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Title: Archangel

Subtitle: Spectre War, Book 2

Author: Margaret Fortune

Narrator: Michael Goldstrom, Alex McKenna

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Archangel is the second installment of the explosive, pulse-pounding Spectre War science-fiction series.

An enemy you can't kill. A soldier who can't fight. An interstellar war that can't be won - until now.

As a soldier of the Celestial Expanse, Guardian First Class Michael Sorenson knows better than anyone that when the Spectres invade, there are only two options - run or die.

However, his defensive war takes on a whole new spin when he's recruited into Division 7, a research and development facility with the ultimate mission: to create a large-scale weapon that can kill Spectres en masse.

Here Michael joins a team of military elite who have the daring - and dangerous - task of taking new weapons prototypes out into the field for testing on enemy troops. Yet the closer they come to developing a working WMD, the more it becomes clear: there's a saboteur in R&D.

With all signs pointing to a massive Spectre attack brewing on the horizon, the creation of a new weapons system yields an opportunity to end the threat once and for all. As the days count down toward its launch, Michael must hunt down the saboteur...before the saboteur kills again.

Members Reviews:

Great second installment in Specter series

This was so different from book 1(Nova). Nicely done. Just enough character carry over from first book to keep you connected, but not so much to be Nova 2. Good balance between a squad sci fi (eg, starship troopers) and intergalactic big picture intrigue (eg, lost starship) book. Can't wait for book 3!

Bleak Military Sci Fi and Story about Grief

This book starts with the central love interest in the first book having been completely broken by the events of the prior book. Despite the fact that in the prior book he hated the military and was very close to his sister, this book starts with him in the military, not talking to his sister, and in an army unit with a high casualty rate. This actually makes sense based on the events of the prior book, but is tragic. What follows is military sci fi of the "Full Metal Jacket"/"Band of Brothers" vein that has an enormously high death count, a kind of book I've never cared for. Much of the book focuses on the protagonist dealing with loss. There is also a great deal of action which I found myself tempted to flip through. This book piles on the tragedies to the point it's hard to believe anyone will live long enough for me to get emotionally invested. If you like tear jerkers, tragedies, and military sci fi, you'll like this book. Don't quite understand reviewers who describe it as a "fun read". I had trouble sleeping after reading it.

The sequel to a compelling mystery is boring military SF

This book is dramatically different from and inferior to the Nova novel. Archangel is overly long, repetitive and filled with long passages of military action that become simply boring. There is a sub-plot about sabotage that seems to drag endlessly with the main character repeating himself ad nauseam. I have rarely seen such a decline in quality between two books. It is almost like a different author wrote number two. Save time and move on to other reading.

Intense, dramatic ending

Unlike some people who rate a book without reading it, I read the book in its entirety. The book was a very enjoyable read. It kept me intrigued throughout the book.

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Title: Eve's Hungry

Author: Mackay Bell

Narrator: Tess Irondale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-17

Publisher: Hyper Geek Press

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dr. Eve Zachara, a smart, sexy, tech executive and expert in martial arts, is on a mission to save the world from total annihilation.

In the future, the fight between Apple and Google has grown into a deadly world war. Corporate fighter jets roar over the deserts of Central Asia, machine guns blast in the jungles of Africa, and high above the planet, vast battles are waged by opposing space fleets.

Google has vowed to nuke the Earth from their space based nuclear platform, right after Steve Job's new Keynote speech. Eve, a personal protégé of Jobs, works as a super agent in Apple's secretive Special Sales Division. As the clock ticks down, she must use all her amazing skills in international espionage, from assault and assassination to sabotage and seduction, in a final battle for the fate of mankind.

Members Reviews:

A fun post apocalyptic romp

I enjoyed the colorful world that Bell created. Eve's Hungry has everything a fan of sexy post apocalyptic action stories could ask for. Bell uses his substantial knowledge of the telecommunications world to paint a tounge in cheek picture of the future if left to Apple and Google. The narration was also excellent.

painful.

it's a nine hour apple advertisement. the villains are two dimensional, the story is weak, the science faulty. the author shows no understanding of military tactics. the narrator is awesome,I recommend other books read by her but even she couldn't save this. if this was a movie it would be straight to DVD in the five dollar bin.

