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Artifact

Saturn's Legacy, Book 1

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Artifact

By: Joshua James
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
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FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, SATURN HID AN ALIEN SECRET. IN 2065, HUMANITY WILL FIND IT.

Carpenter Lowell is a disgraced Marine assigned to a remote US research station on Saturn's moon Enceladus, where scientists have made an extraordinary discovery in the ocean below. A special forces team, led by Lowell’s murderous former commanding officer, shows up to investigate. Almost immediately, everything begins to unravel. Something beneath the surface has been activated.

Soon every space force on Earth — American, Chinese, Russian, and more — is converging on the tiny moon, ready to start a war. But when a young archeologist with a knack for dead languages makes an amazing discovery of his own, Lowell realizes the stakes are higher than anyone could’ve imagined. He soon has no choice but to disobey orders and fight soldiers he helped train as he races to stop an unimaginable chain reaction that threatens the entire solar system. The countdown has begun...

Artifact, the first book in the Saturn's Legacy series, is a sci-fi thriller full of mystery, intrigue, and epic action from the depths of the ocean to the edge of outer space.

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While it is expected that you have to suspend disbelief at some level when reading science fiction, e.g. warp drives or transporters, that doesn't mean you get a free pass when the science isn't correct.
A sonic weapon that works effectively on the surface of Mars with its tenuous atmosphere but doesn't work underwater? Sound travels very effectively through water, an essentially incompressible fluid, far more so than in a this gaseous atmosphere, and I'm struggling to recall but did it also work in the vacuum of space.
This is just pulp fiction.
Full of cliches, predictable plot.

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