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The Starchild Trilogy

By: Robert Williscroft
Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
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The Starchild Trilogy begins with building a Space Launch Loop enabling massive movement off Earth and subsequent settlement of Cislunar-Space, Mars, and beyond.

Slingshot is the story of the struggle behind constructing the largest machine ever built stretching between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific, and how the men and women behind Slingshot overcome the project's physical, economic, and human obstacles.

In The Starchild Compact, a team exploring Saturn's moon Iapetus discovers it to be a derelict starship, and meets the Founders, remnants of an ancient, advanced race, the Ectarians, that arrived in the Solar System 150,000 years ago. Together, they create the Starchild Institute governed by a document they call the Starchild Compact to further develop and introduce Ectarian technology to the Solar System. Using Ectarian technology, they develop near lightspeed spacecraft, artificial wormholes, FTL starships, and human longevity.

As human colonies expand into the Solar System, they form a governing coalition: The Iapetus Federation. While a united Islam pursues a global Jihad that rages across the planet putting millions to the sword, the Federation enables an exodus from Earth using artificial wormholes. From hand-to-hand combat in the oceans, to battles on Earth's surface, to the challenge of living off-Earth and reaching for the stars, our heroes fight to survive and to expand humankind to the far reaches of the universe.

©2018 Robert G. Williscroft (P)2019 Robert G. Williscroft
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First 2 books are a thumbs up

The third book was fair it best in my opinion. The new drive was a nice add on but overall the third book was very dry.

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Stop the voices. Stop the voices!

Ugh, trying to do German, Indian, Israeli, Russian, and Arabic accents; and failing miserably at all of them. I almost couldn't finish it because of the narrator.

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I couldn't get through even the first chapter.

The story and the performance were very poor. I continued listening in goes that it would get better but no luck. I gave up before completing the first couple chapters.

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I do not recommend this book!!

The writing is reminiscent of a high school composition paper. The characters are underdeveloped, unbelievable, and sex crazed because every professional relationship in the book is basically a sexual harassment poster board.

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DNF- I really tried

A combination of nauseous dialog, unrealistic character interactions and mind numbing technical details was bad enough but the narrators attempt to do accents made it absolutely unbearable. I really tried! Almost forced my way through the first book

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