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Complex, fast paced, fun

Revisado: 04-19-25

It’s a now well known universe and still I’m even more invested
Difficult to follow with all the characters, rules, agendas and backstories so I had listen twice and jump back when something really complicated was thrown at me as a side note - but I enjoyed it a lot, both times, and I think I’m going to run it a third time. Thank you for this crazy adventure 🎉

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Amazing

Revisado: 10-12-24

Peter F. Hamilton & John Lee at their finest. Thank you both for this hard science adventure. I really enjoyed this book, and Mr. Hammilton is back in the game.
There are so many great concepts and ideas packed into this story. I had to listen twice, which I've never done before. Just amazing.

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Back on track

Revisado: 09-10-24

With this book the stories of the bobiverse are back on track. I also enjoyed Heavens River, but it was a side step in Dennis Taylors Universe.
I recommend this book for any sci fi fan and software engineers :)

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The female characters are stale

Revisado: 01-10-24

It is woke intersectional feminism that causes Craig to include those horrible female characters.
Sims was a good female character but she has been removed because, well, you can’t have a good female character anymore.
Craig was mostly idling in this book but still it has its moments of great humor which is my main reason to stick around. At this point I’m in it for scarandom and kitty fun, and of course Joe and Skippy dialogue. The book had a great moment with a Bosphuraq scientist who seemed preoccupied with his ex wife, which really added to my mental image of the bird-brains - that was great fun. But there also were long paragraphs without much going on and I found that I zoned out more than I used to. So overall not a compelling but I’m going to remain until the bitter end:)

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Stale female characters

Revisado: 12-30-23

While the male characters develop and have story and character arcs the ladies are Mary Sues.
It’s a filler episode and with remarkable low degree of humor.
The best scene is when the cat drives a truck while listening to rock and roll.
We know Craig can do much better. This feels like a lazy money grab

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Craig’s pandering is getting in the way

Revisado: 06-18-23

Craig Alanson is a great storyteller and he has absolutely an amazing humor and a lot of great ideas and angles. He knows how to write guys - not girls - not at all. Guys mess up, make mistakes and stumble - and learn, evolve, grow, develop - and in so doing, become fully developed characters. Thanks for that. The girls are Mary Sues. They don’t develop. We are told that they change but that is just Craig lying. Craig wants to be popular with the young and naive, so he thinks pandering to feminists, by giving girls the killer action sequences and scenes will earn him some points with that audience. I seriously doubt that they even consider reading his books, but I don’t have insight into that. What I do know is that having stale characters in the story is a problem for me. I’m a paying customer so my advice is for Craig to at least consider this problem. Ellen Ripley is one of sci-fi’s greatest characters because she was a human female who was in no way perfect - but she was believable and you rooted for her. Do yourself a favor, Craig, and rethink your pandering, and give us some believable female characters along side the male characters

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Brilliant

Revisado: 05-18-23

The story and performance is great. I do not like Tchaikovsky’s identity politics but it doesn’t matter because characters, world and story is splendid. Only women can do great things. Men are fragile and needs a strong woman by their side to be able to maintain organ function. If you are okay with this kind of political word view then you can enjoy a great story - I did, and I recommend it. Don’t stay in your bobble :-)

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Absolutely perfect

Revisado: 07-09-22

Story, characters, concepts, language and dialogue are exceptionel - in true Adrian Tchaikovsky style! Looking forward to the next book!!

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Incredible

Revisado: 06-24-22

This book series is my all time favourite. You know that you are in for a treat, when a new book in this series is released. The combination of Craig Alanson and R.C. Bray talents is just Incredible!

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Disappointed

Revisado: 12-14-21

What a terrible endgame. The series was great to begin with, but fell flat on the back during the last couple of books.
The authors became more concerned with identity politics than storytelling.

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