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Oracle
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
An interstellar war is racing toward an unsuspecting Earth. Can one young woman stop it before it's too late?
LA detective Anna Abbott can see brief, cryptic visions of the future. She just doesn't know it yet. But others do. Others who will stop at nothing to ensure that her abilities never see the light of day.
Soon Anna is fighting for her life against an array of powerful adversaries, and not all of them are human. Because a small group of aliens hiding on Earth believe that she can single-handedly alter the course of an interstellar war. One that has raged for thousands of years, but which is completely unknown to humankind.
Until now.
But even if Anna can beat the odds and stay alive, the greatest threat of all awaits: a super-intelligent species determined to prevent humanity from achieving its evolutionary destiny - at any cost.
Oracle is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller. One packed with breathtaking action, startling revelations, and mind-blowing science, including a scientific rationale for clairvoyance itself.
"Richards is an extraordinary writer," (Dean Koontz) who can "keep you turning the pages all night long." (Douglas Preston)
"Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton." (SFBook.com)
Near future science-fiction thrillers by Douglas E. Richards
Stand-alones
Quantum Lens
Game Changer
Infinity Born
Seeker
Veracity
Oracle
Series
Wired (Wired 1)
Amped (Wired 2)
Mind's Eye (Nick Hall 1)
Brainweb (Nick Hall 2)
Mind War (Nick Hall 3)
Split Second (Split Second 1)
Time Frame (Split Second 2)
Kids' science fiction thrillers (nine and up, enjoyed by kids and adults alike)
Trapped (Prometheus Project 1)
Captured (Prometheus Project 2)
Stranded (Prometheus Project 3)
Out of This World
Devil's Sword
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- K. Tye
- 24-10-19
Superb book!
I loved every minute of listening to this book. Douglas is a masterful storyteller who researches his science relentlessly, then embellishes it to make a fast paced and entertaining read/listen. On the back of listening to this book and his book Split Second, I have gone ahead and purchased 2 more. If they are half as good as this one was I will be more than satisfied. Keep up the good work Doug!
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-11-20
Coincidences happen, but not as often as this.
I have read a lot of comics through the years and one the common factors in most of them is the over reliance on coincidence. The cavalry come over the hill, just in time. The good guys develop the winning technology, just in time. The bad guys have overwhelming numbers, but they are poor planners or over confident or their tech has a flaw they were unaware of. Finally and worst of all, there is an unlikely traitor in the midst of the conflict (either side, doesn't matter). In a comic it's acceptable, in a book it's not.
When the fortuitous chances occur in every other chapter it begins to feel like laziness or sloppy planning. "I've written myself up a dead end" says the author. "Aah the invisibilty tech will help, I can say they just perfected the personal version last week." "But hold on, now the genius tactician I wrote is using it to win the war outright." "A traitor in the otherwise homogenous, perfectly balanced and benevolent aliens will do the trick."
The above is a simplification of one key point in a book that is riddled with such convenient twists. I realy wanted to see how this played out but the stacking up of helpful tech and traits alternating with the broad brush evil bad guys just became too much. The antagonists can almost be heard making evil laugh sounds at the end of every sentence, Mwahaha.
By halfway through the book I guessed the probable plot lines and stopped caring.
The performance by the reader was as good as could be expected given the material.
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