
Spheres of Influence
Stellar Heritage, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Mark Boyett
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By:
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Bob Mauldin
After the events at Camp David, the Terran Alliance faces a crossroads - act upon this tragedy and start a war, or refrain and change the course of history.
The choice is not easy. The incident leaves a young captain, Lucy Grimes, in full control of the Alliance, thrust against her will into leadership of the most powerful organization known to man.
As the Terran Alliance grows in size and strength, there are those both on Earth and off who see this as a direct threat. While the Alliance endeavors to defend its home world from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, they soon find that this fledgling organization isn’t going down without a fight.
An alien civilization known as the Korvil has captured two humans and are torturing them to learn more about this new enemy. Things suddenly shift when the Shiravi - dubbed the Builders - mount a daring attack on a Korvil ship that results in their rescue. The events this sets into motion will change the frontier of the galaxy for generations to come....
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Over all story I love. I’ve become a nerd on first contact/ military scfi. Ending of last book had my stomach in knots and skipped breakfast that morning was that good. We shall see how the story progresses, and hope to see more of Simon.
Idk man
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Going to get the next one..
spheres
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Simon is not dead!
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The series in general so far, though this book was a bit better about it, comes off as suuuuuper preachy about a number of things, only to have the plot throat punch any and all of their preaching. Gender equality? The characters never shut up about it and make it somewhat of a point to have a damn near matriarchal top leadership group.. until literally anything bad happens at which point they all go either have breakdowns or make terrible decisions and get people killed.. then have a breakdown or have to recover from injuries. The military, government secrecy, government control over its citizens? All of that is *terrible* and of course all of that is *evil* and can't possibly be trusted.. hey let's build a new nation that is basically nothing but a military, but ignore evil military policies and training practices so that a bunch of people die before we start implementing those evil military policies and practices. Oh, and weapons, anything that could possibly make weapons, propulsion, shields, AM power, communications tech, basically everything but food replicators, solar panels, ecoscrubbers, and plastics are to be kept secret *obviously*. "Open to everyone worldwide of any nation, creed, race, religion, blah blah"... so long as you speak English.. and you're basically handed officer rank if you know anyone in the Denver area.
It just seems weird at times. IDK.
The tech, consistency, and reality is.. not quite right either. For FTL, a ship accelerates up to c, then gooses the power a bit to get into FTL, then seems to lose all inertia when they cut the engines. Oh, and the whole acceleration up to "a hair under" c isn't effected by relativity for.. reasons?
The weirdest thing about the tech side if things though is that the internet seems to not exist and any and all computers (alien and ~2015ish humanity alike) seem to only be able to perform limited, specific functions as needed. Did you ever read any of Asimov's late work from the 80's? Where he switched from atomic everything strapped to fancy 50's space planes to having his characters shocked at how the new fangled ship computer could do all of the jump math without the pilot having to pull out one single slide rule? It's like that. In 2015. Written (presumably) after 2010. They have.. and talk about suspiciously often.. mountains of paper, printed manuals, magazines, etc. and "don't think humans will ever be able to get away from having stacks of files everywhere". They run a *physical mail service* between the belt and earth, and orbit and the surface. **The hyper advanced interstellar aliens whose ships have organic computers seem to use paper for all data/communication/correspondence to the point that the leader's correspondence is identifiable by the fancy blue ink she prefers.** Seriously. No one has heard of the internet, wireless data, encryption, or, hell, even cell phones really given the number of times references are made to leaving messages with spouses, secretaries, offices, whatever.
Seriously. College-aged sci-fi nerds in ~2015 are running their new fleet of interstellar warships with pens, stationary, and (probably) slide rules. It's just.. really, really weird.
But yeah. the issues aren't *huge*, just numerous and persistent. It should be bearable for most.
More of the same
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Let the Drums of war begin to beat
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An enjoyable continuation
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This looks to be a good multi-book space opera...
Come on Audible -- I am waiting on the next two books...
Loved both books
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Fantastic book. cant wait for the next one
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A great follow up book
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more please
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