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Summertide

The Heritage Universe, Book 1

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Summertide

By: Charles Sheffield
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
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Summary

 It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both - Quake in particular - to vast tidal forces. It was to be the most violent Summertide ever, creating something that only happened every 350,000 years.

Access to the unstable Quake was supposed to be prohibited, but some very insistent travelers were determined to make the trip. Professor Darya Lang, who studied artifacts left by the long-vanished aliens called the Builders, had a hunch that she might find the Builders themselves. Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H'sial had their own interests in Quake, and would do anything to get there. And Councilor Julius Graves was hunting murderers - if they were hiding on Quake, he would find them.

Planetary Administrators Hans Rebka and Max Perry had no choice but to go to Quake - risking their lives to protect the others - and to learn, just maybe, the secret of Summertide and the Builders.

©1990, 1991, 1992, and 1997 Charles Sheffield (P)2002 Blackstone Audiobooks Adventure Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction
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This book didn’t grab me.
Lots of listing and not enough character building.
Sure they were described, but nothing to make me love or hate them.

Lots of listing

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If you like your Science Fiction to make more than a cursory nod at the Science part of the genre, then Sheffield has the goods. This first of four books in the series is a bit slow to get going but it builds up over the nex 2 books. I haven't read book 4 yet but am looking forward to it.
I liked the narration overall.

Slow build to a good solid series

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The narrator killed the audiobook from the get go.
Listened for 2 hrs and it takes utmost focus to know what is going on. The narration is boring and monotone, with no emotional depth.Every sentence sounds the same, so repetitive and sleep inducing.
I am returning this book .
Glad it was from the Catalogue Plus.
This is another narrator to add to my Do Not Buy list.
Maybe, one day I’ll buy the hard copy, at least I will know what is going on in the storyline.
My recommendation is to avoid the audiobook but maybe give it a shot as a hard copy.

Maybe better as a hard copy.

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