The Border Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Robert R. McCammon (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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World Fantasy Award-winning, best-selling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone reminiscent of his books Swan Song and Stinger in this gripping new novel, The Border, a saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations.

But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances comes an amnesiac teenaged boy who names himself Ethan - a boy who must overcome mistrust and suspicion to master unknowable powers that may prove to be the last hope for humanity's salvation. Those same powers make Ethan a threat to the warring aliens, long used to fearing only each other, and thrust him and his comrades into ever more perilous circumstances.

A major new novel from the unparalleled imagination of Robert McCammon, this dark epic of survival will both thrill listeners and make them fall in love with his work all over again.

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15 hours and 40 minutes
Author

Robert R. McCammon
Narrator

Fred Berman
Audible release date

June 1 2015
Language

English
Publisher

Audible Studios
ASIN

B0711PJLRY
Version

Unabridged
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Listening Length	15 hours and 40 minutes
Author	Robert R. McCammon
Narrator	Fred Berman
Audible.ca Release Date	June 01 2015
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0711PJLRY
Best Sellers Rank	#64,499 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #2,213 in Horror Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #4,644 in Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #6,978 in Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals)

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Old_Cat

Good read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 18, 2023

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I have only two issues with this one! 1) Too talky sometimes, suffers from over description! 2) Calls Magazines, clips! Very unknowledgeable about firearms! Other than this I love this mans writing!

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mredeye

Very Imaginative!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 18, 2022

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I found this to be rather lengthy altho' very imaginative in picturing other vivid worlds. The characters were on the violent side and the villains were weird. The scenes described were fantastic and very moving in line with the different worlds thru which the main characters journeyed thru. The ending was not what I had hoped for and I was disappointed with the novel.

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Tom Siklosi

McCammom never ceases to amaze!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 8, 2017

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After reading many of Robert McCammom's books in the 80's and 90's such as Swan Song, (my personal favorite, resd at least 6 - 8 times since first written), Stinger, Ushers Passing, Boys Life, Gone South, etc., I took a break from Mr. McCammom's work to pursue other interests. After reading The Border, I find myself once again wanting to read anything written by this insightful, thought provoking and heart pounding author!

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The end of the world

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 21, 2018

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Mr. McCammon has again taken a often told story about alien invasion and turned it into a page turner. Great characters, many twists and lots of action.

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Bill Muise

A very good read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 7, 2016

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Reminiscent of Swan Song, my favorite book of all time. Reminiscent perhaps because of Robert's style of creating believable characters, ones that you can bond with. It would have been a five star but the ending seemed a little rushed. A good ending just rushed.

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this is a terrific read.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 28, 2015

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I am a huge fan of McCammon's "colonial" mysteries, but even his books set in the here and now are enjoyable. I thought the zombie-like "Gray Men" angle was superfluous but other than that, this is a terrific read.

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Karl Redekopp

Excellent read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 27, 2017

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I've been a fan of Robert ever since I read his novel Swan Song.....this novel reminded me of that book. Definitely worth the read!!

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SRevoy

Vintage McCammon With Lots Of New Twists

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 14, 2015

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Excellent read vintage McCammon with lots of interesting characters and a plot that just hums along. Reminded me of Boys Life in its spirit.

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Ibbi

Superb original and terrifying variation on a theme - spoiled by being too short, lacking depth and a quick rushed ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2015

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Robert McCammon (when did he drop the 'R' middle initial?) is one of my favourite authors, having written one of my favourite books: Swan Song, along with many other superb novels including Speaks The Nightbird.

He is a master at story telling and he is one of the only authors I have read who manages to terrify and shock with his amazing vision, description and imagination enabling you to recoil in horror at what he describes and evokes. Great great characters and the plot itself was highly original and exciting.

The Border is a brilliantly written book, very original and completely mad variant on the Apocalyptic and Aliens invading Earth theme and the story unfolds and powers along leaving you breathless - utterly brilliant (and it is NOT predictable in the slightest)...apart from the Ending - Rushed and abrupt and very unsatisfying leaving me feeling short changed and frustrated as there was so so much I wanted to know about things (you'll know what when you read it) .
There wasn't enough character development, and the whole overlying plot and factions and factors weren't fleshed out satisfyingly as in Swan Song and his other books - this book has so so much potential - enough to have turned this into a true Great.
The novel is also very short compared to his others and lacks the depth and detail his others have - hence the 4 rather than 5 stars.

If he had spent more time on it, and worked at it longer, giving the reader more to digest and know then this would have been be a Masterpiece.

Overall, well worth reading and brilliantly written by an Author who deserves far greater acclaim.

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B'Gad

A Thirteen year olds view of aliens

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 23, 2020

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I was encouraged by the many 5 star reviews, and being a big fan of science fiction (Ian Banks etc) I thought I'd give this a go.
What a tremendous disappointment:
His description of characters is incredibly superficial, but in a massively over written manner. He spends a page describing the face of a character, but you know nothing, absolutely nothing about them apart from that they have "deeply wrinkled eyes" along with a million other completely irrelevant details.
His description of the martial abilities of the main character Ethan is utterly, utterly hopeless.... to the point of being embarrassing. I literally cringed when I read them.
Finally, and only because I don't have all day, he didn't just "jump the shark", but invented a whole shoal of them and leapt back and forward.
In a word, the book is...... Infantile.

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M. King

Not his best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 27, 2018

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It’s a decent enough story but I felt the characters were not that well fleshed, especially Jericho.

Could have done as well with some pauses to reflect on the implications for the likes of Ethan at certain key stages; it all felt a bit rushed.

Then we have an unfortunate ending which is a standard trope in a lot of sci-fi shows and which is rushed in at warp speed to get the book over with in a very perfunctory manner.

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Amazon Customer

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 3, 2020

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Thoroughly enjoyed this. Enthralling, thought provoking story. I did think there could’ve been more made of finding the ‘solution’ to ending the war...it seemed quick compared to the beginning of the story... maybe that’s because I didn’t want it to end

D. C. Bennett

This is a new work by this author after a ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 21, 2015

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This is a new work by this author after a long absence from the literary scene. He has not lost his magic touch with words,the plot is extraordinary and keeps you guessing throughout. I have been a fan for years and look forward to his next book.

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