First Encounter
Ascension Wars, Book 1
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First Encounter
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Narrated by:
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Ben Jaeger-Thomas
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By:
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Jasper T. Scott
About this listen
FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT
The Forerunners set out from Earth to colonize neighboring star systems
And to search for intelligent life...
The United Nations of Earth sent out the Forerunner ships to explore and colonize the four most promising star systems within 50 light-years of Earth.
Forerunner One left Earth under the command of Captain Clayton Cross, heading for Trappist-1. After a ninety year journey to reach it, the crew encountered not only a habitable world, but alien life already inhabiting it, and dark secrets lurking beneath the surface.
The revelation of who these aliens are and what they want proves more terrifying than promising, and Captain Cross is forced to make tough decisions that will affect not only his crew, but the fate of the entire human race.
©2019 Jasper T. Scott (P)2020 Audible, Inc.will only read the next in the series if it comes up in a box set or somthing
abandon all hope
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The story took a while to grab me... By halfway I started to enjoy it and by the end I will say I thoroughly did enjoy the book as a whole.
The details encompassed in the technology present in the story were pretty solid, however, I found the behaviour of the scientists (fallible Humans though I realise they are) to not quite match up to their apparent intellect, or their capability as a person to have been included in the Forerunner mission.
It was that particular kind of point that had me not feeling quite so connected to the story in the beginning.
I know you'll get irrationality in all manner of people from all levels of education and culture... I am basing my opinion on my own experience in the scientific community, though.
That aside, after it started really becoming the Clayton show, the story grabbed me and I really enjoyed it.
I kept expecting him or Delta to pick up a dead aliens' weapon or strip the suit off or something...
Or that they wouldn't go back into cryo and would attempt to reverse engineer the suit and weapon of the dead alien aboard.
Those expectations were subverted, however, and I am not displeased by that.
The ending sets a strong tone for what's to come, and while some of what I perceive as flaws in the set up still niggle at my overall enjoyment of this book as an opening, I do look forward to the rest, and I just purchased the next one in the series.
Almost deserving a 5 star
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Instead it was just basic space marines, space battle, galactic empires type of story. If you enjoy that type of thing then perhaps it's a good read, but I didn't find anything clever or original about it.
I prefer something that exercises a few more brain cells.
My mistake
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The characters in the story are not credible. As supposedly highly trained military and science personel they break every rule in the book and consequently get themselves in to easily avoidable situations. I truly hope that mankinds first encounter with aliens has better representatives of the human race than these characters.
Characters not credible. Performance Droll
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