'Nemesis' by Isaac Asimov (1990), Read by Peter MacNicol
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- "In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people--but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster."
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I grew up reading Isaac Asimov's books, both fiction and non fiction. This was an enjoyable trip to my past via the future.
Me too. At 9, I cadged a couple of my dads' library tickets as I had long since exhausted what the kids section had to offer in SF, Fantasy and Mythology Some were still a biy of a reach, but I Robot was one of the first I snagged.
This is the only book I can re read and re listen to, multiple times. Am I the only one?
The one who is reading this comment i wish you a life full of love happiness and success.
I also wish the same to all who reads.. Spred the love people.. The world needs more love and less fighting. Enjoy life and encourage happiness.
💜thank you& same to you💜
cool!
loan me some money?
that really help!
thanks!!!
❤
Thank you,wishing same to you!
i must admit, at first I expected your sentence going more into the other direction, nice 2b dissappointed so pleasently. love
I suffer from insomnia and depression and this audiobook have been saving my nights for while, I don't know how many times I've listened to this, I lost count already but it helped me every single time.
My sincere thanks to the uploader, Peter MacNicol and of course, Isaac Asimov.
From now on I'll be counting: 6
Best of luck, there is lots of nice stuff to listen too.
Have you tried st john wort and another thing called htp5 both are herbal and working for me.
3am I just woke up for no reason and I feel like vomiting. Something I ate probably. Can't sleep. This book's keeping my mind off it. :) I'm glad it helps you too! Hope you feel better soon...
I realy hope things gets better for you soon.
Try the movie Cashback, a way to profit from insomnia.
Try the movie Cashback, a way to profit from insomnia.
Asimov is my favorite. It is what got me into studying AI.
10 out of 10 savoured every second.
A good part of that is the out-of-this-world narrator: the most effortless and realistic voice actor I've heard in decades.
I thank you as well..I grew up reading these books 30 some odd years ago, when I was preteen...they made such an impact on me that I thought the movie version of " I, robot" was just about as much about the book as " force awakens" was about the book..I doubt they read much past the title page to get their screenplays!
Glad to help!
The Force Awakens wasn't trying to be like any of the Star Wars books.
Very easily noticed
As a matter of fact, i really think they must have not even been aware that there were actually other books. Books that were, maybe, just a tad bit more fleshed out in regards to the overall story that many people spent many,many years both writing and reading in an attempt to foster the ongoing storylines within which so many invested parts of their lives. And along comes Disney! The chance of a lifetime to carry on the galactic peril of, not only the republic against imperial domination, but the underlying stories of the mercs, the bands, the sith, jedi, galactic invasion, and all the other stuff i probably missed . instead, they opt for a rewrite that makes that impossible with hansdeath, but does it with a rehash of the original episode made. just utter lack of responsibility . FfsJJ! WwyT?
Gimme back my $132.oo even my kidS thought it a copy of A new hope.
Dale scottdammit Wagner They were aware of the books. The Force Awakens took inspiration from them, but they're trying to do something familiar, yet different. We'll see with the next films.
Great effort putting this out here, im sad that narrated books as good as this narration is not common nowadays. I would be real sad if I never found this narration but knew it existed.
Just be happy you listened and know
i get it
This narrator sounds like Talky Toaster from Red Dwarf.
I toast therefore I am
Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
wonderland78
How about a waffle 😉
good evening everybody and welcome to the starlight ballroom,"fly me to the moon and let me live among the stars" biff -ouch.
My reply might seem a bit odd but I reckon that you would enjoy the Sherlock Holmes stories. Good plots, lots of intrigue and an air of malevolence, combined with wonderful prose and dialogue. I hope that I am not preaching about something you have already read. Retired.
Really loved this recording...Peter MacNicol is an ideal reader for this sort of story, as I have always felt there is something 'otherworldly' about him and his tones...never really read much Asimov, just I'Robot really, he seemed too idealistic to me about the future (I am steeped in the likes of Philip K Dick and J.G Ballard myself, even at an early age when perhaps I shouldn't have been reading the likes of Ballard) and that sort of undercuts them for me...that, and occasionally I feel his characters to be more ciphers than actual people...but this story was amazing and I really liked how Marlena, Jinnah, Fisher, Wendell and Eugenia were all drawn. Obviously I need to read more Asimov! Thank you for the upload :)
You're very welcome.
