A runaway planet hurtles toward Earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed Earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But when Logan meets and falls in love with Jessica, he begins to question the very system he swore to protect and soon they're both running for their lives.
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.
As an immense cloud of gas enters the solar system, it blocks the sun, threatening to wipe out most of life on Earth. In Britain, a team of scientists gathers at a secret location to deal with the crisis. But as the months pass, what they learn will challenge everything they believe about the nature of life and the universe.
The story of The Tripods was the basis of a popular BBC television series in the 1980s, where humanity has been conquered and enslaved by "the tripods", unseen alien entities that travel about in gigantic three-legged walking machines.
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
Uncanny prediction of today's world of automation.
although slow and tiring, it is very personal and quite emotional, as it attempts to paint a great picture of life with extraterrestials, that differs from the conventional 'bogeyish' depictions of such a life.
If you could sum up Dawn in three words, what would they be?
For years I read Octavia E. Butlers books and then I stopped and now Audible is giving me a chance to re-read (or better: listen to) books I had already read decades ago but also to listen to books I did not know.
Xenogenesis is a group of 3 books that I had not read before and it's great.
This one in particular, the first one, it definitely the best because it introduces the Oankali and their culture.
Which character – as performed by Aldrich Barrett – was your favourite?
thanks for producing these audiobooks!!
The plot is good but all the human characters are angry and annoying which likely they would be in their situation but not one of them appears to accept it, even the main character who's attitude is wholly aggressive and negative. I will likely progress with the 2nd book but I just hope that it steers the characters toward a more positive demeanour.
I can say I loved this story, it has a lot of highs and lows that really affected me, while I cannot say I will get the rest of the series, I will likely hold onto this one for a long time. It was a little too much for me to want to go past this point so I think I will let the story end with this one, especially as the preview included did not really stir my hunger for more. I highly reccomend it, I feel down and sad by the end, but I will still listen to it because of how thoroughly I enjoyed it.
The story is quite good, the narration is calming but i have never met a bunch of more sullen whiny human being in my life. They are uniformly annoying alternating from petulant teenagers to irrational idiots. Give the book a go but i defy you not to root for our alien overlords within a couple of chapters .
Octavia Butler is an excellent modern sci fi writer. A female writer with skill & perseverance in the craft to match Ursula la Quinne. This series from a perspective of a human being part of a fusing with an alien race. Narrator very good. Looking forward to the next part of the story.
Great Sci fi. Very intriguing. Body horror galore!
I am required to write 20 words so that I can get past this screen.