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ApK · 06-01-2015, 10:56 AM

I need help spending my last Audible.com credit.

With so many rent/borrow sources available, I want to spend it on something that is worth owning and re-reading.

I've recently enjoyed "The Martian" and Mike Flynn's "Firestar" series, and (surprisingly, for me) Cory Doctorow's "The Man Who Sold the Moon" and I'm still in the mood for stories based on science and tech that are predicatively possible in the near future, and which are based in a Gene-Roddenberry-like positive view of the future.

Any thoughts?
Anyone know much about the Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, or the up coming Ernest Cline novel?

06-01-2015, 10:56 AM	#1
ApK Award-Winning Participant Posts: 7,396 Karma: 68715774 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle	Please recommend some, near-future, non-dystopian hard sf Audible book! I need help spending my last Audible.com credit. With so many rent/borrow sources available, I want to spend it on something that is worth owning and re-reading. I've recently enjoyed "The Martian" and Mike Flynn's "Firestar" series, and (surprisingly, for me) Cory Doctorow's "The Man Who Sold the Moon" and I'm still in the mood for stories based on science and tech that are predicatively possible in the near future, and which are based in a Gene-Roddenberry-like positive view of the future. Any thoughts? Anyone know much about the Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, or the up coming Ernest Cline novel? Last edited by ApK; 06-01-2015 at 12:16 PM.