; definitely more wide-ranging galactic exploration than the last book (though I liked that book as well). Nice easy listen. Ray Porter is one of best narrators out there. If you've gotten this far in the series, it's hard to see why you wouldn't really enjoy this entry. The story still feels fresh.
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Failure Mode
- Expeditionary Force, Book 15
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18,438
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17,189
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17,142
The galaxy is doomed. Monkeys may be clever and too stubborn to give up, but Skippy The Idiot Who Got Played knows the harsh truth: this is a fight he can’t win. The odds are not only stacked against him, he was designed not to win this fight. Maybe he can salvage some faint memory of the civilizations that inhabit the galaxy, but those beings are doomed. Doomed. Including the Merry Band of Pirates.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A wholly unsatisfying ending to an epic universe
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-22
- Failure Mode
- Expeditionary Force, Book 15
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Solid Finale
Reviewed: 12-16-22
This was one of the better books from the last 2/3 of the seties; it's hard to match the magic of the first four of five. There is an increasing amount of hand waving, but it's a fun wrap-up to the series. RC Bray is the GOAT. If you've stuck it out this long you won't be disappointed . . .. other than that it's over. Thanks for the glorious ride Skippy.
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Valkyrie
- Expeditionary Force, Book 9
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21,741
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19,741
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19,659
After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A chore to read. A disappointment and repetitive.
- By Kevin on 02-04-20
- Valkyrie
- Expeditionary Force, Book 9
- By: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Not bad
Reviewed: 08-05-22
Revelations and story arc movement are all crammed into the last few minutes, but the rest of the story isn't bad as a standalone. Lots and lots of repetition and rehashing, which can get tedious. RC Bray is worth listening to regardless.
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The Exiled Fleet
- The Divide, Book 2
- By: J. S. Dewes
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 498
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 434
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 433
The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide. They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve. Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find the materials they'll need to get everyone out. To do that they're going to need new allies and evade a ruthless enemy. Some of them will not survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Actually Fresh
- By Alex Bobyarchick on 08-25-21
- The Exiled Fleet
- The Divide, Book 2
- By: J. S. Dewes
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Nicol Zanzarella
If you liked the first book...
Reviewed: 06-30-22
you won't have any issues with this one. Similar cons: occasionally gets bogged down in details and repetitive character introspection. But there is an interesting story here that is worth a listen.
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Mount Fitz Roy
- By: Scott Sigler
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,457
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,064
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,054
The sequel to the number one Audible Best Seller Earthcore, Mount Fitz Roy continues the tale of Patrick O’Doyle and Bertha Lybrand, who were part of the horror show that occurred far below the mountains of Utah. They learn that the "mother of all motherlodes” discovered there was not unique, that there is another deposit similar to it three miles beneath the towering peak of Cerro Chaltén on the disputed border between Chile and Argentina. O'Doyle, a middle-aged former member of a disgraced black-ops unit, gets his aging team back together to go after this fortune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- By David on 12-03-20
- Mount Fitz Roy
- By: Scott Sigler
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Read it for the story not the writing
Reviewed: 06-20-22
Ray Porter is an excellent narrator, and there is an interesting story here. But *meh* on the writing, which I found repetitive and cliched. Like EarthCore there are almost no likeable characters, although there were more almost likeable characters in this book. Timeline given the tech advances between the two books seemed wildly compressed and hard to accept but that's not a huge deal. It's a decent story, and if you liked EarthCore I doubt you'll be disappointed.
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Shards of Earth
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,684
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,383
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,375
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not sure what the point was [Spoilers]
- By C. Andrew Hessler on 08-27-21
- Shards of Earth
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Good story; good narrator
Reviewed: 11-30-21
Very Firefly-esque, but without being derivative. Characters are great. Only knock is that the writing is occasionally repetitive, with the same facts/incidents being retold multiple times (each time as if they were new revelations), but I enjoyed the book very much. Just wasn't quite as tight as Children of Time.
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Make Me No Grave
- By: Hayley Stone
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,153
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,989
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,988
Almena Guillory, better known as the Grizzly Queen of the West, has plenty to recommend her for the noose, but US Marshal Apostle Richardson enforces the law, he doesn't decide it. When a posse tries to lynch Almena ahead of her trial, Apostle refuses their form of expedited justice - and receives a bullet for his trouble. Before escaping, however, Almena unexpectedly saves his life by absorbing his wound through the use of dangerous flesh magic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Western from a Sci-Fi Lover
- By Bryan on 11-25-18
- Make Me No Grave
- By: Hayley Stone
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Narrator is perfect
Reviewed: 09-09-21
Decent if somewhat predictable story. Magic plays only a minor role in this story; mostly a standard Western with a progressive edge.
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The Last Watch
- The Divide Series, Book 1
- By: J. S. Dewes
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 867
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 760
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Story4 out of 5 stars 758
The Divide. It’s the edge of the universe. Now, it’s collapsing - and taking everyone and everything with it. The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels - the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military. At the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no comms - nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good story but the F-bomb got really old.
- By Carr Harvey on 06-29-21
- The Last Watch
- The Divide Series, Book 1
- By: J. S. Dewes
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Nicol Zanzarella
Interesting, but uneven
Reviewed: 05-01-21
Decent but uneven story. Good ideas, but narrative gets bogged down in the details of minor events and the repetition of interpersonal conversations and inner monologues. Narrators are OK. Not a bad listen, but could have been more.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry - introductions
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 71 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20,662
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,627
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18,517
Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Chapter Guide!
- By Katya Rice on 05-25-18
Almost Perfect; Stephen Fry is Brilliant
Reviewed: 12-02-20
The only thing marring perfection is the absence (in the American version) of the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. Otherwise this is the definitive edition. The narration is perfect.
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Lincoln's Lieutenants
- The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- By: Stephen W. Sears
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 32 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not what I thought
- By Paul S. on 08-10-17
- Lincoln's Lieutenants
- The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- By: Stephen W. Sears
- Narrated by: George Guidall
Excellent text; performance not as much
Reviewed: 11-06-19
This is an outstanding treatment of the Army of the Potomac's high command. It isn't a great starting point for learning about the Civil War in the East, but of you are already a student of the war I highly recommend it. The narrator has a good and pleasant voice but a very odd cadence that I found distracting.
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