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Antarctica

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Adam Verner
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The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes listeners to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.

It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers.

Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.

©1998 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Adventure Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction

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The narrator has a pleasant voice but his singsong delivery was a bit irritating. The book itself is excellent.

Hope and beauty

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The storyline develops really nicely from the start with Robinsons usual attention to each of the characters.
Unfortunately the narrator is simply quite appalling.
Why the childishly silly voices? Does he really think that Robinson intends his characters and his narrative to come across like that?
I’ve given up and I’m going to get the e-book version and listen to it with VoiceOver.

An excellent story ruined

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The reader has a bad habit of doing (bad) accents that stereotype many of the people. He also mispronounces some words that are very frustrating

Good book, jarring reading

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Really enjoyed the story, and found the narration dynamic and energetic. I think it's a shame more Kim Stanley Robinson books aren't read by the same narrator.

Excellent

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This isn’t a bad book but I spent the first half of it thinking “is something to happen soon?” Then stuff DID happen and it was quite exciting for a bit but there was never any true jeopardy and then it all tailed off again. If you’re interested in what it’s like living at the South Pole this May or may not shed some light; there’s no indication that the book is set now or in the near future. The representation of how people cope with life in such an inhospitable landscape is very engaging and the characters are complex and interesting and yet the whole thing doesn’t really get off the ground. In a way it’s like a sci-fi novel talking about settlers on an alien planet and it certainly does a great job of using this to show what an extraordinary part of the world Antarctica happens to be. Honestly, I don’t know how to give the listener an idea of what to expect other than to say it’s a not terribly thrilling political thriller with an interesting take on world politics, some well-written characters, and some interesting but clunky historical exposition that never quite gets off the ground ground. Mind you, I listed to the end despite some peculiar pronunciations here and there.

Never really gets off the ground

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