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Humanity has spread to the stars...
For the first time in thousands of years, we have also discovered the Other. The alien. A being so unimaginably complex that it makes us all look like children.
The PCS Blue Cherry Blossom, a long range interstellar freighter, is tasked with the ultimate voyage. What lies at the heart of the galaxy? Who and what is out there? Is it even possible to survive?
Against a backdrop of relentless political and corporate maneuvering, a new crew sets out, prepared to risk their lives and their deaths to set forth into the void and look for answers. To go where no human has ever gone before.
And thus begins a new space odyssey.
Set in the world of the Salvage Crew by award winning writer Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Pilgrim Machines is perfect for fans of We Are Legion, Battlestar Galactica, Murderbot, Blindsight and Star Maker.
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A junior intelligence officer in the Martian Combined Fleet, Radrick Siegn supplements his meager pay by smuggling contraband from Saturn to Mars. Someday, he’ll buy his own ship and escape the Fleet forever. But his captain has other plans for him. A tanker pilot has been murdered on Saturn Station. It’s up to Siegn to salvage the honor of the Fleet by finding the killer … before they kill again. The investigation plunges Siegn into the seedy underworld of Saturn Station, where he learns this was no ordinary killing.
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Always a treat
- By Adam Riley on 11-28-24
By: Felix R. Savage
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- Carnival Series, Book 1
- By: C.J. Milnes
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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John was a pretty easy going kind of a guy. Work from home desk job. Single dad to a precocious but overall tolerable daughter. Doing ok for himself in most ways by the standards of the old world. Then the System arrived. The everyday world he's known for decades has changed so he must change as well. He will need friends and allies to help keep himself and his daughter safe. He has to find ways to synergise his teleportation power with the abilities of the rest of his team as they fight off waves of monsters.
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It's a good character developments, but the plot is a bit
- By Cory on 09-23-24
By: C.J. Milnes
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The Runes of Engagement
- By: Tobias Buckell, David Klecha
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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No one could have been prepared for the day when orcs, trolls, and dragons fell from portals in the sky. Now, a very tough but not-quite-prepared platoon of Marines is trapped on the wrong side. The enchanting world looks like Middle Earth, but to the dismay of even the geekiest soldiers, is nothing like it. While the Marines fend off dangerous, improbable, and very rude assailants, their mission is to escort a Very Important Princess who could broker a crucial strategic alliance between worlds. What could possibly go wrong?
By: Tobias Buckell, and others
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Ex Supra
- By: Tony Stark
- Narrated by: Tony Stark
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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In 2035, an AI-driven disinformation campaign turned us on ourselves. We became the enemy's first strike weapons, and as we set fire to our own country, the People's Liberation Army seized half of the Pacific. From the first combat jump on Mars to the climate change-ravaged jungles of Southeast Asia, Ex Supra blends the bleeding edge of technology and the bloody reality of combat. In Ex Supra, the super soldiers are only as strong as their own wills, reality is malleable, and hope only arrives with hellfire.
By: Tony Stark
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Dark Invasion
- The Travelers, Book 1
- By: Nathan Hystad
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Elliot has just finished his third year of college as a finance major. After some tragic family news, he isn’t sure what the future holds. Working part time at the video rental store, Elliot is dumped and offered a promotion, all on the eve of the island’s biggest celebratory day: The Fourth of July. With the help of his best friend, Bones, the new waitress from the local diner, and a mysterious soldier, Elliot must uncover the secrets that surround Bell Island before it’s too late.
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A wonderful tale of a hideous 4th of July alien invasion on a small island!
- By Dr. Geoff on 03-04-23
By: Nathan Hystad
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The Salvage Crew
- By: Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
- Narrated by: Nathan Fillion
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer is unhappy. The crew, well, they're certainly no A-team. Not even a C-team on the best of days. And worse? Urmahon Beta, the planet, is at the ass-end of nowhere. Everybody expects this to be a long, ugly, and thankless job. Then it all goes disastrously wrong. What they thought was an uninhabited backwater turns out to be anything but empty.
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Rats, I got sucked in and wasted a credit
- By unknown on 01-31-21
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The Ghost of Saturn
- Honor of the Fleet, Book 1
- By: Felix R. Savage
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 15 hrs
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A junior intelligence officer in the Martian Combined Fleet, Radrick Siegn supplements his meager pay by smuggling contraband from Saturn to Mars. Someday, he’ll buy his own ship and escape the Fleet forever. But his captain has other plans for him. A tanker pilot has been murdered on Saturn Station. It’s up to Siegn to salvage the honor of the Fleet by finding the killer … before they kill again. The investigation plunges Siegn into the seedy underworld of Saturn Station, where he learns this was no ordinary killing.
