
A Tangled Road to Justice
Paladins of Distant Suns, Book 1
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By:
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Olan Thorensen
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Sometimes, it's best to read the fine print.
When former soldier Everett Cole signed on to help colony planets prepare for joining the Federation, his employers were disconcertingly vague about their identity and his duties. Yet, the pay was good, and it got him off Earth and on the way to a fresh start. More reservations arose when, 11 light-years from Earth, he met his partner, Edgar Millen, an enigmatic man with a penchant for violent solutions and a fetish for the mythology and language of the American Wild West.
It wasn't until they reached the colony world of Astrild that the mission became somewhat clearer. They were players in multi-faceted efforts to steer colony worlds in preparation for joining the Federation. Unfortunately, not all obstacles were amenable to diplomatic, political, or economic solutions. Cole and Millen were agents, troubleshooters, hired guns—or whatever you wanted to call them—tasked with removing impediments to civilized law and order, the methodology left open-ended.
Millen and Cole's first mission to test their partnership? The backwater town of Justice was under the control of a strongman and his henchmen. All they had to do was convince the cowed citizens to rise against their tormentor. Formal authority and backup? None.
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The colony on Haven-7 has gone rogue. The colonists have split into two factions: the Techborn and the Dusters. The Techborn have always ruled the planet. They control the remnants of the crashed starship that brought humanity to this new world. The Dusters… they eat Techborn dust. Now, the Techborn strength is waning. Their weapons are getting old, and radiation leaks from the aging reactors have created mutations. Some of these, like their brutish troops known as Tuskers, have proven useful—but others are abominations.
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Pitiful
- By Trip Williams on 11-07-24
By: B.V. Larson
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Kill Streak
- A Sci-Fi LitRPG
- By: Curator Omega
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Dak Korasa is wounded by his team and left for dead on a hostile jungle world. On the verge of succumbing, he’s saved by a sluglike organism created by an otherworldly entity. This parasite, or chok’tal, has one purpose: to alter its host’s DNA, turning him into a super-soldier known as a Purifier who is then expected to serve in the “Glorious Game.” Imbued with superhuman strength, speed, and endurance, Dak must kill to earn enough points to win the mysterious game—or the chok’tal will kill him.
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Promptly Returned
- By Cody on 10-11-22
By: Curator Omega
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The Starship in the Stone
- By: M.R. Forbes
- Narrated by: Dave Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Thomas heard the cries for help, he didn’t hesitate to do the right thing. It was his chance for redemption. Until everything went wrong. The cave should have been deserted. The perfect place to hide. Instead, it’s crawling with soldiers and engineers working to unearth the impossible: Excalibur.
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if this isn't written by ai...
- By Aaron McKinney on 04-24-25
By: M.R. Forbes
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Until the End of the World
- By: Sarah Lyons Fleming
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Cassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she’s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. After all, she’s been on a self-imposed losing streak since her survivalist parents died: she’s stopped painting, broken off her engagement to Adrian and dated a real jerk. Rectifying her mistakes has to wait, however, because Cassie and her friends have just enough time to escape Brooklyn for her parents’ cabin before Bornavirus LX turns them into zombies, too.
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a feel good zombie apocylapse
- By Mike Naka on 02-23-14
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Backyard Starship: Origins 2
- By: J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
- Narrated by: Neill Thorne, John Pirhalla
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Get ready to experience two more origin stories in the Backyard Starship universe.
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Character of main person is environment dependent.
- By George Riley on 12-28-24
By: J.N. Chaney, and others
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The Other Place
- The Glass, Book 1
- By: Nathan Hystad
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Drake, a retired police detective, receives a call in the dead of night from an alien-obsessed podcaster. He hastily departs for Montana the following morning. The phenomenon continues all over the globe. What are they? What do they mean? Britt is on assignment for a digital magazine when she encounters one of the Glass in a tragic boating accident, leaving her no choice but to follow the lead. Panic ensues as mysterious creatures are sighted.
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Underdeveloped characters, superficial plot
- By Lawly on 10-03-22
By: Nathan Hystad
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Stranded
- Lost Eden: A Portal Fiction Adventure, Book 1
- By: Shawn Inmon
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In a riveting blend of adventure, discovery, and moral reckoning, Stranded is a thrilling exploration of human nature set against the backdrop of a world beyond imagination. Will the group find a way to return from this Lost Eden, or will their conflicting agendas lead to irreversible consequences?
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Another Triumph for Inman
- By Suzie Ven on 02-15-25
By: Shawn Inmon
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Good Boys: The Lost Tribe
- Good Boys, Book 1
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In the serene backdrop of New Hampshire's Franconia Notch, Micah Taylor, an ex-Army Ranger, finds solace with his loyal golden retriever, Grover. Their peaceful existence is suddenly shattered when a first date with his old friend, Jess Bender, takes an unexpected turn. Bright lights descend from the sky, leading them into the dark woods and a shocking discovery: the Kylonari, an advanced alien species with a special connection to Micah, here on a quest to find "The Lost Tribe"—a colony that vanished millennia ago.
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What a Fun Ride!