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Title: Marine Defenders

Author: Isaac Stone

Narrator: Scott Glennon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-17

Publisher: Isaac Stone

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Titanic cult armies wage campaigns of galactic conquest in their fanatical search for wealth, dominance, glory, and truth. Forces from two of the largest cults have descended upon a formerly peaceful planet and laid waste to everything before them. Jacobite Knights in battle armor stalk the battlefields looking for insight and glory as multitudes of Synarchist legions destroy everything in their path in a holy mission to kill or convert all of humanity. The city of Parmesh has been ravaged by siege, and all that remains of the defenders is a ragtag brigade of stalwart marines who fight a bitter resistance against the two cult armies. The marines are in a race against time to evacuate the remaining civilian refugees, even as they scavenge for supplies and wage desperate war. Out of the chaos of battle a stranger appears, armed and dangerous and yet hunted by champions of both cults. If this new warrior is friend or foe remains to be seen. There is no choice but to fight on.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

okie dokie

Not a very good read

I found myself not caring about anyone around 50% of the way through. Author focused on his notion of world building for a long time ignoring the characters, IMO. Other than a few sentences about someone's background, that was kinda it.

Not techie, but I didn't have a clue as to weapon characteristics, capabilities. Rifles, bullets and there were different star systems. Buildings pretty much as you'd expect - pick your century.

Not sure if author knows who, what marines are and their place in the mad scheme of war. He definitely doesn't understand TO&E and a brigade in anybody's armed forces is more than 100.

Started skimming around 40% mark, having no interest in who won and what happened to anybody. Take that back -- the occasional mother and baby, I kinda cared but didn't know anything about any of them.

Not last, and not least, my normal qualms regarding females in infantry, especially when not genetically nor mechanically enhanced. Would help if authors got a little real on M/F ratios, like % that can pass marine boot, infantry training.

But I've spent way too much time writing this, as well as reading it. BUT, if I'm going to give 1 'star', folk should know why. Bottom line, no credibility regarding any aspect of military with characters I didn't care about. And the 'universe ' was dull, boring.

Makes it hard to read with bad formatting.

Where are chapter 3 and 5? Also, no paragraph formatting? Makes it hard to read with bad formatting.

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Title: The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger 2)

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Mark F. Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Three years after the events that took place in "The Lost World", Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth is starting to move through a region of space containing something poisonous to humankind. Shutting themselves tightly up in Challenger's house, they start to consider what may be done. But as their countrymen start to drop, will their oxygen last long enough to determine and implement a solution?

©2017 SAGA Egmont (P)2017 SAGA Egmont

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Title: The Skylark of Space

Author: E. E. Smith

Narrator: Edward Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"The Skylark of Space" by E. E.Smith was written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate. Though the original idea for the novel was Smith's, he co-wrote the first part of the novel with Lee Hawkins Garby. The novel is considered to be one of the earliest works of interstellar travel and the first example of space opera... Close your eyes, prick up your ears and enjoy.

©2016 Audioliterature (P)2016 Audioliterature

Members Reviews:

A blast from the distant past

The Skylark of Space, a collaboration between E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby is most notable for its science fiction content from early in the 20th century. Written over a period of several years around 1915 to 1921 and serialized in 1928, after Verne and Wells, it may be one of the most influential early works in the genre. Without much attention to the timeframe of the tale, a scientist discovers chemistry with a non-radioactive transuranic element that combined with copper allows for a space drive providing faster than light travel (remarks are made that Einstein's relativity was still just a theory). An evil villain in an attempt to steal the secret, kidnaps the scientist's girlfriend and heads off into space with her intending to strand her on another planet and ransom her for the secret formula. This sets off a chase through interstellar space that results in a meeting with malevolent cerebral entity as well as a planet of humanoid beings warring over their own planetary dominance.

While somewhat crude and laughably simple, the sci-fi elements are strikingly in line with common themes today. The faster than light drive is just assumed, but necessary for interstellar travel. A description of a "dead sun" with strong gravity sounds like a black hole, while an attractor property is pretty much a tractor beam. Particle weapons of immense destructive power border on nuclear fission. While the alien cultures are heavily anthropomorphized, there is the intriguing suggestion that they evolved towards more engineering solutions, rather than study much chemistry, while still having instantaneous learning systems.