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Always a treat
- By Adam Riley on 11-28-24
By: Felix R. Savage
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- Carnival Series, Book 1
- By: C.J. Milnes
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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John was a pretty easy going kind of a guy. Work from home desk job. Single dad to a precocious but overall tolerable daughter. Doing ok for himself in most ways by the standards of the old world. Then the System arrived. The everyday world he's known for decades has changed so he must change as well. He will need friends and allies to help keep himself and his daughter safe. He has to find ways to synergise his teleportation power with the abilities of the rest of his team as they fight off waves of monsters.
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It's a good character developments, but the plot is a bit
- By Cory on 09-23-24
By: C.J. Milnes
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The Runes of Engagement
- By: Tobias Buckell, David Klecha
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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No one could have been prepared for the day when orcs, trolls, and dragons fell from portals in the sky. Now, a very tough but not-quite-prepared platoon of Marines is trapped on the wrong side. The enchanting world looks like Middle Earth, but to the dismay of even the geekiest soldiers, is nothing like it. While the Marines fend off dangerous, improbable, and very rude assailants, their mission is to escort a Very Important Princess who could broker a crucial strategic alliance between worlds. What could possibly go wrong?
By: Tobias Buckell, and others
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Ex Supra
- By: Tony Stark
- Narrated by: Tony Stark
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2035, an AI-driven disinformation campaign turned us on ourselves. We became the enemy's first strike weapons, and as we set fire to our own country, the People's Liberation Army seized half of the Pacific. From the first combat jump on Mars to the climate change-ravaged jungles of Southeast Asia, Ex Supra blends the bleeding edge of technology and the bloody reality of combat. In Ex Supra, the super soldiers are only as strong as their own wills, reality is malleable, and hope only arrives with hellfire.
By: Tony Stark
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Dark Invasion
- The Travelers, Book 1
- By: Nathan Hystad
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Elliot has just finished his third year of college as a finance major. After some tragic family news, he isn’t sure what the future holds. Working part time at the video rental store, Elliot is dumped and offered a promotion, all on the eve of the island’s biggest celebratory day: The Fourth of July. With the help of his best friend, Bones, the new waitress from the local diner, and a mysterious soldier, Elliot must uncover the secrets that surround Bell Island before it’s too late.
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A wonderful tale of a hideous 4th of July alien invasion on a small island!
- By Dr. Geoff on 03-04-23
By: Nathan Hystad
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Rabbits: Keep Out! A LitRPG Progression Fantasy Series
- The Village, Book 1
- By: Dmitry Dornichev, Alexey Kovtunov, Sofia Gutkin - translator
- Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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People awake in a strange place with no idea of who or where they are. There is only a bizarre message carved into a metal obelisk and the growing awareness that every single living creature in this new world is a deadly threat. Even a seemingly cute and fluffy bunny has a taste for human flesh . . .What are they to do? How will they survive? How do they stay sane?
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Awesome
- By CC on 09-19-24
By: Dmitry Dornichev, and others
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Freedom's Fire Box Set, Books 1-6
- The Complete Military Space Opera Series
- By: Bobby Adair
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 38 hrs and 3 mins
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The best-selling, epic space adventure, Freedom's Fire: the complete series of six audiobooks, in one bundle.
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Not Recommend.
- By William on 09-30-19
By: Bobby Adair
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Invisible War
- Undying Legion, Book 1
- By: Joe Kassabian
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Their minds stolen. Uploaded into war-machines. They fight a secret war to preserve humanity. What if there was a war raging for one million years, but it was kept secret? It's a question Sargis never considered, born as an upper middle class man living in Prime City during a so-called "Millenia of Peace." As far as he, or anyone else knows, humanity has no army, no weapons, and no wars.
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Another Banger From Joe
- By zoia krioukova on 09-30-24
By: Joe Kassabian
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Gods of Blood and Bone: A Sci-Fi Death Game LitRPG
- Seeds of Chaos, Book 1
- By: Azalea Ellis
- Narrated by: Natalie Duke
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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Eve is a survivor. Kidnapped and genetically enhanced, she wakes in an alley with the ability to level up. As a Player, her life now belongs to the Game. Deadly Trials offer fantastic and powerful prizes, but as she fights against both alien monsters and other Players, Eve knows she would do anything to escape the Game. She may have to risk more than just her life to gain the power to control her own destiny...
