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  • SADEs

  • The Silver Ships
  • By: S. H. Jucha
  • Narrated by: Susanna Burney
  • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (412 ratings)

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SADEs

By: S. H. Jucha
Narrated by: Susanna Burney
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Dangerous forces are at work across galactic space that the Omnians are attempting to stabilize, but their resources are severely strained.

The SADEs, self-aware digital entities, express to Alex Racine and Renée de Guirnon their desire to know the method of their creation. Alex and Renée, the Omnian co-leaders, want to obtain the knowledge for the SADEs, who are humans’ closest allies.

Alex, Renée, and Julien, a friend and a SADE, board the giant city-ship, Freedom, which sails for Méridien, the home world of the far-reaching human colonies of the Confederation. They have a long overdue appointment with House Brixton, the Méridien group responsible for creating the SADEs. However, Shannon Brixton, the House Leader, is expected to zealously guard the secrets of the SADEs’ origination.

While at Méridien, Alex receives an urgent message requesting help in alliance space, where a small group of Omnians and Earthers battle the Colony, a race of insectoids, which is subsuming planets.

To complicate matters, a rogue battleship fleet left the federacy, bypassed the human colonies, and is searching among the alliance worlds for a habitable planet. If an unoccupied world isn’t found, they’re prepared to evict the inhabitants by force.

In the wake of Alex’s exit from Omnia for alliance space, Hector is left in charge of the Omnians’ second fleet. The SADE temporarily carries the mantle of protector of human colonies and allied worlds.

For the Omnians, life and its challenges couldn’t be more precarious, or could they?

©2020 S. H. Jucha (P)2020 S. H. Jucha
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New Narrator

As our view of the story changes focus, so also we can accept that change is and always will be with us. I've listened to this series many times and only now on my second listen of SADEs. Yes! I'm disappointed in some of the differences in pronunciations of character names. But I evaluated my disappointment and have decided that "Voice" is something provided by the human mind, I can't provide it to Susanna and could not have provided it to Grover. So I moved on. Listened to the story and enjoyed it.
It is so difficult to find positive multicultural fiction that I must honor Scott Jucha for his contributions.
One other small note, within the narration by Susanna my mind formed a vision of some of Orson Scott Card's voices.
Thank You Susanna and thank you Scott.

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Bring Back G.G.

I have read the entire Silver Ship collection. I have enjoyed them all, until you changed narrators. Grover Gardner is the only narrator that brings the saga to life. This wasn't broken. Why did you replace your best natator? This is the second Silver Ship book I have returned! Please bring back G.G., please.

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Still not sick of this series but...

I’ve been following the Silver Ships series and the Empaths since the start. The seamless blending of the two worked out very well. I’m still enjoying each book this one included, but I feel like it’s starting to meander too much. I have some minor spoilers below this, so only read this if you’ve read everything but this book so far.
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The Colony and how to deal with it seems to be something dull or ill-considered. I don’t really like how they’ve been addressed, and none of the old inventive elbow-grease we’ve seen utilized with other hostile species has been used to interact with them. I expect either a genocide or a genesis, and nothing in between. This makes me sad because conflict resolution and diplomacy is such a huge theme of the series.

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Narration terrible

liked story but narrator is terrible going to stop listening to series cannot stand narration since Gardner's stop narrating

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Read with little acting depth

There is little drama, suspense, or even emotions in this narration. That is a shame. I find myself wondering if it was not created by a machine, which given the storyline would make total sense.

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OMG Bring back Grover Gardner

Having bee completely immersed in the first 14 of the books read by Grove Gardner I was not prepared for the abysmal narration by Susanna Burney. The next in the series "Earthers" is even worse read by Nicole Poole. I see almost all others share my view. I have to finish the series I guess but these last few books need to be re-narrated ASAP.

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Narration is bland

I love the series but am greatly disappointed in this reader. I say this because all I got was reading. The narrator did not do any pre listening and fell very flat because of this. I did still enjoy the story. The author should be very disappointed in the narrative as as performed.

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The narrator makes ALL the difference...

Ok, to start - not the best book of the series. The narration leaves a lot to be desired. The current narrator may have experience with other books (children's, romance...who knows), but seems ill equipped to handle this book series. Grover Gardner, the previous 14 books narrator, gave these stories such richness and depth. Something sorely lacking in the current book. PLEASE BRING HIM BACK! As to the book itself,it seems to be a filler or bridge book to the next major release. It did not even live up to the title "SADEs", as it did not involve or elaborate on them any more than previous books. I hope the next release will be an improvement on both areas.

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Excellent well written Story

Many reviewers have not liked the Narrator of this book. I agree, the change did bother me in the beginning. Luckily for me I read the reviews of this novel and chose to Listen to the 4 books in the prequel. I guess you would call it a prequel. So the changes in voices, style and cadence didn't bother me as much. What did bother me is the change in pronunciation of very key, words and names. To me that is unacceptable. It doesn't take very much time for the producers find out the correct pronunciation. Unless they did check with the author, and Mr. Gardner has pronounced the words and names wrong. If that is the case I say to late. Its been said wrong (our correct way) for more then 10 Novels. Don't change what we have already loved.

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To bad...

A good book but they have changed the person reading the book. Why... it has been the same for the others and he was very good. That makes it hardly worth the money to buy it.

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