Space Opera
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Heath Miller
About this listen
Finalist for Hugo Award for Best Novel 2019
Finalist for Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2019
In space everyone can hear you sing.
A century ago, intelligent space-faring life was nearly destroyed during the Sentience Wars. To bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity and understanding, the Metagalactic Grand Prix was created. Part concert, part contest, all extravaganza, species far and wide gather to compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes or faces.
This year, humankind has discovered that it must fight for its destiny not with diplomacy, gunships and stoic councils - but with glitter, lipstick and electric guitars.
A washed-up glam-rock trio from London, Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes, has been chosen to represent humanity on the greatest stage in the galaxy. The fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.
©2018 Catherynne M. Valente (P)2019 Hachette Audio UKWhat listeners say about Space Opera
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Chris
- 21-08-2024
Narrator Heath Miller shines and makes this a joy.
I kept telling myself all through this book that the Author was emulating Douglas Adam and Terry Pratchett but on steroids. Its a fun story but honestly if not for the absolute brilliant narration of Heath Miller I think it would have lost me. The complexity and continuous descriptions of things in the modes of other non similar things while fun at first becomes confusing.
But don't get me wrong this is fun, but I'm so glad I listened and did not read....
Well done to Heath Millar, I'm going to seek out more of his narrations he is brilliant.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Erin Mitchell
- 10-10-2023
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision
As a huge fan of THHGTTG I was hoping that Space Opera would be as epic. As tall. As exotic. As full of science-y sci-fi and humour.
And it was!
It gets all the stars!
Oh! And Heath Miller’s accents work in phenomenal- I would not have guessed he was a fellow Aussie until he pulled out the perfect Aussie accent. Well done dude - no wonder you won an award for this narration! Will definitely be checking out more from both him and the author!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Rob
- 06-02-2023
Beautiful and stupid, just like life.
This book is clever, and profound, and beautiful and stupid. it made me laugh and almost cry and want to take up music. buy this book. please, as a favour to me and yourself.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Jeanzorg
- 20-11-2024
20% story, 80% allegories, metaphors & adjectives
I like what Valente was trying to do here, but it really doesn't work sadly. The long rambling descriptions that don't add anything to the story just create a feeling of being lost, and not lost in the story in a good way. I know some will say the that the journey is more important than the destination, that's fine if you actually go somewhere, which this book doesn't. Which is ironic when it's set 7,000 light years away.
Things to note:
- The title is misleading. There is no opera in either the musical sense or the space opera genre sense.
- The audio performance is wonderful.
To sum up:
All you really need to know is that this book really, really, really wants to be a Douglas Adams book, but instead of adding to that tradition it just tries to (and there's a BIG difference). This is espeically noticeable when the author throws in something completely unrelated and random at the end of a paragraph, like this ham sandwich.
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