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Only Read If You Are a 13 Year Old Girl
- By Derek Heard on 11-08-18
By: Azalea Ellis
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Hard Way
- Calanar, Book One
- By: R. L. King
- Narrated by: R. L. King
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Kira Talon has a secret. Raised since childhood among the nonmagical “Dim” when her expected magical birthright didn’t materialize, she barely remembers her early time in the opulent floating city high above the war-torn sprawl below. Years later, she’s made a life for herself among the nonmagical, discovering an affinity with machines, making good friends, and venturing carefully into the dangerous, clandestine resistance against the magical overlords.
By: R. L. King
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Atlantis Rising
- By: David Lingard
- Narrated by: Craig W Van Sickle
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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As captain of the Iron Will, men and women alike feared me. I had the total respect of my crew of free men who had promised their lives to me and my ship in return for freedom, and the hope of riches beyond our wildest imaginations. But all good things must come to an end. Drawn to madness by some mysterious artefact, my crew turned against me, casting me aside to meet my doom with nothing but a pistol and a single shot, with which I was supposed to put an end to my miserable life. But somebody had something else in mind for me.
By: David Lingard
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Genoskwa
- A Story of Vengeance
- By: Heath Stallcup
- Narrated by: Maxwell Zener
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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While tracking a potential terrorist cell, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force sends a field team to investigate. Traveling deep into the Catskill Mountains, the Albany field office discovers something far more terrifying than a terrorist training camp. With more questions than answers, the JTTF team gathers their evidence and prepares to leave the forest when all Hell breaks loose. What started as a routine investigation quickly turns into a fight for survival against a foe that knows every inch of the terrain they are fighting on.
By: Heath Stallcup
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Federation Marine: Recruit
- Federation Marine, Book 1
- By: J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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What would you do to change your life? How far would you go? How hard would you fight? Rather than work his bones into dust toiling away on a barren world, Ryck Lysander chooses to enlist in the Federation Marine Corps. But as he quickly finds out, this path isn't just a job...it's a calling...and not everyone is suited to wear the uniform.
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Like an old engine in winter, took a bit to warmup
- By RJSTORLIE on 10-14-23
By: J.N. Chaney, and others
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Battleborn
- The Weapon, Book 1
- By: Richard Fox
- Narrated by: Garrett Michael Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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On the battlefields of the future, death is not the end for a soldier. The Revenant Program collects badly wounded soldiers broken by war and converts them into unthinking, unfeeling cyborg weapons. Their bodies are immune to pain, their minds impervious to fear and doubt. All controlled by a neural implant called the Imperative. They are the ideal force for any mission too deadly or too difficult for normal men. A force that answers to the darkest corners of the military.
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A prequel that’s actually good!
- By Leo Vaccaro on 08-11-24
By: Richard Fox
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Master of Puppets
- Master of Puppets, Book 1
- By: Eric Ugland
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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A Secret Service operative and dedicated survivalist, Special Agent Del Roosevelt had a plan for every world-ending scenario and regularly trained for them all. He was even ready for a date with the hottest woman in his office next Friday. At least he hoped so. But all that training, all those rations, all that prepping? Useless for the apocalypse that actually played out. Del wakes up half-buried in a giant trash pile, missing his thumbs. And, um, covered in red fur. He's stuck in a world of fuzzy monsters, senseless violence, and cult-like crusaders.
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swing and a miss
- By A. C. B on 09-29-24
By: Eric Ugland
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Lt. Reilly - Bundle: 5 Book Series
- By: Matthew O. Duncan
- Narrated by: Dave Cruse, Caroline McLaughlin
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
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Jack Reilly's luck ran out just before the war did. Resigning his commission in the Alliance shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Reilly finds himself working for a clueless captain, mixed up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins, and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call "complicated". And that's just book one. Follow Lt. Jack Reilly and his partner, Major Mitchel, through their adventures.
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Seems geared more toward women
- By S. Stevens on 11-18-22
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The Hunter's Code: Book 1
- By: Yuri Vinokuroff, Oleg Sapphire
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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I was a Hunter, and I honored the Code. For my services to humanity and for leading a "proper" life, I was to be rewarded. A new life after death, and a new world to give me some well-deserved rest. But something went wrong. Once again, I must fight. The Monsters that face me here are far more terrifying than those of my past life. They are cleverer, crueler, more unpredictable. And their name is.
