Extinction Series: The Complete Collection

By: James D. Prescott

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

For eons, the truth about human evolution has remained hidden.
Until now....

Extinction Code

Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater with the aim of securing a sample. But buried deep beneath the earth lies a shocking discovery that threatens to shatter everything we think we know about our species.

A world away, geneticist Dr. Mia Ward receives a mysterious delivery from her former boss and mentor, Alan Salzburg. In it are clues of a dire warning hidden inside the human genome, one which foretells man's very extinction.

His instructions to Mia are simple: Keep the information safe and, above all, trust no one - words all the more chilling after Alan turns up dead. But who wrote the message and what does it mean? Only Jack Greer holds the answers, but can she reach him in time to save the human race?

Extinction Countdown

Dr. Jack Greer's startling discovery beneath the Gulf of Mexico proved to the world we were not alone in the universe. But when images from the Voyager One space probe reveal an alien doomsday ship hurtling toward the earth, the human race seems marked for extinction.

As news of the approaching ship spreads panic around the globe, signs of a sinister plot begin to emerge - one that threatens to unravel the already fragile fabric of society and everything Jack and Dr. Mia Ward have fought for.

But could a mysterious signal emanating from inside Greenland's ice sheet unlock the secrets hidden within our genome and prevent humanity's destruction?

From the frozen fields of Greenland to the bustling Indian subcontinent and the cobbled streets of Rome, the race is on to stop the deadliest countdown to extinction the human race has ever known.

Extinction Crisis

With the doomsday ship only days away from impacting the Earth, humanity's demise seems all but assured. In every corner of the world, news of the impending destruction has led to chaos, looting, and the collapse of the rule of law.

As the foundations of civilization crumble around them, Jack and Mia must race to find answers to perhaps the most important questions of all time. Why have the Ateans repeatedly eradicated life on our planet? And could the key to ending the cycle of extinctions be locked somewhere within the Salzburg Chromosome?

Unraveling the mystery will mean journeying deep into the heart of a perilous alien world and facing off against the very beings who created us.

©2019 James D. Prescott (P)2019 James D. Prescott

Left-leaning Sci-Fi

It's fine. OK enough. I found the characters shallow and the storyline pretty derivative, but good enough to finish. Expect pulp sci-fi, and you won't be disappointed.

Much of the elements are politically left of center, so be prepared for concepts such as the heroism and relevancy of reporters, science showing up religion, religious adherents being ridiculous, worship of WaPo, soldiers being evil and mostly useless, Israel being evil, and nukes being evil. It's a little tiring; we get it, you voted for Obama both times.

The performance is also, just fine. He can't do very many voices or accents, so be prepared to hang on to context.

A Bit Over the Top

The extinction series is interesting in that it deals with a number of fundamental questions in science fiction. The characters are, by and large, well drawn and interesting. Perhaps the only exception to that is the villain of the piece. He is a rather cardboard individual. While interesting to listen to, the nagging issue that I found with the series is that the writing is, often times, not very well crafted. The writer has not met a clichéd metaphor that he didn’t like and, after a while, those began to grate. The narration was reasonably good and clear and no words were mispronounced.

I genuinely enjoyed the whole story.

Anyone who says left leaning just has a closed off mind. They likely believe world is flat, dinosaurs aren’t real and (insert nonsense)

Not the beat

kinda repetitive and boring. the story kept trying to reinvent itself. wish it just stuck with one thing and was shorter.

Good Listen!

good Listen, I got the box set and enjoyed it very much, I would recommend

Great series

I enjoyed these books very much. I didn’t want them to end. What great books!

Great story!!!!

loved everything about it. The thing I loved the most was the inclusion of real science into science fiction, even though you know it's fiction while listening it's easy to imagine it being reality. Great entertainment!!

Good read

I like how the author tied factual things and events with fictional ones to create a very interesting story.

top notch

This was an incredible series. It was in no way what I was expecting it to be. Which is a good thing because I was expecting the typical story involving zombies or a virus or something. The narrator was excellent, he did an great job making sure each character had its own voice. Definitely worth what I paid for it.

Far fetched, but good!

Great narration and a good story! Good character development and lots of good sci-fi aspects mixed with a bit of the unknown.