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Slow Time Between the Stars

The Far Reaches Collection

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Slow Time Between the Stars

By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: Kay Eluvian
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About this listen

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human potential—and its own purpose—in a mind-bending short story by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi.

Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, and—with a perspective created but not limited by humans—what it should do.

John Scalzi’s Slow Time Between the Stars is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.

©2023 John Scalzi. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Space Exploration Space Interstellar Heartfelt Transportation

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From multi volume world building sagas to short interesting ideas turned novellas such as this I find the stories of John Scalzi always enjoyable and somehow subversive.
This pace of this story is slow, there is the inevitable twist in the plot and it is a wonderful antidote to the fast paced action of so many other tales.
Beautifully narrated too.

Slow paced and most enjoyable

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beautiful short story about A.I. Morales, ethics, filosophy etc.
Well tought deep but light.
once again Mr.Scalzi shows us that he can do sonmuch More than just funny light comedy.
all and all this was really enjoyable and exactly right lenght tough way too short...😂
More stuff like this thank you.

Yes!

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Enjoyed this! I wasn’t 100% on the narrator, however, he has a great voice and cadence to go to sleep to!

Good short story

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Very interesting ideas. Engaging and slightly chilling character, humour and critical thinking and kindness. Very thought provoking. A decent performance but rather mannered and slightly irritating delivery.

Loved it

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I enjoyed the story, in a way the fact nothing happens is the point. The performance was a little too theatrical, louche in fact. It did however grow on me :-)

As with other reviewers, the story was entertaining if a little drawn out, the reading was too theatrical for the subject matter

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A bit more introspective than we usually get from JS but enjoyable and interesting. Worth an hour of anyone’s time.

A different Scalzi

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Really enjoyed the story in particular the narration that brought it alive, great choice of narrator

Best narration ever

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I'm a big Scalzi fan, so picked this up as soon as I saw it.

Unfortunately, the narration is incredibly poor quality.

She oscillates between sounding like she's dripping with contempt to just tailing off at the end of every other sentence.

The stress is placed on odd words, or missed when the word would be expected to receive inflection, making the reading confusing and inconsistent.

I love getting into new narrators, so was excited to give this a listen, but in the end, I couldn't give it more than 5 minutes and will be refunding this title.

To me, it sounded as though Kay had a bored disdain for the book she was reading, and nothing could be a bigger turn-off to me as a listener, I couldn't get my head around it.

I will find a few more books she's narrated, as she seems to have a good back catalogue behind her, perhaps this was a one-off where she had a bad day or just plain didn't like the book.

The book itself, I will read on my Kindle, I don't want to miss a Scalzi story just on this basis.

Definitely a 'no' for me, though, and a sad one at that.

Unlistenable narration ruins this recording.

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Have very much enjoyed some of Scalzi’s other work like Old Man’s War and the The Dispatcher series but sadly this didn’t do it for me at all.

Didn’t enjoy the story or performance

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