• Jane Carver of Waar

  • Waar, Book 1
  • By: Nathan Long
  • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
  • Length: 12 hrs
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (543 ratings)

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Jane Carver of Waar

By: Nathan Long
Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
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When tough-talking biker babe Jane Carver accidentally deals a death blow to the unfortunate guy who gropes her outside a California biker bar, she makes a run for it - and wakes up naked on an alien planet called Waar. Thus begins Nathan Long's Jane Carver of Waar: Waar, Book 1, a hilarious satire on the ribald, retro space fantasies of the 20th century. Soon, Jane's hopelessly wrapped up in bizarre adventures on this planet of sky-pirates and gladiators, including a bid to help a fallen nobleman win back his sexy space princess. Listeners will be bewitched by actress Dina Pearlman's portrayal of Jane, whose Marlboro-cured voice and confident panache makes her swashbuckling space adventures a delightful listen.

Publisher's summary

Jane Carver is nobody's idea of a space princess. A hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time - and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away from everything she's ever known. Waar is a savage world of four-armed tiger-men, sky-pirates, slaves, gladiators, and purple-skinned warriors in thrall to a bloodthirsty code of honor and chivalry. Caught up in a disgraced nobleman's quest to win back the hand of a sexy alien princess, Jane encounters bizarre wonders and dangers unlike anything she ever ran into back home. Then again, Waar has never seen anyone like Jane before.

Both a loving tribute and scathing parody of the swashbuckling space fantasies of yore, Jane Carver of Waar introduces an unforgettable new science-fiction heroine. Nathan Long is a screen and prose writer with two movies, a Saturday-morning adventure series, and several TV episodes to his name. His official website is: www.sabrepunk.com.

©2012 Nathan Long (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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Very Edgar Rice Burroughs

Good swashbuckling story. Very ERB without the racism. A bit crude in parts, but nothing too bad.

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Just wish I hadn't bought it!

If the author had wanted the main character to be a guy, he should have written her as a guy... Think BIG, Think Butch and Think UGLY. The pretty guys are gay... the big butch girl is a lesbian in the story because no 'man' wants her (because of how big, butch and ugly she is)... I just felt insulted by the stereotypical roles playing out. I liked the John Carter setting.. but if the rest was supposed to be some subtle tongue-in-cheek, I just didn't get it.

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Disappointing

I've read John Carter and also the Gor novels so I thought I'd give this one a try given the many positive reviews. I found the overuse of earth metaphors being simply grasped by aliens to unbelievable and tiring. Nothing much original in the storyline. This is the first book from Audible that I would return.

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Not even 2 dimensional

Alright, John Carter of Mars was written in the infancy of Science Fiction. I always enjoyed its simplicity and straight forwardness. The characters in it a two dimensional because of that infancy. This book is less than that. For one, I hate swearing in Science fiction. It is a genre that doesn't need it. 2. I TRIED to get into this book with the same excitement that I have for A Princess of Mars but I just couldn't finish it. The author tried too hard to be like ERB and failed in the attempt.

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Poor Rip Off of John Carter

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Someone who has not read the real thing in the John Carter series by Burroughs

Has Jane Carver of Waar turned you off from other books in this genre?

No just this writer

What didn’t you like about Dina Pearlman’s performance?

The voices turned me off But mostly the story was lame at best.

What character would you cut from Jane Carver of Waar?

All

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Grammar Nazis Avoid!

I can deal with language variances for "aliens and other races" but a gal from L.A. using "me" improperly (ie: "me and him went and did xyz") got very old, quite fast ... perhaps if her dialog was completely askew it wouldn't have been so intolerable /shrugs

Personally, I felt like the narrator was yelling at me the entire book. I had to take breaks strictly for this reason.

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