Audiobook: Imperial Earthr by Arthur C. Clarke
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- Audio Book - Imperial Earthr by SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008)
The year is 2276. On the world of Titan, an outer planet of Saturn, Duncan Mackenzie and many other colonists are about to leave their homeland for bicentennial celebrations on Earth. But for Duncan, the journey is also a delicate mission for himself, his family and the future of Titan.
After the incredible back-to-back success of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous With Rama, Clarke returned in 1976 with Imperial Earth, a novel less about science than the human spirit. The story revolves around a Titanite making a trip to Earth, and seeing the vast differences between the two places ("For a horrifying second, Duncan thought he was going to have to eat real meat"), but also touches on the elements of the human spirit and mind that will always be with us. Along the way, many predictions about the future are made, and a generally exciting (though not exactly fast-paced) story is told throughout. A rather touching story quite different from most of Clarke's other works, this is a story that will stay with you long after you have read the last page.
Arthur C. Clark was a renaissance man, an inventor (having invented the ram jet), a gifted writer, and a man who lived beyond his time. I enjoyed this. Thank you for uploading!
He was also a paedophile. Separate the genius from the diseased if you can. His works were incredible.
René Lorin invented the ram jet.
@@twt3716 is that true, he moved to Sri Lanka for that, horrible if it is
@@diouranke Yes im afraid its true. It's a shame that some of out best artists are also monsters. Please let me ask you to do one thing. Please dont let this soil your enjoyment enjoyment if sci fi and hi adventure. His writing was sometimes sublime and nearly always entertaining. Yes he was a monster and in life we often find that gifted people are often very damaged in very dark and disturbing ways. Also please remember that he was fairly rich and well known and people like this can indulge their desires in secret. In Sri Lanka ge would have been seen as an upstanding good Englishman. People would trust him. Children would trust him. With the right connections he had a whale of a time. Breaks my heart. You have yourself a tremendous day sweetheart. Lift your heart high now.
Just because I’m hearing it here doesn’t make it true. So until further notice I’ll enjoy this genius of science fiction and his incredible knowledge. It was his description of orbiting satellites long before the scientific establishment caught up.
Can't understand other comments saying the narrator speaks too fast. Seems slow and measured to me. Anyway it's the content that matters and this is worth a listen. Not one of Clarke's best but it has some interesting concepts and a quaintly charming mystery to unravel.
No real mystery except as what Empire is there?
Oh there is a bomb! But no it was a red herring and bad DNA so clone then clone a clone a clone and his boyfriend's plan is better than anything he could come up with.
Oh and there is a puzzle you can buy.
I just use .75 speed
Nothing wrong with the narration.
If you can speak and understand english then it flows very well.
TH-cam has the option to slow the play speed down which will please the worst of the bedwetters that complain.
Slow the rate dow
It sounds like he probably spoke at what can be heard at 0.75x playback speed. I listen at different speeds depending on the circumstance. Slowing down means you can fit more thoughts and visualizations into each sentence.
Arthur C. Clarke is a genius ! He predicted the Modern Internet and Satellite Communications ! Thanks!
Adrian H. Dragan. And the geostationary orbit.
There was networking in 1976, even earlier.
@@Janet_scribbles Was aware of it. Before my time am a millennial. You into Clarke ???
Heinlein came up with most of these ideas 10-15 years earlier, I enjoy them both but Clarke isn't the grand daddy of sci Fi he is often credited as being.
@@zopEnglandzip Heinlein rockz also ! Rather timocratik controversial views but he is top !
Listening to this before sleep is so calming
Definitely listen at 0.75 speed. Good then. I read this when it was first published and several times since. At 77 it's nice to have it read to me. Thanks.
Try .75 speed if trying to fall asleep
3:40:26 Me: "Hey Google, what is a cuspidor?" lol
MIA from the beginning is this quote:
"Remember them as they were; and write them off." Ernest Hemingway
Chapter 8 - 1:03:56
Part 2 Transit -1:35:01
Chapter 13 - 1:53:45
Chapter 14 - 2:10:35
Chapter 16 - 2:31:26
Part 2 - Terra - 2:43:13
Chapter 17 - 2:43:20
Chapter 18 - 2:53:28
Set playback speed to 0.75 for easier listening 👍
Nice call
I believe 0,75 is actually the original speed of the recorded tape
I am not setting the playback speed to anything. They should make it easier to listen to.