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MC makes me cringe!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-19-24
By: Yuri Vinokuroff, and others
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- Nathaniel
- 11-02-24
Knows what it is
I loved the first book, despite and because of its sudden veer into cosmic philosophy. This one knows what it is from the beginning. While extremely different, anyone that enjoyed this for the same reasons as I should check out the monk and robot series.
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- Jonathan Dereszynski
- 12-01-24
Transcendently Human
“Pilgrim Machines” by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is not just a book; it’s an experience. From the first chapter, I was hooked by the author’s ability to craft an interstellar journey that is both intimate and epic in scope. Set aboard the PCS Blue Cherry Blossom, a freighter tasked with a daring expedition to the edge of the galaxy, the story is steeped in mystery, suspense, and profound philosophical musings.
At its core, “Pilgrim Machines” explores what it means to be human when faced with the unknown—an alien entity of staggering intelligence and sophistication. The narrative poses questions about consciousness, the nature of life, and humanity’s place in the cosmos, all without losing its thrilling sci-fi edge. Wijeratne’s prose is poetic yet grounded, blending complex scientific concepts with vivid, emotionally resonant storytelling.
The audiobook, narrated by Peter Berkrot, takes the experience to another level. Berkrot’s performance is stellar; his voice perfectly conveys the tension, wonder, and emotional depth of the story. Every character feels alive, and the pacing of the narration keeps you engaged from start to finish.
One of the standout aspects of this novel is its balance. It’s intellectual without being inaccessible, emotional without being overwrought, and action-packed without losing its contemplative undertones. Fans of hard science fiction, as well as those who appreciate stories with philosophical depth, will find this a compelling listen.
“Pilgrim Machines” is a testament to Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s talent as a storyteller and world-builder. Whether you’re a long-time sci-fi fan or new to the genre, this book will leave you thinking long after the final chapter. Highly recommended—a solid 5-star experience!
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- PterodactylBait
- 10-03-24
starts out slow
In the end, I really enjoyed this book. However, it starts out slow and I had trouble paying attention for the first half of the book.
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- Mr.Bill
- 10-17-24
Excellent performance by Peter Berkrot
'Pilgrim Machines' by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is some of the most creative writing I have read since Clive Barker's 'Imajica'. 'Pilgrim Machines' takes the reader on an epic voyage via the thoughts and conversations of humans who have now 'willingly' been repurposed for deep space missions. (Is it possible that these machines just thought they were once human? I'll have to think about that.) The intelligence of the machines and their human traits of desire for adventure, immortality, and as Maslow professed, self-actualization certainly lends more toward the belief that these machines were, indeed, once living, breathing organic beings.
The reality of deep space exploration, even not so deep space, will require some technology far beyond what most could imagine except Asimov and this author, Wijeratne.
This was a delightful read that kept me engaged as I transverse the universe as an unnoticed passenger. I must give credit to the wonderful oral presentation of Peter Berkrot, who expertly captured the mood and emotions of the travelers on their quest. - Mr.Bill
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- hcpookie
- 10-19-24
Slow buildup to... not much (spoilers here!)
As others have said, I felt "part 1" to be incredibly slow and hard to follow. After that, the "adventure" part of the book was not bad. I am not sure how much "AI" usage was here to craft this story vs. the first one. I don't regret listening to the entire story, just the ending. Here are the spoilers and what I dislike...
If the Wizard of Oz ending was a Buddhist fantasy then you get the story. The entire story built up to "where do we go from here and what can we learn", only to find that The Great Wizard is "just another sentient being" who learned to rise above "consumption". Yep, that's pretty much it. Conveniently, the Great One found balance by feasting on the death found at the center of the galaxy. Oh, and he/she/it informed that there is no point to anything... only to learn that all life is suffering, and at the Great Ending of All Things, suffering will end. So, that was quite a disappointment for me and a message I have heard told better in other formats. This info was literally "info dumped" in the last chapter. Kind of felt like a video game ending. I honestly had more curiosity about the "Stranger's" civilization and wanted to know more about that vs. what the last chapter brought to us!
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- Eric Bond
- 12-11-24
Philosophy disguised as fiction
I loved Salvage Crew and was very excited to see a sequel. I kept expecting more action from this book and it really ended up being a collection of the author's musings on life and the universe with bits of science fiction thrown in.
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- Michael
- 11-26-24
Borrrrring
Quite a divergence from the first book. If you are into meaningless philosophy and machines that understand meditation, then this is for you.
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