Extinction

Star Force, Book 2

By: B. V. Larson

Narrated by: Mark Boyett

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Earth's Star Force Marines invade an alien world!

In the second book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs has another bad year. The Nano ships have a new mission - one that sentences their pilots to death. Meanwhile, the governments of Earth want to steal Star Force's Nano technology for their own. Worst of all, Earth has made a promise to the Macros, and the machines are coming to collect.

Extinction is the story of Earth's entry into an interstellar war between living creatures and machines. And to buy the peace, we've signed up with the machines.

Battle stations! Listen to another Star Force novel.

©2011 B. V. Larson (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

Great Series

Well what can I say but GREAT. The Nattation is also very good. All book in this series are very good. Well worth the listen!

Good Sequel

Would you listen to Extinction again? Why?

Definitely. The story is action packed and exciting. The second half is much more interesting that the first which is all building action to the combat.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Extinction?

As soon as they join the Macros the book becomes impossible to put down.

Which character – as performed by Mark Boyett – was your favorite?

KYLE RIGGS, super professor!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The list of humanities enemies just got longer

Any additional comments?

Really fun read, can't wait for the next one

Awesome

Highly addicting loved every minute of it and going to get the whole series good job

Darned Machines

Totally enjoyed this one, action and adventure with a little bit of drama. building a good long term story where the solutions to the problems are always a suprise

4.5 stars

I recommend the book. I have enjoyed the series so far and I’m looking forward to the next one. Great story, decent writing style, and great narration. I like the world and the theme of the book and the logic of how he “builds” his army, for example. It’s pretty original and seems like it has legs to endure a several book series (oh, I see there are at least 11 already and they're all highly rated, so guess I'm onto something here! :-) ).

There are only a couple things I dislike; 1) there are frequent sex comments that are really unnecessary and seem childish. It’s not overly descriptive, excessive, or anything so it’s tolerable, but I’m not sure what value they add – at least not to an adult listener. 2) I actually like when he references facts like how French soldiers did X or the speed of Jupiter’s rotation or whatever, but unless I forgot something from the first book, I’m not sure why this guy would know these things. I think he was a computer teacher before the stuff hit the fan in the world, but it seems a bit far-fetched that just because he was a teacher he knows so much about military history and astronomy. Anyway, I like the way they are in the story and of course the fact that he knows these things is not the most unbelievable part of the book. I mean he is fighting space worms after all!

Bottom line; go get the book. Enjoy!

Series FInds it's Footing

Where does Extinction rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Ranks alongside Undying Mercenaries as the best Larson series.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Extinction?

The ending sequence in all of Larson's books is epic. In this book the ending is terrific and links directly to the next book in the series. In many ways there is no break in the action between books

What does Mark Boyett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Boyett narrates all of Larson's book and I cannot imagine anyone else doing them. He is Kyle Riggs.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The character development of his girlfriend gradually begins to take shape in this book. She becomes a more dimensional character, adding to the storyline instead of providing window dressing. Larson is a good writer and over the course of these books the characters change and grow.

Any additional comments?

For my money Larson is the best military, sci fi writer. This is non stop action, that doesn't pretend to be something that it is not. Solid entry into a series that gets better book by book.

Good Military SciFi, just not for me

Mark Boyett is excellent as the narrator and B.V. Larson writes very good military SciFi. I became bored with all of the fighting and there was not enough character development for me. Couldn't finish.

fun

super matcho man, I want to be a matcho man!

got to love military space opera.

loved it

Love the story great use of literal language when talking to machine. Hero is great at getting into trouble.

Fun Sci fi concepts - very annoying characters

I enjoy the concept of the series. Inscrutable alien intelligences trying to kill humans. The general plot holds together reasonably well. The series suffers from an author who doesn't know how to write women characters except as reacting to the chauvinist protagonist. The worst writing is for the protagonist's "hot" latin girlfriend marine who is constantly whining about how he is going back out to battle - except when she's pleasuring him "in the sack." She is so damn annoying, and part of it is the accent the reader gives her. I have to fast forward most of her dialogue, as well as the protagonists inner monologues when he's thinking about his women problems. The series is so bad in its depiction of women (being mostly irrelevant, but otherwise, being pretty, being kissable, etc.), I don't think this series could be written today.

But with the gift of fast forward, I've still enjoyed the series enough to continue. The strategic problems and political challenges are fun to listen to.