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Good story - bad narration

Revisado: 03-06-25

Loved the story but the narrator was not very good. He spoke so slow I had to listen at 1.4 speed and his speech was monotone and has a weird repetitive pattern that was annoying.

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Love it

Revisado: 01-23-25

Great story. Author’s style reminds me of Robert Sawyer’s books. Hard science fiction story with great characters and mystery.

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Long boring story with no action

Revisado: 09-18-23

I am about 3/4 of the way through the book as I write this.

1. The description says, "modeled after the Star Wars and X-Files universes" - uh, no. There is absolutely nothing resembling Star Wars or X-files universes. Zip. Nada.
2. The novel seems to just keep jumping around from character to character, narrating their ordinary lives, every once in a while touching on the actual purpose of this book: An unknown alien race is suddenly awakened and attacking humanity.

As this is the first story in a series I guess that could be chalked up to setting the stage, but sheesh! It is very boring and I can't wait for it to be over at this point. I keep hoping the action will start and the story will coalesce into a single story instead of a series of vignettes about boring soap opera stuff.

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Missed opportunity

Revisado: 07-01-23

Parallel earths- so many story opportunities available- yet Taylor spends most of this book having his characters yapping about politics and government. Very boring. The only drama comes from a few vignettes of anti-social misfits who cause trouble here and there but are swiftly dealt with.

Very disappointed. 2 stars for the story.

As usual though, Ray Porter’s narration was top notch. So 5 stars for that.

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Great story, narrator is not that good

Revisado: 04-29-21

I loved the story but the narrator Scott Sowers was not good. Like a bad actor reading his lines from cue cards. But the story is great, I am just now listening to this for the second time and I am enjoying it all over again.

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Boring and rambling

Revisado: 11-21-18

This book just wanders around and keeps losing any kind of cohesive plot.

The narration was pretty bad too.

No more Richard Morgan books for me.

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I actually liked the TV series better.

Revisado: 10-23-18

For the first time I actually liked the TV adaptation better than the book. I found Morgan's writing style a bit hard to follow. He is overly descriptive of complete minutiae and by the time he is done describing something completely irrelevant to the story you lose track of what the hell is going on. This might be OK reading in text, but in an audiobook, it made me actually tune out and have to rewind often to just figure out what was going on. The narration was good although McLaren really needs to work on his female voices and "screaming" which sounded more like a hoarse whisper.

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You can skip this book

Revisado: 03-23-18

Basically here is the story: They fight a single space battle with the imperial forces for the whole book. Pretty much like the last book. Nothing happens in the overall story arc.

Apparently Currie has decided to just milk the success of the first few books and not actually do any creative writing. This book has no character development, no story development. It is nothing but an agonizingly slow and detailed description of a space battle. Every laser beam and missile is described, every ship movement. GAH! I zoned out during much of this book and didn't miss a thing. VERY disappointed in you Mr. Currie.

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Good story - lousy narration

Revisado: 02-22-18

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Only in print. The story was great but it was painful to listen to the narrator. David Marantz reads this novel like a bad actor with a mouthful of marbles. This is the first book I have listened to by him so I cannot say if he is as bad on his other books, but I don't intend to find out. I will definitely avoid any future books read by him.

What was one of the most memorable moments of End of an Era?

The entire story was interesting. I love novels by Robert Sawyer and this one did not disappoint.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of David Marantz?

Anyone. Ray Porter would be good or Mark Boyett. Heck a robot narrator might have been better.

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Great book!

Revisado: 02-09-15

Would you listen to Steel World again? Why?

Great start to a series. Like a cross between Starship Troopers and Universal Soldier.

What did you like best about this story?

Exciting and full of action.

What about Mark Boyett’s performance did you like?

Mark Boyett does a wonderful job with the voices and narration.

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