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The Green Hills of Earth is a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over 30 years. This collection includes "Delilah and the Space-Rigger," "Space-Jockey," "The Long Watch," "Gentlemen Be Seated," "The Black Pits of Luna," "It's Great to Be Back," "' - We Also Walk Dogs,'" "Ordeal in Space," "The Green Hills of Earth," and "Logic of Empire."
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HOT JETS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-24-18
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Doomsday Book
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 26 h y 20 m
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For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure. For Dunworthy, her mentor, it is cause for intense worry about the thousands of things that could go wrong.
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Timely, beautiful, terrible and haunting
- De mudcelt en 11-02-09
De: Connie Willis
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Make Room! Make Room!
- De: Harry Harrison
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone.
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Unable to see
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-21-12
De: Harry Harrison
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Way Station
- De: Clifford D. Simak
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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In this Hugo Award-winning classic, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.
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A very special novel that will inspire you.
- De Noe en 08-08-10
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The Sparrow
- De: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: To make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
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Superbly Written and Thought-provoking
- De Jim N en 08-15-12
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Dhalgren
- De: Samuel R. Delany
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 34 h y 32 m
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Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there...the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young man - a poet, a lover, and an adventurer - known only as the Kid.
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A classic I return to every few years
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 04-08-17
De: Samuel R. Delany
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Dorsai!
- Dorsai Series, Book 1
- De: Gordon R. Dickson
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe. Donal Graeme is Dorsai, taller and harder than any ordinary man. But he is different as well, with talents that maze even his fellow Dorsai. And once he ventures out into the stars, the future will never be the same....
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35 years ago I loved this. Now it seems very thin
- De Mike en 12-29-13
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The Man Who Sold the Moon
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Buck Schirner
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Today the moon - tomorrow the stars. The Man Who Sold the Moon: A landmark volume in Heinlein’s magnificent Future History series. D. D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of Space for All Mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the stars....
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Great story but...
- De Chris en 03-30-17
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Fiasco
- De: Stanislaw Lem
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding.
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Instruction Manual
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 07-22-11
De: Stanislaw Lem
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Riverworld Saga, Book 1
- De: Philip José Farmer
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose—innocent or evil—of the Riverworld....
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Great concept, dated writing.
- De Battaglia en 08-04-11
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- Ben
- 03-04-13
Good build...peters out.
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The author built an intriguing and terrifying world and could have used it to build a better story. The book ended suddenly and left me wondering what would have happened next.
What about Dan Bittner’s performance did you like?
Very good.
Was The Space Merchants worth the listening time?
Not really. I was disappointed. I expected a better read.
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 07-20-13
You a New Crumb?
YOU DON'T GET PULLED TO VENUS, YOU GET PUSHED.
Turn off your Hypnoteleset, get your pot of Coffiest from your nightstand and listen to me rather your a Star Class or a Consumer. I am a slow reader of hard backs, so I can count on my fingers the number of hard copy books a have read more then once in the last 30 years. This book I read at least three times. I had a copy of this on cassette and I listened to it numerous times. I am so glad it is out in a new audible format. This should be on your top ten list of classic Science Fiction.
SHE WAS JUST A TOOL
This is a world taken over by advertising agencies and by corporations. Some may think it goes a little too far. I say it is spot on and is happening right now. Just before I listened to this, there was a story on the news about retail stores using cameras and face recognition to follow customers through the store and to keep track of where in the store consumers spend most of there time. This was written in 1952. One of the products talked about was called Pregnot. The pill was not approved until 1960. Another product was the Bolster Bra. Have you seen the padding in push up bras at Victoria Secret? Did you think 20 years ago that half naked women would be modeling panties and bras on TV? In the book, cops will not come investigate a crime unless you subscribe to them. Is there not places where you can not get firefighters to come out unless you subscribe to them? Are you one of the millions of people who must have caffeine in the morning, either through coffee or cola? Isn't one of the more recent books to come out, called Sugar and Salt, and doesn't it talk about how much sugar and salt is put in food, because it is addictive. One of my favorite parts of the book, is when they talk about congress. People are not represented by States. The congressmen represent companies, such as Yummy Cola. Don't many people believe that lobbyist from special interest groups and large corporations, own many of our congressmen? The president is just a figure head in this book with no power. The president is born to his position. How much power does today's president have? Until Obama didn't most of our presidents come from the same powerful families? The book has hypnotelesets and people go into a trance when they watch it. I have seen people do the same thing in front of modern television. In the book people sign a contract on the length of there marriage. Remember in 1952 it was very hard to get a divorce. How long do most marriages last today and how many times do most people marry? A big part of the book is the wide divide between Star Class (conservatives) and Consies (liberals). Is there not the largest divide today between the two?
