LUX-1: Hypersonic
LUX and the New TECH, Book 1
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LUX-1: Hypersonic
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Narrated by:
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Brian Holden
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By:
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Ken Pence
About this listen
Lux Blakely, the preteen son of a NASA scientist working on top-secret government projects, is not shackled by accepted scientific theory and dogma.
His experiments in gravimetric research and the expanding capability of a nascent AI cause Lux to be closely observed by several government agencies. He discovers a way to use magnetic fields for propulsion, but he needs money. Lux and his friend, Prissy, come up with a way to use his father's developing AI to raise money through social media. Lux is trying to get out of high school and into college at age nine. Lux and Prissy take deepfake videos to a whole new level and make a lot of money doing it. The US military and intelligence community is not amused.
©2023 Ken Pence (P)2023 Podium AudioThe perspective and politics is very American, so don't expect nuance, but there is some self awareness and occasional reflective insight.
With that said if you suspend belief its a light fun romp.
Note to Ken:
Your work shines when you take the time to take us through an immediate lived experience. The bridging "and then a technical miracle happens" bits are what create the sense of choppy presentation.
I don't think there is enough quality assurance in the editing of the narration. The narrator is clear, does good consistent character voices. However, he mispronounces key technical words and sometimes substitutes similar sounding words which leads to a somewhat disjointed experience.
OMG Please Please fix the most egregious mispronunciation - "Habitable" is used often in this and later books. It is not "ha- BID-ibl"! you have to hear it to understand just how badly the narrator mangles the word! It should be "HA_bit-able".
Interesting ideas, a bit stilted and choppy in presentation very American in philosophy
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But with none of the beauty, or even natural cadence of.... Y'know... Normal human speech... found in the prose of either example.
I genuinely do love the story itself, and Holden is no slouch as he tries to inject some life into the text.
But Holy Gods of Scifi Technobabble... Please save me from the 'Lux went to the workbench before Lux turned on the device that Lux had designed in Lux's second year of preschool, which Lux had attended when he was still in the womb' of it all.
Being Australian, I mightn't have the greatest grasp on the norms in the southern US... However, I am rather sure they're more fond of contractions than the author is here.
"You all"? Really?
Great plot... robotic writing
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