- By CarterFSU on 08-22-24
By: Jeremy Robinson
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Carpathians
- By: Paul Dixon
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans have reached the stars. There is no evidence any other species survived its own sentience long enough to do the same. Until now, when the Magellanix deep-space scout Accipiter discovers the Artifact, a million-year-old alien construct resting in a dormant volcano on a faraway world.
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couldn't make it through this book....
- By Will S. on 09-26-24
By: Paul Dixon
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The Mercy of Gods
- Captive's War, Book 1
- By: James S.A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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The Carryx—part empire, part hive—has waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy in its conflict with an ancient and deathless enemy. When they descend on the isolated world of Anjiin, the human population is abased, slaughtered, and put in chains. The best and brightest are abducted, taken to the Carryx world-palace to join prisoners from a thousand other species. Dafyd Alkhor, assistant to a prestigious scientist, is captured along with his team.
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Incredible
- By Davey Francis on 08-15-24
By: James S.A. Corey
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Steel World
- Undying Mercenaries, Book 1
- By: B. V. Larson
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....
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A 14 year old boy’s idea of a “Real Man”
- By C. Brown on 04-16-19
By: B. V. Larson
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Point Nemo
- By: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. At its core is a dead zone, devoid of life, where government agencies crash their obsolete satellites and space stations, confident they won't harm a soul. When the International Space Station suffers a catastrophic failure and plummets through the atmosphere, it's here that Mission Specialist Julie Rohr, an astrobiologist studying living space dust called xylem, finds herself marooned. Julie's only hope for rescue lies in the hands of her estranged father, Dr. Finn Maddern, a renowned mycologist.
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Big ‘ol yikes. I wish I could get my credit back
- By KB on 05-30-24
By: Jeremy Robinson
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- J. Adams
- 10-05-24
Did not finish
Made it about half way through and just was not actually engaged with the story and didn't care about any of the characters. Picked up something else and didn't have the urge to come back, so I'm moving on instead of returning.
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- lunch161
- 11-01-24
good book
I was weird at first but it grew on me. the reading was good aswell.
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- Robert C
- 03-29-25
meh
Not as good as his other series by a long shot. I'm going to try one more before deciding what to do. He is capable of much more than this book showed.
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- Chris M.
- 08-09-24
A Corny as Sci—Fi
The performance was good but the story line was corny and not what I seek in colonization sci-fi novels.
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- Ingrid A
- 07-03-24
A fun read!
I enjoy Thorensen's sci-fi novels. They aren't heavy on the science, but his characters are interesting, he writes well enough, and the plots are reasonably entertaining. Like the Destiny's Crucible series, A Tangled Road to Justice reads like a 20th century man's fantasy and they are rife with gender stereotypes from that time. But I only winced when I came across them and wasn't offended enough to stop listening. The narrator did a good job, but I was puzzled about the accents. It didn't make sense to me that people who grew up far away from earth would retain accents typical of their earthly nationality--a local accent would be dominant, i think. But overall, a fun read!
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- Mr Cheshire
- 10-10-24
Not bad just not that good
i from start of this wanted to like this book.
And as it set up the character development, I really wanted to
Feel like I was interested, but this book is it's just mediocre. the plot of the book is really uninspired and not original at all.
I got through it but if you're looking for excitement originality this is not that book.
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- Darryl Davidson
- 02-08-25
Fun revamp of classic western storytelling.
This was a fun revamp of classic western storytelling and it knows it! It's interesting that the story pokes fun at itself for being campy, and in doing so makes it not campy. The narration was good, well paced, and expressive. I'm looking forward to the next book.
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- WLC
- 05-02-24
The Magnificent Two on Exoplanet Astrild
This is a 2024 rewrite/new production of Olan Thorensen’s Sci-Fi western initially written/produced in 2019. It is a worthwhile improvement. The characters and situation descriptions are fleshed out more fully, and there is more witty/sarcastic ongoing commentary by Everett Cole and Edgar Millen. If you are well-versed in your movie/TV westerns from 1950’s onward (e.g., The Magnificent Seven, Sergio Leone’s Westerns, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tombstone, Have Gun Will Travel, and Appaloosa) the scenes (and sound track) will be familiar. Just add faster than light travel, lasers, surveillance drones, hovercraft with 30mm chain guns, body armor, 3-D printer manufactories, and weird Permian-like megaflora. Regretfully, you also have to subtract Dana Delany, Renée Zellweger, and Katherine Ross. Our dynamic duo are professionals, and they don’t fraternize with the fair damsels except when on R and R or in the hospital.
This was a fun story, and the narrator does a great job with the various characters. It will be interesting to see if the follow-on stories maintain the quality and retain the outstanding narrator.
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- Anne Vaughan
- 06-26-24
Very Enjoyable Listen
I neglected to give this series a listen for far too long. I was unimpressed with the description, but gave it a try because of my fondness for the author’s “Destiny’s Crucible” series and was pleasantly surprised. Give it a shot and the characters will grow on you, while the world-building is delightful.
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- Pike214
- 08-13-24
a space western.
A space western taken from the pages of many 1950-70's novels. Enjoyable but not a complex story.
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