Sten: Sten Series, Book 1

The whole series is a masterpiece of science fiction, it deserves solid four stars, but narration by Jerry Sciarrio moves it to extraordinary FIVE STAR MASTERPIECE!!!!!

PS
My only regret is that only book 1-5 are narrated by Jerry Sciarrio.

I wasn't sure what to make of this book when I first bought it. But it held my intrest. I wounder what book 2 has install for me.

fun, intrigue, relief

the reader gives a great set of voices to help keep track of who is who.

this was a fun book from a great era.

I enjoyed the entire Sten series, so I thought it would be fun to re-visit them on audio. That was a mistake.

The reader was terrible, his narration was stiff and without inflection. Every time he mis-pronounced a word, I winced.

If you're interested in the story, seriously avoid this as an audiobook, and simply read it, you'll be much happier.

It was not a terrible narration, just not very good. The narrator's idea of giving each character a unique voice tended to come down to assigning them random bad accents.

For those who've read the series: He gives Mahoney a bad British accent. That's gotta be some kind of sacrilege to commit on an Irishman. And apparently the Eternal Emperor is an Aussie now.

It doesn't ruin the experience altogether, but it does detract from what ought to be a fun military SF action-adventure. I probably won't get the second in the series, unless it's free or cheap. "Sten" is a better read than a listen.