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    Angels' Fall

    Written by Frank Herbert

    Narrated by Fleet Cooper

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    About this audiobook

    Angels' Fall is one of Frank Herbert's once-lost novels, written before Dune and never published.

    A gripping thriller set in the South American jungles, Angels' Fall follows freelance pilot Jeb Logan and his passengers following a plane crash deep in the Amazon. Jeb has to keep the survivors of the wreckage - a beautiful singer, her young son, and a ruthless urderer clinging the last thread of sanity - alive in a grueling trip downriver. Their supplies are running out and nature itself is turning against them, as the small, desperate group struggles to survive among the jungle - and each other.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLantern Audio
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9781945213021
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    Angels' Fall
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    Frank Herbert

    Frank Herbert (1920-1986) created the most beloved novel in the annals of science fiction, Dune.  He was a man of many facets, of countless passageways that ran through an intricate mind.  His magnum opus is a reflection of this, a classic work that stands as one of the most complex, multi-layered novels ever written in any genre.  Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy.  It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies. As a child growing up in Washington State, Frank Herbert was curious about everything. He carried around a Boy Scout pack with books in it, and he was always reading.  He loved Rover Boys adventures, as well as the stories of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs.  On his eighth birthday, Frank stood on top of the breakfast table at his family home and announced, "I wanna be a author."  His maternal grandfather, John McCarthy, said of the boy, "It's frightening. A kid that small shouldn't be so smart." Young Frank was not unlike Alia in Dune, a person having adult comprehension in a child's body.  In grade school he was the acknowledged authority on everything.  If his classmates wanted to know the answer to something, such as about sexual functions or how to make a carbide cannon, they would invariably say, "Let's ask Herbert. He'll know." His curiosity and independent spirit got him into trouble more than once when he was growing up, and caused him difficulties as an adult as well.  He did not graduate from college because he refused to take the required courses for a major; he only wanted to study what interested him.  For years he had a hard time making a living, bouncing from job to job and from town to town. He was so independent that he refused to write for a particular market; he wrote what he felt like writing.  It took him six years of research and writing to complete Dune, and after all that struggle and sacrifice, 23 publishers rejected it in book form before it was finally accepted. He received an advance of only $7,500. His loving wife of 37 years, Beverly, was the breadwinner much of the time, as an underpaid advertising writer for department stores.  Having been divorced from his first wife, Flora Parkinson, Frank Herbert met Beverly Stuart at a University of Washington creative writing class in 1946.  At the time, they were the only students in the class who had sold their work for publication.  Frank had sold two pulp adventure stories to magazines, one to Esquire and the other to Doc Savage.  Beverly had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine.  These genres reflected the interests of the two young lovers; he the adventurer, the strong, machismo man, and she the romantic, exceedingly feminine and soft-spoken. Their marriage would produce two sons, Brian, born in 1947, and Bruce, born in 1951. Frank also had a daughter, Penny, born in 1942 from his first marriage.  For more than two decades Frank and Beverly would struggle to make ends meet, and there were many hard times.  In order to pay the bills and to allow her husband the freedom he needed in order to create, Beverly gave up her own creative writing career in order to support his.  They were in fact a writing team, as he discussed every aspect of his stories with her, and she edited his work.  Theirs was a remarkable, though tragic, love story-which Brian would poignantly describe one day in Dreamer of Dune (Tor Books; April 2003).  After Beverly passed away, Frank married Theresa Shackelford. In all, Frank Herbert wrote nearly 30 popular books and collections of short stories, including six novels set in the Dune universe: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune.  All were international bestsellers, as were a number of his other science fiction novels, which include The White Plague and The Dosadi Experiment.  His major novels included The Dragon in the Sea, Soul Catcher (his only non-science fiction novel), Destination: Void, The Santaroga Barrier, The Green Brain, Hellstorm's Hive, Whipping Star, The Eyes of Heisenberg, The Godmakers, Direct Descent, and The Heaven Makers. He also collaborated with Bill Ransom to write The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor.  Frank Herbert's last published novel, Man of Two Worlds, was a collaboration with his son, Brian.

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    • 5/5
      It had been so long I had honestly forgotten what an amazing writer Frank Herbert was. This previously unpublished work is a great adventure story set in the Amazonian jungle and is proof, if proof were needed, that Frank Herbert did not only write great Science Fiction but could turn his hand to any genre with equal skill. I know there are other early work that were turned down by publishers at the time (more fool them). I can only hope they will also soon see the light of day because, on the evidence of Angels' Fall, I will be first in the queue to buy them.
    • 5/5
      This is just another example of how deep and engaging Frank Herbert can get. The writing was great and the story gripping. The narration was on point too.
    • 5/5
      Great listen. The narrator’s voice really works to the story’s advantage.
    • 3/5
      The narrator did a good job, but the source material is what makes this one a middle-of-the-road book. Enjoyable, if you don't dig too deep, and if you are willing to overlook some structure and character flaws. I had some good episodes, and I could tell the narrator was trying his hardest to give the best performance to match the mood of the scene.
    • 3/5
      Kind of an emotionally abridged-Heart of Darkness.

      4 people trying to survive, stranded on a wrecked marine plane, chased by Indians seeking vegance as it floats down a tributary of the Amazon.

      Heavy on metaphysical metaphors, a little thin on characterisation, the author’s main preoccupation seems to be with hashing out some interesting philosophical thoughts and familiar conundrums of the human existence.

      You can see why it remained unpublished, although I must say that the novel grew on me as it went along.
    • 4/5
      It was good but not great. Still, worth to listen it.
    • 4/5
      Angels' Fall is "Frank Herbert lite". Not as deep or cerebral as his other works, but the characters still have some nuance and the action moves at a fairly brisk pace. A good, short read with an ending that sort of sneaks up on you.
    • 5/5
      A gripping story, demonstrating Frank Herbert's unique ability to put you right in the scene. A great one for lovers of action adventure books.