You MUST read the "Foundation" series of books man. Asimov at his best!
These replies, especially some, in combination with the book create a more unified understanding of human evolution. The unified understanding of which I speak is the human quality of needing to believe and create goodness of existence.❤
Peter MacNicol, huh? i thought a woman was reading this
Great book and well narrated by Peter MacNicol
Agreed
I love how convincing his voices are. He captured many subtleties between the different characters
Petericia MacNicol is an excellent argument for the future use of synthetic voices. Futuristic clarification indeed. I am now convinced.
Really enjoy listening to this
Peter MacNicol is great. He reads this wonderfully. It's a great story
Hollywood needs this story but you know they'd make Marlene "hot" even though the book specifically says she isn't. Still a great read ^^
Normal people dont get upset when others are attractive
@@ff7522 You've missed Jordan's point quite thoroughly.
@@sierraseven3680 And you missed mine
@@ff7522 no we got it and its dumb
They'd inject wokism and make it insufferable.
The changing of voice is really neat. :D Well done! Thanks for this! :)
Same. My book back then was Solaris ;)
This was my favorite book back in middle school.
Someday, this will be a movie. Lookin forward to that...
Anyone ever check out Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur? He's named after Asimov and Clark. Its a real fun channel that inspired me to listen to an Asimov book.
Cant stand his voice nor his smugness.
I fuckin love Isaac Ah-thoah!
@@schmeegil2240 I can understand the annoyance at the speech impediment. I am an Elmer Fudd fan so his voice doesn't bother me. I see the smugness as a compensation device, (defense mechanism) based on insecurity related to his embarrassing (Fudd) speech defect. I listen to most of his content. He is clever and I like his work, but I disagree with his view of our population expansion to trillions living in O'Neil Cylinders, hollowed out asteroids and various habitats so numerous they form a Dyson swarm around the Sun.
This is a heavily cut down version. You can google the full text. Nobody mentions it. Is it always the case with audio-books and so obvious to everyone?
Ah 8 billion people by 2030 instead of 2250...
Overlooked are wars and plagues.
Don't forget how many people moved off world
Very true ... Mr Andersen
Not if Bill Gates and his foundation have their way. How many times do you need to hear him wistfully claim his desire to reduce the world's population by...70%... before you understand the drive behind this phony planned farce.
70% population reduction.
NO JOKE.
but hey. If only the sheep take the vaccine...
Perhaps the world will be better after the purge.
@@tonio19 lol it's so funny the convolutions people go through when they don't know about critical theory or class analysis. read some marx.
Perfect narrator for this.
This would make a great movie
The planet X people think a huge planet is on the way - so lets get the gravity repulsion....
Even with the talking planet?
It’s interesting to listen to a book rather than read it, it seems to let other Senses take thought.
Nicely read ,and I will have a slice of buttered toast
Thank you, the Author, the Reader, and RUclips. it a very good book. leona
Nemesis. What a brilliant and enthralling read. And what a writer. Such clever imagination. And vision. I am 71 and have seen many science fiction visualisations come true in my lifetime. Here is another, that logically could well happen in time. Digby Long
Agreed!!!
With the possible exception of "faster than light" travel.
🖖👽
@@turtleanton6539 q1q!
@@bobinthewest8559 the Alcubierre drive?
Wonderful reader - made every character live. It was easy to imagine each person, which doesn’t always happen. The story was so engrossing - sort of magical as not everything was explained. A really excellent writer. Thank you so much. :) 💙🌷🌱
I am dyslexic so this is a real treat from having to reread over and over again its soothing tone of voice is calming
"it's" being the operative word.
Thank you! Reminds me of the Shriekback song "Big, black nemesis, parthenogenesis, everybody happy as the dead come home"
GoddessStone oh god... I thought I was the only person who knew that song anymore!!
Have you checked out the live version here on YT? It's a lot of fun, he's like a space wizard!
