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.

artifact

well written, ai voice passable a few hiccups but you need to be fast to catch, I made me laugh and had plausible space required actions

Great story, Narration was nearly perfect computer

This is a good story concept and fun throughout. The narration had some long pauses between paragraphs and chapters, maybe 1-2 seconds too long, not extreme going into minutes of silence. The male computer voice had a small amount of inflection for exclamations and questions (Neutral Caucasian American English would be best description). Narrator did have the issue with bow being pronounced like tow or like wow but that and a couple other words were rare.

Speech was clear and well enunciated without background distractions, which is better than some of the meat narrators of audiobooks I've suffered through.