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Inverted Frontier Series, Book 1

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By: Linda Nagata
Narrated by: Nicole Poole
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From the Edge of Apocalypse:

Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization - those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties - have all fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars

No one knows for sure what caused the Hallowed Vasties to fail, but a hardened adventurer named Urban intends to find out. He has the resources to do it. He commands a captive alien starship fully capable of facing the dangers that lie beyond Deception Well.

With a ship's company of explorers and scientists, Urban is embarking on a voyage of rediscovery. They will be the first in centuries to confront the hazards of an inverted frontier as they venture back along the path of human migration. Their goal: to unravel the mystery of the Hallowed Vasties and to discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins.

©2019 Linda Nagata (P)2020 Tantor Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera
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I normally enjoy large-scale, hard sci-fi and space opera, and this one had some interesting twists and concept for sure, but somehow it did not capture me. Maybe the characters were a bit shallow. Maybe the story was a little one-dimensional. Maybe the narration was a tad monotonous. Or maybe I did it an unjustice by listening to it immediately after listening to one of the grand masters of the genre. My recommendation: Give it a go, maybe it is for you!

Did not really do it for me

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I really wanted to enjoy this book. The story premise was great, I wanted to know what happened. But oh my god after two hours I had to give up. The narrator is I swear AI, robotic, hardly any inflection, weird pauses, all the men depicted in the same tone, and quite obviously unable to do any accents (many good narrators of sci fi understand that it is EXCEEDINGLY unlikely that everyone will sound American.) I note someone in a review getting a chip on their shoulder about 'men' and female narrators. I am female. I don't care if narrators are male or female, they have to be good - and this one is NOT. I will try to read this story on kindle despite being nearly blind because I did like the premise.

terrible ai type narration

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This is the first book of the author’s I have read and enjoyed this sub light space opera with Nanotech and broken gods.

A pleasant surprise

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Great narrative, believable and compelling characters, great pacing and great writing. All narrated very well.

Quality Scifi

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An interesting world of uploadable personalities, space travel and lost civilisation. Gripping narrative but the performance is like a robot, which definitely detracts unfortunately.

Interesting story, robotic performance

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