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A Closed and Common Orbit: Booktrack Edition

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
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A Closed and Common Orbit: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shutdown and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never felt so alone.

But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over.

Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty.

Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

©2016 Becky Chambers (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction
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Loved the story of Jane and Awl
Love the focus on the good and the right
Love the daily life with it’s all those small-large and ideas

Touching

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Becky and Patricia are wonderful story tellers. Even better than the first. Thank you Becky.

Amazing.

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The characters' voices were all really well performed in this performance! The music added emotion to particular moments (though it sometimes hinted at a happy resolution to a tense conversation).

A really thoughtful lens into two surprisingly similar lives.

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A smaller cast than the first, and it incorporates a time jump into the story but the same wonderful journey. I loved every second!!

Different than the first, but on par in terms of quality!!!

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great in all three areas. some good unexpected bits. fabulous imagination and technical bits. get the booktracj version for the extra sound effects very interesting

brilliant !!

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She has constructed a fascinating universe and it has been beautifully brought to life by the excellent narrator.
Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Another excellent Becky Chambers book.

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sometimes the music was too loud or distracting, and sometimes not quite appropriate for the content, but mostly it was amazing. everything about the book was perfect of course - i love all becky's writing so that is a given.

i absolutely loved everything about this story!

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An engaging and well thought out venture into artificial intelligence and cloning.

This story series exist in the same universe as book 1, but hardly overlaps which I found disappointing.

Naration was excellent.

Background audio adds value when in a "busy marketplace" or similar, but in general is distracting. Audio engineer should consider only adding background when it enhances the story, and not try to "find something" to fill track 2 on the audio mixer.

Interesting side story

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Loved the first book but cannot get into this one. Also don’t like the music background.

Confusing

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