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Earth

By: David Brin
Narrated by: David DeVries, Kristin Kalbli
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The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, best-selling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War- an epic novel set 50 years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world.

©1990 David Brin (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Hard Science Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

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Critic reviews

"One hell of a novel.... has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".( Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
"The prime attraction of Earth is the author's unfailing resourcefulness in extrapolating a post-greenhouse-effect future that is plausible, dismaying, and amazing in equal parts…. Brin's prose ranges from regular to high octant…. His characters have vivid intellectual lives." ( Entertainment Weekly)
"Brin has conceived his story on a supremely ambitious scale, and executed it with all the skills at this command." ( Chicago Sun-Times)
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excellent writing and performance, was not aware this is not a recent book. has aged well

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I really love the way he deals with the big issues of the time with realistic plots, yet is optimistic. His characters can be a bit too wonderful, a bit too exceptional, and he's certainly US-centric. On the whole very thought provoking and inspiring

Such an interesting book, David Brin is awesome.

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Great read. I think I'll start it again I liked it so much. That was a year ago so it's second time around.

loved it

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This is one of my favourite subjects but this book seems too disjointed and lacks something.

Just could not get into it. Tried twice.

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The narrators are not bad, but I just couldn't get into the story. Stopped listening half way through.

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