The Expansion: Publisher's Pack

The Expansion Series, Books 1-2

By: Devon C. Ford

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

The Expansion: Publisher's Pack includes Recon, book one, and Contact, book two.

The universe is expanding, and so is humanity’s reach.

Years after clean energy ended the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, a lull of peace encompasses all of humanity. Some think we should travel to the distant corners of the galaxy; others oppose the idea, thinking that the harnessed singularity reactors are unnatural.

When a terrorist group attacks the Lunar colony, members of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force are divided as a result of the incursion.

Years later, Lieutenant Commander Kyle Torres comes face to face with old friends, as he’s thrown into an assignment that could change everything: a reconnaissance mission with huge implications for humanity and science alike.

©2018 Devon C. Ford (P)2019 Podium Publishing

Exciting, High-Energy Earth and her Future Empires

This was a great duo of books. Intense actions, hints of romance past and present. The characters all had solid goodness with a hint or history of mistakes. The bad guys had the same, just a little more of the bad.

There strong female chapters as well as men. Various ages and ethnicities greet readers. There is a bit of swearing, but most is done in fun, like a newbie on deck keeps slipping up with simple swear words in front of the new Admiral, while another newer ensign is helping the same general when a huge surprise comes across their view screen, and the general is silent while she starts out to say, " What's the fu....." but she realizes who she is with and comes out with, "What's the fu.....nction of THAT?"

I am now looking for more stories hopefully written in the series!!

It's merely OK.. not amazing not terrible.

the story sort of leans heavy on introducing magical new tech and software to keep the plot going.

the narrator uses the EXACT same voices from other books. Its distracting and hard to absorb the EXACT same voice.

Thrilling joy ride through space

Weapons were well design and imaginitive
Author took a funny swipe at Skippy, the sarcastic AI Beer can.

Saying that, even with all of the super tech, I note the absolute absence of AI & AI controlled weapons systems.

Also, I'm wondering, like the Valhalla commander, what on God's green earth would make them give a full data dump of info on humans, star maps, and earth. The only thing I could think of is that it was corrupt info.

Great Stories!

These both were great. Starting off with a beginning on the moon & an attack leading over to exploration of the vast space along with upgrades to armor, weapons, and galaxies…

Great story, distracting performance

Entertaining story and good enough that I’ll listen to the ones that follow. However, the narrator should be replaced. Too many of the male voices sounded like comedic impressions of east coast mob bosses. Hard to tell one voice from another. Many of the other voices were slight variations of an impression of a Texas cowboy drawl. Very distracting.

Sad It's Over

Incredible storytelling. Characters you can relate to. A realistic story set in the future. Shows the absolute best, and the absolute worst of human nature. Buy it, you won't be disappointed. As always, Luke Daniels performs masterfully.

Wow was this great!!!!!

Bought this on sale and took a chance on the whole series at once. I'm glad I did because after this first pack I would have had to pay full price for the rest (something I would have done in a heartbeat).

The narration is excellent and the writing it tight and realistic. The characters are interesting and have depth to them. The world building is solid and the story is engaging. These are great books!

Entertaining and an easy listen

Good narration and story line. Nice balance of serious and light hearted comedic moments.

i like it

so, its got good premise and fun story set up

it grinds my gears that the author set this series to be a galaxy spanning event in the first book, but starting with Earth's preliminary colonization of the moon, and contemplation of mars.

for some reason, their vernacular is a galactic scale phrasing, best speed in the galaxy, best shields in the galaxy, best power production in the galaxy, thing is, humanity has barely begun to spread its wings across it's own system when they are using the phrase in the galaxy. honestly it would be a stretch to even say in the system since again humanity has only begun occupation of the moon and maybe dug a couple of holes under mars.so it grinds my gears.

Great find!

I was pleasantly surprised by how engaging this story is and look forward to the saga that is sure to follow