The narration style suggests an older recording that has been recently digitized as the format has a repetition of the book's title and authors at the beginning of each chapter as well as announcing the end of each chapter. Narration quality is also subpar with little character distinction, let alone gender or alien variation. The overall sense is one of a simple reading out loud of the text suggestive of an earlier period.

Note: There are at least two other recorded versions of this book with different narrators that appear to have also tackled the entire series (three follow-on books). Finally, this version has the oddity of the ending Audible sign-off in German and the file size is about double the expected size for a 9 hour recording.

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Title: Two Fire [Russian Edition]

Author: Andrey Vasilyev

Narrator: Alexander Chaytzyn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-16

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"Dva ognja" - fantasticheskij roman Andreja Vasil'eva, desjataja kniga cikla "Fajroll", zhanr boevoe fjentezi, LitRPG. Vremja ne stoit na meste, a potomu i sobytija, proishodjashhie v zhizni glavnogo geroja, zastavljajut ego dvigat'sja vpered vse bystree i bystree, ne davaja vremeni na to, chtoby ostanovit'sja i posmotret' - a kuda on sobstvenno bezhit? I pravil'noe li vybrano napravlenie dlja bega? Dannoe izdanie soderzhit special'nuju rasshirennuju avtorskuju versiju romana, ranee ne izdavavshujusja!

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: Crossing the Darkness

Author: W.H. Massa

Narrator: Joe Hempel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-16

Publisher: Critical Mass Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A ship of horrors. A journey into darkness. An ex-con and an ex-cop must join forces against the next step in human evolution.

Faith Cadena hopes to make a new life for herself on a new world far from Earth. After doing hard time for a crime committed in her youth, all she wants now is a chance at a fresh start. Booking passage on an interstellar colony barge, Faith expects an uneventful three-year voyage spent in cryogenic stasis. But her dream of a better life becomes a nightmare when she is prematurely awakened halfway through her journey and finds herself trapped aboard a ship of horrors: the vessel is adrift in the far reaches of space, its crew brutally murdered, and a ruthless killer in command. With the nearest outpost millions of miles away, it's up to Faith to face an inhuman adversary with terrifying plans for the ship's 4000 sleeping passengers.

Members Reviews:

An intense sci-fi thriller

William Massa's fourth book is an intense sci-fi thriller that hits the ground running. We meet Faith while dreaming, her mind becoming lucid as the effects of the cryo unit she's been stored in begin to wear off. She doesn't understand why she is the only passenger who has awakened, or where the crew are. She begins investigating, only to find that she is not the only crew member that has been awakened, and someone, or something, is hunting these early risers through the ship.

What I like about this book, in fact what I like about all four of Massa's books, is the brevity. Could this have been a fascinating, cerebral, and horrifying journey through space that pondered mans place in the universe? Yes it could have. But instead Massa gives us a quick, concise read that keeps us on the edge of our seat throughout. He always manages to plant seeds in the narrative that seem to serve the one purpose, only to grow later into a mind boggling plot twist. He does it with skill, like a magician who directs our attention one place while doing something simple and haunting in another. His story moves, his characters are well developed, his twists surprise and keep us turning the pages.

While not the cerebral journey I thought it would be, Massa did deliver a rousing action thriller set in deep space, far away from home with nobody to rely on but yourself to survive. In less than 150 pages he managed to fit in not only a full, suspenseful story, but such grand science-fiction themes such as man's base animal nature vs. technology and man's far reaching scientific hubris, as well as human themes like responsibility, courage, our desire to run away from our pasts, and our prejudice/ability to make that nearly impossible to achieve.

At the end of the day, William Massa's Crossing The Darkness won't change your life, maybe won't even make you think more about your place in the world, unlike his previous book Silicone Man which blended action with a more cerebral human story to near perfection, but it will be a fun read that may keep you up most of the night reading, and possibly a little bit after you've finished.

Creepy sci-fi

A reformed criminal fleeing her past finds herself in a truly terrifying situation, trapped on a space vessel where small groups of passengers are being awakened from hyper-sleep for reasons that become chillingly clear. This page turner takes the reader on a dark voyage of survival.

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Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Roswell

Author: Donald Allen Kirch

Narrator: Matt Weight

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-16

Publisher: Donald Allen Kirch

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On July 4, 1947, the tiny military hamlet of Roswell, New Mexico was thrust into both history and folklore as being the first city in the United States to claim that it captured an alien "flying saucer". Five days later, the Army declared the event over, and that what was found was nothing more than a downed weather balloon.

