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World Engines: Destroyer

A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

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World Engines: Destroyer

By: Stephen Baxter
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Penelope Rawlins
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 Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident.

As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet.

Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own, and a plan...©2019 Stephen Baxter Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Time Travel Fiction Aviation

Critic Reviews

This is space opera on a vast scale, backed up by Baxter's customary impressive research as he seamlessly weaves planetary exploration, genome reconstruction, climate change, artifi cial intelligence and much more into the compulsively readable narrative. The opening volume of a projected series, it's Baxter at his very best.
It's another triumph for Baxter. A page turner that not only fascinates on an intellectual level, but on a science fiction thriller level too.
You can rely on Stephen Baxter to come up with solid science fiction that does everything you'd expect a bit of classic sci-fi to do.
Hard SF science smarts... yet is great fun too.
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The story could of been really entertaining the possibilities of the story line are numerous.
But at times I felt as if I were been treated as a child and listening to a childs book.
I did not like the narration the British accents were heinous.

Disappointing

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I have been searching for a great story for a while, especially after “we are legion, we are bob” and this really hit the spot, I wonder if the is a nod to Cixin Liu in here, you’ll see what I mean when you read it. Anyway, onto the next book. Oh, one more thing, why isn’t the manifold series available on Audible?

Wonderful!

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Without giving much away this book is the continuation of the Stephen Baxter Manifold Series(if you've read them there is a few Easter eggs) and should be considered as book 4... I'm disappointed that the rest of the Manifold books aren't on Audible at the moment... Stephen Baxter's as normal is near perfect stories of the future

a Continuation of Manifold Series

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The concept, plot, character building are all a tribute to the author. The story is a slow burn, so good for listening to while driving (or doing farm work in my case)
The narration on the whole is ok, but the narrator struggles to portray male characters without sounding cartoonish. Oddly, a male narrator is used in the first part of the audio book and is not heard again. This was confusing.

Great story, average narration

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