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Permafrost
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
A Locus Award Finalist for Best Novella
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.
2080: At a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox.
2028: A young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head...an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own - one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one.
Does she resist...or become a collaborator?
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- Steve
- 23-08-19
Usual high calibre material from this author
Alastair Reynolds has become one of my favourite authors and it was not until I went away to try material from other writers and came back that I was reminded of his quality.. I usually avoid shorter stories but I was intrigued by the summary of Permafrost. I was not disappointed. Natasha Soudek was an inspired choice of narrator to convey the bleak Russian backdrop and characters. Reynolds applied a moving and measured ending to the story, which could so easily have been spoiled with an up-beat one, which it certainly was not. Good stuff.
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- Drew
- 11-07-19
At last a descent time travel book.
A really interesting take.
Not your run of the mill time travel book.
Just the right length.
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- DENNIS
- 09-11-19
SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO USUAL SPACE OPERA
ENJOYABLE TIME TRAVEL STORY WITH A TWIST,NOT QUITE AT HIS USUAL FIVE STAR LEVEL BUT A DEFINITE FOUR STAR PLUS.
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- David
- 29-06-19
Interesting but did not enjoy
It was well read but the story did not grab me. The mother's character was developed a little and left out to dry.
The recording was in one four hour chunk so was difficult to manage when I inadvertently left it running.
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- MR K.
- 04-07-19
Not good
Dreary fake Russian accent narration married with worse Alastair Reynolds’ plot ever - not my best Audible purchase - will make effort to listen to previews in future or play safe and just buy RC Bray stuff!
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