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  • The Boat of a Million Years

  • By: Poul Anderson
  • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)

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By: Poul Anderson
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Summary

Others have written science fiction on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on—unaging, undying—through the centuries and millennia. This story follows them over two thousand years, up to our time and beyond—to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.

A milestone in modern science fiction and a New York Times Notable Book when first published in 1989, this is one of a great writer’s finest works.
©1989 Poul Anderson (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Space
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“Succeeds admirably!” ( New York Times)

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An old favourite

This is a classic. One of my favourite books, twice read. I enjoyed the reading, though not all the accents were always entirely convincing to me.

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CONFUSING

What disappointed you about The Boat of a Million Years?

Kept jump around to much hard to follow

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Alastiar Reynods

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Narrtar Did his best but the book was too confusing

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Nothing

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a long book. Do not like the reader

I like the idea of the book. But it has its lengths and the reader is terrible.

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