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The Hole

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The Hole

By: Brandon Q. Morris
Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
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A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid.

When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.

©2019 Brandon Q. Morris (P)2019 Tantor
Adventure Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Outcast
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Explanation of the solution was inadequate. It would have been more satisfying narrative with more detail.

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Great sci fi story telling

This was an enjoyable listen. The story was engrossing but not bogged down by excessive detail and explanations like some hard sci fi. The characters are interesting and my only critique is that I wanted to know more about the main ones to round them out in my head.

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It was all going so well...

Genuinely interesting premise and I'd got a few hours in and was intrigued as to how this "Hard Science Fiction" story was going to deal with an apparently impossible situation of a black hole destroying all life.

Then out of the blue, the hero scientist suddenly remembers that billion year old wise alien living on the moon or something, why don't we ask that.

Given this is akin to invoking Gandalf I stopped listening and deleted.

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Exceptional story, unexceptionally told.

The concept ticked a lot of boxes for me, and I eagerly dived into this book. The story did not disappoint, from early on I wanted to see how this ended. Sadly, the writing was workmanlike at best. The characterisations and dialogue were especially bad. The players in this story seem to have been written by someone who doesn't get out much and can only imagine how people interact. Some of the behaviour exhibited later just does not fit the characters developed earlier on. The career focussed astronomer becoming a damsel in distress just didn't ring true and neither did the overwhelming, reason affecting, romance that developed between the main character and her cartoon counterpart. Cixin Liu this is not.

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interesting and cozy

learned a lot about space related theories. kept me interested the whole way. likable chatacters

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very enjoyable

some great characters and story. plus the performance was ace would recommend to anybody looking for a quick listen

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The Hole... Had plenty of holes.

Not his best work, poor on the ending too. Almost as if the author had given up the story only to finish it as fast as he could.

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Good performance with intriguing premise

Excellent performance, I enjoyed the premise, but the prose was very simple and the climax anti-climactic.

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A four dimensional universe with two dimensional characters, hardly hard science fiction.

I won't share the basic premise of the story, spoilers darling, but the maguffin is guff. The universe, well our universe, doesn't work the way the author thinks it does.

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Great story, good pace and great characters

Really enjoyed this well written and narrated story. Characters are likeable and full and it’s optimistic despite being tense. Plenty of science and cosmological elements to keep sci-Fi fans, like me, happy.
Some hilarious moments to be had with Siri and Alexa if you don’t use headphones to listen! :D

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