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Anvil of Stars
- A Sequel to The Forge of God
- By: Greg Bear
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance69
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Story69
The Forge of God described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet's mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as “The Benefactors”, who arrived at Earth too late.
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20 years on and still brilliant!!
- By Paul on 03-12-12
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Anvil of Stars
- A Sequel to The Forge of God
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Series: Forge of God, Book 2
- Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-03-12
- Language: English
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The Spare Man
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance48
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Story48
Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim.
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Cosy murder mystery in space
- By karohemd on 26-08-24
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The Spare Man
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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Deep Past
- A Novel
- By: Eugene Linden
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
A routine dig in Kazakhstan takes a radical turn for 32-year-old anthropologist Claire Knowland when a stranger turns up at the site with a bizarre find from a remote section of the desolate Kazakh Steppe. Her initial skepticism of this mysterious discovery gives way to a realization that the find will shake the very foundations of our understanding of evolution and intelligence. Corrupt politics of Kazakhstan force Claire to take reckless chances with the discovery. Ultimately, Claire finds herself fighting not just for the discovery and her academic reputation, but for her very life.
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Deep Past
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Alien Encounters
- Seed Planet Initiative, Book 2
- By: Daniel Wescott
- Narrated by: Michael Mau
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance35
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Story35
AE follows the story of Michael Forbes as he navigates the intricacies of temptation and loyalty while trying to be helpful in a world dominated by mafioso moves, alien AI, beauty, and attraction. Meanwhile, his girlfriend is being very naughty. Michael meets Una and Evan in this continuation of The Alien while the AI and Lizzie both go through a process of evolution and Silvio moves ahead with plans. An investigation team arrives from Home and some new players enter the field as Alien Encounters stack up and actions clash.
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Ruthless Futures
- By Claudio Crawford on 19-02-26
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Alien Encounters
- Seed Planet Initiative, Book 2
- Narrated by: Michael Mau
- Series: Seed Planet Initiative, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 21-06-24
- Language: English
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Lucifer's Hammer
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,056
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Performance839
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Story836
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
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Best-of genre
- By Tara on 24-12-12
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Lucifer's Hammer
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-07-09
- Language: English
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Domesticating Dragons
- By: Dan Koboldt
- Narrated by: Austin Rising
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story16
Noah Parker, a newly minted PhD, is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He's eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian's feature product: living, breathing dragons. Although highly specialized dragons have been used for industrial purposes for years, Reptilian is desperate to crack the general retail market. By creating a dragon that can be the perfect family pet, Reptilian hopes to put a dragon into every home. But Noah has a secret goal....
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Good
- By JOD on 29-05-24
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Domesticating Dragons
- Narrated by: Austin Rising
- Series: Build-A-Dragon Sequence, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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The Rest of the Robots
- Robot Series
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Story8
How could robots be used in a time of war? Could a robot be raised like a child? Could we allow them to have children of their own? Is there any human profession that could never be performed by a robotic replacement? In The Rest of the Robots, robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin and engineers Powell and Donovan return to investigate many more puzzling anomalies and catastrophic malfunctions.
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Excellent stories, already collected
- By Tuomo on 07-08-24
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The Rest of the Robots
- Robot Series
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Series: Robots, Book 0.2
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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More Than Human
- By: Theodore Sturgeon
- Narrated by: Preston Geer
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Individually, they are a seemingly simpleminded young man living in the woods who can read the thoughts of others, a runaway girl with telekinetic powers, twin girls who can barely speak but can teleport across great distances, and an infant with a mind like a supercomputer. Together, they are the Gestalt—a single extraordinary being comprised of remarkable parts—although an essential piece may be missing . . . But are they the next stage in human development or harbingers of the end of civilization? The answer may come when they are joined by Gerry.
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More Than Human
- Narrated by: Preston Geer
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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The Caves of Steel
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance76
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Story76
In the vast, domed cities of Earth, artificial intelligence is strictly controlled; in the distant Outer Worlds, colonists and robots live side by side. A Spacer ambassador is found dead and detective Elijah Baley is assigned to find the killer. But with relations between the two cultures in the balance, the Spacers insist that he work with a partner of their choosing – a robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw. Baley has never seen a robot like Daneel before – and soon, though the Three Laws of Robotics should render the crime impossible, Baley’s partner becomes his prime suspect.
