Last Man Standing

Earthburst, Book 1

By: Craig A. Falconer

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

A pulsating sci-fi thriller from the author of the global blockbuster Not Alone—perfect for fans of Andy Weir and A.G. Riddle.

I wasn’t supposed to survive.

The station has been hit. Everyone around me is dead.

I have 11 hours of life support left and no way of contacting Earth.

I’m alone. I’m stranded. I’m desperate.

But I’m alive.

The more of the station I explore, the surer I get that this was no accident. Someone did this, and I don't think they're finished yet.

Making it home feels like an impossible task, but I'm not just fighting for my own life.

I have to protect my family—whatever it takes.

And as long as I’m breathing, this isn't over.

Because whoever did this almost pulled it off...but they made one big mistake: They left the wrong man standing....

©2022 Craig A. Falconer (P)2022 Recorded Books

Great book

This is a great book. I’m really glad that the next book in the series is already available because I don’t want it to stop there. The narrator is amazing too.

Character driven, intelligently written and perfectly narrated……

Exceptional and engaging writing combined with outstanding narration makes this one of my favorite series. I’m binge listening, on Book five ‘Reason To Fear’. The characters are intelligent and likable, especially Lika, the genetically enhanced parrot (whose intelligence is only surpassed by his sweetness). MC Ray faces the terrifying reality that he’s stranded in space with only his wits, skill set and the motivation of his family’s love, to get home to them anyway he can. A highly recommended nonstop listen.

Stream of Consciousness

Good premise and good performance. As others noted, waaaay too many words used to express the same thought or action. Still downloading the second one though.

Enjoyed the book, good story, needs a bit of polishing

The story was excellent, good sci-fi and fun. I do wish the author had spent a bit more time refining the story. As there are too many cheesy, minor details. Those details make the first part of the story Sound a bit wimpy and I was tempted to stop listening. Glad I didn’t, as the story evolved into something good, with real struggles to overcome.

Good Solid Story

I will admit, it took me a bit to get into this book, a few restarts at least - though this is NOT due to the reader Scott Aiello, he is my favorite male audiobook reader to date. I was browsing through the reviews of others and one had mentioned there’s a bit too much detail and I believe that is what caused my loss of interest so many times but after a certain point, IMO after locates the commander and his 2nd, it pulls you in and you can’t stop listening. Not that too much detail is bad, necessarily, but for the many ADHD/ADD listeners such as myself sometimes too much detail and not enough happening with the story causes us to lose interest in an otherwise fantastic story. Thankfully I made it past this and finished the book same day. The only downside is having to wait 5 more days for my new Audible credit :) Great job and thank you to Mr Falconer on laying down the basis of a great story that I look forward to continuing and Mr Aiello for bringing the story to life in a way only a good reader can.

interesting start

In the first book of this series we meet Ray. a scientist who hopes to have discovered a new a better power supply. He is on the spacestation where he thinks due to safety issues he needs to prove his work. But finds that all is not as expected. Once he has done the final test. and returns to the main body of the station, he finds all the other people dead. And he must get back to earth to prove who is responsible for the attack and the one on earth.

Wow. Great story, great performance!

I wasn’t expecting such a great story! But it was really well thought out and delivered. Bits of humor, support parrot, and a fantastic start to a series. On to the next book! Fantastic narrator performance! Like Ray Porter level! May even see what else he narrates to find more books!!

One for all

Interesting struggle by one over thinker who just wants to survive turns himself into savior. Proves his idea on energy product and his over worked effort saves him from certain death, yet finds the rest of his fellow spacers dead. The struggles turn into hunt for answers in his constant effort to live. The ending seems to be a sorry death but ... read to follow the twists to this struggle to know what happens, why, and then the who. WELL written with a few strange characters to entertain you.

He’s no Weir or Scalzi

It was okay, but not great, not much depth or science. It’s first-person, almost stream-of-consciousness style was grating to me. The narrator presented it well, but it all sounded like a space traveler strung out on cocaine to me. I won’t be continuing the series.

Couldn't put it down

This is probably my favorite book by Craig Falconer so far. It is not an easy feat to put your main character in a solo situation without others to interact with and make it exciting and entertaining and this book does that. There is a point in the story where Ray does interact with some supporting cast and I'll just say that I immediately purchased the next book in the series with hopes that we'll see those characters appear again. Craig also runs a Facebook group fan page and I really appreciate his interactions with his fans and frequent updates on upcoming books.