SPLIT A SHOWER, BUD?
Pohl and Kornbluth did not get everything right. Like the Science Fiction writers of there day they thought space travel would be common place and they believed in overpopulation. Regular people don't travel to the moon or Venus and overpopulation is not what they tried to convince us it would be. Also like most writers of that time, Pohl was a huge liberal. Some of today's readers may not be able to get over there bias in that area.
The narrator did an excellent job and really got into the spirit of the book.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-05-22
Not bad. Just not how I remember it.
This was on my college Science Fiction Literature reading list in the late 70's. Written in 1952, the technology is dated. It has always been a book I wanted to re-read. The Audible version got me all of the way across Montana.
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- John Loden
- 05-06-12
a SciFic classic done really well
I picked up this scifi classic as a way to begin filling in my knowledge of works from the past that inform the genre's current status and to see what things have dropped out. Pohl's work, like Bester's, is tough to read/listen to because the central character is not the usual hero figure. That said, Pohl's vision of the future from the fifties appears to be more accurate than Asimov's, and so maybe we are a lot more like his characters than Asimov's.
The performance of the story is quite good, making the story quite followable and giving nuance where it's called for.
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- Stepping True
- 05-28-21
Entertaining Pohl Adventure. Not ‘Star Class.’
I was looking forward to listening (reading) another entertaining work of Frederick Pohl. Yet, the story is quite dated and a bit problematic in today’s world.
Also, the story has a weird and slow start. Once it gets going, it’s good. Yet, it skips over plot points that it took ‘pages’ to develop.
Recommended if you are a fan of Pohl.
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- Cool Capitalist
- 02-02-22
Funny satire, not much else
It's great satire of capitalism etc. the plot leaves something to be desired. the protagonist does develop and change, but just sort of all at once - it doesn't feel justified, really. finally, the ending seemed abrupt
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- Joel D Offenberg
- 03-25-12
Classic satiric sci-fi
Pohl & Kornbluth's Space Merchants takes place in a not-so-distant future where the world is ruled by advertising agencies. It's a very satirical take on the commercial world and its possible future, in which corporations and governments don't manage advertising---the advertisers manage the corporations and governments.
One agency has won the contract for the planet Venus --- find the colonists, create commercial enterprises, and essentially make the biggest buck possible. Opponents include competing agencies and the "Consies" (conservationists).
The plot is interesting but the value of the story is in the satire and humor value. It's not a laugh-out-loud book, more of a OK-that's-our-society-taken-to-the-max kind of humor.
Bittner's reading is pretty good...maybe a little more editing in the sound booth was needed, but OK.
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- 05-26-15
Good classic SCI-FI with a nod of things to come.
What made the experience of listening to The Space Merchants the most enjoyable?
I've been mining classic SCI-FI for a little while now, and I found the Space Merchants very refreshing. A good story set in the future, zero sexism of the era, and a fascinating look at the future from a 1950's perspective.
What did you like best about this story?
The issue of classism being addressed in the past, and in the future at the same time.
Which scene was your favorite?
Star Class!
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It definitely kept me going, and I enjoyed getting back to it when free time allowed.
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- KChurch
- 03-14-22
Solid Work
Solid corporate distopia that mostly keeps up an impressive pace. Interesting lead character whose character development could be better integrated with events. World building is pragmatic and detailed; the author may have a background in corporate sales. Recommended, but not passionately.
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- Håkan
- 01-29-13
great recollection
Where does The Space Merchants rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Among the better ones. I've listened to Good fact and this is Good fiction.I read the novel in the sixties and couldn't remember it. This was better.
What other book might you compare The Space Merchants to and why?
I like SF and Fantasy. Some of them had the theme "you can sell anything with adequate promotion."
What three words best describe Dan Bittner’s performance?
Quite Good really.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I listen 30-45 min sessions.
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