Darklanding Omnibus Books 01-03: Assignment Darklanding, Ike Shot the Sheriff, & Outlaws

By: Scott Moon, Craig Martelle

Narrated by: Cal Lumney

A frontier world. One sheriff. And all the action one spaceport can't hold. Darklanding is the wild, wild west of known space. Sheriff Thaddeus Fry will never completely leave the battlefields of Centauri Prime. His assignment as the sheriff of Darklanding could be a do-nothing job, or it could get him killed.

Book 01 - Faced with a dangerous collapse that could kill hundreds of workers, the new sheriff leaps into action and gets the story of Darklanding started.

Book 02 - There’s unrest among the miners. Desperation sets in for the Company Man. One wrong decision will destroy her career. The sheriff doesn’t care about any of that. There are strangers in town. One or all of them may be enemies. And how does a mysterious runaway fit into the picture?

Book 03 - Unrefined ore is moved by a state-of-the-art monorail from the mines to the spaceport. It’s never gone off the tracks. Until now. What kind of crew is crazy enough to mess with SagCon’s investments?

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this new series.

©2018 Craig Martelle (P)2018 Craig Martelle

I need more Dark Landing!

I really enjoyed everything about theses books! The story lines were well thought out and the authors immediately draw you in with fully developed characters and settings. The narration is the icing on the cake. He brings the story and the characters to life in a way that leaves me wanting the stories to continue. Lucky for me I’m just getting started!
I need more Maximus!

Craig Martelle does it again. Success.

An interesting blend of Western meets Sci Fi meets military adventure, that somehow works unexpectedly well. Character development pulls you in & suddenly you care what becomes of this motley crew.

Space-Western

Book 1:
A short installment, but a lot of fun. This all takes place on a planet, and it's all about the mines, or the resources that are needed for the rest of the galaxy, and a sheriff who's in charge of keeping the peace on the planet, with the humans, and with the aliens.

Book 2:
Another great installment, though again, a shorter book. It's still a lot of fun, and you get to see some classic shootout western action as we have the sheriff versus bandits. And don't forget the alien deputy!

Book 3:
Now you have the sheriff chasing outlaws, in another classic Space-Western. Another short one, but still lots of fun. And this time, you have the sheriffs sidekick, his alien pet, a pig-dog at his side to save the day. You can really tell how Mr. Martelle loves his pets, as they shine through nearly ever piece of his writing.

Fun read (or should I say, listen)

Very entertaining, captured my attention and kept engaged. Looking forward to more as the story develops. I'm liking the frontier world of Darklanding.

a fun space Western

this was a fun listen. The story is great. It kept me guessing, which I love. I like the characters, especially the ladies. Two thumbs up for that. But there are a couple of annoying production errors (repeated lines, one is repeated 3x with throat clearing) and that marred an otherwise stellar performance. There's also no hint that the pov is changing in the first episode, so I got a bit confused at points, but the second and third episodes didn't have that issue. pov changes were handled better and the narrator made more of an effort to differentiate each character when they did change and I really appreciated that because it's not easy to tell the pov changed when you're listening.

all things considered, this is a solid 4 star listen. I hate to deduct a star, but those production issues are so obvious, one more listen would have revealed them to anyone who was even half listening.

Good Storyline

Story line and character development are great. But Audible dropped the ball when it came to editing.

Short. A small part of a real book.

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Very poor

This story has very few interesting portions. It is poorly written and is hard to follow. There are parts of the story that just don't make much sense. I got through the first two episodes but gave up during episode 3 as it got hard to believe.