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A must for sci-fi enthusiasts
- By Jeremy Walters on 20-07-25
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The Caves of Steel
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Series: Robots, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-01-24
- Language: English
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The Cyberiad
- Fables for the Cybernetic Age
- By: Stanislaw Lem
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance29
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Story29
Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. Over the course of their adventures in The Cyberiad, they travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their unsuspecting employers.
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Like a childrens book specifically for Einstein
- By Rune Magnussen on 06-08-23
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The Cyberiad
- Fables for the Cybernetic Age
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-08-12
- Language: English
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The Medusa Chronicles
- By: Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall267
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Performance245
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Story244
Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was converted, through the use of prosthetics, into something faster, stronger and smarter . . . but also slightly less human and more machine than he was. And with this change came an opportunity -...
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Dull and Plodding
- By Andrew on 17-09-16
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The Medusa Chronicles
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-05-16
- Language: English
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One Second Per Second
- By: S.D. Unwin
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance16
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Story16
The greatest scientific challenge of our age wasn't to enable time travel, it was to prevent it. The laws of physics had turned out to be idiotic, erecting no barriers to hopping time. In fact, they make it hard to avoid. I'm in the business of preserving the timeline - making sure the world sticks to the sacred rule of One Second per Second, and that history unfolds according to plan. The problem is, there is no plan until I make it.
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very interesting
- By vickythesupermum on 03-02-26
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One Second Per Second
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Series: One Second Per Second, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
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Whalefall
- By: Daniel Kraus
- Narrated by: Sam Stafford
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance30
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Story30
Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid's tentacles and drawn into the whale's mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs.
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Could've easily been a 2000-word short story
- By Mark on 23-03-24
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Whalefall
- Narrated by: Sam Stafford
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 23-11-23
- Language: English
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Cowl
- By: Neal Asher
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance40
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Story41
Cowl is a high-octane time travel adventure from Britain's master of widescreen science fiction, Neal Asher. He's the nightmare you never imagined . . . In the far-future, the Heliothane Dominion triumphed after a bitter war. But some enemies escaped into the past, to wreak havoc across time...
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The story is mind bendingly complicated but...
- By Anonymous Coward on 21-10-18
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Cowl
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 16-11-17
- Language: English
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Tales of Dune: Expanded Edition
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance35
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Story35
Tales of Dune collects eight of Herbert and Anderson’s Dune short stories, ranging from the period of the Butlerian Jihad to the time of young Paul Atreides to a story set during the events of the novel Dune to the very end of Frank Herbert’s future history.
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Great stories, but..
- By djs218 on 30-04-22
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Tales of Dune: Expanded Edition
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Series: The Dune Sequence
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-06-18
- Language: English
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Nightfall
- And Other Stories
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
Twenty-three of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre’s greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always...
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The very first story
- By stretchersy on 18-02-25
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Nightfall
- And Other Stories
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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The Hallmark
- By: Michael Waverley
- Narrated by: MIchael Waverley
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
When Florence, a bright London schoolgirl, confronts the sudden death of a teacher, her search for meaning leads her through churches, science fairs, and Hampstead's ancient landscapes. With Darren at her side, she begins piecing together the mysteries of life itself — from the structure of a single cell to the vast, unsettling question of why anything lives or dies at all.
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Worth the read
- By :) on 08-04-26
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The Hallmark
- Narrated by: MIchael Waverley
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-02-26
- Language: English
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Flashforward
- By: Robert J. Sawyer
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall337
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Performance203
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Story202
A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. At the end of those moments, when the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.
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Excellent
- By Kathleen M Moon on 14-08-08
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Flashforward
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-06-08
- Language: English
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Foundation
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,118
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Performance909
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Story904
The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has...
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A great interpretation of Foundation
- By David on 31-01-11
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Foundation
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Series: Foundation, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 20-04-10
- Language: English
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First Command
- By: Michael Simon
- Narrated by: Ryan Kennard Burke
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
Fresh out of the Academy, Ensign Cole Jackson’s first posting to Freedom couldn’t have come at a worse time. All over the Alliance, planets and colonies are suddenly under attack by the vicious Coven Empire. Freedom and her sister ship, Hood, are ambushed by alien warships, leaving Hood drifting dead in the void. Cole is ordered to salvage parts from the powerless Hood, but when he arrives on the unpowered hulk, Freedom is called away, marooning him and a group of malcontent techs in deep space.
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First Command
- Narrated by: Ryan Kennard Burke
- Series: First Command, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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