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  • Publisher's Pack, Books 1-2
  • By: Richard Fox
  • Narrated by: Luke Daniels
  • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (669 ratings)
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The Ember War

By: Richard Fox
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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Summary

The Ember War, book 1: The Earth is doomed. Humanity has a chance.

In the near future, an alien probe arrives on Earth with a pivotal mission: to determine if humanity has what it takes to survive the impending invasion by a merciless armada. The probe discovers Marc Ibarra, a young inventor who holds the key to a daring gambit that could save a fraction of Earth's population. Humanity's only chance lies with Ibarra's ability to keep a terrible secret and engineer the planet down the narrow path to survival. Earth will need a fleet. One with a hidden purpose. One strong enough to fight a battle against annihilation.

The Ember War is the first installment in an epic military sci-fi series. If you enjoyed A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo and The Last Starship by Vaughn Heppner, then you'll love this explosive adventure with constant thrills and high stakes from beginning to end.

The Ruins of Anthalas, book 2: An ancient holocaust holds the key to humanity's survival.

Only a sliver of mankind survived the Xaros invasion. With Earth's defenses in ashes, nothing can stop the aliens' inevitable return. Hope arrives through a cryptic message from a long-lost alien race, promising the means to rebuild the shattered space fleet. Captain Valdar takes one of the last strike carriers, the Breitenfeld, and his shell-shocked crew on a desperate mission to the dead world. Unfortunately humans aren't the only power that received the ancient message....

The Ruins of Anthalas is the second book in The Ember War Saga, a military sci-fi space opera. If you like David Weber and John Ringo with a touch of Isaac Asimov, then you'll love this fast-paced and captivating adventure where humanity survives at the edge of a knife.

©2015 Richard Fox (P)2016 Podium Publishing

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Very good space saga let down not by the narration but by the narrators accents.

Great book but terrible accents from the narrator. Being Scottish I was a little upset but the Scandinavian was like Indian!

Really had to stick at listening for the first 3 chapters

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Very enjoyable fast-paced space story.

I enjoyed these two fast-paced works of art immensely. Lovable characters, with nail biting twists and turns that had me on the edge of my seat till the very end. Looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

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Difficult to Follow at Times

I generally enjoyed this book, however I often felt lost in what was going on. I think the main reasons for this is that the book often fails to convey the scope of what is happening and I felt little attachment to the characters.

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Good listening material

I likes the story and and individual characters. The armour is funny and well voice acted. What I don't like is the over use of 'said'. Would be better if the author used something different.

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A good space Opera

A good old yarn. Bits of lots of sci fi stories from battlestar galactica to stargate and star trek. Some interesting twists along the way and well performed throughout. Now I've got to listen to the next five in the series, oh well there goes £100!

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Borderline racist

The books are good. With some interesting concepts.

I felt the jump from chapter 1-2 missed out on an interesting build up to the later events. I actually thought the publisher had forgotten to put in about 20 chapters and even looked on line to make sure I hadn't missed a book.

The performance of Doogal is borderline racist. It's the worst over acted and stereotypical depiction of a Scottish character I have come across. It's truly appalling. I found myself getting angry at the performer. This book should be re-recoded without the pitiful attempts at accents.

I am talking from the point of view of having Scottish family and friends.

Audible please remove this book until this is done as it is offensive.

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Giving Up After 6 Hours

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator is either not very good or the style doesn't fit this book, or more likely both. I would describe the style as 'comic book' with some of the characters sounding like Michelangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.

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The audio preview is misleading because the book quickly jumps 60 years later. The story is pretty boring and builds up no character relationships of note. I didn't find myself caring about anyone in this story, nor about the story itself. The enemy is some soulless destructive force seemingly out to destroy everything 'just because'.

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Good Military SiFi

Listened to thid 3 years ago on Youtube. Enjoyed it, almost if Pournelle quality. Worth buying as a long time keep and re-listen.

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fairly enjoyable

not a bad deal with 2 books in one. it was ok fairly decent story but a bit hard to follow at times
some of the characters were a bit annoying and this was made worse by the accents. the narration was generally good but for that. other characters i just didnt get behind at all and found it was easy to zone out from the story.
will give book 3 a go and hope it picks up from there

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Brilliant Series!

Cannot recommend this series more highly. Every book has a great story and the pacing is excellent throughout. It also has the best narration I've heard on Audible.

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