Red Dots

Deep Space One Was on a Mission to Save Humanity.

By: Ray Jay Perreault

Narrated by: Ray Jay Perreault

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Deep Space One was sent on a one-way mission to save the people of Earth. Their mission was to find a new home for the survivors of a dying planet. They trusted each other and in the importance of their mission. What they found out en route was not expected, and the information they learned changed everything for them and the people they left behind.

©2018 Ray Jay Perreault (P)2018 Perreault Publishing

Good story with an interesting ending

I liked the story and the character development. The ending was good but I would have liked to have learned more. It seemed a little front heavy with a lot of time spent on background and relatively insignificant things leaving only a small amount of time on the actual story at the end.
The narration was a little flat (sorry Ray) and I found myself drifting sometimes.
I have listened to a few of his books and always found them worthwhile, just maybe get a narrator next time.
This audiobook was given free of charge in exchange for an honest review.

Interesting angle

i enjoyed this book and in fact wish it would have gone on longer. The story is intriguing and the narration is very good. I was able to quickly and easily lose myself in the story. An excellent listen.

Migration from Earth or Bust

Interesting idea for the migration from Earth to another planet.
Narrator is the author so take it with a grain of salt.
Twist ending is decent.
Characters are developed for a short story - so not bad.
He paints an interesting picture of the spaceship used.
He does a great job talking about the politics for migration and the complications it could cause.

Great listen!

This was a great story. I was so into it I couldn't stop listening until the end. The main character was likeable and the setting was rich with detail. Even the narration was good giving the story a flavor one couldn't just stop listening to. Again great story.

Entertaining Short Sci-fi Story

This is a near future science fiction story with realistic, detailed fact based science. The characters are relatable and interesting and the problems and conflicts the crew face are plausible. The story moves along at a good pace with an intriguing mystery, suspense and ironic plot twists. I enjoyed the story. I was provided a free review copy if this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review.

Decent story and Horrible narration

When will authors realize that being able to write doesn’t also mean that you are a narrator? I had to force myself to finish the story. The characters and story line are above average but the narrator (the author) is a terrible speaker and speaks in a horrible monotone.

A future planetary migration as one might unfold

Ray is a very enjoyable author whose writing provides enough solid technology to do a credible storyline without neglecting to characters and the non technological events. I find this to be an uncommonly enjoyable world building style without any gaping holes to distract a discerning reader. In "Red Dots", as in many of Ray's books, some very basic assumptions that are often taken for granted, are exposed and shown to be taken for granted at your own risk. The Universe is very big, and is absolutely guaranteed to contain things earthling humans could not possibly imagined. Ray's books take us beyond the unspoken boundaries (the "box") of more conventional by exploring questions that too often go unasked.

5 stars across the board

Another neat sf novella from Perreault

Deep Space One is sent out from a deteriorating Earth to find the best candidate New Earth in a region that has several promising choices. They're a small crew, just six people, three couples, and they can all trust each other.

Surely they can all trust each other.

They're spending most of their time in deep sleep, waking for seven-day periods at long intervals, to maintain the ship, review new data, make any course adjustments, check for problems and receive mail from home. Shortly before the halfway point, when the ship will need to reverse itself and start decelerating for arrival at what is now determined to be the right planet.

Small glitches in the received transmissions prompts two members of the crew to take a much closer look at what one member of the crew in particular has been receiving.

The mission isn't what they though it was, and suddenly they can't all trust each other.

And then they receive another surprise.

This is nicely done, good plotting and good characters. Like pretty much all of Perreault's work, it has the things I liked about Golden Age science fiction, while having 21st century social mores, with racial and gender equality baked in, not worked in after the fact. There's so much Golden Age sf I can't go back and reread if I still want to have fond memories of it.

(Yes, there are other things he doesn't deal with at all, perhaps because he doesn't feel comfortable that he can handle them well.)

I really strongly recommend this and all of Perreault's work that I've read so far.

I received a free copy of this audiobook from the author, and am reviewing it voluntarily.

Great sci-fi short

An interesting short sci-fi story in which the world is on its last legs and will not sustain life for much longer. A spaceship is sent to checkout a new world where humanity can live, in the meantime the earth scrambles to build a fleet of ships big enough to take the people of Earth to the new world should it be suitable. This is a well done story with great twists and the author does a good job of the narration too.

Red Dots

In a word: WOW! When I first started to listen I wasn't sure if I'd actually like itl. But as the story moved along it not only peeked my interest it became fascinating. Earth has become unsuitable for existence so earth's leaders join to try to save humanity. A new mission is created and a new objective is chosen. A team of people will be sent on a one way mission to find a suitable planet where humanity may thrive. Dangers will abound but the one that can be more damaging is the sleeping stasis. This isn't suitable for everyone and one woman becomes ill. Alternatives are picked for her which will be less stressful but can be nerve wrecking too. Things are going along fine until Jillian gets a message from her brother, and later she also discovers encrypted messages to the Captain. Then her husband finds something that is worrisome. Now the race is on to decide whether the mission is going to finsihed or it will finish them.
Fantastic audio story and book. It will definitely get your mind to racing with different scenarios and it will keep you enthralled with the story!