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Out of the Soylent Planet: A Rex Nihilo Adventure

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Out of the Soylent Planet: A Rex Nihilo Adventure

By: Robert Kroese
Narrated by: J.D. Ledford
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Interstellar con man Rex Nihilo has a price tag on his head. Railroaded into smuggling a shipment of contraband corn to a planet short on food, Rex finds himself on the run from an insidious corporation named Ubiqorp, which reaps obscene profits by keeping the planet dependent on shipments of synthetic rations.

When Rex and his long-suffering robot companion Sasha are sentenced to work as slave labor on a massive Ubiqorp plantation, they learn the terrible secret behind the corporation's products. To escape, Rex and Sasha team up with a mis-programmed combat drone and an intelligent mutant plant to lead a rebellion against their merciless corporate overlords.

Out of the Soylent Planet is a novel-length prequel to Starship Grifters, the book New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey called "one of my favorite space romps of all time".

©2017 Robert Kroese (P)2018 Robert Kroese Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Science Fiction Space Opera Comedy Interstellar Solar System Funny Witty
Hilarious Misadventures • Clever Reconnecting Story • Brilliant Narration • Zany Entertaining Adventures • Wacky Fun Story
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one of the best in the series. narrator takes a bit to get used to but she is good

great book

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but the story was so good as is always the case with Rex nihilo Adventures.

the reader made this almost unbearable,

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Out of the Soylent Planet: A Rex Nihilo Adventure
Starship Grifters, Book 0
By: Robert Kroese
Narrated by: J.D. Ledford

I have the book and the audio version! The audio is so good thanks to the wonderful and talented performance of this narrator! She can do any voice or sound effect! Amazing! She makes an already hilarious book even funnier with her timing and voice inflections.

The book tells how Rex and Sasha, an android/robot, get together. There first adventures which land them in plenty of trouble which Sasha should get use to if she is going to stay with the crazy nut! Rex has nothing but dangerous and hair brain schemes to get money and he doesn't seem to care if he runs afoul the mob, the law, crooked agents, or other con men.

In this adventure they end up making friends with a crippled military robot and a sentient plant. They are almost executed a couple of times. Slaves for a while. Sasha losses an eye for a while and so much more fun! This was hilarious as the others I have read have been. I am glad to know how the two got together.
Now, on to the next book!

Terrific narration and hilarious story!

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A prequel to the first two books of the "Space Grifters" series,  "Out of the Soylent Plant" explores the first tangled and out of control encounter of the humorously unlucky robot Sasha and the incredibly reckless hairbrained schemes of Rex Nihilo. The story mostly centers around a plan to get off a planet ruled by an evil company that forces it's citizens to eat horrible food, but there is also a shorter two hour story at the end of the main audiobook that recounts a tale of a simple smuggling run going sideways by Rex making it more complicated than it needed to be. Both are great stories written with a lot of thought and self aware humor.

Simply put, this audiobook is a roaring good time that will have you laughing like a lunatic for hours. The narrator here, J.D. Ledford, just makes the audio experience absolutely perfect here. Her range for all the wacky characters is spot on and she hits every comedic cue in the writing. If she keeps this level of quality up in her narration for all her future audiobooks, she could easily be one of the most sought after on audible in the next few years.

This book is highly recommended to listeners who just want to laugh. There is no required reading from the first two books in order to enjoy it and no need to take in a bunch of new science fiction concepts here. It's straight self aware comedic gold, designed for people who just want to enjoy a ridiculous setting with ridiculous characters.

A perfect recipe for intense laughter.

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The narrator can do decent voices but the bulk of it is done in a slow 1950's robot voice which is annoying.
the story is juvenile and not very funny.

Not good

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The story was good, but it feels like this novel didn't have as good an editor and the choice actress doesn't give the characters as much personality as book 1 did.

change of narrator was kind of a step down

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This is my first exposure to both Kroese’s writing and Ledford’s performance, and my biggest regret is that I didn’t pick up the Rex Nihilo series sooner. I’ve been listening during the work day, and SASHA’s narration of Rex’s misadventures had me in stitches all week. Kroese’s sense of punny humor reminds me of Piers Anthony, and the narration by Ledford was brilliantly delivered.

Most I’ve laughed in a long time

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An origin story, how Sasha, the robot with acting pretensions meets Rex Nihilo, the goofy interstellar conman. Wacky fun, terrific story, hilarious characters. Enjoyed it a lot, and J. D. Ledford is outstanding as she tells the tale from Sasha’s POV. Hope the series has a long life.

Best of the Sasha-Rex books

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Any time I hear the name "Stella" from now on, I will think of Sasha's acting.

Stella!

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If you are considering a Robert Kroese book, you are already moving in the right direction. They are hilarious and smart on many levels. For me, what makes these books even more amazing is the narrator, who magnifies the satire, silliness, and absurdity of the characters, the situations, and the story. If there were a nobel prize for narrating silly audio books, I would nominate J.D. Ledford without hesitation. She does what every great narrator does- take the book to a different level.

the Narrator is amazing

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