Peter MacNicol is the only male narrator that I have found that can do female voices convincingly! I’ve enjoyed listening to this very much.
Thanks for uploading this.
I didnt notice the name and really couldnt tell his gender from the voice, hes really good
I assumed the reader was a woman.
A strangely womanly voice.
So well read. Peter is outstanding at reading.
This should be made into a film or film series. It's got great story line, mystery and political wrangling, and no violence, yet it still keeps you glued to the hypothetical screen. I've read the book about 3 times.
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The pauses and breaks are not clearly defined for 'chapter breaks but ive done my best
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List of Story pauses/Breaks acting as chapters?
(But not announced chapters)
1:- 00:00:22
2:- 00:03:28
3:- 00:05:37
4:- 00:07:52
5:- 00:16:00
6:- 00:20:25
7:- 00:29:55
8:- 00:38:48
>>9:- 00:43:37 start of a record skip
Thank you for sharing. I haven't read a lot of Asimov except I Robot (I think it's called) but now I will read more of these I think. I like how Asimov is more optimistic or positive in tone, whereas the newer scifi authors are (perhaps rightfully) considerably more bleak
I thank you for bringing this classic of science fiction to be heard. My first was Prelude to Foundation and it's series. Then the Robot series just fine out that all the novels are linked. Asmiov was is ahead of time. Some of his works, words are being used today and tomorrow.
ISTR "I, Robot" 4 me.
Like what words
Being my first full literary introduction to I. Asimov I am looking forward to enjoying more of his work. The narration was excellent, suiting the story perfectly.
I recommend - Foundation-
My fav Asimov is the short story "The last Question" and the book series "Foundation". Good places to start.
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Thank you so much! I remember this version from my childhood and have not been able to find this anywhere. I was so excited to finally see this on youtube. You've made my day! Thank you again.
+Alyssa Heider You're very welcome! I'm glad there're other who've listened to this. Enjoy! ;)
Hi 😊
I loved this book
Fantastic 🙏👍
The thing I REALLY love about Asimov's novels, is his outstanding inventiveness in creating names for both his characters and locations! They are often unique, yet still sound very familiar. The Foundation series is probably the greatest example of this, but all the novels, including Nemesis, show it.
THIS IS ABRIDGED.
They often were. Thank you for telling us this, it should have been in the description.
I have seen an 11 hour plus Nemesis audiobook on youtube. Appreciate your post.
unbelievable. why would anyone abridge anything except for kids under 13?
ruclips.net/video/ToB040wyUDo/видео.html
I remember buying the book when it first came out, and I also remember being very disappointed with it - It felt like a rush job to cash in on the new Nemesis theory. Unusually for me, I only read it once before getting rid of it, never wanting to read it again.
So many good reviews here, I'll have to at least start to try it a second time to check my reaction to the first time.
The book about the discovery of Nemesis couldn't be called "Nemesis" because this book came out first; it's "Nemesis, the Death Star" and is a fascinating read
Asimov was a great genius.
Possibly even an understatement
Yes but he sucked at make drama development between characters
someone make a film of this
Long as the narrator is absent, I agree.
classic Asimov..
Clearly the inspiration of Interstellar.
Was Peter MacNicol castrated and is now a falsetto? Or is that actually a whole different person reading the book?
Love this .. never heard of this book.. anyone have any other recommendations for audio book? I'd like to add that I'm into sci-fi space exploration similar to this.
Alina Almasan, Isaac Asimov wrote 3 separate series (Robot novels, Foundation novels, Empire novels) that, in his last-written works, were tied together in a "Foundation Universe" (with at least 15 books in all). If read in the "chronological" order of their place in the future; you'd read (listen to) first the 5 Robot novels (starting with the compilation, "The Complete Robot"; then: Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire. Then you'd go to the 7 Foundation novels: Prelude To Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation, Foundation And Empire, 2nd Foundation, Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth. Lastly, you'd go to the 3 (Galactic) Empire novels: The Currents of Space, The Stars Like Dust, and Pebble In The Sky.Nemesis could be included in this series of series and it would come first. "The End Of Eternity" could also be included (as a kind of prequel to the Empire novels). I read these 17 or so novels endlessly to our kids as they were growing up. I'd highly recommend every last one of these books except: "The Stars Like Dust" - about which Asimov himself said he was kind of pressured into including a sub-plot (about the US Constitution) which he later much regretted including; and, because of that, he said it was his least favorite book).Asimov wrote one book per month for his entire adult life, almost 500 in all (in addition to his famous Sci-Fi classics; he wrote easy-to-understand wonderful works about subjects in virtually every single division of the Dewey Library System). His Sci-Fi works were characterized by his inclusion of many science-based themes - making them very comprehensive and powerful.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Science_fiction_2
Pablo Novi thank you.
