• The B-Team

  • The Human Division, Episode 1
  • By: John Scalzi
  • Narrated by: William Dufris
  • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,767 ratings)

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The B-Team

By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: William Dufris
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Publisher's summary

Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last-minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union’s future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers there’s more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected... a secret that could spell war for humanity.

The B-Team is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.

Listen to the complete edition of The Human Division, the fifth full-length book by John Scalzi in the Old Man's War universe.
©2012 John Scalzi (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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Enjoyable but flawed.

"...she said. He said...and she said...." Talented author, poor wordsmith. Another issue is the length. The credit to duration ratio is pathetic. I'm not going to read any further in this series for this reason alone.

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Greater Understanding of the B-Team. Great Team!

Narrator very good; gotten familiar with him now. I didn't struggle to re-hear this part; enjoyed it.

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Not great Scalzi

I typically enjoy Scalzi. I understand this is episodic, but I’m glad it was short. Not really interested in knowing what’s next.

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light scifi story

good quick story, world building lacking but it's short and well written mostly might read more of another book in same series

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Good story, alittle short

If you could sum up The B-Team in three words, what would they be?

nice short story, it left me wanting more of this little group.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I think I almost did this one in one sitting.

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B Team

hard for me to keep track of all the characters otherwise it was pretty good very descriptive exciting

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Short but fun

Good for 50 cents, don’t spend a credit on this. Amusing light weight science fiction. This is what sounds like the 1st in a series, I won’t likely follow up with the next books.

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Great Follow-On...

...to the other Old Man's War stories, as long as you're familiar with the first book.

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Great Opening Episode

So far I've only listened to this first episode but the character set up was a pleasure to listen to.
Bravo!

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hope this is only the beginning

this is a great start to a new series. but I really don't like the pricing. looks like 69 cents per chapter. maybe for some this is attractive, but it looks like a sneaky way to painless charge a high price for a book.

maybe it is really a series of short stories. don't know if that makes it better or not.

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