Sean Lynch
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Severed Ties
- Backyard Starship, Book 10
- By: J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 505
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 421
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Story5 out of 5 stars 420
The universe is hungry. For power. For money. For war. And—revenge. Stripping osmium from across the stars, thieves will stop at nothing to fuel the nightmarish industry of Stolen Persons, their souls locked away in chips made of the rarest metal known. Among these thieves is Helum Gauss, the visionary criminal whose empire spans a hundred worlds. But his massive corporation, BeneStar, lost—badly—to Van and the Guild, and Gauss won’t take no for an answer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another exceptional performance all around!
- By J.R. Brown on 11-07-23
- Severed Ties
- Backyard Starship, Book 10
- By: J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Wait for it…
Reviewed: 12-17-23
The bloopers at the end! The other bits were pretty good too. Am I done yet Ethel?
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Ascension Series: Volume I
- Books 1-3
- By: Ken Lozito
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 459
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 421
Contains books one, two and three of the action-packed space opera Ascension series. They’ve been watching us for hundreds of years. Now they need our help. Earth is not safe. Zack is good at finding things, but when he discovers a global conspiracy, life as he knows it is over. Kept secret for 60 years, the discovery of an alien signal forces an unlikely team to investigate a mysterious structure discovered in the furthest reaches of the solar system. Join the crew of the Athena, Earth’s most advanced spaceship on the ultimate journey beyond our wildest imagining.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Clearly written for the Jr. High School age group
- By Ed H. on 03-11-21
- Ascension Series: Volume I
- Books 1-3
- By: Ken Lozito
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
Don’t waste a credit. The rave reviews are suspiciously similar and vacuous as is the story.
Reviewed: 06-20-23
The performance was pretty good but the story wouldn’t have made it into Analog or Galaxy magazines back in the day. The story is juvenile and there is no drama or sense of excitement because the next dreadful moment was apparent two pages before it occurred.
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The Rock Rats
- Book Two of The Asteroid Wars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Ira Claffey, Amanda Karr, cast
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 413
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 228
Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead, but his protege, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her, for Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho, and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen
- By Jack on 04-08-08
- The Rock Rats
- Book Two of The Asteroid Wars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Ira Claffey, Amanda Karr, cast
Fractured narration detracts from plodding story.
Reviewed: 05-15-23
I regret the purchase of this audio book, the story is okay but the randomly timed variation of narrators with widely varying accents for the few main characters truly sucks. Farming the novel out to many narrators no doubt got the product to market quicker, but the product sucks, I got as many Grand Tour series titles on sale as I could, saving several credits but without knowing several of the books were being read by a committee. I wouldn't have bought the asteroid series audiobooks, I would have gotten the ebooks instead because the mixed narrative wrecks it for me.
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The Precipice
- Book One of The Asteroid Wars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Amanda Karr, cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 552
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 320
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph, he does not care if Earth perishes in the process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Space Opera Fun ( not for Kids)
- By Chris on 02-08-06
- The Precipice
- Book One of The Asteroid Wars
- By: Ben Bova
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Amanda Karr, cast
Fractured narration detracts from plodding story.
Reviewed: 05-14-23
Random transition between narrators was reminiscent of a poorly choreographed pro wrestling tag team match,with random bits of music/sound effects thrown in for distraction. The story was okay, but like much of Bova, very slow and plodding. Never say in two chapters what you can stretch out into eight hours of descriptive narrative which advances neither the plot nor the characters.
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