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Existence

By: David Brin
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
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Best-selling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence.

Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact". Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer - a message in a bottle, an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.

©2012 David Brin (P)2012 Audible, Inc. First Contact Science Fiction Fiction
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I like a book with alot more action and alot less philosophy i also found it quite annoying in places especially the rasta man !
So not my thing but some people might like it.

Not my thing

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Kept me amused and coming back for more - got a little weary half way through with some of the inevitability of the story line and then picked up at the end with a lesson on life I guess you could say. Overall this was well worth listening to if you enjoy an intelligent tale of a possible future. I see from other reviews that I should try Earth next.

Not such a sad existence

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

It's a great story, well told

What was one of the most memorable moments of Existence?

I realised about 10 minutes in that this is his best book since "Earth". While Brin has been reasonably prolific in terms of output, I first discovered him via "Earth" and was then somewhat let down by other books which had a very different feel. If you liked "Earth" you'll absolutely adore this.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

Well delivered, good pace.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It's a long book and as it was so good I found myself almost wanting to 'ration' myself to a few hours a day while on holiday!

Best novel since "Earth"

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Brilliantly written book in content and style, and Entertaining! and first class production - 'nuff said

Brilliants Book and Entertaining

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What a fantastic book! I loved it's structure. Excellently complicated each character could have their own book. The whole thing could of easily been a trilogy of books.

Right up my street

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