Freedom's Landing

Freedom Series, Book 1

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Susie Breck

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

It's the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth's population. Thousands are herded onto slave ships headed for the intergalactic auction block.

Kris Bjornsen is captured in Denver on her way to her college classes and wakes up on the primitive planet Barevi. Courageous and resourceful, she manages a single-woman escape from the Catteni and is living in the wilds of the planet when she comes to the aid of a Catteni soldier pursued by his own ranks.

Recaptured together, they join forces with other slaves to outwit their captors and a hostile planetary environment.

Listeners will delight in this "against-the-odds" story of survival, ingenuity and romance.

As her audience has come to expect of McCaffrey, she delivers a rich and intricate science-fiction adventure in Freedom's Landing, sure to win over even more listeners and add to her legions of fans.

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©2007 Anne McCaffrey (P)2007 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"McCaffrey has created another set of winning protagonists and a carefully detailed, exotic background." ( Publishers Weekly)

Is there life on other Planets?

If there is life on other Planets and they came to Earth, what would be their intentions? Would the be beneficent or have evil intentions. McCaffrey makes one case for a conquering Species that invades Earth and captures and enslaves millions while killing millions more. But there is more to this series than meets the eye. Are the invaders acting on their own, or is there an even more insidious species out there taking down planet after planet, galaxy after galaxy.

Susie Breck is a master at making different character voices.

Another great McCaffrey novel

McCaffrey doesn't disappoint. If you like her per series you'll like this. Great!

Great story; jarring narration

The Freedom series was one of my favorite McCaffrey universes. While I have enjoyed reviewing the story again, I found the narration jarring, both in pronunciations and the unnecessary choice of using an echo chamber for "thoughts".
I hope the partner novels are better done.

great

great sci Fi series on a totally different track then pern. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I like a book were people have to get inventive to survive.

Good Listen

Good story. Wish this book was a little longer. Still an enjoyable to listen to.

Better than expected

Freedom's Landing and its sequels are based on a short story Anne McCaffrey wrote in the early 1970s. Sometimes a short story really doesn't have enough in it to make up a novel, let alone 3 or 4. But Ms McCaffrey has done a very good job of this book, with her usual style of narration that just keeps you reading, even when it's only exposition and not dialog. Kris is a strong and interesting character, and the others who are landed are also well-developed. These are people you like and want to know more of their story.

Susie Breck does a very good job of differentiating the voices of the characters, complete with all the accents - American, Irish, Australian, etc. - in spite of Kris being nearly the only woman's voice in the story.

Well worth a listen, or even a second one!

Excellent

I love these books there’s four in this series and they are a lot of fun. I wish some of the other books by this author, we’re not abridged I just do not like abridged books I like my books the author intended

good read

It is a great story. One of my favorite series. It us nice too red apocalyptic fiction that is not laced with profanity.

Freedom's Landing

This book is almost prescient to what is in the news today. I enjoyed the characters especially Kris with her survival skills and leadership ability.
I can't wait for the next two books in the series.

Best of SciFi

Narrator was excellent with British, American, and Australian voices, both male and female. The story of being scooped up and dropped with strangers on an unknown and unfriendly planet and developing a new functional society is enthralling. Survival! interdependence! Military-based planning and operations. Pairing up. A great audio presentation, and a great start to a series of 4 books.