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Columbus Day

Expeditionary Force, Book 1

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Nominee, Audie Awards—Audiobook of the Year, 2018

We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news.

The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits.

When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar, wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria, to fighting in space. It was lies, all of it. We shouldn't even be fighting the Ruhar, they aren't our enemy. Our allies are.

I'd better start at the beginning.

©2016 Craig Alanson (P)2016 Podium Audio Adventure Fantasy Fiction Military Science Science Fiction Witty Star Wars War Comedy Military Interstellar China Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Space Military
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This was an impulse buy and I was a little worried at first. I needn't be though as it was gripping from the start. It's well written and easy to listen to, R.C Bray was as usual, a spot on choice for the narrator. The book has a great change part way through that really sent the story in another direction that was very well delivered. Overall it's a great easy listen. There's some obvious ideas liberated from other sci-fi greats, both written and televised but it works really well.

Fantastic start to what I hope is a great series

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I am half way through book four of the series and I feel obligated to go back and rate every book so far.
This is one of the best series that I have ever come across. I have not watched a TV series since I started listening to this first book of the series.
I really hope they make a series of movies out of this.

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As a longtime sci-fi lover I Found this a novel experience; it is frequently laugh out loud funny because of the repartee between an AI and the hero! Very interesting storyline and great narration. Well worth the listen.

Comedy Sci-Fi- I didn’t know it existed! Great fun

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This is the most fun I’ve ever had listening to a book.
Great plot, amazing detail and proper laugh out loud moments.
I’m off to get the next instalment

Brilliant

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Having finished all 15 books I have started over. Great entertainment and generate so much thought on what future advances in technology may bring for the human race.

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