Seed Seeker, Pamela Sargent
Seed Seeker, Pamela Sargent
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Seed Seeker

Author: Pamela Sargent

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2012

Synopsis

An adventure in colonization and conflict from acclaimed science fiction writer Pamela Sargent Several hundred years ago, Ship, a sentient starship, settled humans on the planet Home before leaving to colonize other worlds, promising to return one day. Over time, the colony on Home divided into those who live in the original domed buildings of the colony, who maintain the library and technology of Ship, and those who live by the river, farming and hunting to survive. The dome dwellers consider themselves the protectors of “true humanity” and the river people “contaminated,” and the two sides interact solely through ritualized trade: food and goods from the river people in exchange for repairs and recharges by the dome dwellers. Then a new light appears in the night sky. The river people believe it might be Ship, keeping its promise to return, but the dome dwellers, who have a radio to communicate with Ship, are silent. So Bian, a teenaged girl from a small village, travels upriver to learn what they know. As she travels through the colony of Home, gaining companions and gathering news, Bian ponders why the dome dwellers have said nothing. Has Ship commanded them to be silent, in preparation for some judgment on the river people? Or are the dome dwellers lying to Ship, turning Ship against their rivals? Whatever the answer, life is about to change radically on both sides of the divide.

About Pamela Sargent

Pamela Sargent is the author of many highly praised novels for young adults and adults, including Earthseed, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She has won the Nebula and Locus awards and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

About Amy Rubinate

Amy Rubinate has narrated over 250 audiobooks and won multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her books have been selected for AudioFile’s Best Romance of 2016 list; Booklist’s Top 10 Romance, Top 10 Historical Fiction, Editor’s Choice Media; and YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults. She has a degree in oral interpretation of literature and won state and national awards for poetry reading. A voice actor and singer for over a decade, Amy has narrated many interactive children’s books and provided character voices for toys and video games. Amy’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, AudioFile magazine, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristin on June 10, 2012

I completed the Earthseed trilogy and found all three books quite intriguing. I was really impressed with the author's creativity and imagination, and I'm not just saying that because the author is my Aunt Pam! These books address a really interesting question: if humans were to leave Earth, would t......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on June 28, 2011

A few generations ago, the sentient Ship found the planet Home, and seeded a human colony there. Ship promised to return one day to check up on their progress after it finds more planets to colonize. Now Ship has returned to Home, and the people there aren't sure they want it to come back. There are t......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 30, 2018

I didn't realize that this was the third in a trilogy until I was almost done with it. And to the story's credit, I don't know that I ever would have known had I not gotten curious about the author and gone looking for more information. Since the trilogy is a generational saga, Seed Seeker stands we......more

Goodreads review by J.L. on May 16, 2019

Seed Seeker by Pamela Sargent Seed Seeker is Pamela Sargent's third book in the Seed Series.The first two set the tone for the series and this one follows through with the same tone capping off the series that is more character driven than innovative. In the first book the Ship which is both a generat......more

Goodreads review by Kirk on September 21, 2017

Though I found this in the adult section of the library, it reads in large part like a Young Adult novel, especially its romances. I don't forgive this. I give credit for the first half, which did have some interesting ideas, and for the short denouement, which had potential to be the best part of t......more

Quotes

“With prose as spare as the unadorned clothes and tools of her characters, Sargent digs down to the raw emotional roots below the contentment of a materially satisfied life.” Publishers Weekly

“Seed Seeker is the third, and final, volume in Pamela Sargent’s Seed Trilogy. Overall, I’d have to say that it has been a good and worthwhile trilogy of sci-fi books…Amy Rubinate, who narrated all three audiobooks in the series, finished the job just as strongly as she began it. She reads very well, with good pacing and intonation. Also, her character voices are pretty good. Throughout the series I have especially appreciated Rubinate’s ability to convincingly perform male voices. She lowers her voice enough so that it actually sounds like a man or boy speaking. I don’t think many female narrators could pull that off.”
Audiobook-heaven.com, editorial review

“Sargent, without fanfare or hoopla, has become a strikingly able and unusual storyteller…Her real forte is characterization, an ability to dissect and lay open the fears, passions, and yearning of the intensely human people who invariably inhabit her books.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Pamela Sargent is one of the leaders in a new generation of SF novelists…I find her irresistible.” Gregory Benford, author of Timescape and In the Ocean of Night

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