2nd Gen
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2nd Gen
Narrated by:
Luke Daniels
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About this listen
Humanity's last hope...
With Earth rapidly becoming inhospitable to human life, GS Archean carries a one-way crew of courageous passengers to Uelara, an Earth-like planet in the Cieri star system. Uelara is ideal, except for one minor detail - its distance from Earth. Traveling at sub-light speed, the generation ship won’t reach Uelara within the original crew’s lifetime.
Thirty years into the journey, a new generation born on the Archean trains to fulfill the first generation’s mission. Eager to reach Uelara, the second-gen crew prepares, as planned, to assume their parents’ responsibilities - that is, until...someone goes missing and a devastating secret is discovered, putting the future of the human race in jeopardy. Will the crew rally and carry out the mission - or is humanity doomed?
It’s all up to the 2nd Gen.
"The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard." (Gaylord Nelson)
©2018 Andrea and William Vaughan (P)2019 Andrea and William VaughanListeners also enjoyed...
There is a lot of social psychology in this book the interactions and reactions of the characters for the main focus of the book. People dealing with events that are both devastating and character building. It is a very human adventure that happens to be set in space, it could have been set on an isolated island with little change in story.
For a first book this is really remarkable and sets the scene for more of the same as the ending is ...
The narrator was very good too only occasionally falling over some questionable accents and stereo type, his diction was clear and the voices varied. An easy listen without doubt.
I recommend this to anyone wanting to loose themselves in 9 hours of fantasy and escape the world for a trip to the stars.
Starts slowly then moves into top gear
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Looking back, hints towards young adult were there but it was a very enjoyable story with really great narration.
(Luke Daniels narrated Off to be the wizard too-only people who have heard that will understand that I had to laugh out loud when he did Philips voice)
Excellent but Didn't realise it was young adult...
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Firstly let me mention narration. Luke Daniels is a veteran in the voice community with many many titles under his belt. I knew him from his narration of ’the organised mind’ and titles like ‘off to be a wizard’ by Scott Meyer. His pace, tone and accent are perfect for a title like 2nd Gen and his ability to voice the individual characters makes following the story line even more enjoyable.
There are no spoilers in my review and I gave it 5 stars right after finishing listening. The story has elements of some very popular sci fi works but that is comforting and familiar as the characters and relationships are unfolded in the first 30+ chapters. There are echoes of Enders Game (the book), starship troopers (the book), passengers (the film), silent running (the film), big hero six (the film and a smidge of comic) There is also an unhealthy dose of ’lord of the flies’ which blindsided me. The Science reminded me of ’artemis’ and, although hard science isn’t that important to me the authors ground the problems that the crew encounter in real world science, technology, engineering and math. No transporters here but a healthy dose of where today's technology could go. What would you want your 3D printer to do on a decades long voyage?
The book felt like it was lagging a little in the middle but that seems deliberate as the shocks and surprises just kept coming in the second half. I had some real empathy with some of the characters by then and seeing them deal with the shocks was riveting. Of all the books I’ve read and listened to in recent years this is the one that stands out as being ideal for an episodic show on Netflix or Amazon. The story is a journey in every sense of the word. I want to know how the 2nd Gen grow and develop into adults and where, ultimately they might end up. Excellent story telling! Bravo team Vaughan.
A fresh, modern, sci if mystery.
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The story itself is told form the point of view of multiple characters and I felt this was done incredibly well without breaking the flow of the story and as a means to drive the plot forward. It also found myself becoming invested in characters and how they where impacting the story wandering what consequences their actions would have and how this would reflect from other characters points of views.
The characters themselves are what defined the book for me, the author does a excellent job of making each of them feel like they matter in the story while they all have their own flaws and traits that are portrayed in a believable way.
The plot itself surprised me in a good way, on more than one occasion it subverted my expectations of where the story was going and what was going to happen. It moves along at a decent pace, giving time for necessary development but not feeling like it was trying to drag out plot points.
Luke Daniels is one of my favourite sci-fi narrators and he delivers again in 2nd gen giving each character a real weight to how I see them.
All in all i'm very glad I picked up this book and will definitely be on the look out to see if there is any sequel.
2nd Gen Review
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There were things that I found hard to believe, like the person who goes missing. Why did they do what they did? I found that part confusing especially after we get to know this person in the beginning. I thought it was a selfish act and this in my opinion was not something I expected from them. I know people act in different ways to certain situation and maybe if we didn't know them as much at the beginning I would not have thought about it but because we get to know them (that is why it is slow to begin with) it is hard for me to believe they would do such a thing.
Another character does something else which I did not find hard to believe because he was consistent from page one.
However, I did find it an interesting story and hope there is a book two.
2nd Gen
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