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First Encounter

Ascension Wars, Book 1

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By: Jasper T. Scott
Narrated by: Ben Jaeger-Thomas
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Summary

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. First Contact Military Science Fiction Fiction
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Good story . but has a hopeless ending.
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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I though this might be an interesting first contact story with a good yarn about exploration of an alien world.
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.

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My first impression was the droll performance of Ben Jaeger-Thomas. He definitely reads too slowly for me and there is no exitement in his delivery.
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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