Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: A Choice of Gods
Author: Clifford Simak
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-15-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic
Publisher's Summary:
A handful of humans and a multitude of robots create a new society on a mysteriously abandoned Earth in this breathtaking science fiction classic from one of the genre's acknowledged masters.
What if you woke up one morning on Earth...and no one else was there? That is the reality that greeted a handful of humans, including Jason Whitney, his wife Martha, and the remnants of a tribe of Native Americans in the year 2135. Their inexplicable abandonment had unexpected benefits: the eventual development of mental telepathy and other extrasensory powers, inner peace, and, best of all, near immortality. Now, 5,000 years later, most of the remaining humans live a tranquil, pastoral life, leaving technological and religious exploration to the masses of robot servants who no longer have humans to serve.
But the unexpected reappearance of Jason's brother, who had teleported to the stars many years before, threatens to change everything yet again - for John Whitney is the bearer of startling information about where Earth's population went and why. And the most disturbing news of all: They may finally be coming home again.
Nominated for the Hugo Award when it first appeared in print more than 40 years ago, Clifford D. Simak's brilliant and thought-provoking A Choice of Gods has lost nothing of its power to astonish and intrigue. A masterwork of speculative fiction, intelligent and ingenious, it is classic Simak, standing tall among the very best science fiction that has ever been written.
Members Reviews:
Well - A Choice, Anyway
I think that without that title the book wouldn't. E seen as religios at all. It's a very deep speculation about the nature of humanity and what we might become given enough time and opportunity. Kind of a departure, but a great read!
A good read.
I discovered Cliff Simak a few years ago -- read the Way Station -- and got hooked. This was a nice read -- pretty quick. I have often wondered if the universe, being as complex as it is, is conscious of its own existence -- much like "the purpose" described in the book. Very intelligent, but not something you could have a conversation with. I've recently read other books that talked about the nature of consciousness (i.e. Anathem. Neuromancer) and what constitutes a "soul", so this was timely for me. Its a good read, and I am pretty sure I will need to read it again. There's a lot of good things to think about in it.
Sci fi with humor, compassion, and daring
There are enough ideas in this one book for many different exciting books. What I most enjoyed was that many things were left unsolved and that excited me even more since I continue to think about them after the novel is over. What an imagination this guy has!!
One of the Best!
I am a huge Clifford Simak fan & this book is one of the best I have read. I felt as if I knew the robots from his other books, especially Dogs. The people in the book are thinkers, no doers, but that is ok - thinking works sometimes. Loved this book as well as all that I have read by this author. I believe he has a gentle soul.
A fun read
At about half way through this book I realized that I had read it when I was much younger. Still a good read because the issues discussed are still very much with us.
