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Walking to Aldebaran
- Narrated by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
I'M LOST. I'M SCARED. AND THERE'S SOMETHING HORRIBLE IN HERE.
My name is Gary Rendell. I'm an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, "astronaut, please!" I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw.
I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived.
Now I'm lost, and alone, and scared, and there's something horrible in here.
Lucky me.
Lucky, lucky, lucky.
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- Bob Conrod
- 10-11-23
Short but sweet
I wouldn’t say this is my favorite book by this author by any means, but it was good. Short but sweet.
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- The haunt
- 08-11-23
Short amusing story
Overall it was very good for the time it gave itself, it was simple, funny, smart and generally good.
Adrian himself eas the perfect author for this book also!
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- Addy
- 10-09-23
Unexpectedly funny
Hard to write a review without spoilers but the style and storytelling was very engaging, and I wasn’t expecting the humour.
The narration was also the best I’ve come across so far and really enhanced the story, Another reviewer commented the brief bit of Scottish accent is terrible. It is - but it’s the monologue of an English man who can’t do a good Scottish accent either so I don’t see the problem.
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- AA
- 05-09-23
The author should read more of his titles
I enjoyed his narration far more than one of his professional narrators. Story was interesting and amusing. I don’t think I have read or listened to any of his books that I haven’t enjoyed.
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- Blueyedwolf69
- 09-04-23
Essence of Grendel
Humorous and despairing in equal measure but an enjoyable short yarn. Man’s futility against the cosmos on display in the usual great prose from Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Adrian is also a great narrator for this tale.
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- MR T EADY
- 03-10-23
Best thing I've heard on Plus
This feels a lot like a classic sci-fi novela but in the modern era and the author does a great job of reading it.
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- B. Shaw
- 29-01-23
Enjoyed that.
Short but sweet with a nice twist towards the end. I thought the author's narration of his own work was excellent.
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- giffin
- 07-02-23
Epic short hard sci fi story
Excellent hard sci fi about the likely reality of space travel and first contact, Made me feel hungry with all the descriptions of eating aliens..
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- H
- 15-05-23
Engaging
Enjoyed this short story and will now look for others by this author who narrated it very well.
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- Evan H
- 04-03-23
Tchaikovsky doing what he does best.
Walking to Aldebaran puts us in the shoes of an astronaut stranded on an alien artifact, which has appeared mysteriously at the edge of the solar system, as his mind and very nature are stretched beyond what might be reasonably described as human.
Tchaikovsky seems to excel at placing us in profoundly alien minds, and making the reader care deeply about them, this same skill is utilised to different ends here, bordering on the realm of existentialist horror, but whatever it is, it's really good. His performance of his own work is thoroughly entertaining also.
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