bad story, bad reader

The story is a haphazard mixture of undeveloped ideas, with too many concepts being tossed around for an unclear purpose (showing off a bit?). Solving the travelling salesman problem and, implicitly, P vs NP would have enough far reaching consequences of its own, all of them more probable and more immediately destructive than suddenly being able to create true artificial intelligence (the obvious one is that easy factorisation leads to the internet/economy grinding to a halt etc). Also, being able to solve hard mathematical problems (NP) does not necessarily mean that evil AI would take hold that very minute, just because it can now compute faster. Then there was no need to add timelines to the mix. True, the story does become clearer on a second reading/hearing, but it still looks like a missed opportunity.

The male reader has a very abrasive style, almost shouting at times, no adaptive intonation, trying to create a sense of urgency, but ending up making the reading rushed. Multiple problems with pronunciations of 'chassis' (tch!!), 'vehicle' (with an H!!! two or three times) , 'spray'(shpray!! at least twice) and 'omniscient' (omnishent!!). His immitation of English accents is dubious. The musical interludes also make no sense.

The female reader, Shandra Marie, while credited in the audio file, is not credited in the 'Narrated by' field in the Audiobook listing. Why not?? She's definitely better than Jared Doreck.

TO AUDIBLE: Please add Shandra Marie to the credits!!!

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