The Eighth Continent

The Eighth Continent, Book 1

By: Rhett C. Bruno, Felix R. Savage

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

A lowly construction worker on the moon is Earth’s only chance....

Nick Morrison always wanted to be an astronaut. When a start-up company recruits him to build a lunar launch system at the moon’s south pole, Nick gladly leaves behind his troubled life on Earth—but Nick doesn’t know that the company is in financial and legal trouble.

Deprived of support from Earth, the team on the moon must figure out how to survive on their own. Worse yet, there’s another base at the lunar south pole, run by a ruthless contractor who has big plans for the moon...and for Earth.

Nick’s team just so happen to be in the way.

Join them in their mission to stop the conquest of the Moon and Earth in this new science-based thriller from Nebula Award-nominated author Rhett C. Bruno and NYT best-selling author Felix R. Savage. It’s perfect for fans of The Martian, Artemis, and For All Mankind.

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Perfect fun sci-fi book!

Excellent pacing, solid depth, believable science and just enough tension/emotional range for a very fun read from start to finish!

Great new find

I was hesitant getting into this book because I’ve only recently started venturing out into finding books that didn’t have a ton of reviews yet and it didn’t disappoint. It’s kinda like Artemis or the Martian meets the characters from the movie Armageddon (not the plot, just the characters). It was a fresh new take on the astronauts being stranded theme!

Australia in Space

The Eighth Continent

“They brought their human crudeness to the moon and that is how they would conquer it.” This one line from the book sums 8C up perfectly. There are NO heroes in this story. No good guys, at all, from the corrupt mission planners to the criminal astronauts. Think Australia in space.

That said, Rhett and Felix specialize in marrying the brute technical details of colonizing space to the savageness of human realities. One can only hope the future won’t really be this messy on a human level, but then it was like this for much of earth’s history. In that, the story was well-written and did an expert job of detailing how broken people may one day struggle to conquer the final frontier. For old school sci-fi readers like me, if you liked Red Planet by Kim Stanley Robinson, you’ll love this story. For audio listeners, Scott is excellent!

Too much the global warming preaching

A good story to play in the background but the need to believe all of Al Gore's predictions for 2012 actually came true in the 2060's to accept the plot line (the first third of the book) was too much for me.

I was mesmerized by Nick's tale!

Yeah I loved the MC, Nick. I was quickly mesmerized by his tale, in this Sci-fi Thriller. I expected no less from the authors and the book really dished it out. Of course it didn't hurt that the action never stopped. Oh how I do love action-driven storylines. The Eighth Continent was a tight well written story about a private company's attempt at colonizing the moon for humanity sake and the governments attempts to thwrat that endeavor.
I haven't listened to many Scott Aiello narratives, but as with the others I've listened to, I found it to be excellent!
So yeah, if you Sci-fi like Rhett C Bruno's Luna Missile Crises, or Felix R Savage's Freefall, or even mystery thrillers, then this book is for you!

Very creative

Good story. Does have an environmental message to it but it is not preachy about it.

Lots of Climate BS and the story bounces around

Book would be better in the free section of Audible.

The story is ok ish but it really bounces around - they have an insurmountable problem then poof they're past the problem.

Not exactly a waste of time but likely won't get any more from the series.

Good story

Good story a little slow at times
but great narration. Scott is fantastic as usual.

fun

great idea, well executed, narration was excellent. I love space and conspiracies so this was right up my alley. I've seen past the anthroprogenic climate change exageration so that part was a bit annoying, but it fits the story well.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, and develop actual clean energy, could not agree more. humans are solely responsible for an event that has happened uncountable times before we existed and will again after we are gone? nope. Have to think bigger, we aren't that impressive. No amount of taxes nor restrictions will fix the climate. But we could work together to prepare for the inevitable changes, and this book does allude to that even if it comes at it from a different direction. Plus, it's a fun read!

Stellar!

In the vein of the Martian or Project Hail Mary, The Eighth Continent took me to a place only Andy Weir has been able to do in recent years. Nick's story of "crook" to something more was awesome and I can't wait for book two next month!