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@@teddy1234599 Wow! Got alot of reading to do👍
@@teddy1234599 thanks for the time to put the books in order. I'm one of those who reads every word in books and will have to read all the books once know there's more. Books are usually better than movies, hands down 👍🏽👍🏽🤩.
It said read by Peter McNicol??? Who is the woman narrator?
This Peter Macnicol sure sounds like a woman...
I discovered asimov when my parents got me a vhs choose your own adventure game called Isaac Asimov's Robots and read everything of his I could after that.
Peter MacNicol is known mostly for his comedic supporting roles but few remember him as the star of the early 80's film Dragonslayer as Galen Bradwarden, the wizard's apprentice turned dragon killer.
My fav movie growing up!
If you listen to this backwards Vigo the Carpethian will appear :)
Why you little minx.
It's interesting that Asimov, writing in 1989, thought that even in the 2200s the planets around nearby stars would remain undiscovered. We already know far more about them in 2022 than he envisioned would be known in 2235. And with the JWST we'll learn much more over the next decade.
That’s the cool thing about the future. Even those with the grandest visions, like Clarke, will be amazed by the things in the actual future they had not thought of.
Unless we descend into perpetual war.
This is such a great story. People still have family issues in the future, haha
I know this is abridged but It's the first Asimov audiobook I have heard so I have to ask, are all of his characters so bland and one-dimensional as these? I'd rather know before I try longer material.
Many years ago I went through an 'Asimov phase' and read a whole bunch of his books. I enjoyed them. I can tell you that his sci-fi is from another era and it's more about concepts than characters . if you want an epic romance among the stars between profound characters I have bad news for you, but if you want to find out what happens when a martian colony decides to tow a giant ice asteroid home to solve their water troubles then Mr. Asimov is your man, I hope this helps.
Hearing Peter MacNicol read is relaxing. As if he's reading to you.
Are you saying, Peter is not just reading to me?? ;-)
His voice sounds female is there something wrong with audio!?
@@gerry5134 , I'm guessing the speed is 1.25x or 1.5x the original. Even the musical interludes sound high and fast compared to what intuitively seems symphonic and pleasing.
@@gerry5134 One he is older on this recording, 2 he is the museum guy in Ghostbusters 2 and others things his voice has always been different.
Asimov, Asimov, Asimov. Asimov.
38:16 This is beautiful and I'm gonna use it
Should be called “Bitch in Space”
I normally don't like abridged versions of books, but man, the original is almost 4 times (!) longer, and most of the words in it feel like unnecessary filler.
I guess, like Mr Shakesman said, "brevity is the soul of wit".
Verygood story read and pic
I love the narrator is from the second Ghostbusters movie,loved his character.
Darn, that was powerful -- thanks very much for uploading ^^
What a talented narrator
1990: the golden age of raspy cassette tape audio books with shitty theme music and sound effects...
I love it. I never realized quite what it was until I read your comment, but it's that unique cassette tape sound! Ahhh nostalgia ...
Shitty theme music? Well they don’t make shitty theme music like they used to.
Asimov never lets me down.
It says "read by Peter McNicol" or whatever the end name is....it sounds awful like a woman for someone called Peter? oh now I cant make up my mind if its male, female or transgender....great!
This was the first science fiction novel I'd ever read by myself without the help of a teacher, unless you count 'The Giver', which was more of a novella. 'A Wrinkle in Time' we read together in elementary school. This audiobook goes good with Gundam Unicorn's main theme. They even seem to inhabit a similar political situation. Their technology is even somewhat compatible. Prime real-estate for a cross-over.
