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Paradise-1

Red Space, Book 1

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Paradise-1

By: David Wellington
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
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 ENDLESS DARK.
ENDLESS TERROR.

Paradise-1. Earth's first deep space colony. For thousands of colonists, it was an opportunity for a new life.

Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months.

It falls to Firewatch Agent Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate.

What they find is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

Paradise-1 begins a terrifying new trilogy of survival and exploration in deep space, from Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington.

'A captivating, eerie story with such engaging characters you won't want to say goodbye at the end' S. A. Barnes, author of Dead Silence

'Wellington skillfully combines hard sci-fi worldbuilding with tense mystery . . . Readers will be on the edges of their seats' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'Intensely creepy worldbuilding' Library Journal©2023 David Wellington (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction
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This book started out ok but the longer i listened the more irritated i became. The characters despite being theoretically wildly different are all internally the same. Some authors have a knack for creating unique characters but David Wellington isn't one of them. Every character is in some parts professional, anxious and wisecracking. Each scene just rotates which character gets which traits. No-one takes the very serious circumstances they are in seriously and because of that it completely un-immerses me from the story. The ship is on fire, you just survived a gruesome death better do an eyeroll to camera and say something like "i knew your first day on the job is rough but geez" pause for audience laughter. And oh boy does the author think that audience is dense. There was a relatively straightforward concept that anyone capable enough to be reading the book should have been able to pick up on. But after the concept is introduced it's explained to one character to then explains it again immediately in even simpler terms to another character. And this is goddamn everything. Any concept more complex than fire hot, explosions bad is constantly explained and reexplained like we are toddlers. I honestly couldn't finish this book, it's not a horror by any stretch because a horror requires tension. And this book is all relief, so it's never scary. A bad story is strike one, irritating characters is strike three and no investment in the stakes of the book is strike three. Avoid this book.

Devoid of tension

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