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Firstborn

A Time Odyssey, Book 3

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Firstborn

By: Stephen Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke
Narrated by: John Lee
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Summary

 The Firstborn, the mysterious race of aliens best known as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, have inhabited the writing of science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke for decades. In the first two books of his acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and co-author Stephen Baxter imagined a near-future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of human civilization by employing a technology indistinguishable from magic. That fate was narrowly averted, at an inconceivable price. But now, 27 years later, the Firstborn are back. This time, they have sent a "quantum bomb" speeding toward Earth, a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, let alone stop or destroy. But when shocking new insights emerge about the nature of the Firstborn and their plans, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.©2007 Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction
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Having listened to the first two in the trilogy (from my library) I wasn't disappointed by the finale.

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Spectacular end to the trilogy

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Book on book. But Audible UK don't have book 4 or 5 poor service in Europe. Just the same poor blank answers from them.

They get better

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shame there won't be another in the series. it was obviously setting up for one

excellent

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I think I need to listen to this story again to get a better understanding of the story.
It was a bit challenging with the travelling back in time. With the firt book you land on a alienated earth and one of the main characters get deported back to the regular earth and trys to save it from a sunstorm dat is actually a weaponised attack from some other beings. And then I got lost in there somewhere. Some beings want to destroy earth?life on earth? humankind to save life?! And than comes a second attack which is destroying Mars!?

The narrator could give us more emotions, I found him to be a bit flat.

difficult

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A very original story complex but enthralling, well worth hearing several times. Very well read.

Ultimate SF

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