As We Know It
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As We Know It
Narrated by:
Amanda Roethle
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Amanda Roethle
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Raimo Strangis
About this listen
The Opus Starship has launched into space holding humanities finest onboard. Earth has been deemed uninhabitable and the search for a new home planet has begun. Lady Vega and the Elite have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo while Peryl (Pearl) Starlight and the Unmarked fight for change. Will humanity fall into the same patterns of self-destruction or create a new way of life, as we know it
©2025 Raimo Strangis (P)2025 Raimo StrangisListener received this title free
Shortish story covering family and class rivalries on an ark ship headed for a new home
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Listener received this title free
I found the premise interesting enough, despite it not being an original idea, but from the outset I felt like the author had got the concept of "show, don't tell" totally backwards. There was little room for me to form my own interpretations and opinions of the characters and their motivations and personalities.
Throughout the book there are themes of humanity's relationship with nature, as well as the different levels of privilege afforded to different social classes, but neither theme was given much more than a one-dimensional portrayal.
Perhaps most egregious of all were the occasional diversions from science and reason. I can happily suspend my disbelief to accept sci-fi elements like faster-than-light starships and what have you, but when you say the water is made up of two oxygen and one hydrogen instead of the other way around... I'm by no means a scientist but immediately that felt wrong and a very quick Google search told me YOU SHOULD NOT DRINK THAT. It's just a totally unnecessary detail to the story, only included as a way to emphasise being different to Earth, but it utterly snapped me out of the story.
The narrator did an okay job, giving characters different voices so it was always clear who was speaking (which I consider a minimum requirement really). Her accent came through occasionally in words sometimes sounding slightly slurred, if that's the right way to describe it, but I got used to it pretty quickly and it wasn't a problem anyway.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book at full price or for a full credit, especially as it's quite short at only just over 5 hours (much longer and I'm not sure if have got to the end). If you think the summary and preview sounds interesting, and if you can get it at a discount such as in a 2-for-1 sale, then by all means give it a go. I can imagine other people enjoying this much more than I did.
A promising idea for a story unfortunately let down by the writing
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