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Space Academy Dropouts

Space Academy, Book 1

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Space Academy Dropouts

By: C.T. Phipps, Michael Suttkus
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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"Boldly going because they're completely lost."

The newly renamed Vance Turbo has sabotaged his own career at Space Fleet Academy due to a desire to atone for a training accident. Unfortunately, his actions result in him getting press-ganged into an expendable crew of misfits recruited by a legendary starship captain. Their mission? To recover a collection of lost sun-destroying missiles that could restart a galactic war. Unfortunately, Vance is smart enough to know something is wrong with this picture. After all, no sane person would recruit this crew to save the universe.

Space Academy is an all-new series from the hilarious duo of C.T. Phipps (Supervillainy Saga, Agent G) and Michael Suttkus (I Was a Teenage Weredeer, Lucifer's Star) that lampoons the space opera as well as military science fiction genres.

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This was easily one of the best books I've listened to in a while.
If I could sum it up, I'd say this is like if Mass Effect 2 had Dragon Age's silly Hawke option.
This is somewhat of a satirical take on Star Trek and it's "utopian" future, featuring the newly renamed Vance Turbo. The nephew of a famous space hero, Vance is tortured by the accidental death of a fellow space cadet. So much so, that he gets himself expelled from the academy, when he is summarily conscripted by a shady arm of the spy sector.
I won't spoil more than that, but the writing was tight, the dialogue was genuinely hilarious (to the point where I was getting odd looks whilst guffawing as I read), and there were so many twists that I never saw coming.
If you like Star Trek, or sci-fi in general, you will absolutely love this book.
Kafer's narration is spot on and absolutely perfect. You should definitely give this a try!

An amazing new sci-fi comedy series!

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