Starship

Mutiny

By: Mike Resnick

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Mike Resnick

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

The date is 1966 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race - but not yet dominated by it - finds itself in an all-out war.

They stand against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power. The main battles are taking place in the Spiral Arm and toward the Core. But far out on the Rim, the Theodore Roosevelt is one of three ships charged with protecting the Phoenix Cluster - a group of 73 inhabited worlds.

Old, battered, some of its weapon systems outmoded, the Teddy R. is a ship that would have been decommissioned years ago if weren't for the war. Its crew is composed of retreads, discipline cases, and a few raw recruits. But a new officer has been transferred to the Teddy R. His name is Wilson Cole, and he comes with a reputation for heroics and disobedience. Will the galaxy ever be the same?

BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Mike Resnick.

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©2005 by Mike Resnick (P)2008 Audible, Inc.

wow Earl Flyn with space boots :D

I found this book by accident looking for something else but I really enjoyed it a lot! I often wondered why no one has done movie like this book knowing most start out as books I should of known to look to books I suppose a few times I thought if I had any writing talents I'd attempt something like it my self thank god I didn't have to!
I drive truck over the road and do a lot of night driving this sort of book has no problem keeping me alert on long boring nights driving the highways and interstates. Think I will enjoy the whole set.

Evil military

The author is a good story teller but he has strong political views and he lets them come through in this book. He apparently has a great hatred for the military.

Find something better than this to listen to.

I was hoping to find a sci-fi series that would make a good listen during runs and trips over the next few months. After listening to this first book, I will not be purchasing any more of the series. Although the story and characters are somehwat interesting, the portrayal of military leadership as inept and ineffective is totally unrealistic. In fact, I felt it was an insult to all who have served in the military to characterize their institutions as suffering from gross failings in leadership as described in this novel. I recommend you find a sci-fi book/series that more accurately describes the type of men and women who rise to lead our militaries effectively through their hard work, dedication to their countries, and supreme self-sacrifices.

Trite and predictable...

I finished the book. Ouf!
Resnick writes decent prose, so the story moves along pretty well. Good thing, too! 'Cause if it ever slowed, the reader would notice that the plot is trite and predictable; the characters are stereotyped and predictable; that there really is no reason for this book. Not recommended at all.

Not for military sci-fi lovers.

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who is looking for hard science or military sci-fi.

Would you recommend Starship to your friends? Why or why not?

I've read two books of the series, and I wouldn't recommend them to fans of hard science or military sci-fi.

What about Jonathan Davis and Mike Resnick ’s performance did you like?

It was satisfactory.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No, but I'd watch it on Netflix.

Any additional comments?

These books are not for the hard science/military sci-fi lover. Too many things inconsistent with military and hard science sci-fi to be enjoyable for me. I kept getting taken out of the story by things that didn't work. (You can't have FTL travel *and* Newtonian physics applied at the same time to a starship. No naval officer gets command of a ship without knowing anything about how a ship works. You can't be both smarter than everyone else around you AND ignorant of the common things in your area of expertise.) The drama was too melodrama for my tastes.

Average Space Opera, no more, no less

This review goes for the whole series and contains one very mild spoiler with reference to book 5.

Firstly, I would like to point out that when an author begins with an introduction explaining that he is writing this series as a favor for another person, it can mean that the series will not be a sterling piece of work.

It was not.

It is repetitive and slow going.

The relinquishing by the protagonist of certain "principles" in book 5 is, while understandable from a current events point of view, absolutely out of character for Cole. It is totally inconsistent with his position in the previous book, insofar as it is repeated as nauseam that he is against war crimes under any circumstances.

Finally, the particularities of certain secondary characters, such as David C. just get annoying in the end.

On the other hand, I don't expect my Space Opera to be much better so I will not shoot it down with less than 3 stars.

It would be as if I went to see Star Wars then beat-up on Lucas for having a thin plot. I don't watch Star Wars for a plot and I don't read Space Opera for incredible literary content.

The three stars is the difference between what I expect Space Opera to be and what this is.

In one sentence: it will help you to pass a slow work week or a series of long intercontinental flights, just don't expect too much out of it.

The publisher was asleep at the wheel

Not good, not well conceived, not interesting. Not good.
It's like when Britney Spears made her 1st comeback, we all asked, "Doesn't anyone love Briteny?" It's like that. Resnick is not a bad writer, but man....

He says he doesn't want to write a "techie" space battle book, so he has the main character go AWOL on some back-water retro planet right out of "GunSmoke"

It's like on the old Battlestar Gallactica series when the malfunctioning Cylon becomes a gunfighter in the western style town; and the crew has a gun-fight at high-noon. It's like that. Leave all that "techie" stuff behind in deep-space...

Too much work on the author's part....

I really enjoy most of the works of Michael Resnick. I love the Santiago books. I like the Widowmaker books and the fantasy detective novels are extrenely good. So when I saw that Audible had this series available I was happy to give them a try.

And was disappointed. Some characters only seemed to exist to prop up the main character's personality in a "Gee wiz, you are great and smart" sort of way.

Too much work had to be done by the author to make the story come out as he desired. Too much deus ex machina. Truthfully, I only made it through a couple of hours of the audio, so there remains the possibility that things could have turned around.

Listen to Santiago. Read Michael's other excellent books. Give this series a pass.

Move along, nothing to see here

I've almost made it through this whole series by now, I don't really know how I have endured it this far. I guess I just like to finish what I start. And let me tell you, ill be relieved when Jonathan Davis pulls me through the last minute of this audiobook.
Long winded speeches about Wilson Coles genius, cliches and repetitions of said reasons why Wilson is the only one person in the universe with two brain cells to rub together, it just gets tiresome.
Get a David Weber or Lois McMaster Bujold book instead. Pass this one up now, before it's too late.

Clich?s at Warp Speed

My first time to give 1 star to any book. I listened to about a half-hour and started to suspect that I was hip-deep in space-mediocrity. So, sez I to myself, maybe just a little bit more, since I hate to press ERASE on a book I've already paid for. Twenty additional minutes were more than enough.
The set-up? Wilson Cole, twice busted from captain of his own space ship because he can't live according to the regulations (i. e., he's convinced that he makes better decisions than his superiors, and so disobeys orders he thinks are dumb...all in time of war). All the cardboard scenarios are here, folks: the renegade who plays by his own rules; the brilliant intuitive decisions that only he can make; his million-to-one guesses about what will take place...and that of course do come to pass just as he predicts; his know-it-all expositions to his intellectual inferiors, who gaze with open-mouthed admiration at their hero. Puh-leeze! It's a stereotypical earth cop show transfered into hyperspace (and by the way, they travel at light speed and click off dozens of light years without a net...or any sort of escape hatch from relativistic physics). I just read Caesar's Commentaries from AudioBooks. A dictator, yes, but now there was a brilliant leader and strategist! And a wonderful writer, as it turns out. Pass on Mutiny, go for the Commentaries.