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Bearing Gifts

The Stardock Trilogy, Book 1

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Bearing Gifts

By: Sean Fenian
Narrated by: Michael Karl Orenstein
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When the over-driven hyperdrive on their mobile shipyard burned out, the Chhrt'ktk't abandoned it in an inhabited system along their path, hoping it would work as a decoy to buy them more time to escape the Khreetan fleet pursuing them.

They didn't anticipate how far the pre-spacefaring species they turned over their broken-down maintenance facility to would subvert their plan.

Alex Holder, a retired engineer, just happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right mindset, to find himself chosen by the Chhrt'ktk't to hand over control of their shipyard to, simply because he was the first person they found able to interface with it. The Chhrt'ktk't could not possibly anticipate what he would do with it. And neither would anyone else.

©2024 Sean Fenian and Fenian House Publishing (P)2024 Podium Audio Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera
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I like the concept, enjoy the “shiny new science toy” feel that keeps going through the story but the characters/politics feels somewhat unrealistic, almost like they’ve got a yes man mentality. Not sure if it’s the voice actor or just the overuse of it but the word “Okay” sounds like a really irritating ‘umm’ word when other words could be used for variation instead..

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idea and concept is good. Execution is poor.

Political landscape is soo unrealistic... the idea of the US giving up a world changing resource, regardless of the consequences is just so unrealistic. Should have gone in the more realistic direction with every country threatening, stealing, bribing and doing everything they can. Countries have done much worse for much, much less.

Would have been a good story with a MC vs the world scenario with clandestine meetings with individuals.

the constant repition of events becomes very annoying.
event happens and is described in detail, then the main character (MC) proceeds to describe the event, that just happened, to person A, then the MC tells person B, in the same detail with nothing new, then person C. nearly every event or idea that the MC has is retold several times.

MC actions to the events are also odd and counter productive.

SciFi was the most realistic part. Highly repetitive.

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Not sure which was written first, but the story line was pretty much the same as the Delphi Nation series. This story however being only 3 books was much easier to listen to.

Good little frolic.

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It's Mary Sue fixes world politics became difficult to listen to with the level of smug.
Science and math are okay, just drowned out

Science was good

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It is in the same style as "The Martin" very slow moving but lots of technical detail. Some of the geopolitics is rather simplistic but ok for the story, which is setting itself up as a series. The AI is a good character, but there seems more to this character than is shown. Oh, please please do not do attempt Australian accents unless you can actually do it. The narrator is good, but I had to cringe each time he tried to speak with an Austrian accent.

If you liked "The Martin" this is similiar

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