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The Doors of Eden
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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The Doors of Eden
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Summary
They thought we were safe. They were wrong.
Lee and Mal went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor four years ago, and only Lee came back. She thought she’d lost Mal forever, now miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has Mal been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn’t gone unnoticed by MI5 either, and their officers also have questions.
Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power – and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor.
Dr Khan’s research was theoretical; then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors come crashing open, anything could come through.
Adrian Tchaikovsky brought us far-future adventure with Children of Time. Now The Doors of Eden takes us from Bodmin Moor to London and alternate versions of earth. This is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and a thrilling adventure.
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Full of sparking, speculative invention . . . The Doors of Eden is a terrific timeslip / lost world romp in the grand tradition of Turtledove, Hoyle, even Conan Doyle. If you liked Primeval, read this book (Stephen Baxter)
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- Michael McCormick
- 18-01-21
Great
I have read / listened to several or Adrian Tchaikovsky’s books now and this was probably the best. The interludes of alternative timelines and the different paths of evolution were themselves worthy the listen, but there was also a decent story stringing the whole thing together. The performance was also great; the accents were decent and didn’t make me cringe. Buy it.
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- Glenn Davidson
- 23-10-20
Excellent allegorical adventure
Fast-moving speculative adventure with some thinly-veiled parallels to our world, ironically enough. Brilliantly narrated by Sophie Aldred - looking forward to finding more of her work on here.
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- Joseph Elliott-Coleman
- 12-01-21
A brilliant, angry and pointed novel
A scream of frustration at human pettiness and selfish and a fierce reminder that we're at our best we we look at what we have in common. Unity saves. Devision destroys.
Tchaikovsky does it again and Sophie Aldred effortlessly bring his novel to life.
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- M Field
- 20-09-20
Great Scifi
Occasionally a book comes along that you can't put down. This is one of those. Interest all the way through.
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- Kir
- 02-09-20
High quality but not that engaging
Very high quality as usual from the author. Although I felt much less engaged with the characters. Very interesting evolutionary ideas. Although the material feels rushed and rough. Perhaps the pressure to finish a book, or simply too many characters for a single storyline. Also the end is a bit scrambled. Anyhow the ideas are there and the concept is great, so not so sure, but definitely less impressive than the Children series or other earlier stuff. Narrator is great.
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- Jane Salvo
- 17-09-23
Superb as always
I love Tchaikovsky’s writing and this exciting and original story did not disappoint. Sci fi at its best.
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- martin g cummins
- 08-08-21
I don’t usually write reviews, but…
Looking at the reviews I nearly didn’t get this book but I’m now glad I did. The thing is that all the things that have got people foaming at the mouth seem very mild. Having said that this book is clearly polarising and triggering, so here’s a handy checklist to see whether you will be triggered:
1. Will you be offended by a transgender character?
2. Are you offended by lesbians?
3. Are you right wing?
4. Are you a racist?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes don’t buy the book unless you enjoy being triggered. Personally I found it an excellent YA book based on an interesting premise and very well executed. It is well up to the standard of Tchaikovsky’s other books and well worth a read
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-11-20
Another great read
Adrian is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. As well as a great mind for future technologies, his ability to fuse future technology with future plausible situations is great. He really submerges your mind.
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- J. Leach
- 28-11-20
Imaginative story
I very much enjoyed this audiobook. Good story well told, imaginative with interesting characters and I liked the underlying theme of diversity and tolerance. I think my favourite characters were the giant trilobites
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- Malc
- 09-01-21
Beautiful parable - highly recommended
I loved this book. I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but this is not the monsters on the moor adventure you might expect from the description on Audible. It is a beautiful story, complex yet engagingly told, and excellently narrated. At the time of listening I felt like I could do with something uplifting at a difficult time for the world. I expected the book to be good. What I didn’t expect was it to be such an uplifting, joyful parable showing what we might achieve if we could learn to get along with those who seem different to ourselves.
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