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Ardulum: First Don (Volume 1)

By: J. S. Fields
Narrated by: Lynn Norris
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Ardulum. The planet that vanishes. The planet that sleeps.

Neek makes a living piloting the dilapidated tramp transport Mercy’s Pledge and smuggling questionable goods across systems blessed with peace and prosperity. She gets by - but only just. In her dreams, she is still haunted by thoughts of Ardulum, the traveling planet that long ago visited her homeworld. The Ardulans brought with them agriculture, art, interstellar technology...and then disappeared without a trace, leaving Neek’s people to worship them as gods.

Neek does not believe - and has paid dearly for it with an exile from her home for her heretical views. Yet when the crew stumbles into an armed confrontation between the sheriffs of the Charted Systems and an unknown species, fate deals Neek an unexpected hand in the form of a slave girl - a child whose ability to telepathically manipulate cellulose is reminiscent of that of an Ardulan god. Forced to reconcile her beliefs, Neek chooses to protect her, but is the child the key to her salvation, or will she lead them all to their deaths?

©2017 J.S. Fields (P)2018 J.S. Fields Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Space Opera Solar System
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I’ve read this as an ebook and now returned to it as an audiobook. I must admit I understood, and engaged with, the story and its impressive scientific content more fully in the audio version. I’m a “soft” sci-fi reader who tends to struggle with technical elements of some sci-fi and so my second foray into this world helped me to really grasp Ardulum more effectively.

The action scenes — of which there are many — really came to life in the audiobook. It’s always full steam ahead with Ardulum, that’s for sure! So you better hold onto your seat and buckle in for the ride.

A complex, full-throttle adventure through space

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Great story looking forward to hearing the next to narrator was also really good I recommended this to any les sify fan

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