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  • Expeditionary Force, Book 8
  • By: Craig Alanson
  • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
  • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,763 ratings)
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Armageddon

By: Craig Alanson
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Summary

After the Renegade mission by the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years, at least.

After there was trouble on the home front and the president had to authorize a nuclear strike on an American city, UNEF decided they did need the Merry Band of Pirates again. 

So, the Flying Dutchman is sent out on a simple recon mission. But for the pirates, nothing is ever simple, and their mission will become Armageddon.

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A long wait for deja vu!!!!!!!!!

Thank god its nothing like homefront!!!!

I love this series, when it started it was not anything like what i had heard before i found it fresh and invigorating a new spin on sifi. Now we are at book 8 with numerous spin offs and everything seems the same nothing new ever happens its the same plot, we never get any solid answers only more questions. The author has said i the past that this was going to be a 12 book series i really hope that has changed because trying so answer all the questions raised so far would feel very rushed if it only spanned 4 books!

Joe's insistence on making sure he is blamed for the cause off all the problems that have befallen humanity is beyond ridiculous, it goes way past him being a young naive officer who feels lost.

Newtons third law is 'for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'

For this book series there is a similar law 'For every positive action in one book there is multiple bad reactions in the next book' Its getting tiresome never learning any answers.

For me the next book needs to be entirely answering questions it wouldn't bother me if they didn't see any combat and the whole book was a fact finding mission.

CA needs to tread very carefully the series has the potential to be one of the best written (in terms of entertainment not English) if he keeps leading his audience down rabbit holes with no answers he may lose they big fan base he has amassed


I DID ENJOY THE BOOK from the view point of it being on its own but if you look at it from the series prospective it didn't answer any questions for me.

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Stepping it up!

These books are coming out at a lightning pace and once again this pits Joe and Skippy into another set of zany, crazy against the odds adventures. There is plenty of everything that has made this series so very, very enjoyable including of course the one-man human theater troupe we know as RC Bray.

For most of the book it really is more of the same, and for those of us that enjoy it so much this is no bad thing. However, in among all the usual impossible scenarios, crazy sif-fi and of course the banter between the characters there is a real feeling of progression here too. The possibility of Joe developing a real love interest and further hints at the cosmic back story are intertwined in the books fast-paced story. But it's the ending that delivers something of a punch, things genuinely get a bit serious in ways that this series hasn't done before. No spoilers but things do get a bit more real for our favourite Pirates.

If that sounds heavy don't let it put you off at all, this is still one of the most laugh out loud and fast-paced sci-fi series you are going to find anywhere on Audible!

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Not The Best In The Series

Once more, the writing of Craig Alanson and the narration of R.C bray come together to make for another great story in the Expeditionary Force series of books, of which, this is the eighth. Actually, Armageddon, is more like two stories. The book is more or less divided into two acts, the first deals with the finding and exploration of a "Beta" site - a last ditch refuge for humanity should the worst happen and Earth gets blasted. This sub plot has future potential as there is mystery about the worm hole that lead to this world and Skippy's ability to unlock it. I'm sure this is an element that will be expanded in future stories, so I do look forward to that.

The second act, which is the real "meat and potatoes" of the story, sees our merry band of pirates having to do what us monkeys do best, come up with radical solutions to seemingly impossible problems and finding that problem to resolution isn't a straight line process.

However, Armageddon isn't perfect. For me, the pacing of the first part of the two-phase story was a bit too slow. I think Alanson could have compressed this part and perhaps shortened the book by a couple of hours or so. The problem with great writers like Alanson is that anything below his best is keenly felt, even though that level is quite a bit above the average out there. I would hate to think that Alanson, now turned full time writer, has to perhaps fulfil some contractual requirement to produce books of a minimum length or page count. I would imagine many writers have had their natural creative direction somewhat controlled by the publisher in order to meet deadlines or quotas. I hope this isn't the case here.

Either way, speculation aside, in overall terms I enjoyed Armageddon. Perhaps my biggest minor niggle is the padding that comes from the jibe laden interaction between Bishop and Skippy. It was entertaining to have this banter for the first few books as a way to establish the dynamic between these two pivotal characters. However, it does start to wear a little thin and feels more, in this book, like padding. If not padding, then it serves, for the most part, to slow things down a little as the focus shifts to witty put downs and dialogue rather than more narrative driven. Sure, by all means, let's keep the humerus back and forth between Bishop and Skippy, but halve the instances of this and the plot - certainly in act one of this story - can move along better, I think.

Still, Armageddon is another great listen and once the real action starts, Alanson comes good and thrills us with his lively prose.

Although this story isn't perhaps the best in the series, Alanson has pulled another rabbit from his hat in terms of the ingenious problem solving abilities on display. It really can't be easy at all to write this sort of material and yet Alanson does so with aplomb.

Not the best in the series, but well worth a read and a worthy addition nonetheless.

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Boring

As ever MR Bray's performance is on point.
Mr Alanson's story however just feels like a rinse and repeat of previous books in the series.
I'm getting seriously bored with a series I previously loved.

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Story keeps getting better

The books starts the same for a while but ends very very differently. Alanson is starting to ramp up the storyline!

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a welcome change of tempo for the series

great addition.
I was getting tired of the old formula.
new toys make for happy monkeys.
author channeled r r Martin this time which came as a shock.

9/10 bananas

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Freaking awesome - 7.5 never happened!!!

Just listened to two very good books before this, so thought this book might be a bit flat...nope, Craig & RC have only gone and smashed another awesome audiobook out. Really hard to think if there's a better series of books out there.

For anyone who hasn't started this series, i would say go and start it and you can join the "spacesuit" club.

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Too good, toooo good

I waited ages for this book and finished it within 1 1/2 days. Next please. Highly entertaining and highly recommended. RC Bray is just superb. I can’t understand how he manages some of the intense parts with multiple people and the emotional content. Hurry up with the next one - no pressure 🙃

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Trust the Awesomeness

No, really, TTA.
Ok, if you haven't started this series, just please, go back and start with book one, Columbus Day, if you don't you're going be a little lost and won't appreciate the full awesomeness of this story.

RC Bray is one of those narrators who is so good, he can take something truly epic and bring it to life. Just give it a go, you have nothing to lose. Craig, as always, thankyou for giving us this outstanding series and for trusting Bob with reading it.

I have listened to the first 6 books 3 times now (to refresh myself as each new book comes out)and will probably go through the entire series once a year for the rest of my life.

Another reason to get into this series, as Craig is self published through amazon, he doesn't have all that pesky hoop jumping that authors going the traditional route (having one book published every year or so) have, so his books are only a few months apart. Book 9 is coming out in the next month or so as an eBook and hopefully on audio within a couple of months depending Bob's commitments.

I'm not talking about the story itself, because that would mean spoilers. It's well written, excellent story continuation, lots of easter eggs. and I miss Kate Mulgrew as Nagatha (see Homefront).... just putting that out there.



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A new layer to the story

It's nice to see that characters are slowly being expanded upon and that there is some actual character development.

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