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Grone
- Legends of the Known Arc, Book 1
- Narrated by: Nikola Hamilton, Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
JOURNEY INTO THE DARK HEART OF THE MACHINE--AND TO THE FARTHEST REACHES OF THE GALAXY...
TWO HOSPITAL BEDS in a Stanford University lab. Two still figures, attached by bundles of cables to the experimental QARMA supercomputer. Analise and Wolfe are true scientific pioneers, the first humans to ever leave the shells of their physical bodies to explore an entirely new virtual universe beyond time and space. But their creation, the most vivid VR metaverse ever envisioned, has come under attack.
ON A CROWDED MANHATTAN STREET, a young woman materializes within a pillar of fire. Does the arrival of this mysterious stranger correspond to the unprecedented swarm of sunspots that has turned noontime to twilight, or the auroras that ripple across daytime skies, or the regular micro-tremors that have begun to ring the Earth's crust like a church bell?
IN A SUBURBAN CALIFORNIA BASEMENT, fifteen-year-old Fiona Martinez is playing an online video game. The phone rings. A stranger is calling. “Please don’t hang up,” the man pleads. “You’re about to be approached by a character in your game. She’s hurt. You must keep her safe, at all costs. Do you understand? Help her, or she’ll die. Help her, or we’ll all die.”
. . .The first volume of the Legends of the Known Arc Trilogy, GRONE is a groundbreaking mix of hard-SF, LitRPG and space opera that the Seattle Book Review calls "AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE OF SCIENCE FICTION."
Inspired by the thick-and-thoughtful cyberpunk and space opera epics from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Neal Stephenson and Dan Simmons, GRONE is a fast-paced adventure set in a world where the ambitious experiments of a game developer, a neuroscientist and a physicist have created a virtual universe more real than our own, but in the process may have aroused a vast and unimaginably powerful cosmological force that jealously guards the powers of creation.
Immerse yourself in the grand tapestry of GRONE, and see why critics call Patrick Cumby "A MASTER STORYTELLER."
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- Mr Jeremy Gray
- 02-01-24
thrilling and captivating story, could not put it down.
I really loved everything about this book, A brilliant and exciting story, I cannot wait for whatever happens next.
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- JonnyD
- 18-05-24
Wow! Hooked from the start.
Amazing! It’s been a very long time since I found a book which had such new and unusual concepts.
The story hooked me immediately, and having the two narrators offering alternating perspectives was another refreshing direction.
I lost sleep listening to this one when I should have been asleep 😂
Roll on book two!
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- Sheila Sanderson
- 16-10-23
Disappointed at sudden ending
The ending didn’t feel like a natural pause. It’s a long story and I’m not sure I have the commitment to carry on.
I know it’s a series but…
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- Mr.G
- 21-10-23
So…. Where do we next?
Yep, it was good. If you like sci-fi and are happy to let your imagination go, then be transported to another world. Im looking forward to book two !
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- Sean Kearon
- 04-01-24
A vivid and outstanding creation
At first, when I realised that a large part of the story orbited around a video game, I found it a little hard to get into the story. I thought that it might weaken how the whole story hung together. Thinking of the Seattle Book Review's comment that this was "a masterpiece of science fiction", I continued and soon realised that the folks in Seattle were very likely right!
This is easily one of the best pieces of sci-fi that I've ever come across in any format. The universe hangs together incredibly well, the story is gripping at every stage, and the whole thing is thought-provoking. The performances from both Nikola Hamilton and Jennifer Jill Araya are superb and the change of voices throughout the book adds to the sense of movement through the universe.
I cannot wait for the next book!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-02-24
good idea but less physics or biology details
overall good. less physics or biology details would be better. some of them don't make sense and make the story annoying.
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- Fernando Calçada
- 19-03-24
I. NEED. MORE!
Gods.. great writing and even greater narrators. can't wait for the next one. thanks audible for the recommendation.
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