The Artifact

De: David Collins

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Benjamin, Mark, and Chloe were all set to graduate college in a few weeks.

Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay to use as cover art for a book he was writing.

It looked really cool, like a slightly charred old military artifact from 70 years ago. It was possibly part of an engine. After cleaning it up (it was found in a cow field), he placed the strange device on his dorm room desk directly over the wireless charging port. That woke it up.

Unknown to him, the disabled starship hiding on the moon could now communicate with the missing part.

The ship needed two things:
1) The missing part.
2) A crew to pass itself off as a manned ship (AIs were not supposed to control ships autonomously).

Now, after finishing college, they need to find a way to get the ship to land somewhere safe, supply it, and return the missing component, the artifact.

They suspect the most challenging part will be getting into space. They soon find that the real problem is what awaits them when they reach the alien trading center.

less violence

a reasonable and believable account that had less war and violence while telling a very good story.

FUN! Light Comedy

I really enjoyed this story, reminds me of"Have Space Suit Will Travel" The light hearted story makes a great bedtime story. The story ending is enough,not sure it needs a sequel.

virtual reading ruined the story for me

The virtual voice was not good. It was very hard to follow. The was no excitement or sadness in the reading, I couldn't get into what otherwise seemed like a promising book. Places where you'd normally feel the reader actually enjoy telling the story it fell flat.

Keep going

I almost deleted. After a few chapters I almost deleted but soldiered on. I’m having fun listening at this point. Don’t give up.

Good start to a book

The story actually has promise. it started quickly and moved pretty quickly as well through the story. I feel like the author left out a great amount of detail though. It goes from one part of the story to the next with very little detail as to how they got there. This book is also read by VIRTUAL VOICE. I would say do not bother with virtual voice. The technology is not ready to read a book.