david donovan

This is my favorite current series

Revisado: 09-03-24

Good narrator, And there is only one. Who has a gruff rouge voice. Ideal for an older man.

How this differs from the competition. And is a step above. Is that there is a lot of humor. Science Fiction without it is just a gore fest, ultimately not very interesting. The characters are well developed and act like humans, you know. Hating bureaucratic restriction from superiors, not in the field. Earth is not ever completely safe. But gets by, on bluff. The aliens are self interested. Individual aliens be allies or enemies. In that, it is much like Star Trek. It is formulaic only in that a series of events occur and the crew figures out how to resolve it. With somewhat complex plans. The series is long and you should start with the first book “Columbus Day” to understand how this book got to here.

I guess I just like the book and characters. They seem very human, instead of cardboard cut outs. But rarely give 5 stars. Enjoy!

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This is a carefully crafted politically correct kids book

Revisado: 05-20-23

It was free, so… I was hoping it would get better. The performances are good, but I got tired of the kids. So true Juvenile. If your kids are under 10. This the book for you.

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The narration makes you think this is a good story

Revisado: 04-07-23

But… I guess I have to post like most. Give a one star. But… it is difficult to write a book. There are vaguely good elements, interesting topic (Mars). But as story telling, very very poor. If it intended to be satire. Or even humorous. That would be one thing. I write this as an opinion of a life long SF reader. There is no chance I will ever read a book by this author again. Sorry I wasted a credit on this.

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Cool

Revisado: 03-29-23

Good example of a short hard boiled detective science fiction story. Nice start for a series.

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Reminds me a lot of “Legends of Tommorow”

Revisado: 11-27-22

It is a story, full of tropes. Not that funny. And not much philosophy. The science, where present, is nonsense. So entertaining, but like chewing gum that lasts about 10 minutes. It could be any time in the past, present, or future. The only thing slightly entertaining are the relationship between character. It is worth what I paid for it, free.

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The book is genius…

Revisado: 04-27-22

But… The narrator, while clear, can’t seem to pronounce most of the Geologic time terms. Nor Ne Va Da. Not Ne Vaahhh Da. As a result it spreads ignorance. I recently saw the results in Outer Range. If you are a trained Geologist it is jarring.

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You know… this book really sucks.

Revisado: 09-02-21

It is neither a short story collection nor a book. With at least 10 unrelated “main” characters. All 5 books / sections / chapters are good. It is RAH. But… they are defiantly unrelated. The narration is excellent.

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Lord of Light doesn’t seem to be available in Audible, yet.

Revisado: 06-28-21

This is NOT a dystopian novel. It was topical for 1966. And good for an early career work. It is about colonization. And… “magical spirts”.

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A much under appreciated series

Revisado: 06-28-21

This is the series that needs to be made into a movie or series. But maybe something else he wrote might be better. Like “Lord of Light”.

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Interesting. This is a straight history based on the friends and family of John Hance.

Revisado: 04-20-21

John Hance was famous as a liar / Tall Tale Teller. And, apparently, left few written records. Therefore this author created a history of “life after the Civil War” in Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona. It is surprising who Hance was “probably” friends of and related to who, apparently, are better documented. Apparently it is not possible to reconstruct what John Hance’s stories like, except one or two, often repeated stories. But he was a “typical” AZ pioneer. Because I’m listening to the book, I wish the narrator would pronounce the names of the towns and rivers correctly. Rolle is “Rolla”, Gila is not “Gill-a”, and it was only said once. But Dine, (Dineh) was far from correct. Prescott was a mixed lot, in terms of pronunciation. That is; it was pronounced several different ways. Sometimes correctly, rhyming with Biscuit. However, the narration was very easy to listen to. No accent. He just should have better studied some place names.

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