Earthside

Quantum Earth, Book 2

De: Dennis E. Taylor

Narrado por: Ray Porter

The fate of mankind is in the hands of a group of 20-something science nerds in the sequel to Outland, by the Audible #1 best-selling author of the “Bobiverse” series.

The Yellowstone super-eruption has put an end to modern civilization. As cities and countries continue to fall, the colony of Rivendell in the alternate Earth known as Outland looks more and more like the only real hope for humanity. But life in Rivendell isn’t getting any simpler, either. Bill and Kevin continue to discover new worlds; the population continues to rise; winter is approaching; and everyone has their own opinion about how things should be run.

Then, a garbled plea for help from Omaha sends most of the security forces back Earthside to investigate, leaving Monica’s police force understaffed just as a large group of refugees arrive with its own ideas and power structure. With threats from both inside and outside, will the colony even survive until spring?

©2023 Dennis E. Taylor (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.

Good, but let down by angry politics

I get all the angry self righteous political lectures I can take from just turning on the TV, I don’t want more in my chosen entertainment, especially if they are presented in a cartoonish way. A 14 year old can give a better defense of liberty and capitalism and trade offs between economic systems. Authors channeling their personal political anger never works for their full audience and it is best to leave that stone unturned in my opinion.

I finished the book in two days and it was very entertaining. There were some plot holes but they were minor in the grand scheme. I look forward to the next book but hope it has less brain dead partisans all around.

Dennis E. Taylor for president!

Another fantastic story from Dennis! Ray Porter is the absolute best narrator for all of the series from Dennis, thank you guys for incredible listens.

Another amazing book

Dennis E. Taylor and Ray Porter deliver again. My favorite duo. Dennis E. Taylor I hope you continue to make these amazing books forever.

I've loved everything by Dennis E. Taylor, but...

Earthside missed the mark. It seems like the author thought of a bunch of ways people could be horrible and shoved them all in. It was the same subplot multiple times by different actors. Very unexpected given how great every other book by Dennis E. Taylor has been.

meh villains.

I'd have been happier with out the villains they had in the story. They were the standard mustache twirling villains of old. I'd have been happier with them scouting out Nazi Earth, or Dino World or something. May be the 3rd book will be better.

Don’t buy into the negative reviews (IMO)

I saw all of the negativity about “too much politics”, so I went into the book wary of them.
Personally, I don’t feel that it was bad, overdone, or off—putting. If this scenario were to take place (heaven forbid), and society was being rebuilt, the political issues that come up in this book are very realistic. I do not feel like the author was spouting his own views or anything like that - the point of view at any given point belonged to the particular character being represented at that time, so many sides were promoted/trashed/made fun of.
Any negativity toward the book regarding politics are (IMO) people not wanting to hear thoughts that don’t line up with their own.
The only thing I didn’t care for in this book was some continuity issues - largely in narration. Kevin went from being an Indian student to not, and Bill/Richard had completely different voices. Having just re-listened to the first book before this one, it was not ideal, but still a 5 Star book and series. I and definitely a Dennis E Taylor Fan!

Political BS nearly ruined this one

I absolutely LOVED the first book, and wanted to love this one, but I was somewhat let down. Too much of our real world is consumed by politics, and rather than stick to a grand adventure to save humanity (you have a great canvas for escapism here), our author chose to soak the story in politics.

Hopefully book 3 is a return to form that we had in book 1, otherwise, I'm out on continuing with this series.

A disappointing sequel

I enjoyed the first book. This book was juvenile and annoying. The new colony in Outland decides that they need to have some form of government and then the reader is subjected their discussions. These are long, boring, and shallow conversations. The author’s political views are on display. Everyone who has an opposing view is stupid or evil.

Political thriller?

It appears that the author forgot this wasn't a political thriller, but a post apocalyptic story centered on the survival of a small group in an alternate universe. Why would any group trying to survive focus on government and laws after only a few months?

The problems they faced were very thin and the resolutions were equally thin.

First book was way better

Found this to be pretty boring. First one was way better!! Ray Porter was the main redeeming quality. Did a lot of “checking out” or getting side tracked with other things in my environment because it was just boring/uninteresting. Big letdown as I was really looking forward to the second book.