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Voyage of No Return

Project Orpheus, Book 1

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Voyage of No Return

By: Frank J. Cavill
Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
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AN ASTEROID HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOON, AND ITS FRAGMENTS ARE THREATENING TO DESTROY LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

The only hope for mankind is Project Orpheus, an unprecedented initiative on the part of the allied governments to enable human life to continue on Kepler-442b, a planet over a thousand light years from Earth.

Two spaceships are under construction, which will leave for that remote solar system with a specialized crew to terraform the planet and make it habitable. Steven Rhodes, the director of Project Orpheus, will travel in the first of them. His daughter Emily, a specialist technician in Artificial Intelligence, will follow on the second ship, five years later.

However, the journey will be full of dangers which the ship's crew will have to confront.

WILL EMILY BE ABLE TO JOIN HER FATHER AND BEGIN A NEW LIFE AT THE OTHER END OF THE UNIVERSE? WILL MANKIND BE GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE FAR AWAY FROM THE EARTH?

¡Science fiction at its best!

¡Live an amazing journey!

©2024 Pedro Urvi (P)2025 Pedro Urvi Adventure Science Fiction Space Exploration Solar System
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There's nothing particularly wrong with it, but there is nothing good about it either. The writing is good enough but the plot is rather by the numbers (set-up, implausible exciting event in the middle, some excitement at the end) and there is nothing new here, it's all things you will have seen before and done better in other books. The one standout is how the mission is run in an incredibly unrealistic way, with the main character being a junior crewmember but involved in everything and just the whole thing seemingly being run on an ad-hock basis with no pre-planning of what they'd do when they arrived, the exact opposite of actual space programs where the mission planners run every conceivable scenario in advance.

So yeah, it's not terrible but given the rich history of space colonisation SF a book needs to do something a lot more interesting that this.

The narrator did a great job though, with the sole exception of the most bizarre pronounciation of 'au gratin' I've ever heard!

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Listened to about 5 chapters but then decided not for me. Narration just too fast. Reduced it on my player from default 1
to 0.7 which was too slow!

Poor Narration

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