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The Practice Effect

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The Practice Effect

By: David Brin
Narrated by: Andy Caploe
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Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds - alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own - with one perplexing difference. To his astonishment, he was hailed as a wizard and found himself fighting beside a beautiful woman with strange powers against a mysterious warlord as he struggles to solve the riddle of this baffling world.

©1984 David Brin (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Adventure Science Fiction Time Travel Fiction

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Critic reviews

"Lively, outlandish, and entertaining." ( Publishers Weekly)
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I first read this as a print book and bought the audio book after I lost the original. I loved the book but this performance did not quite work for me. The reader's voice just didn't gel for me. That said, it is a clever book with some remarkable ideas and it may be that coming to it fresh would be a very different experience - much like seeing a film without having read the book first. There is a lot to like about this and the blending of SF and fantasy (always difficult to pull off) works remarkably well here.

A good book and an OK performance

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