Episodes of Gundam Unicorn are available for free on RUclips.
2:10:30 no, you aren't imagining things. I think there was another scratch on the record.
well narrated. The voice is helping to get into Asimov`s universe
I've found a great story by Isaac Asimov, "Homo Sol", in its original Astounding Science Fiction magazine edition from 1940. If you want to read it, go to www.pulpmagazines.org/astounding-science-fiction-september-1940/
I have been listening audiobooks for a long time and Peter MacNicol is the best narrator for this job ,in my opinion
Wow, the reader sounds very similar to David Sedaris!
A young David Sedaris ...maybe it is him !
U can turn the speed down on ur phone just touch the screen whilst listening to a book or anything on you tube and 3 dots will appear and ule see the audio speed faster slower hose this helps!! Great story too
The narration is excellent. BUT...
The added music is Annoying, not dramatic.
1:29:20 anyone else notice skips?
Yes the real audio book is 12 or 13 hours long.
Hi to David Rapkin wherever you are. . . From WBAI - you won’t remember - alexa, general all around and Ira’s door gnome for the Saturday Night Music Store. :)🌷🌱
Great narration!
Great presentation!
Great book!
Thanks for sharing :)
Fantastic!
Well done I enjoyed it alot. I thing the transition music is good but felt it overlapped too much into the next chapter and made it hard to hear. Maybe shorten the transition overlap to only afew words.
I think that Asimov must have probed the mind of Stanislaw Lem.
43:35 um WTF?!?!
🍄 O.o ☮
my first asimov and i love it!
After reading his Foundation series I was hooked -
I like the story and a living person reading rather than AI
Great work
Some Reads Are Good And Hold your interest, BUT,, If The Person or Person's Reading Have Nothing To Offer In Their Voice ,No Feeling ,No Emotions , It's Like Someone With ADD Fishin 🎣 Without Baited Hooks , It DON'T last long before It's Lost Interest In,, , HOWEVER,,,
THIS IS WELL READ CHARACTERS And Good Storyline , ,
The Greatest Was Orson Welles ,What He Accomplished Over The Radio Was Phenomenal, The "War If The Worlds" Radio Broadcast Is My Favorite , "The Shadow"
Was Another , There's A BBC Theater Channel On Here That's Great For Anyone Interested ,, I also enjoyed "The Lost world" ,
Thanks For This Upload It's A Worthy Listen ,,,,
why does it sound weird? peter macnicol is the guy from ghostbusters two and ally mcbeal, but this sounds like someone completely different.
Cool Marlena. Can't go against her
Asimov's worst novel.
Yes I agree good books
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Never knew Peter MacNicol does audiobooks! I still remember him from Dracula Dead and Loving It
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hate this voice so boring must be ??? or a compuer love the book
That woman lying and stealing her husbands daughter is pretty infuriating because it's not fiction these days
Apparently the guy was as unfit a parent as her. Thought they were going out there to die, but just let her take his kid.
@@ancapftw9113 In the story she threatens to get him arrested if he doesn't let her take their daughter. He was by no means unfit.
@@ff7522 so he just leaves with no legal battle even though he thinks they are both going to die because of her decision?
@@ancapftw9113 Did you even listen to the story? Leave it to an ancap to have ice cold takes.
@@ff7522 only part of it so far. Not a fan of this reader. May have to find a different version of this story.
Cant wait till the Foundation TV series starts its gonna be so good based on his foundation series of books makes me hopeful for the robot series they are a big part of each other
is that confirmed to be in production?
Is the narrator human? Doesn’t sound like it
abridged, but very well read.
An abridged version. Make it more intensive. ❤
Tungsten kisses.... warm electron rush
Wonderful. The abridgment and Foundation-like themes make this feel like golden age Asimov. Very skillfully read, too.
Umm, no. God awful reading. I know ppl are gonna hate me for saying the truth, but...
@@SirFapsAlot To my ear, every character is voiced differently and the inflections are perfect. Kudos to Peter MacNicol.