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New Earth
- The Grand Tour, Book 18
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
We’ve found another Earthlike planet, but what secrets doe sit hold?
The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new, Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of water and a breathable, oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to learn more, an exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth.
All the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly two hundred years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone, and the very society they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available but because they were expendable.
Upon landing, the team discovers something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings. Who are these people? Are they native to this world or invaders from elsewhere? While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want?
Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact?
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- Matthew C Brooks
- 07-04-22
Great Sci Fi
New to Audible, this was one of my first books. It’s a great story, with strong characters, easy to listen to, and the story continues in Death Wave. I am now a Ben Bova fan and listening to more of his books, which there are plenty of.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-10-22
enjoyable sci fi story
I really enjoyed the premises of the story, I will definitely read/listen to more books from the same author.
The Irish character is a bit laughable, no Irish speaks like that, that's a bit of a ridiculous cliche.
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- Mark H.
- 17-01-22
Great book
loved it , great narrator too, shame it finished, hooked straight away and couldn't wait for next chapter.
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- SnapWriter
- 24-09-13
A very satifying Sci-Fi story and reading
A wonderfully read and suspenseful story, which never ebbs. One you will re-read time and again.
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- Simon
- 16-09-15
Mildly Entertaining
This is a decent enough production with some interesting ideas. It never really grabbed me but as others have also mentioned I found it hard to empathise with the characters and I did find the pace fairly slow. It is well narrated and certainly wasn't a waste of money but it won't go down as one of my favourites.
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- RAJ
- 11-01-22
Good story but unbelievable characters
An interesting story but with characters that seem more like undisciplined teens than a space ship crew. One or two characters are so out of place you wonder why other characters aren’t asking - why is this guy here..?”
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- Steven G Pennell
- 15-01-22
Good series
I really enjoyed this series so far, and I’m looking forward to hearing the next one
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- matteesside
- 24-10-13
without trust and the ability to change
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the way people could re-act to an unprecedented situation where trust in key, fear is a hindrance and only the correct can save us all.
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What did you like best about this story?
The best thing about this story is looking into peoples pasts and the thought processes which shape the things they say and do. Plus how a situation can make you act irrationally and with fear
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- 12stu
- 27-01-22
Wishy washy
I listened to the end just to see if there was a point to this but remained disappointed. The plot had promise but the story failed to bring this to any interesting conclusions. I found it underwhelming and predictable in places with a cringy ending. The narrator has a good voice though.
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- Louis
- 14-10-13
Not my kind of sci-fi. Engaging story, not precise
What did you like best about New Earth? What did you like least?
Story trajectory was good, entertaining enough. But overall this book just did not agree with me.
There were a few points that I'm afraid I have to criticise.
- The dialogue was repetitious. Without apparent purpose, the same statments or exchanges were made by the same characters sometimes more than twice - I hadn't forgotten the previous time it was said on any occasion (and my memory can be pretty crap). A very odd decision by the author.
- Some dialogue was unbelievable, and some characters very shallow and/or stereotypical (I've never known an irishman to really go around talking about leprechauns and potatoes without a heavy dose of irony).
- Some mistakes with the science... I come to sci-fi to have my imagination supplied by 'what-if's - I can't do this if mistakes are made.
- Some things left unexplained both in terms of questions unanswered and not introducing us to the world he has created - characters far too nonchalant about discoveries for reasons undisclosed.
- And finally on that score, I didn't find the author's imagination sufficiently adventurous. To be honest I think these days with so many ideas having been written, you need a very good one, an unusual idea or a particularly complete and well-expressed idea for it to be worth adding your book to the masses of Sci-Fi. For me, this didn't have that great idea. It was an entertaining book, but I would class it as Science Fantasy rather than Science Fiction.
Would you ever listen to anything by Ben Bova again?
I think Ben and I disagree about what Sci Fi should be like.
Have you listened to any of Stefan Rudnicki’s other performances? How does this one compare?
You don't want to hear him do an irish accent, apart from that he's good.
If this book were a film would you go see it?
No, it already reads like a bad sci-fi film - no idea to strenuous or character too deep.
Any additional comments?
Sorry Ben, I hope others enjoy it more than I.
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