Tom Savage

By: Jaxon Reed

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

On a frontier planet, land is cheap. So is your life.

Tom Savage is intent on homesteading, and Phaethon is the newest planet open for colonization. Here, technology is lacking in many places. And for 200 credits, anyone can claim one square kilometer of prime farmland.

But Tom has a secret or two. He is not interested in farming crops, at least not at first. Tom wants to harvest pieces of Phaethon’s sun.

To do so will mean first reaching his stake out near the desert, surviving human predators along the way, bringing fugitives to justice, and dealing with the resident sand dragon population.

All in a day’s work for your local star farmer…


Veteran science fiction and fantasy author, two time Kindle Scout winner Jaxon Reed presents an all new space western set in the Milky Way’s vast frontier! Fistfights, bar brawls, and gun battles pepper this fast-moving and fun romp, with high-tech hijinks meshing with Wild West drama. Download today!

Great start to a new SciFi adventure series!

This book is fun. Free of foul language and sexual content, so safe for young readers/listeners. There are interesting new planet flora, robots, nano-bots, humans with cybernetic alterations, mystery and action. The storyline is easy to follow and keeps the reader/listener engaged.
I am not fond of AI narration, but, this particular AI voice was better than others I've listened to.

virtual voice is good

seemed a bit elementary, but I am a little bit masochistic, so I'm planning on listening to the whole series..... live long and prosper.

Virtual voice sure can ruin a good story

The story is interesting. I think I’ll like the main character, and look forward to more of the series. They HAVE to get a live human, even a monotone, terrible narrator, to read the next book. The computer generated ones transport you OUT of the story, plop you back into your uncomfortable kitchen sink area as you wash dishes, wishing for distraction. It doesn’t know how to distinguish which character is saying what, the voices are pretty much the exact same, and that old saying, “the emPHAsis is on the wrong syLLAble” applies throughout.

Could be fun, but my dentist says to quit listening, or the nubs left of my teeth will be useless for anything but bread.

good space-opera

I prefer real narration, not a fan of AI. aside from that the audio book holds together pretty well bu also purchased the kindle ebook.

Space story with a Pioneer twist

I enjoyed Tom's bot assisted homesteading adventure. Riding horses through the countryside after arriving by interstellar spaceship came across as a natural state of affairs. I don't like "cliffhangers".. The story continues, but still presented a satisfactory conclusion.