Date Night on Union Station

EarthCent Ambassador Series, Book 1

By: E.M. Foner

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson

Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she has put ahead of her personal life for 15 years is worth it.

When Kelly receives a gift subscription to the dating service that's rumored to be powered by the same benevolent artificial intelligence that runs the huge station, she decides to swallow her pride and give it a shot. But as her dates go from bad to worse, she can only hope that the supposedly omniscient AI is planning a happy ending.

©2014 E. M. Foner (P)2017 Tantor

Excellent start to a wonderful series

I have the entire series (so far) in Kindle, and have a really strong liking for the characters and stories told in these books.

The stories are clean, with an undercurrent of humor, and the personalities and detailed story line make the series enjoyable.

I've decided to buy the entire series in audiobook format too, just to tide me over while waiting for the next books written by this author.

It's a feel-good experience to go through this series. It's been a while since I read book 1, so I was a little surprised that there were a few parts to the first book that seemed to go slowly. But, if you read this series of books, you will see that the world-building is detailed and sophisticated. So, the foundation of this world is being set in Date Night on Union Station, and the main characters introduced. The story picks up pace closer to the end of the book, and that's pretty much the pace set for the rest of the series.

I recommend this series to everyone - even non sci-fi readers. Because it's about interaction - between people, between people and aliens, between people and AI. It's fantastic.

It's the opposite of dystopian, or trashy, or violent books.

It's refreshing.

The author's vision of a future world where humanity has gone into space, how business is conducted, how things work - communication, agriculture, holograms, food, games, all kinds of tech, makes the series even more interesting. All this sophisticated visionary predicting is casually woven into the story lines with straightforward and sometimes mischievous dialogue.

It's great writing. The narrator does a good job. It didn't take long to adjust to her voice and soon I was deep into the story.

A favorite of mine

I read this series several years ago and never realized it had an audio version. This is a great palate-cleanser series when you're burnt out on world-ending events, huge amounts of interpersonal drama, etc. There's great subtle humor and just an overall heart-warming adventures. No one's ever in real peril and there's always a happy ending.

Warm, Intelligent and Funny

Date Night is the first of E M Foner's excellent, caring, humorous and engaging "Union Station" series. The characters (human and alien) are well-developed, the narration is strong, and this is highly-recommended entry point to a great, and very unusual, series.

fun relatable story

Very fun material and I can't wait to continue, I'm sure plenty of ladies, but just future ladies, but present could relate, some might not be hot in the same way, but could feel like it sometimes.

A wonderful listen.

Good bit of humor and a quite believable set of characters and situations. I wish the others were available in Audible as well.