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The Autonomous Sequence, Book 1

De: Alastair Wells

Narrado por: Cody Roberts

On Earth, technology is forbidden . . .

On the new worlds, technology is everything . . .

A wild ride into the future of humankind.

After damaging climate change, humanity is divided, torn into the technophobic nature-worshippers on Earth and the banished children of science on the new worlds.

Jaruss awakens, drifting 300 light-years from Earth, trapped, memoryless, and alone. Who is he, where does he come from, and what are these recurring nightmares that trouble his sleep? To find out, he must outwit an efficiency-obsessed AI and join the dangerous crew of the stealth ship, Pangolin.

Thought-provoking interstellar adventure brilliantly executed.

Starts in the vein of an Andy Weir novel (The Martian, Project Hail Mary) and then picks up serious Firefly vibes.

©2024 Alastair Wells (P)2025 Tantor Media

Nothing Original

Just another "post apocalypse, humans are bad", with bad narration. Is there a future for humanity that does not involve human involved climate collape? Apparently not. How about some original thinking and writing?

Promising story, rough listen via bad dialogue and narration.

Just a few chapters in and the dialogue is absolutely excruciating to listen to. As soon as I heard “buckets of blood” as a swear phrase, I knew I should probably return it. Seriously, some of the phrases in this book were so bad that I almost wanted to record them as I could not believe they were written. Coupled with the flat narration, it just kept taking me out of the story.

Most of the conversations between characters don’t seem like what real people or real characters would say to each other. I finished the book to see if the story could hold up and while interesting, it just ends for another book on the way.
The one redeeming quality,are the good descriptions of the science tech.
Ouch.