Then, in the early 1970s, the investigation was looked into. There were stories of a crashed alien spacecraft with bodies. These objects were said to have been taken to a base in Ohio. Then, the story changed - not one but two foreign objects crashed outside the desert of Roswell.

They were wrong. There were, in fact, three vessels!

Special Agent Robert Halstead of the FBI's Special Investigation Unit made contact with Jason Greer, a pulp fiction writer, and legend. Mr. Greer informed Agent Halstead about the third and unknown UFO from the famous Roswell crash and invited him along for an out-of-this-world adventure.

They came in contact with UFO activist Susan Flagg, who dedicated her life to solving the conspiracy behind the Roswell incident. When asked to investigate a new and different side to the legend, she was, at first, skeptical.

Following incredible leads, being chased by mysterious men in black, cattle mutilations, and people who do not have to answer to the law, Halstead, Greer, and Flagg experience an investigation of the bizarre. Aliens most violent and marooned seek to escape this primitive planet filled with tribal warfare and sickness. Government stooges who will do anything to keep the aliens from leaving. When these worlds collide, the story becomes epic!

Members Reviews:

Funny, entertaining

Funny, entertaining. Reminded me of the sometimes whimsical, funny and clever episodes of "The X-Files" television show. Thought the ending was a little rushed otherwise it was a good, short entertaining read.

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Title: Inside Earth

Author: Poul William Anderson

Narrator: Edward Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-16

Publisher: Audioliterature

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

An action-packed and knowledgeable sci-fi tale by multi award-winning and prolific author Poul William Anderson. The story is set in the not too distant future. Earth has been conquered and the rather too humanoid new rulers extract heavy taxes, control the industry and even reproduction... Something has to be done! But there are those who are against this...

©2016 Audioliterature (P)2016 Audioliterature

Members Reviews:

Life under the boot of occupation

Inside Earth is a 1951 Poul Anderson short story. The futuristic tale takes place after Earth has been occupied by a militarily and technologically advanced alien empire. Perspective is provided by an alien of the empire going "undercover" as a human to infiltrate a nascent rebellion effort. Rather than sabotaging the effort, the mission is to support the rebellion in an attempt to aid humanity in putting aside their petty differences, bigotry, and discriminatory attitudes towards each other. The belief is that humanity will never be able to assume their participatory role in the burgeoning empire if there isn't a unified planetary sense of identity.

Th sci-fi elements are minimal and crude with vague faster than light travel along with aliens that sport simple cosmetic distinctions with humans. Mentally and psychologically, the aliens are comparable to any educated, enlightened human. The appeal of the tale is the perspectives and impressions of the alien undercover agent who not only has a fondness for humans, but develops emotional attachments. Clearly, Anderson was providing some insightful and critical social commentary given the global state of affairs developing in the post WWII time frame. Ironically, the message is as relevant today as it was then.

The narration is less than optimal. It's unclear if the narrator was attempting to convey a robotic, alien patois and delivery which is in contrast to the actions and the supportive approach the agent manifests.

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Title: How I Started the Zombie Apocalypse: The Confession of Dr. David Kohlberg

Subtitle: Z-Factor, Book 1

Author: Michael K. Clancy

Narrator: D.G. Chichester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-16

Publisher: Lyons McNamara LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"The soldiers didn't want to use bullets in such close quarters. These men are strong and well trained in hand-to-hand combat. Yet Munwes didn't stop even when they applied pressure to nerves, shattered a knee, and twisted an arm out of its joint."

"So if they didn't shoot him, how did they subdue Munwes?"

"They bashed in his head."

CNN Exclusive Z-Factor Update: Breaking News

Dr. Benjamin Lieber of Georgetown University revealed he just received important new intelligence about the sudden global outbreak of the new virus known as Z-Factor. He is the grandson of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Benjamin Lieber, who died yesterday in Tel Aviv. He is also the nephew of Dr. David Kohlberg, who died in Tel Aviv early this morning. CNN will interview Dr. Lieber at 7 pm EST.

Members Reviews:

Interesting

Like the explanation of how the Z outbreak began but would have liked less backstory on Dr Kohlberg and more information on the Russian side.