Destiny's Road

Name: Destiny's Road
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry Niven
ISBN: 9781455118670

Author: Larry Niven

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 16 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 11/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Get ready for an adventure on a world from the brilliant imagination of New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven. Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destinys rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite. The Cavorite deserted the original interstellar colonists, stranding them without hope of contacting Earth. Now, descendants of those pioneers have many questions about the Road, but no settler who has gone down it has ever returned. For Jemmy Bloocher, a young farm boy, the questions burn too hotand he sets out to uncover the many mysteries of Destinys Road.

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Footfall, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna

I discovered sci-if as a teenaged girl. The small town in Illinois where I started high school didn’t have a tax-supported library. Our library was tiny, privately-owned, and membership supported. It had one old wooden shelf filled with dime-store paperback sci-if someone had donated. I have wonderf......more

Goodreads review by Craig

This one is something of a departure for Niven, but once I buckled down and applied myself I enjoyed reading it. The exploration-and-discovery aspects are challenging and satisfying, though I wasn't able to cozy-up to the characters as well as most of his better-known works. It's more of quiet, thou......more

Goodreads review by Villager

I haven't read a Larry Niven book in over 20 years. I decided to read this one because it was about a new world / universe. I enjoyed the main character ... and his desire to "see the world" ... and I also enjoyed the geo-political intrigue that was unveiled about the caravan, the speckles and such.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Destiny's Road is an adventure story set on the planet Destiny, which was colonized by humans in the 25th century by transporting 500 humans from Earth using the mothership Argos and two landing craft, Carovite and Columbiad. The two settlements, named Spiral Town and Destiny Town, were located on e......more