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Galaxias
- Narrated by: Remmie Milner
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
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- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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What would happen to the world if the sun went out?
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-10-2021
Great premise.. didn’t deliver.
Disappointed. I don’t want to give away spoilers, but I think the publishers description was a bit misleading. All the action occurred in the first chapter. Yep the sun disappeared! But was then returned 24hrs later.
What happened? Well the rest of the book was a series of meetings and conferences where the main characters discuss that very question and decide what to do about it. It was incredibly bland. The characters where nice, and bland. There were bland references to the ongoing impact of the suns disappearance on earth. There mild bland political disagreements between major world powers.
The narrator was ok. I liked her voice, she didn’t attempt any accents so there was no differentiation between voices, which was ok. Until weirdly in the last quarter of the book she managed to produce a southern US accent for a minor character. I think she also changed the pronunciation of a persons name late in the book too.
I only finished it because I was intrigued about the conclusion, even that was disappointing.
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- Jason
- 28-12-2021
One of his best in a long time.
Very enjoyable, easily one of his best in a long time. Lots of interesting ideas make it quite thought provoking imo.
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- CJ in Colorado
- 26-10-2021
Not a bad idea for a story.
The story's premise is a good one although it seemed to me that more time was spent on touchy feely interactions than any substantial scientific story. Also, it was difficult to tell which character was talking at any given time since one of the characters name sounded to like the pronoun 'she' and the narrator had no variance in the voices. I would probably get a refund except that the idea behind the book was a good one.
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- Lee Thompson
- 19-01-2022
Disappointing Book & Narrator
The story has an interesting concept but the execution is, unfortunately, not very good. The story moves at a glacial pace with forgettable characters. Worse, a lot of concepts and situations get reiterated over and over again.
The narrator is adequate but does not provide any voices for the characters, except for a minor character that appears late in the story. Inexplicably the British narrator does a full character voice in a Texan drawl for this one character and ignores everyone else.
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- tambeb
- 28-12-2021
Disappointing because I've loved his other stuff
It starts out ok but quickly becomes a weird slog that isn't sci-fi anymore.
I fully loved the Time Odyssey series and the Proxima/Ultima series and was really disappointed.
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- C. Wese
- 14-12-2021
Couldn't finish
Very disappointed in this author. I have always loved his earlier novels. This novel is just some woke introspective dribble. He has managed to shoe horn in a current social talking point into every piece of the story.
Not much to see here folks, move along
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- LU
- 07-11-2021
Horrible narrator
The Narrator has no range. All the male characters sound like women. This distracts from the richness of the storyline which is quite good. In fact the storyline is one of the best I’ve ever heard but it’s really diminished by poor narration.
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- Jake Sang
- 29-10-2021
This is what I've been waiting for?
This is a disappointment. I've enjoyed Stephen Baxter in the past. The time Odyssey stuff with Arthur C Clarke's were impressive and I was kind of hoping for lightning to strike twice. This story religious logs and drags on. I kept waiting for the climax and it just feels like it never comes. Also the choice of narrator was ill-advised. I'm sure she's fine and some other context but here she is just so banal and uninteresting. Monotone. She's like the female Wil Wheaton. I feel like she was hired for her identity and not her actual skill. And it's painful what a disappointment wasted a credit on this after waiting months in anticipation.
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- hobbes
- 13-12-2021
Big ideas drowned by small characters and baffling narration.
As usual with Baxter's work there are huge, mind blowing ideas here. And also as usual with Baxter they're hidden behind weirdly stilted unrealistic dialogue serving as exposition.
Usually that's bearable, however the narrator has made the baffling choice of not putting any character into the characters. It's read in a steady tone without accent, inflection or changes in pitch, so every voice is exactly the same. It therefore becomes impossible to follow who is speaking. This is compounded by one of the (male) character's names being pronounced "she"
Fine if you're looking at words on the page, maddeningly confusing if you're not and the narrator refuses to differentiate etween characters.
All in all its a fairly ordinarily book made less good by poor choices from the narrator.
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- Pete+Heather
- 07-02-2022
Good premise bad execution
A great start. The Sun disappears. WOW!
Unfortunately I was quickly irritated by bloated, boring and plain irrelevant interactions between the characters in the book and the drivel they constantly harped on about.
Add a ton of - again irrelevant - blundering around a political landscape which offers no real value to the plot development, an unrealistic solution to the threat and one of the worst endings I have ever read in a Sci Fi book meant this was a real miss for me. It felt like the author realised he had run out of words (or the will to live writing the book) and threw in a bodged ending to get rid of the book.
Sadly I didn't like the narration also. It felt as if the narrator was reading a book to a 12 year old. I've read a lot of Baxter from years ago and I do rate his earlier work highly but this is not up to scratch.
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- Basil Lange
- 19-04-2022
not the book for me
Trying to into the story. it's not grabbing. the intonation of the reader. the many names. Liked the intro and the concept. But I'm halfway now and the book never got rolling. Have read several Stephen Baxter books and loved them and came out with new ideas. This just makes me want to reread three body problem....
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