Alan Larson

Total disrespect of the Star Trek audience.

Revisado: 12-20-21

I never thought I would react so negatively to a performance of an audiobook. My first question is, How did they select this narrator? He obviously has never seen a single episode of any Star Trek TV show, movie, or audiobook. He mispronounces EVERYTHING! I have read reviews of other books, Star Trek or not, where they slam the narrator, and I generally felt that they were being unfair for slamming him or her for mispronouncing a word or two. But this performance is too much! My second question is, How did this get past the quality control people, directors, producers, etc. Did they just leave him in a room to read the script and then send it off for distribution without anyone ever listening to it? I feel totally disrespected, which surprises me. I grew up with Star Trek and have kept up with the culture. I am the audience they are counting on; people like me purchasing the new stuff to keep up with the Star Trek Universe. I feel totally disrespected and I will never purchase a Star Trek audiobook narrated by Alec Newman ever again. There are two more books in this series, and it seems like a waste to not be able to read them for fear of my negative reaction to them. Perhaps I should wait a few months and read the kindle version of this series. Needless to say, I will not be purchasing part two or three in this audiobook series. My advice to Audible is, re-record these books with another narrator!

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Liberal talking points and preachy

Revisado: 09-26-21

The first "Power" book was tolerable, but this one turned intolerable in the first hour. I could listen no more. All the liberal talking points were covered. Abortion, Global warming, Religious fundamentalists, etc. It was like he was hired by the liberal media machine to cover all of their sacred cows. I feel lucky that I did not pay for the third and fourth ones, as his output in his later years can be spotty. I met him and had him sign a book for me more than 20 years ago. In those days he kept his politics to himself, or he was turned into a commie lib since then.

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Good story, had to get used to the performance

Revisado: 07-14-21

This is a very different audiobook performance. There were sound effects inserted at odd times, and, listening to this in my car during my commute, I thought for a while that there was something wrong with my car because there was a sound effect that sounded like my turn signal. It turned out that it was a clock ticking in the sitting room of 221b Baker Street. Also, there is an effect that sounds like Paul McCartney singing in the background, which I can't figure out at all. But knocks on the door, the clip-clop of a hansom cab, and such stuff were a nice touch. The voice actor spoke extremely slowly and sometimes over-enunciated his words. That was something that took some getting used to.

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Christopher Bennett's oblique criticism of America

Revisado: 07-04-21

The 23rd-century Star Fleet personnel are still wringing their hands and wracked with guilt over slavery, Indians, and the Trump administration. I read to put aside the daily hate for America that permeates the culture and media of the day.

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Great story, no lib agenda. Refreshing!

Revisado: 12-03-20

Where is the global warming liberal agenda? What am I going to do without someone telling me what to think?

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Finally! SF from a conservative point of view.

Revisado: 06-27-20

It is nice not to be preached to by global warming obsessed socialists. Great story and character development. A planet with a libertarian point of view being oppressed by an all consuming Earth government that wants to control every facet of their lives. I can't wait to read the rest of his stuff!

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Great interview between author and reader at the

Revisado: 03-10-20

Great as usual. There is an excellent interview between George Guidall and Craig Johnson after the "The End" has been spoken, so stay tuned!

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Deleted from my iPhone. Plodding and Boring

Revisado: 04-21-18

Mindless Drivel. Where do you go when you run out of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbery, John Heinlein, John Ringo, Ben Bova, JRR Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Frederick Pohl, Poul Anderson, Jerry Pournell, with and without Larry Niven. The search seems endless.

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Not the usual stuff

Revisado: 10-08-13

Most SF books I have read lately portray a world of the future where global warming has destroyed or decimated the world, religious zealots have taken over with disastrous results, or capitalism has run amok and impoverished 99% of the population. This book has visited the future without using the liberal agenda as a guide, and is a refreshing change from that template. It is not like you are listening to conservative talk radio. The author simply does not overtly push the liberal agenda. Refreshing!

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The whole Hornblower series

Revisado: 02-24-13

This is my second time through the Hornblower series. The first time was when you had to rent cassettes, listen to them and return them by mail.

A lot of people complain about the narrator, but I have heard a lot worse. Some of the British accent narrators seem to be very condescending and the pronunciations of certain words are hard to take for a long book. (Like the narration in the some of the John LeCarre series of books,or most of the books by Winston Churchill.)

Partially throughout the first time through the series, I kept thinking that there was something very familiar about the Hornblower character. Then I heard that Gene Roddenberry, when he was creating the first Star Trek TV show, told his writers to think of Captain Kirk as a, "Space going Horatio Hornblower." He brings his ship and crew through seemingly impossible situations to the glory of his country and his King.

When I was through with the Hornblower series, I was hungry for more, so I tried, "Master and Commander" of the Aubrey Maturin series of books by Patrick O'Brian, and found it boring and unreadable.

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