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Critical Mass

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Critical Mass

By: Daniel Suarez
Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
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 In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid—kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance.

When unforeseen circumstances during an innovative—and unsanctioned—commercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of climate change and unable to take the risks necessary to make rapid progress in space, the crew must build their own nextgen spacecraft capable of mounting a rescue in time for the asteroid's next swing by Earth.

In the process they'll need to establish the first spin-gravity station in deep space, the first orbiting solar power satellite and refinery, and historic infrastructure on the moon's surface—all of which could alleviate a deepening ecological, political, and economic crisis back on Earth, and prove that space-based industry is not only profitable, but possibly humanity's best hope for a livable, peaceful future. Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Interstellar Thriller Technology Exciting

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Great continuation, a little over explained at times, but overall a good read. I hope humanity takes this router rather than destroying itself and the rest of the life on the planet.

Technically detailed

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Love the narration and the story line. Rather refreshing in concept of scientific accuracy. With it being a SciFi it’s so close to reality that perhaps just perhaps it can be and inspirational to some one

Love the story

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It was an alright story - the problem I have with it is that there are a lot of words for what isn’t a very gripping story.

An excess of detail and plodding story to get to a conclusion and tease for the final book in the series.

If there was an abridged version, it may be more enjoyable.

As always though - the narration was great!

Okay but a lot longer than it needed to be

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Daniel does it again. Hard Science and Engineering, great characters, great promise for human civilisation.
Fantastic narration by Jeff Gurner.

Brilliant

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Exciting and fun and an easy read despite the accurate near-future science and engineering concepts involved. The main character JT started to irritate me somewhat but it's not a bad thing. Like other Suarez novels it starts a little slow and then really picks up.

Already looking forward to the next installment - I hope we hear about an epic climb!

Enjoyable hard (but not too hard) sci fi

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