Mariposa, Greg Bear
Mariposa, Greg Bear
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Mariposa

Author: Greg Bear

Narrator: Charles Leggett

Unabridged: 11 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2009

Synopsis

In America, driven to near bankruptcy with crushing foreign debt, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story—training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government. But Talos has another plan in mind—the destruction of the federal system and constitutional law. Three FBI agents are all that stands between Talos's CEO Axel Price and the subversion of our nation. Nathan Trace, one of a team of four who created and programmed the thinking machines that are about to help Axel Price in his plans for domination, is the unlikely hero who, with Rebecca Rose, must stop the plan at all costs.

About Greg Bear

Greg Bear is an American author of more than forty books spanning the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. His science fiction works have covered themes of galactic conflict, artificial universes, consciousness and cultural practice, and accelerated evolution. His fiction has garnered five Nebula Awards, two Hugo Awards, the Monty Award, and the Heinlein Award. He has also been an illustrator of science fiction works in both hardcover and paperback. He has written articles on film for the Los Angeles Times and book reviews for the San Diego Union. He is a founding member of the Association of Science Fiction Artists and of the San Diego Comic-Con. and has served as president and vice president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He has also served as a consultant for NASA, the US Army, the State Department, and other organizations on such matters as crime and criminal justice, virology and evolution, and bio security.

About Charles Leggett

Charles Leggett, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is based in Seattle where he works onstage at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT, and Seattle Shakespeare Company, among many others. His voice work is also featured in the first two Dungeon Siege video games as well as in Hoyle’s Casino Empire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan

I wanted to give this 3.5 stars - as a novel, it's a procedural thing like Quantico, but extra interest is added because we encounter the origins of elements of Queen Of Angels: a two-year-old Mary Choy, the beginnings of Therapy and of Thinker technology, Colonel Sir John Yardley and William Raphki......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

This is a tad bit mind blowing. The way things are going, the story and events depicted here could be us in a very few years. It is unfortunately easy to visualize this kind of future, with security corporations taking over, the Government bankrupt and totally ineffective, states pulling out of the......more

Quotes

“Bear balances threat and promise as he weaves his characters’ stories together surely, skillfully, daringly, using exactly the right amount of tension, pulling their threads together into a net that traps and holds his readers captive to his startling yet veracious imagination.” Seattle Times

“Under less capable hands, the extraordinarily complicated plot, numbers of characters, and the constant explanations of future technologies might lead to terminal turgidity, but SF veteran Bear keeps everything whizzing right along to the slam-bang conclusion.” Publishers Weekly

“Charles Leggett helps keep the complicated plot moving with a powerful voice that is rich with sincerity and, occasionally, menace.” AudioFile

“A fast-moving thriller that posits an absolutely convincing and utterly frightening future.” Booklist

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