Heart of the Comet

Name: Heart of the Comet
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: David Brin
ISBN: 9781481514774

Author: David Brin, Gregory Benford

Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir, P. J. Ochlan, Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 21 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 03/24/2015

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Gregory Benford and David Brin come together in this bold collaboration about our near human future in spacePrescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one of the great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells the story of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley's Comet, alter its orbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells—that might once have brought life to Earth—begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's future—and that of Earth—only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.

About David Brin

David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant, and winner of the Freedom of Speech Award. His novels—including Earth, The Postman, Startide Rising, and Kiln People—have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. He lives near San Diego, California.

About Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science in 1995 and the Asimov Memorial Award for popularizing science in 2007. He has written numerous works of science fiction, receiving a Nebula Award and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel Timescape.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.

About P. J. Ochlan

P. J. Ochlan is an Audie Award–winning, multiple Earphones Award–winning, and Voice Arts Award–nominated narrator of hundreds of audiobooks. His acting career spans more than thirty years and has also included Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival under Joseph Papp, critically acclaimed feature films, and television series regular roles.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on January 25, 2023

Grand, sweeping ideas exquisitely detailed on a grand, sweeping canvas! Never let it be said that Gregory Benford or David Brin were thinking small or holding anything back when they wrote this masterpiece which I am pleased to add to my all-time favourites list. HEART OF THE COMET is a brilliant vari......more

Goodreads review by Dirk on October 05, 2023

He remembered it in grainy detail, despite the seven crowded years that had passed since. Years of learning how space really worked—not the geometric certainty of math and physics classes, where every problem had a pure solution in an orderly universe. Not the serene world of that distant, unattaina......more

Goodreads review by Lavendersbluegreen on October 09, 2010

Ahhhh. A most amazing science fiction / social novel. I felt the need to reread this and wow better than ever! My old paperback copy is falling apart... This is a powerful story, a vision of our solar system that is the drama of Grey's Anatomy meets Star Trek meets well heck this is so different.........more

Goodreads review by Emily on September 15, 2011

I put off reading this book for a very long time, for mathematical reasons. David Brin is one of my absolute favorite writers; let's say my opinion of him is a 9 out of 10 (and nobody gets a 10). Gregory Benford was an unknown quantity, but probability told me that I wouldn't like his writing as muc......more

Goodreads review by Chris on May 21, 2008

A very decent hard SF read. People colonize Haley's Comet. There are factions and intrigue. Wackiness ensues.......more

Quotes

“Tremendously imaginative…A breathtaking effort from two of science fiction’s brightest stars.” San Diego Union-Tribune

“A literary conjunction of two of the brightest stars in the science fiction firmament.” Los Angeles Times