Infinite

By: Jeremy Robinson

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Searching for a new home....

The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries 50 scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away. With Earth no longer habitable and the Mars colony slowly failing, they are humanity's best hope.

After 10 years in a failed cryogenic bed - body asleep, mind awake - William Chanokh's torture comes to an end as the fog clears, the hatch opens, and his friend and fellow hacker, Tom, greets him...by stabbing a screwdriver into his heart. This is the first time William dies.

It is not the last.

When he wakes from death, William discovers that all but one crew member - Capria Dixon - is either dead at Tom's hands, or has escaped to the surface of Kepler 452b. This dire situation is made worse when Tom attacks again - and is killed. Driven mad by a rare reaction to extended cryo-sleep, Tom hacked the Galahad's navigation system and locked the ship on a faster-than-light journey through the universe, destination: nowhere. Ever.

Mysteriously immortal, William is taken on a journey with no end, where he encounters solitary desperation, strange and violent lifeforms, a forbidden love, and the nature of reality itself.

...he discovers the infinite.

Jeremy Robinson, the master of fast-paced and highly original stories seamlessly blending elements of horror, science fiction, and thrillers, tackles his most ambitious subject matter to date: reality itself. An amalgam of the works of J.J. Abrams and Ridley Scott, Infinite is a bold science fiction novel exploring the vastness of space and a man's desire to exist, find love, and alter the course of his life.

©2017 Jeremy Robinson (P)2017 Jeremy Robinson

Lost in Forever

The story has a great start, but gets lost during the infinite space of time. R.C. Bray is as usual, superb in his delivery. In the last few hours of the listen, the story just came apart for me. I surmised the ending about about three hours from the finish, and those last three hours were not crafted well enough to keep my interest. Disappointed.

This book is better than the reviews.

if you agree with the negative reviews, that is fine. give the book a chance and make your own choice.

I almost skipped it, based on the negatives, but, I am so glad I didn't.

the ideas and twists are provocative to the point where....
I just say yes. it is well worth my time!

Great beginning, letdown ending.

Narration was great, audio quality was odd - I noted it get blown out a few times. Great beginning, middle but the end....just ugh. Deus ex machina much?????

Loved it

Excellent book that leaves you on the floor at the end. Space travel, AI, romance and tragedy all wrapped up in one space ship.

FTL speed

Overly Ambitious? Spoilers Ahead.

First, R. C. Bray is amazing. His voice and performance are wonderful.


Now about the story. Spoilers.

Perhaps I’ve seen The Matrix too many times. Or read too much Phillip K Dick and William Gibson. The story hangs on the question of is the main character in a simulation or not. It was kind of hard to get into the story as “real” since the constant question of is it not “real” was always in mind. I was tempted to “flip” to the end of the book to know what the final result would be so I could enjoy the story for what it was without second guessing it.

Taken at face value the story is one lucky break after the other and a sort of a tour of sci-fi tropes. It read almost like a serial or short story collection meandering here and there.

The science was really hand wavy. Basic explanations were given and they were serviceable. But sort of uneven. Great detail was given about the operation of the VR room and tactile skin. But very little to explain why he was immortal. “Experimental Genetic Modification”. The consequences of being immortal were inconsistent. It was more of a literary device to serve the serial nature of the story.

Taken as simulation and the puzzle of getting someone to accept a simulation as real, it’s more interesting. It was hard get into that idea since the book was trying to leave you in the dark. If the story is an exploration of the nature and acceptance of reality, I think it could have been told more succinctly.

Maybe the author was too ambitious? Trying to get the best of too many ideas and ending up with a sort of bland result that doesn’t commit to being really about anything.

Final Verdict: Some interesting ideas are present without enough examination. Otherwise, meh.

Ends to soon!

What a ride! Robinson does it again. R.C.Bray is a master at his craft. Plenty of Easter eggs to be found. 10/10 would listen again.

Amazing!

The storyline is fantastic, the narration was really good too! Fans of Star Trek and the bobiverse series will love this one.

wow... simply amazing story.

brilliant story. brilliant narration. to the edge of the universe and back again.
engage!

Wonderful

Great story, a virtual page turner (it is, after all an AUDIO book), further elevated by superb narration - this was a fantastic listen!

interesting start but noticeable twists and ending

The start of the book to about half way through are pretty good but the twist 3/4 of the way was noticeable and the ending twist was even more so. The author jumps around from sub plot to sub plot and never really let's anything breathe. Overall, my advise would be to not bother.