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The Silver Ships

The Silver Ships, Book 1

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The Silver Ships

By: S. H. Jucha
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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An explorer tug captain, Alex Racine detects a damaged alien craft drifting into the system. Recognizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make first contact, Alex pulls off a daring maneuver to latch on to the derelict. Alex discovers the ship was attacked by an unknown craft, the first of its kind ever encountered. The mysterious silver ship's attack was both instant and deadly.

What enfolds is a story of the descendants of two Earth colony ships, with very different histories, meeting 700 years after their founding and uniting to defend humanity from the silver ships.

©2015 S.H. Jucha (P)2015 Podium Publishing Fantasy Fiction First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera
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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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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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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.

Couldn’t get into it

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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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