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The Best of Us

By: Karen Traviss
Narrated by: Fred Tatasciore
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Half the world is a wasteland; the other half is on borrowed time.

The West has been devastated by epidemics, bio-terrorism, war, and famine. Asia has shut its borders to keep the threats at bay, and some with power and influence have already abandoned Earth. Now an escape route a century in the making - the Nomad mission - finally offers hope to a small town and a secret research centre hidden in a rural American backwater.

Shrouded in lies and concealed even from the research centre's staff, Nomad is about to fulfil its long-dead founder's vision of preserving the best of humanity to forge a new future. But who decides who's worthy? The mission is now in the hands of a unique AI called Solomon, and an encounter with a band of military veterans reshapes his plans for mankind's future after the arrival of a scientist with a grudge threatens the whole mission.

Don’t miss this breathtaking new series from New York Times best-selling author Karen Traviss.

©2019 Karen Traviss & Galaxy’s Edge LLC (P)2019 Audible, Inc. First Contact Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Interstellar
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Great story love integration of AI morality.
My only hope is that there is follow-up books before and after sequences to the series.

I wish there was a follow-up book

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The narration is extremely stilted and i cringe at the attempted accents. I did enjoy this but i think anyone new to the series would struggle to finish.

Not quite as good as Galaxy's Edge

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Okay so massive fan of the GE series. listened to and read most of the books.

Why is it 3/5 Overall then you say? Well ...

The Good:
Story is great, for being a different author and writing style, but very much inline with the GE series.
The narration is good too. Although R.C.Bray is a legend, Fred does a good job putting feeling into the story and makes the characters come to life.

The Bad & The Ugly:

The audio editing is RUBBISH!!
Honestly if I was doing the editing on this job and I released this pile of steaming garbage I would seriously reconsider my profession.

Reasons:

The db level of the audio drops significantly so you turn it up then gets loud, then intermittently get soft, loud ,medium, soft ,loud, LOUDER, soft etc.

It feels like the recording was done in different location with different mics and then slapped together.

The end product is the audio equivalent of the elephant man.

Just balance the damn volume levels and it would have been better.
Use the same Mic and location and it would be great and EQ the thing for the sake of quality.


Great Story, Shocking Audio Editing

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I really enjoyed the Best of Us, both story and narrator Tateshore are excellent. However, it is a very vague and tenuous connection to the principal Galaxy's Edge universe: I was hoping for a more thoroughly rounded origin story, but am not at all disappointed it hasn't all been revealed yet. to the contrary, I am looking forward to the next book in the Nomad series.

good story

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Overall it’s quite good. It’s definitely a bit different from other galaxy’s edge books but is a nice slower entry to the world which leaves you keen for more.

As others have said, some of the production is really jarring, I only noticed it in the first quarter of the book and then either forgot about it or it didn’t happen again until a couple of times right at the end.

But don’t let the handful of dodgy moments of production put you off unless you really can’t stand that sort of thing. The book is well worth pushing past those moments, especially if you enjoy the galaxy’s edge universe.

Promising start to a new series

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