Starship Bandits
Starship Bandits, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Phil Thron
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Two things hold our starship together.
Duct tape and hate.
In the near future space debris around Earth has made it impossible to traverse our solar system. Or it would be, if not for prisoners sentenced to clearing that debris known as Orbital Garbage Removal Experts, or O.G.R.E. for short.
Former linguistics professor Dax has made it a habit of working aboard The Junkyard with a small crew, the conspiracy theorist, tech-savvy hacker Mark and the once decorated military hero turned war criminal, Kane.
One day a job goes badly when the "debris" turns out to be an alien ship with a deceased crew and an autopilot warp drive. The alien craft jumps with The Junkyard attached only to crash land on a desolate, alien world. A world home to insects the size of cars called Underbeasts and the native alien orc-like Dal'no who have been thrown back to the Iron Age.
Join Dax, Mark, and Kane as they strike bargains with the formerly technologically advanced species, unravel the beginnings of a human written language, and find out they aren't the first humans to visit the strange planet.
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One glaring issue is the so-called linguistics professor repeatedly referring to Cuneiform as a language, rather than the alphabet that languages were written in… surely one of the first things a linguistics student would learn, let alone a professor!! Unless I misheard and the word spoken in the audiobook was not actually Cuneiform (although the description in the book would suggest that is indeed what they were referring to).
Many pop-culture references were made but all were from before now, despite the book being set 150yrs from now. Including the use of slang (& worse, two older guys saying ‘I think the young kids call it [charisma] ‘rizz’ now’. 150yrs from now they’d have been born after ‘rizz’ was already out of fashion, not a new term!
Not only that but I realised after a number of hours that barely anything had happened in the plot, action or concept-wise, and most of what had was derivative.
All that said the narrator was fantastic, and as long as I didn’t think too hard it was entertaining enough as a free Audible+ title. I don’t know how it got picked up for a whole series though
As one review said: leave your brain at the door…
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