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Bellwether
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
Audie Award, Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010
Pop culture, chaos theory, and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula Award - winning author of Doomsday Book.
Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennett O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But a series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questions - with the unintended help of the errant, forgetful, and careless office assistant Flip.
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"Willis's story builds slowly but is realistic and engrossing." ( Midwest Book Review)
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-09-22
Unusual and enjoyable
Entertaining with facts about discoveries arising from chaotic circumstances and farcical event with office sheep
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- Sheena Thomas
- 29-10-23
Excellent
Enjoyable book for anyone who likes data and history. Stands the rest of time. Interesting snippets on fads in the last century.
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- cal
- 03-10-22
fiction about science rather than science fiction
a lovely tale, I enjoyed the facts about fads. very good narrator with great characterisation of Flip
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- Catherine
- 28-12-12
Unexpected find
I downloaded this book on a whim,looking for something different,and absolutely loved it.It is extremely funny( laugh out loud funny at many points).The whole concept of Sandra,the heroine,studying fads,and the regular snippets of information about this throughout the story,sounds strange but works brilliantly.So there is science,chaos theory,the quirks of the corporation where she works,mad office assistants,romance,sheep....all combined in an enjoyable and well-narrated package. Highly recommended.
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- Ronni Pudding
- 11-05-23
Fun and enlightening
Whilst enjoying the story I also learned many interesting facts during this listen. The great thing about the Plus Catalogue is that you come across genres and titles you may not ordinarily try.
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- Nigel Quinlan
- 19-08-22
Connie Willis
This was the most purely enjoyable thing I've listened to in ages. Science fiction, but also romance, but also corporate satire and comedy. I laughed out loud three or four times. Sweet, intelligent and just generally lovely, I could listen to the narrator, via the author, go on about historical fads all bloody day. A perfect little book.
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- Marie Elliot
- 05-01-23
Funny, informative, clever, entertaining, light.
Very enjoyable. Light hearted. Also clever with lots of information tucked into the story. Brilliantly narrated.
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- bernie kelly
- 17-01-23
Laugh-out-loud. Really enjoyable.
Great writing and the reader’s characterisation of the annoying youngsters and idiotic manager was excellent.
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- christine1850
- 05-04-23
Good fun
That was a pleasant surprise. Having spent 40 years in a science research environment added much to my enjoyment. This writer was unknown to me and I’ll check out more of her work now
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- JacksofBuxton
- 21-06-23
bell weather
interesting storyline. well red kept my attention all the way through the book would recommend
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