A.I. Destroyer

The A.I. Series, Book 1

By: Vaughn Heppner

Narrated by: Marc Vietor

Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's Summary

It came from deep space. It sent the signal. Now our computers are killing us, helping the enemy drive us into extinction.

But some of us refuse to die. We fight back. We learn.

Jon Hawkins revives from cryogenic sleep in a drifting SLN battleship. The crew is dead and the main computer has been destroyed. Jon is a soldier, the start of the resistance, the one man with the will to beat the alien death machines that have terminated 1000 races.

This is our hour as we face the ultimate evil, the galactic destroyer of life.

©2017 Vaugn Heppner (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

A Good Story

The best book that I’ve heard in a while. I guess the idea of an overarching intelligence isn’t entirely original, I mean, you know, the “Borg”. But hey, it’s a big universe. Anyway, excellent plot, unpredictable ending, realistic characters, with realistic problems, a main character who is not narcissistic and who doesn’t constantly reflect on his past glories (I mean, no one want to see your vacation videos) and thankfully, no melodrama.

To many cliches but a good overall story.

Good action all through the book. Never got bogged down in one area as so many do. Hoping book two is the same or better.

Starts Slow and Builds

Where does A.I. Destroyer rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It is solidly in the top 50%.

What other book might you compare A.I. Destroyer to and why?

It is reminiscent of the Terminator series, though in this instance, the AI is alien in origin.

What about Marc Vietor’s performance did you like?

Marc does not distract from the story and his performance was excellent.

Any additional comments?

My main comment is that the AI was not all that intelligent, especially for a being that had destroyed multiple civilizations.

Religious

Hi in general I actually really like the series. My mane problem is with the obvious religiousness of the Author witch pops up everywhere and really takes u out of the story because its really over done all the good humans are Christian all the bad ones non religious all the good aliens have faith all bad ones don't. And some of the characters them being secretly religious completely dosent fit the rest of their persona or the assassin being moved to tears by someone praying for them is completely laughable only a very religious person would believe that at all likely.

Hope this is seen just as constructive criticism do enjoy the series.

Not4Hire

Don't believe the good ratings

This book is so full of cliches and bad dialog that I had trouble getting by the first two chapters. Then you have the a protagonist that is just stupid and the reader is expected to just stick with it and hope that the growth would happen somewhere in the next book or two. Don't expect a space opera here, it is more of a exercise in talking you to death.

Oh I used the word stupid above as that word is used a ton of times in the first two chapters and that is all that stuck with me

Refreshing and innovative in concept.

The storyline kept me interested throughout as I could not assume what course the plot line would take next. It is refreshing to read a book that you can't predict the next turn in the story line. The main enemy in the story was refreshing an innovative. You actually believe this AI could truly exist and be that evil. You can't help but smile when you read about its demise.

filled with contradictions and

I didn't like this at all. seemed like every chance that author had he repeated stainless steel rat. I wanted to pull my hair out. the story kept describing how we can't use radio to talk cause the enemy could find us but then they would say they were connected to the ships systems.

Not worth the time

I enjoy the sci-fi genre, and the AI niche particularly. This was about the midpoint of the genre. Half of them I've read have been better, and the other half I put down without finishing. I managed to finish this one. that's something anyway! I've definitely read better.

Can’t believe this is the same guy who wrote the Lost Star Carrier series

This is painful to listen to, it sounds like something Heppner wrote in high school.

The choice of Mark Vietor as narrator only makes it more painful.

The characters and plot are wafer thin.

Ok

Meh. The narrator was difficult to listen at times. Story was OK. I was hoping that this world was tied to his other lost star ship books somehow. I was disappointed.

You have to listen to it

A great book loved the story great narration 5 stars I highly recommend listening to this book 👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

When was this written?

I wanted to enjoy this book as the subject matter is of great interest to me at the moment, however I found the whole thing confusing.

Spoilers ahead.

Firstly there are Communist Secret Police in the future? That didn't make sense to me, so I figured the writer lived in the Eastern Bloc in the 80s or something, however that's not true, so why are they in there?

The narration is like something from an American 50s radio play, making the characters seem so shallow, so black and white.

The story is kind of interesting, but nothing very imaginative.

I'll skip the other books in the series.

He said, she said

I would like a pound for every “said” that was used in this book. Narration also got annoying. Story was good, it was just the way the narrator chose how to voice the characters.

Not the most original but worth a listen

To cut a 9hr story short; it's the Terminator universe in space.

But It was worth the time i spent listening to it and i fully intent to buy and listen to the other books in the series.

It’s good, just needs to find its feet

Compared to the lost starship series this has a less well defined set of core characters but is still a solid read. I’m going to give the second book in the series a go now as I suspect it will be better. There is nothing wrong with this story it’s just that having read all the lost starship books I have a very high bar from the author now! :p

The narrator did an excellent job.

hard to start but gets very interesting

starts off slow and hard to keep track of what's happened but once it's going its interesting will be enjoying the rest of the books

loved it

first in the series looking forward to the second in the series a bit slow o start

Not bad good battles, if a bit simple

OK, nice series start, similar to his other books ie
big super ship over taken by humans , now going to do battle with baddies. it's my kind of thing though a bit flat chacter wise compared to expeditionary force books.

Ok to a point.

This review has mild spoilers. It's one of those listen that in the first couple of hours you think "I'm really enjoying this".
Our heroes back story and how he was introduced to us, i really liked, giving us good exposition. The story kind of plodded along, during this period, i would have liked to have found out more about our hero. At no point was i told his age or given any real information about what he looks like. I guess he just a 6ft square jawed white guy.
To me what really turned this story from a ok listen to a bad one, was the Ex Machina about two thirds through. The "help" literally came from nowhere.
Sorry mate, really good idea, but poorly executed.