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The Silver Ships

The Silver Ships, Book 1

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The Silver Ships

By: Scott Jucha
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Unlike most captains, Alex Racine can't detect an anomaly, log it, and ignore it. His curiosity drives him to push his ship to its limits, swinging around a massive planet to gain the velocity he needs to intercept the object.

What he captures in the dark isn't an asteroid. It's a crippled starship. Survivors of a lost colony ship are in stasis, and a self-aware digital entity is only hours from ending its existence. There's the unmistakable evidence of damage from a powerful weapon that his people have never seen. It's a first contact no one planned for, with a civilization as human as Alex's own and a threat from anything but.

The adversary has consumed entire worlds for six decades without leaving a single survivor to warn others. It does not respond to hails, does not negotiate, and does not stop its advance. Now two long-separated branches of humankind divided by a vast technological gulf must come together to have a fighting chance to survive.

A thought-provoking sci-fi adventure grounded in hard science and a hard-won alliance. It's a gripping story about humankind pushed toward extinction and what people are capable of doing when everything is at stake.

The first battle is proof of what's attainable, but the war has only begun.

©2015 Scott Jucha (P)2015 Podium Audio Adventure Fantasy Fiction First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera
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As far as an uncomplicated Sci Fi goes this one hits the spot. While it's no Peter F Hamilton it's much better than a Larsen. Sometimes it's great to have a relaxing story. Just what the doctor ordered.

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Absolutely fantastic start to an excellent series. Once again the narrator of this series has done a great job. Thanks Scott for a great first book in a brilliant series.

Fantastic Start.

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I enjoyed this very much.

I don't know how much I was influenced by the shared narrator but the story and pacing of this book reminds me of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorosigan universe. This, I believe, is a good thing.

As always, Grover Gardeners narration is very enjoyable.

Gentle Sci-fi of Manners.

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Great story idea and underlying premise. However the characters are very basic and underdeveloped. As a result, the relationships between the characters are a bit dull and predictable.

Good but a little predictable

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The idea seemed interesting but the execution is a bit jarring. For example, when a guy gains entry to an unknown starship with great holes in it, and gets to talking with the AI who runs the ship, don’t you think one of the first things he’d ask is What TH happened to you? But no, days go by before he asks that question. There seemed to be quite a lot of those moments, where things just didn’t seem to happen logically or were just a bit off. The characters seem pretty flat as well. Not a keeper for me.

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