Tankers

By: Robert Beers

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

They were never meant to feel this much.
When the exploration ship Magellan is torn apart in deep space, humanity learns the hard truth: we are not alone—and the things out there want us dead.
The enemy has no name, only the chilling nickname pilots whisper across the void: Bugs.
In answer, Earth’s military does the unthinkable. They fuse the minds of their convicted felons into living supercomputers—quantum-linked warriors who think, move, and kill as one. They call them Tankers.
Lad is the newest link in the chain, a convicted innocent from the Star Force Academy. Every time the Tankers go neural, he feels the others inside his skull—their rage, their fear, their memories bleeding into his own. One more jump and he might forget which thoughts are his.
But the war doesn’t care about breaking points.
As fleets burn and colonies fall, Lad uncovers a rot deeper than any alien threat: betrayal at the highest levels. Colonel Smith, the architect of the Tanker program, has been playing a far deadlier game—one that could hand humanity’s future to the Bugs on a platter. Outgunned, outmaneuvered, and slowly losing their humanity with every linked battle, the Tankers have one last shot. They must turn their shared mind into the ultimate weapon, expose the traitor, and strike at the heart of an enemy that was never supposed to be beaten.
In the cold dark between stars, Convicted minds have to become one—or mankind dies screaming.
Hard-hitting military sci-fi with a raw emotional core, Tankers is a gut-punch ride for fans of Forever War, Starship Troopers, and Old Man’s War.
When the battle is over, the real war begins inside your own head.
Lock and load. Link up. Pray you come back as you.

the AI narration

all in all the interaction wasn't too bad there was only a few times where you couldn't understand what they were saying because they mispronounced the word such as the two words of Live and live. the fact that this was read by a automatic reader didn't detract from the story at all in my opinion the pace was good it, did lack some emotion.

it was wonderful story though. good experimentation with the AI reader.