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  • Walk the Plank

  • The Human Division, Episode 2
  • By: John Scalzi
  • Narrated by: William Dufris
  • Length: 39 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (77 ratings)
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Walk the Plank

By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: William Dufris
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Summary

Wildcat colonies are illegal, unauthorized, and secret - so when an injured stranger shows up at the wildcat colony New Seattle, the colony leaders are understandably suspicious of who he is and what he represents. His story of how he’s come to their colony is shocking, surprising, and might have bigger consequences than anyone could have expected.

Walk the Plank is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.

Listen to the complete edition of The Human Division, the fifth full-length book by John Scalzi in the Old Man's War universe.

©2012 John Scalzi (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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    5 out of 5 stars

Great short story

This is a great short story, in a collection of intertwined short stories.

I will look for more title by this author.

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Even Shorter But Just As Sweet

Having listened to "The B Team" By John Scalzi and Narrated by William Dufris i immediately Downloaded/Listened to this episode "Walk The Plank" The second Episode in the Human Division and Written/Narrated by Scalzi/Dufris.



If you have read my review of the previous episode you will know that i thought the narrator (Dufris) was brilliant which really helped the story along. He narrates very passionately (or so it seems). In this volume he does not disappoint.



This story is good, but much like the last one the charm is in the narration more then the actual story. having said i'm starting to feel that the "season long" storyline may be starting to show through. which may build upon the charm of the actual story. Don't get me wrong the each episode does have a good plot and they are well worth listening to.



Much like the title of this review suggest this episode is shorter then the last one but its just as good.



I don't feel i connected as much to the characters in this weeks episode(2) to that of last weeks (1) i did find myself thinking when will last weeks charters be back i hope Wilson is in the next episode....

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Continues to be entertaining

Each episode is its own tale. However they are interconnected - even if it does not really seem so at first in some cases. It's one Universe and one big story - and these are lots of little ones within. Personally I've enjoyed the writing and the reading - I'm now on episode 9 and enjoying it as much as the first. If you like sci-fi you won't be disappointed.

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    4 out of 5 stars

It keeps being interesting...

I continue to be sceptical about the story, but the change of story format keeps it interesting. It certainly has something.

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    2 out of 5 stars

What the?

That wasn’t a story. Just a transcript with annoying names at the start of every characters’ dialogue. Then a non-ending. Terrible. Two star rating is more than one just because it’s in the series, which I like.

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