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Seeds of Earth

Humanity's Fire, Book 1

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Seeds of Earth

By: Michael Cobley
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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First contact: the dream that became a nightmare when the first alien life encountered swarmed locust-like through the solar system. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable.

With little hope of halting the invading forces, Earth's last, desperate roll of the die was to send out three colony ships - seeds of Earth - to different parts of the galaxy. Earth may perish, but the human race would live on, somewhere.

Fully 150 years later, the human colony on the planet Darien has established a new world for humanity and forged a peaceful relationship with the planet's indigenous race, the gentle, scholarly Uvovo. But there are secrets buried on Darien. Life is about to change for the last children of Earth, as surprises spring from below and above. How will the Darien colonists react when all they have worked for is overturned at a stroke? And what choices will the Uvovo make when their true nature is revealed - and the skies grow dark with enemies?

From the author: "Audible did a great job with the audiobooks of Seeds Of Earth and The Orphaned Worlds - and David Thorpe is one versatile guy, able to lend his vocal talents to every strange character I was able to think up. Just excellent!"

©2010 Michael Cobley (P)2011 Audible Ltd Science Fiction Fiction Solar System

Critic reviews

"Proper galaxy-spanning Space Opera... a worthy addition to the genre." (Iain M. Banks)
"A complex, finely detailed thriller-cum-space opera." (The Guardian)
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This book has some interesting concepts and some likeable characters but unfortunately it seems to be trying to do too much in one book. The time you spend with any one character is short and fragmented and you never really get a good connection with nay of them, I did enjoy the book and perhaps the characters get a bit more flushed out as the series progreses. The themes are good except the slightly happy clappy tree hugging undertones that seem extraneous at best.

Interesting but too fragmented

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The reader makes a valiant effort. The book isn't bad, nor is it good. So what's wrong? It's a fairly strong story line and some of the characters are nicely drawn. Yet, overall it doesn't work. I think the reason is probably because the author set out to write a multi-book series. This book needed a good editor to cut it down and turn it into the tightly written, exciting book it could have been.

Disappointing, this book needed a good editor

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It's off very confusing and a bit all over the place, but stick with it, it gets better! Most of my praise goes to David Thorpe. His aptitude for accents of this world and others is outstanding! He made this book listenable.

The story gets better!

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Excellent story, Enjoy it alot, best audio quality and narrator did the great job. simply love this book.

Excellent book

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A good book; well narrated. I would recommend this to my friends and family. Thanks to Audible for having this in store.

Good book

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