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Zero Day Code
- End of Days, Book 1
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,396
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,286
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,278
Every modern city has one week’s worth of food to feed itself. Then it will collapse. Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve. In Zero Day Code we see those immense and open, hyper-complex, networked supercities of the new millennium die. And in the last moments we see their vengeance take form as all the best and worst traits of humanity bubble to the surface.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nobody can destroy the world like John Birmingham
- By Elana Mitchell on 04-07-2019
- Zero Day Code
- End of Days, Book 1
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
A great yarn
Reviewed: 29-09-2020
A pretty much non stop action adventure. I enjoyed the premise which isn’t far off the chaos we saw in places during the early stages of covid 19.
Plenty of food for thought. Pun intended. Good characters, good to hear an Aussie narrator doing good Yank voices and pretty good Aussie ones too! :-)
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Agency
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times best-selling The Peripheral, a gifted "app-whisperer", hired to beta test a mysterious new product, finds her life endangered by her relationship with her surprisingly street-smart and combat-savvy "digital assistant".
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5 out of 5 stars
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For me, Agency is his best since Neuromancer
- By willb on 30-03-2020
- Agency
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
For me, Agency is his best since Neuromancer
Reviewed: 30-03-2020
I have waited a long time for Gibson to really hit his straps again. Way back in '84 when I read Neuromancer for the first time, it triggered my brain plasticity, much as a VR headset does for many first time users today. In Agency, Gibson took me for a ride I didn't know I wanted and his premonition about pandemics couldn't be more apt. His handling of a powerful AI was exciting for me and the "forks in the road" almost reminded me of Aldiss's Barefoot in the Head.
The narrator did a pretty good job with the accents and characters, but I'm picky and some pronunciations annoyed me a little, but that is a small thing as I found it an enjoyable experience and I'm looking forward to more like this from Mr Gibson.
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