

Undertow
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 10/10/2008
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 10/10/2008
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series, the Edda of Burdens series, and coauthor (with Sarah Monette) of the Iskryne series. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
As the name might suggest, this sci-fi thriller sucked me in with the promise of revolution against human colonizers on a planet styled after the Louisiana bayous, and kept pulling me along with the constant twists and reveals about characters’ identities and loyalties, as well as the tech at play a......more
So my kid has this ridiculously awesome car. It’s a Chrysler 300, it has those ridiculously stupid, or awesome, I can’t decide which, wheels that all them kids are crazy for these days. You know, where it is the illusion of being all rim with just the thinnest sheen of rubber that passes for a ‘tire......more
One sentence: Solid writing, nicely foreign future, good speculative use of the human impact of quantum physics, oddly un-foreign aliens. I liked that the aliens, "ranids" or froggies in the vernacular, didn't have a species name. They call themselves "people" as most people do. Only the humans calle......more
I'm finding myself having to revise my opinion of Elizabeth Bear. I read her "Blood and Iron" for my book club in 2006, and really didn't like it very much. But I was told, "Her sf is much better than this venture into fantasy" - (I should mention here that I have this vague feeling that I then read......more