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Heart of the Comet by David Brin & Gregory Benford
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Heart of the Comet

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Length 21 hours 24 minutes
Language English
Narrators Gabrielle de Cuir, P. J. Ochlan & Stefan Rudnicki

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Gregory Benford and David Brin come together in this bold collaboration about our near human future in space

Prescient 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 cellsā€”that might once have brought life to Earthā€”begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battle over the comet's futureā€”and that of Earthā€”only love, courage, and ingenuity can avert disaster and spark a new human destiny.

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

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.

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Cardā€™s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guinā€™s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angierā€™s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazineā€™s Golden Earphones Award.Ā  She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.

P. J. Ochlan is an actor and voiceover artist who has narrated hundreds of audiobooks and is the recipient of an Audie Award and several AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFileā€™s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Cardā€™s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

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ā€œTremendously imaginativeā€¦A breathtaking effort from two of science fictionā€™s brightest stars.ā€

ā€œA literary conjunction of two of the brightest stars in the science fiction firmament.ā€

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