2:15:12. Clarke, like many of his contemporaries, slips into writing about writing in most efforts longer than short stories. He’s just given a brief tip on writing in gratitude, and now he demonstrates writing and rewriting for brevity, clarity, and comprehensive inclusivity.
I understand wanting to go to grad school or pedigreed writing conventions for composition instruction, but I am convinced that careful reading and listening reveal what we want professors and mentors to tell us.
I’m also just lazy enough to limit my writing about this to YT comment sections.
So I am not the only one to appreciate Clarke's style. You can tell he is a classically trained speaker of true English. Sentence structure, vocabulary, and masterful use of the simple comma has taught me to improve. I write technical reports and often rewrite with his lessons.
That is very very cool. Years ago you wrote this. Probably at a younger age than mois!... Now 73
Reader did an excellent job!
I enjoyed the reader, and in context: he brought me to the world time line. I thought excellent.
he envisioned all of this before the book was released in 1975. Such an honourable legendary man!
OMG this whole thing was PAINFUL. It's tough to stay awake while listening to this and drive at the same time...
Amen
amen! Ive stopped with this add reader. I found a better one read by a woman;
You either love the cool collected narrative of the Gold Age Sci Fi or you don't
Foundations (Apple TV) "Borrowed" alot from this for Thier adaptation of Foundations, I.E. genetic dynasty. Great book.
they both borrowed the idea from our history
Part III -- Terra -- 2:43:11
I am glad he talks fast. It helped get the story over faster. Didn’t like the story or the characters who all seemed like bunch of self centered fuddy duddy weirdos.
I would think that Duncan would be amazed at being out in the beauty of nature, trees, sky, air etc.
I like the bookr as muchr as your titler.
Lolr
Earthr c clarkr, fine Arthur of science frction..
Well helps get it posted and fools the 1984 truth police.
Click the gear. change playback speed to .75
play at 0.75 speed
@D Brown for satanic messages play backwards!
Wish they had 85% ... 75% is just a bit too slow. Puts me to sleep 💤😄
Play at .75 for around three mins then put back to normal it then sounds fine! Peace out from n. Wales
@@aishalotter9995 Wales has great tea.
No.
Whilst I'll agree that it is read a little fast with little intonation or emotion, it suits the 'super-human superiority' of the main family. I can accept it as a stylistic choice. If I play it at 0.75, it sounds like a robot from a 1950s serial is moaning.
A text to speech robot voice would have been better.
Rather you are slow-witted!
You can slow the speed down. Just click on the settings icon.
I think it's due to the quality of the cassette tapes and was speeded up to copy.
Only if childhood was this perfect. I am a realist. Ended book before first 10 minutes.
Perhaps Science Fiction isn't your genre.
Browsing the book shelves in the library I stumbled upon this book
I hope you didn't sustain an injury during your fall. On the bright side, you probably listened to this story during your recovery
Hope it worked out ok!!
So unfortunate how the narrator's way of speaking this, which is one of my favorite books, eliminates of all emotion. He speaks like they did in the first American movies with sound: in mock English, spoken at a devastating tempo (which "language" was purely developed for "those talkies"). Or as the British radio and cinema announcers sounded of that time, as if everything serious was in reality hilarious, but at the same time as if everything funny was in fact serious.
I don't want to experience his emotions. It has been youtubed with the wrong bitrate. Don't waste your time. -0.75 is too much and at that speed artifacts become annoying. Find something else and save this book for another, decent, recording.
I love the tone and emotion in his reading maybe you guys can open your ears
Yes, they might as well just have a computer synthesized voice
The last thing I want in an audio book is emotion. Leave that garbage for children's books.
Reduce playback speed one notch and its great!
Are you going to upload 2061 odyssey three or 3001 the final odyssey?
Hardest to find is 2010, been looking everywhere for that
As allredy posted, play at 0,75 speed.
The upload is speed up to circumvent detection.
Wilhelm Töws
how does one slow down?
There's plenty of neat ideas and concepts in this novel, but it just doesn't feel like a story. There's no conflict or antagonist or suspense. Even the reveal about Carl seemed underwhelming because there weren't any clues of buildup to the mystery. Imperial Earth is basically just futurist porn.
we need to initiate and maintain face to face dialogue''groups''
Describes the CERN supercollider around 2:23.
Beautiful ending.
Like most of Clarke's writing, this is somewhat dry., but interesting. A thing of its time. though still worth a listen. Set the speed at .85.
Rodger Ram Jet invented the Ram Jet. That's why it's named after him.
sounds sped up to avoid copyright claim . Annoying.
