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TFS Ingenuity

The Terran Fleet Command Saga, Book 1

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TFS Ingenuity

By: Tori L. Harris
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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It's the year 2277. For 50 years, Earth has received mysterious data transmissions from random locations in deep space. The streams include advanced technology, allowing humans to achieve faster-than-light travel virtually overnight. As we prepare to take our first tentative steps into interstellar space, we know almost nothing about our alien benefactors, and their motivations remain unexplained.

While completing their shakedown cruise, Captain Tom Prescott and the crew of the first Terran Fleet Command starship, TFS Ingenuity, stumble into a first contact situation. They learn that Earth is not the first civilization granted access to the stars before their time - and how this Faustian gift has inevitably led to centuries of interstellar war. Humanity's existence hangs in the balance as a powerful alliance assembles a preemptive military strike, believing it to be their only option to protect themselves...from us. Prescott and his small, initially unarmed starship must serve as our only line of defense. Ingenuity is our only hope.

©2015 Tori L. Harris (P)2016 Podium Publishing Science Fiction Space Opera Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Technology Interstellar Military Fiction
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For a four hour book, a spacecraft landing takes over 30 minutes of the story, this seems a bit silly.
The narrator barely makes an effort to distinguish between characters.
I won’t be eager to get the rest of the series.

No surprise this is offered for free

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A decent premise that puts the humans once again as the new kids on the interstellar block but plays with our "history" of alien meddling. A good start.

A fun military Sci-fi romp

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That's the first cringy thing about this story.

It's 15 chapters of words that sound more like a fictional recruitment poster for the real life US Navy.

10 chapters of military crap and combat moves, with 5 chapters of shallow, multiple character development.

It's not a "book"
It's not a "novel."

It's a modified screenplay from an author hoping that some streaming video company picks up the option for a movie series.

I won't even bother with the other books in the series, as it's obvious that each story will concentrate on other individual branches of the military, and most likely US styled politics.
"Space marines"
"Fighter air wing"
"landing parties"
and
"military unintelligance"
etc, etc, etc

Don't subject yourself to this disappointing tripe.

The only good thing about it, is that it's only 5 hours long of ear blistering, intellectual mind sucking nonsense. (at 115% normal speed )

You can rip the band aid off quickly and start something new to rinse your brain.

Don't start it If you're easily led, like a Republican voter.

The narrator sounds like a 1986 Charlie Sheen.

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The plot outline was great, but too many awful mistakes. Bigger is not better, only more wasteful of scarce resources, and in space, unlike at sea, there is no limitation on the axes of rotation - no 'up' and 'down'. Any attempt at character development was wrecked by the narrator, who seemed to be speed-reading to try to cover up the flaws. Congratulations to him for managing this rate of delivery while maintaining perfect diction, but this still came at the expense of the dialogue - all delivered like a 1950s newsreel soundtrack.
Not recommended for listeners older than 12.

Great plot ideas, but terrible execution

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That was like the worst kind of American back slapping junk ever. There we’re literally no redeeming qualities to that story. It would probably go down a treat with flag waving rednecks who shoot their 6 shooters in the air when they get drunk, I dunno. Something like that. It was horrible in every way though. From the “I’m pretending I know about science stuff” to the “here’s yet another caricature of a caricature of a character”. It’s Jeff Bezos in audio format. Shallow and pointless and just sort of a nothing story.

Oh wow that’s really bad.

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Unfortunately didn’t grab my interest. Not sure if it was a lack of character focus that made it uninteresting but I DNFed this about halfway through.

Didn’t grab my interest

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