A Learning Experience, Book 1

By: Christopher G. Nuttall

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Earth is not alone. There is a towering civilization out in the galaxy, far greater than anything we can imagine. But we are isolated from the galaxy...until now.

When a bunch of interstellar scavengers approach Earth intending to abduct a few dozen humans and sell them into slavery in the darkest, they make the mistake of picking on Steve Stuart and his friends, ex-military veterans all. Unprepared for humans who can actually fight, unaware of the true capabilities of their stolen starships, the scavengers rapidly lose control of the ship - and their lives.

To Steve the captured starship represents a great opportunity, one to establish a new civilization away from Earth and its increasingly oppressive bureaucracy. But with the aliens plotting their revenge and human factions suspicious of the new technology, it will be far from easy to create a whole new world....

©2014 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2016 Podium Publishing

great storyline.

this story shines a light on how the world would look if our veterans were put in charge. not a bad world at all!

Good book

This book was entertaining and not boring. I look forward to the next book in the series.

Glad I listened but not interested in sequel

A fun listen if you are interested in a right-wing, libertarian utopia where only former military people know what is best, everybody needs to be armed and an NRA member, and rules are bad.

A Great Book

Would you consider the audio edition of A Learning Experience, Book 1 to be better than the print version?

This was a great book and the author knows his subject, well written. A good read.

Their characters has a strange views

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Learning Experience, Book 1?

How his characters have no idea what environmental conservatives are about.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

none yet

Any additional comments?

it is a very strange vision of the future.

good start

reminded me of a right wing version of the ALICE books.
Character were will developed and likeable. The technology progression was logical.

SJW"s will hate this book. so i loved it.

cant wait to get into the next book. if your a independent thinker then you might enjoy this book

great concept for a story

I will not be listening to the other installments, the original concept of the story changed, now the next 3 books are gynocentric, before it was neutral and libertarian in nature. but this installment was very good. so I recommend it, but I do understand the author and why he made the next books as he did, he wanted his work published and that is how you survive in this business you go SJW.

Fine story destroyed by "USA is greatest"

Have you ever read a classical political story ment to shape the opinion? The Germans and English made some interesting ones before and during VW2. This story is a more modern version, so politically colored it overwhelms everything.

The narrator does a really good job, but when the storyline is so politically colored it overwhelms the narrators work..

Back to the future

This reminded me of the Space operas I grew up reading in the 60s and 70s. There was very little science in sci-fi back then because much of the technology we take for granted now did not exist. So Burroughs, Asimov and Heinlien could wing it. Not today. Nuttall's storytelling is too weak on science and biology. I.e., aliens who have pincer like claws capable of using equipment developed for a bipedal race with opposable thumbs! Every species in the galaxy conveniently breath oxygen?