4:46:12
It's a turgid tourbook. Fascinating, but turgid. No surprise the narrator is the same.
Wow he talks about the Very Large Array!
when was this book written?
It was first published in 1975.
Why they don't read a bit faster is a riddle. Then we could not follow it at all.
Was the narrator on speed
Hayao Miyazaki is to be healed.
Complete
Abhigel send a molecular diamond toward the sun, kamikaze style.
Adjust plsyback speed to 0.75.
Still a horrible reading, but slightly less painful.
51:22 - pentominos
this is metaphoric and someday the monolithic maker will probably be celebrated another way, in joy machinery. or well I,m with Mr Falcon that maybe again such delight in it;s interpretation of other science which is dimentional savage but understandably noble is originator that makes fear or the unknown subatomic sciences now adaptable, from enslaved organisms which cyborgs can often be psychologically less receptive. Emotions being amplified quite well in the reading but real females perhaps a little impossible but it was eloquent Senor or Senorita. I think there's many imaginations until unity considering the horrors of dystopian politic it helps to listen to this. Well communicate Ishman. Obviously the real fans of his works and conferance is very time consuming much as the orbital large light radio telescope orbiting the minds of impossble TMA in the minnel. Independant Underwater Monster still vaguelly imagination by man but may as god intended.
why does this sound like southpark?
3:56 !
What is an Earthr?
A utube syrike avoidance tactic.
04:12
yes, 0.75 helps, some. i use this to sleep so this is perfect
Terrible reader. Might as well be a robot voice.
I am afraid I couldn't stand more than about ten minutes of it, awful narration, almost like a CGV or CGA, horrible...... sorry.....
Please, change the narrator !!!
I like him. Sounds like Dick Cavett.
35:41
Narrator talking WAY too fast
1:44
Reader's voice sounds like it's playing on Fast-Forward. It's very Annoying.
It is sped up, to avoid detection.
Your mom failed to tell you whining is annoying
I also like the movie gattaca
Arthur can be forgiven his Tamil twinklove cos he was a wordynerd
2:08
IMPERIAL #EARTH. !!!
6:31
I thought it was a 1930.s fight build up on the radio T Madison square garden
Glad I read comments before I listened,, I changed the channel lol
KW ft
Check out my review:
www.goodreads.com/review/show/2438607942
"breeder lynching and burning of the vatican" XD
If you can't spell I won't listen.
I'm going to report a copyright violation due to the high speed - anyone who would put this crap up . . .
You GRASS BOO!!!!.....
No you won't
@Sunny Quackers Changing playback speed is for chumps. Plenty of audiobooks don't need that this video is already 8 and a half hours long, let's adjust settings and make it 10-11 hours long. That's just stupid. Even with speed adjustment the reader is monotone and ruins the experience.
Only a dummy would complain about a free book - ask your mom about her failure to teach you this
1:20:00 ish in chapter 9... turns to homosexuality
753
1975
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I find this rather dull.
Sorry take the mirror back for a refund
Clark with an e has always been a dry writer. More about science, future technology, and cardboard people walking through that world. Best taken in doses spread far apart. Still, he has imagined things WAY before their time, and created worlds that still stick in my dreams since the 70’s
terrible reader
This is extremely boring!
I'm gone!
Yea another dummy bites the dust
@@jwarmstrong
Yes... imagine if everyone liked exactly the same 💩...now that would suck!🤗
It's just not my cup of tea but go for it if it's yours....enjoy!☺️
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this is metaphoric and someday the monolithic maker will probably be celebrated another way, in joy machinery. or well I,m with Mr Falcon that maybe again such delight in it;s interpretation of other science which is dimentional savage but understandably noble is originator that makes fear or the unknown subatomic sciences now adaptable, from enslaved organisms which cyborgs can often be psychologically less receptive. Emotions being amplified quite well in the reading but real females perhaps a little impossible but it was eloquent Senor or Senorita. I think there's many imaginations until unity considering the horrors of dystopian politic it helps to listen to this. Well communicate Ishman. Obviously the real fans of his works and conferance is very time consuming much as the orbital large light radio telescope orbiting the minds of impossble TMA in the minnel. Independant Underwater Monster still vaguelly imagination by man but may as god intended.
Bloody hell you go on a bit mush
@@anthonygeorge3618It took about 5 seconds to read your response, sure like not a husky either mush .all the way to brief comment,some might think . Innit Surely again some of the best of his time
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